CHEF
The Chefs Warehouse IncNASDAQ
Consumer Defensive • Food Distribution
Factor tilt: Mid-Cap Momentum
$103.77+0.41%
Close Nov 6, 2026
- Market cap
- $4.23B
- 1 month
- -6.8%
- 3 months
- -4.6%
- 1 year
- +63.3%
- 52-week range
- $57.27$116.42
- Dividend
- No dividends on record
- Short interest
- 8.3% of float3.1M shares · settled Oct 15, 2026 · -23.8% since Sep 30, 2026 · FINRA
Fundamentals · trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026
- Revenue
- $4.51B
- Net income
- $102.44M
- Free cash flow
- $125.77M
- Book value
- $686.56M
- Total debt
- $945.78M
- P/E
- 41.3×
- Price / sales
- 0.9×
- Price / book
- 6.2×
- FCF yield
- +3.0%
- Net margin
- +2.3%
EODHD (TTM) · as of Nov 6, 2026
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About The Chefs Warehouse Inc
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes specialty food and center-of-the-plate products in the United States, the Middle East, and Canada.
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It offers specialty food products, such as artisan charcuterie, specialty cheeses, unique oils and vinegars, truffles, caviar, chocolate, and pastry products and center-of-the-plate products that includes custom cut beef, seafood, and hormone-free poultry, as well as produce and broadline food products comprising cooking oils, butter, eggs, milk, and flour. The company serves menu-driven independent restaurants, fine dining establishments, country clubs, hotels, caterers, culinary schools, bakeries, patisseries, chocolatiers, cruise lines, casinos, and specialty food stores. It markets its center-of-the-plate products directly to consumers through a mail and e-commerce platform. The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
- Website
- chefswarehouse.com
- Headquarters
- Ridgefield, CT, United States
- Employees
- 5,156
- Listed
- Jul 28, 2011
- Fiscal year ends
- December
Company profile from EODHD, stored Oct 30, 2026.
Quarterly results
The last 8 fiscal quarters as reported (EODHD). Year over year compares the same quarter a year earlier.
| Quarter | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026filed Oct 28, 2026 | $1.1B | +11.2% | 25.0% | $51.5M | $29.6M |
| Jun 2026filed Jul 29, 2026 | $1.2B | +12.9% | 25.1% | $58.6M | $33.8M |
| Mar 2026filed Apr 29, 2026 | $1.1B | +11.4% | 24.3% | $33.1M | $17.4M |
| Dec 2025filed Feb 24, 2026 | $1.1B | +10.5% | 24.2% | $51.2M | $21.7M |
| Sep 2025filed Oct 29, 2025 | $1.0B | +9.6% | 24.2% | $38.9M | $19.1M |
| Jun 2025filed Jul 30, 2025 | $1.0B | +8.4% | 24.6% | $40.2M | $21.2M |
| Mar 2025filed Apr 30, 2025 | $950.7M | +8.7% | 23.8% | $22.7M | $10.3M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 25, 2025 | $1.0B | +8.7% | 24.3% | $46.5M | $23.9M |
Fiscal years · last 6
| Fiscal year | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025filed Feb 24, 2026 | $4.1B | +9.4% | 24.2% | $153.1M | $72.4M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 25, 2025 | $3.8B | +10.5% | 24.1% | $128.2M | $55.5M |
| Dec 2023filed Feb 27, 2024 | $3.4B | +31.4% | 23.7% | $100.9M | $34.6M |
| Dec 2022filed Feb 28, 2023 | $2.6B | +49.7% | 23.7% | $85.7M | $27.8M |
| Dec 2021filed Feb 22, 2022 | $1.7B | +57.0% | 22.4% | $10.8M | -$4.9M |
| Dec 2020filed Feb 23, 2021 | $1.1B | -30.2% | 22.3% | -$102.7M | -$82.9M |
Short-interest history
FINRA reports open short positions for a settlement date. The publication date is later. These are reported positions, with a separate date for each observation.
Compare the reported short exposure around the dates you bought, sold or watched CHEF. A long position benefits from price rises; a short position benefits from falls. A change in these counts does not predict either move.
Settlement Oct 15, 2026
3,078,967 shares short
-962,889 shares (-23.8%) vs Sep 30, 2026
8.3% of the stored float. Published Oct 26, 2026.
