CHEFThe Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: at the top of its own P/E range and rich vs its sector.
Priced for ~13% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 13% a year.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 50.4 vs a 39.6 median over 31 quarters (+27% vs median).
Sector median 17.7× across 76 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 26, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CHEF's price assumes
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. trades at 50.4× earnings against 35.3× for the median Food Distribution name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Food Distribution median 35.3 · 1.43× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.98
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 26, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.9%
Free cash flow yield · Food Distribution median 4.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +13%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +13% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; revenue has grown 13% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 26, 2026
- 6.66
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 26, 2026
- 28.2
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 26, 2026
- 1.12
- Consumer Defensive median P/E140 names
- 21.7
- Food Distribution median P/E7 names
- 35.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $126M
- Market capitalisation40.8 million shares, counted Jul 24, 2026
- $4.32B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +13%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $77.01 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $83.13 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $98.88 |
| 52-week range | $57.27 – $116.44 |
| Today | $105.87 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.