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Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. CHEF

Wholesale-Groceries, General Line · CIK 0001517175 · Fiscal year ends 1226

Revenue
$4.51B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-25
Operating income
$186.47M
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-25
Free cash flow
Unavailable
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-25

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$2.26BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-27
Float per share$55.45Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income31.2×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.5×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity3.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-27, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-26 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

31.2× earnings today, against a median of 29.5× across 8 years on record. In line with its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-27$2.26B31.2×
2024-06-28$1.35B24.3×
2023-06-30$1.04B30.1×
2022-06-24$778.29M28.0×
2019-06-28$892.12M36.9×
2018-06-29$591.19M29.0×
2017-06-30$269.16M18.7×
2016-06-24$316.40M104.7×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Wholesale-Groceries, General Line filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Net margin1.7%100th
Gross margin24.2%80th
Operating margin3.5%80th
Revenue YoY growth9.4%80th
Effective tax rate30.1%75th
Current ratio2.05x60th
SBC / revenue0.5%60th

Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF) reported revenue of $4.51B and net income of $102.44M for the fiscal year ended 2026-09-25. This page shows 1 annual period of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Wholesale-Groceries, General Line.

Income

Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-25
Revenue$4.51B
Cost of revenue$3.39B
Gross profit$1.11B
Operating income$186.47M
Net income$102.44M
Research & developmentUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesUnavailable
Pretax income$147.60M
Income tax expense$45.17M
Diluted EPSUnavailable
Selling, general & administrative$916.88M
General & administrativeUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailable

Balance

Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-25
Cash & equivalents$164.72M
Total assets$2.08B
Current assets$1.04B
Total liabilities$1.40B
Current liabilities$471.10M
Total equity incl. NCI$686.56M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailable
Inventory$404.47M
Accounts receivable$398.83M
Goodwill$363.41M
Long-term debt$696.77M
Accounts payable$253.87M

Cash flow

Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-25
Operating cash flow$215.00M
Capital expendituresUnavailable
Investing cash flow-$39.12M
Financing cash flow-$76.24M
Net change in cash$99.66M
Stock-based compensation$28.81M
Common dividends paidUnavailable
Common share repurchases$10.00M
Depreciation & amortization$60.49M

Derived

Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-25
Free cash flowUnavailable
Gross margin24.7%
Operating margin4.1%
FCF marginUnavailable
SBC / revenue0.6%
Current ratio2.21x
Revenue YoY growth11.5%
Net margin2.3%
R&D / revenueUnavailable
CapEx / revenueUnavailable
Long-term debt / equity1.01x
Effective tax rate30.6%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open CHEF in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-29View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-29View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-24View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-29View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-30View SEC filing

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