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 ~17% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 15% a year.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 62.4 vs a 39.3 median over 30 quarters (+59% vs median).
Sector median 16.6× across 78 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 Mar 27, 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 62.4× earnings against 33.5× for the median Food Distribution name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Food Distribution median 33.5 · 1.86× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.90
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 27, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.1%
Free cash flow yield · Food Distribution median 4.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +17%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +17% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; revenue has grown +15% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Mar 27, 2026
- 6.32
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Mar 27, 2026
- 28.8
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 27, 2026
- 1.05
- Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names
- 20.2
- Food Distribution median P/E7 names
- 33.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $81M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.85B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +15%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $66.88 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $72.00 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $86.35 |
| 52-week range | $54.60 – $116.44 |
| Today | $114.26 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.