CHEF vs. SPTN, UNFI, COCO, UVV, FDP, TLRY, AGRO, JBSS, VITL, and SCHL
Should you be buying Chefs' Warehouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chefs' Warehouse include SpartanNash (SPTN), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Vita Coco (COCO), Universal (UVV), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Tilray (TLRY), Adecoagro (AGRO), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Vital Farms (VITL), and Scholastic (SCHL).
SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) and Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
84.6% of SpartanNash shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of SpartanNash shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse had 8 more articles in the media than SpartanNash. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse and 2 mentions for SpartanNash. SpartanNash's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.00 indicating that Chefs' Warehouse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 1.01% compared to Chefs' Warehouse's net margin of 0.54%. SpartanNash's return on equity of 12.30% beat Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity.
SpartanNash presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.93%. Chefs' Warehouse has a consensus target price of $47.67, indicating a potential upside of 42.03%. Given SpartanNash's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than SpartanNash.
SpartanNash has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.21, indicating that its stock price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chefs' Warehouse received 153 more outperform votes than SpartanNash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.93% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 49.03% of users gave SpartanNash an outperform vote.
SpartanNash has higher revenue and earnings than Chefs' Warehouse. SpartanNash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chefs' Warehouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats SpartanNash on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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