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

Chefs' Warehouse is a foodservice distributor that focuses on specialty and center-of-the-plate fare. In 2025, the firm generated $4 billion in sales, distributing products largely to independent and fine-dining restaurants, as well as hotels, country clubs, and casinos. Chefs' Warehouse's 55,000 customers shop across 90,000 products sourced from 4,000 suppliers and distributed from its 44 distribution centers. The firm operates primarily in the US and Canada, though its 2022 acquisition of Chef Middle East established a foothold in the UAE, Qatar, and Oman. Chefs' Warehouse has largely built its network through an aggressive acquisition strategy targeting specialty distributors to expand its geographic and product reach.

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

As of November 13, 2026, CHEF stock price climbed to $106.66 with 180,515 million shares trading.

CHEF has a beta of 0.65, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CHEF has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CHEF has a market cap of $4.64 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Chefs' Warehouse reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.66 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $13 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, CHEF traded as high as $118.51 and as low as $24.60.

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

CHEF has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +79.3% while the SPY ETF gained +13.4%. However, in the short term, CHEF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -4.8% vs -2.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CHEF shares have fared better than the market returning +2.3% compared to SPY -0.2%.

CHEF support price is $103.07 and resistance is $109.08 (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.