Settlement Sep 30, 2026
4,041,856 shares short
-614,038 shares (-13.2%) vs Sep 15, 2026
10.9% of the stored float. Published Oct 9, 2026.
Settlement Sep 15, 2026
4,655,894 shares short
-384,091 shares (-7.6%) vs Aug 31, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Sep 24, 2026.
Settlement Aug 31, 2026
5,039,985 shares short
-490,759 shares (-8.9%) vs Aug 14, 2026
13.7% of the stored float. Published Sep 10, 2026.
Settlement Aug 14, 2026
5,530,744 shares short
+87,465 shares (+1.6%) vs Jul 31, 2026
15% of the stored float. Published Aug 25, 2026.
Settlement Jul 31, 2026
5,443,279 shares short
+504,400 shares (+10.2%) vs Jul 15, 2026
14.8% of the stored float. Published Aug 11, 2026.
Change = this settlement’s shares short − the previous recorded settlement’s shares short; percentage change divides by that earlier count. A zero earlier count has no percentage change. Split-spanning counts are left uncompared. Float percentages use the stored settlement observation, not today’s float.
Source: stored FINRA equity short-interest records, up to six settlements from the last 240 days. FINRA data and reporting dates · How to read short interest
Dividends and stock splits
See the recorded cash amounts and dates behind CHEF’s income, and the splits that change its share count. Dates below are stored event records, not confirmation of a payment to your account.
Cash-dividend records
No qualified cash-dividend records are stored. This does not establish that the company pays no dividend.
Up to six Polygon cash-dividend events, including recorded ex-dates within the next 120 days. Amounts retain their recorded currency and decimal precision. Historical amounts are not restated to a common split basis, annualized, or converted to dollars.
For a long holding, compare the ex-date with when you held the shares and check the pay date against your broker’s cash history. Owning the stock today does not establish past entitlement. For a short holding, a dividend can create a payment obligation to the share lender.
Ex-dates and special dividend rules · Short-sale dividend obligations · Dividend data definitions
Split history
No qualified split events are stored. This does not establish that the stock has never split.
Up to six stored split dates through Nov 7, 2026. Equivalent vendor ratios are combined; conflicting ratios are left out. This history may be incomplete.
A split changes the share count and per-share price basis; it does not by itself add investment value. Put your holding’s earlier and later share counts on the same basis before comparing them. This applies to both long shares and shares owed on a short position.
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Smart money context
Holder IQ: MEDIUM
30 smart-money holders: institutions with a high Holder IQ
Q2 2026, filed Oct 30, 2026
Smart-money 13F trend: unchanged (light)
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Sentiment: bearish
Last trade: sell 81 days ago
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What happened
Stored recent-activity label: bearish. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
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What happened
Stored recent-activity label: bearish. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
Largest 13-F holders · Q2 2026
288 filers reported a long position in CHEF for Q2 2026. 13-F holdings are filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends.
The top 10 hold
45.9%
of the 40M shares 13-F filers reported
Moves vs Q1 2026
7 added3 trimmed
Net shares held
-5.6%
across the 10 holders with a comparable Q1 2026 book
| Rank | Holder | Value | Shares | Shares vs Q1 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlackRock, Inc. | $580.4M · 6M shares | 6M | +4.4% |
| 2 | WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP | $229.8M · 2.4M shares | 2.4M | -29% |
| 3 | VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | $155.8M · 1.6M shares | 1.6M | +0.2% |
| 4 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | $148.6M · 1.6M shares | 1.6M | -17.3% |
| 5 | STATE STREET CORP | $144.8M · 1.5M shares | 1.5M | +6.8% |
| 6 | VICTORY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC | $130.1M · 1.4M shares | 1.4M | -20.9% |
| 7 | VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC | $96.2M · 1M shares | 1M | +5.6% |
| 8 | DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP | $95.4M · 992.7K shares | 992.7K | +1.6% |
| 9 | GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | $92.6M · 963.7K shares | 963.7K | +6.3% |
| 10 | FMR LLC | $91.1M · 948.1K shares | 948.1K | +11.4% |
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Holders of more than 5% of CHEF file with the SEC within days. A 13D holder may seek to influence the company; a 13G holder is passive. Each holder’s latest filing from the last three years.
| Filed | Holder | % of class |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP13G · passive · amended | 5.9% |
| Mar 26, 2026 | VANGUARD GROUP INC13G · passive · amended | 0%under 5% |
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