The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF): Price and Financial Metrics

CHEF POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where CHEF ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.95% of US stocks.
• CHEF's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• CHEF's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 9.35% of US stocks).

CHEF Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for CHEF is 7.53 -- better than 95.02% of US stocks.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for CHEF is currently 83.13, higher than 97.15% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• CHEF's price/sales ratio is 0.29; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 11.43% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to CHEF, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are APG, SIG, MRC, WGO, and ODC.
• CHEF's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit CHEFS' WAREHOUSE INC's official web site, go to www.chefswarehouse.com.

CHEF Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, CHEF's EV/EBIT ratio is 16.91% higher, now standing at 19.7.
• CHEF's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.7 over the prior 149 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CHEF.

CHEF Growth Metrics

The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -96.57%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 440.46%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 2212.89%.

Over the past 33 months, CHEF's revenue has gone up $788,480,000.

The table below shows CHEF's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	2,380.314	38.178	35.021
2022-06-30	2,202.779	23.804	30.2
2022-03-31	1,977.643	2.047	14.383
2021-12-31	1,745.757	-19.899	-4.923
2021-09-30	1,469.18	-37.318	-50.424
2021-06-30	1,238.889	-28.62	-65.307

CHEF's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• CHEF has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 35.66% of graded US stocks.
• CHEF's asset turnover comes in at 1.477 -- ranking 53rd of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• INT, DLA, and MSM are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CHEF.

The table below shows CHEF's key quality metrics over time.