CHEF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Chefs' Warehouse | NASDAQ:CHEF)

The Chefs' Warehouse Inc is a specialty food distributor in metropolitan areas across the United States, the Middle East and Canada. The company's product portfolio is comprised of imported and local specialty food products such as cheese, cooking oils, chocolates, dried food, baking products, meats, and other food products. It operates via one reporting segment called Food Product Distribution. Operations are concentrated on the east, midwest, and west coasts of the U.S. The company provides service to restaurants, clubs, hotels, caterers, schools, bakeries, casinos, and specialty food stores.

Chefs' Warehouse trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol CHEF.

As of March 17, 2026, CHEF stock price declined to $62.78 with 490,371 million shares trading.

CHEF has a beta of 0.60, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CHEF has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CHEF has a market cap of $2.55 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Chefs' Warehouse reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.68 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $48 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.06.

In the last 3 years, CHEF traded as high as $73.94 and as low as $17.29.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CHEF belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VXF, VDC.

CHEF has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +19.7% while the SPY ETF gained +20.5%. However, in the short term, CHEF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning -0.9% vs -0.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CHEF shares have been beat by the market, returning -4.6% compared to an SPY return of -2.3%.

CHEF support price is $62.35 and resistance is $65.79 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CHEF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.