Is it safe?
Can CHEF take a bad year?
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. carries $628M of net debt at 3.19× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$628M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.19×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.43× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.34
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 3.73×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $750M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $123M
- Net debt
- $628M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $197M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $156M
- Debt / equity
- 1.23×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.81×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −91%
- Below its 52-week high
- −1.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.