UNFIUnited Natural Foods, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: modest expectations priced in, but at the top of its own P/E range and rich vs its sector.
Priced for a decline (~−4% a year). The price bakes in little to no growth.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 33.5 vs a 13.4 median over 23 quarters (+151% 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 Aug 1, 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 UNFI's price assumes
United Natural Foods, Inc. trades at 33.5× earnings against 33.5× for the median Food Distribution name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Food Distribution median 33.5 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.10
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 11%
Free cash flow yield · Food Distribution median 4.7%
- Growth the price implies
- −4.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −4.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +2.4% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
- 1.88
- EV / EBIToperating margin 0.68%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Aug 1, 2026
- 0.15
- Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names
- 20.2
- Food Distribution median P/E7 names
- 33.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $323M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.04B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +0.96%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +2.4%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 33.5× today against a 13.4× median |
| 52-week range | $28.87 – $55.52 |
| Today | $44.53 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.