Decades of tie-ups have helped Chefs' Warehouse build specialty food breadth, service expertise, and local density, enhancing its appeal with fine-dining chefs. With $4.2 billion in 2025 sales (up from $1.6 billion in 2019), the distributor now aims to buttress efficiency and organic growth.
Technology should bolster the firm’s operational efficiency and order accuracy, improving both customer service levels and its internal cost structure.
Scaled broadline distributors like Sysco and US Foods could make aggressive inroads in bolstering their specialty foodservice businesses. This could cap organic sales growth over the long haul.
Metric | CHEF | PFGC | SYY |
|---|---|---|---|
Price/Earnings (Normalized) | 42.30 | 24.17 | 16.15 |
Price/Book Value | 6.30 | 3.43 | 9.28 |
Price/Sales | 1.09 | 0.25 | 0.43 |
Price/Cash Flow | 19.74 | 11.88 | 12.16 |
Metric | CHEF | PFGC | SYY |
|---|---|---|---|
Quick Ratio | 1.20 | 0.62 | 0.90 |
Current Ratio | 2.21 | 1.61 | 1.46 |
Interest Coverage | 4.80 | 2.32 | 3.93 |
Metric | CHEF | PFGC | SYY |
|---|---|---|---|
Return on Assets (Normalized) | 5.77% | 2.34% | 7.93% |
Return on Equity (Normalized) | 18.53% | 9.06% | 83.71% |
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized) | 9.01% | 5.75% | 16.08% |
1-Day Chart | Name | Price | Morningstar Rating for Stocks | Capital Allocation | Economic Moat | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sysco Corp SYY | LOCK|b<$dcBgh | LOCK|HC | $38B | |||
| US Foods Holding Corp USFD | LOCK|&x&?CKP | LOCK|<j$g! | $23B | |||
| Performance Food Group Co PFGC | LOCK|wck^^n | LOCK|&CK | $17B | |||
| Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA JRONF | — | LOCK|^v | $14B | |||
| Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA ADR JRONY | — | LOCK|D^ | $14B | |||
| Bid Corp Ltd BPPPF | — | LOCK|>Q | $9B | |||
| United Natural Foods Inc UNFI | !b | LOCK|k!r | $3B | |||
| Olam Group Ltd OLGPF | — | LOCK|wg | $3B | |||
| Andersons Inc ANDE | — | LOCK|$$ | $2B |
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