Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHEF)
Insiders filed in the last 90 days, but none of those trades qualified for scoring — round-trip buys and filings whose price is far off the market are excluded.
Profitable, but on a thin margin.
- Revenue
- $4.51B
- Net income
- $102.4M
- Net margin
- 2.3%
Heavily indebted for what it earns.
- Total debt
- $945.8M
- Cash
- $164.7M
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.89x
Comfortably covers what is due within a year.
- Current assets
- $1.04B
- Current liabilities
- $471.1M
- Current ratio
- 2.21
The business funds itself from operations.
- Operating cash flow
- $215.0M
- Free cash flow
- $181.5M
- FCF margin
- 4.0%
Not funding itself by issuing shares.
- Shares outstanding
- 38.8M
- Share growth (1y)
- 0.6%
Five pillars — profitability, leverage, liquidity, cash generation, dilution & runway — each scored 0–20 from the company’s own income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow statement, then scaled to 100. A pillar the statements cannot answer is left out rather than guessed; fewer than three and no score is shown.
CHEF Income Statement
| Fiscal Period | Q3 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q1 2026 | Q4 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q2 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period Ending | Sep 25, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | Dec 26, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 |
| Revenue | $1.14 B | $1.17 B | $1.06 B | $1.14 B | $1.02 B | $1.03 B |
| Revenue Growth (YoY) | 11.17 % | 12.92 % | 11.39 % | 10.55 % | 9.65 % | 8.40 % |
| Cost of Revenue | $851.04 M | $875.73 M | $801.64 M | $866.00 M | $774.13 M | $780.57 M |
| Gross Profit | $284.33 M | $292.89 M | $257.37 M | $276.56 M | $247.19 M | $254.34 M |
| SG&A Expense | $233.41 M | $234.18 M | $224.15 M | $225.15 M | $208.13 M | $213.75 M |
| R&D Expense | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Operating Expenses | $232.85 M | $234.18 M | $224.23 M | $225.32 M | $208.25 M | $214.12 M |
| Operating Income | $51.49 M | $58.63 M | $33.13 M | $51.24 M | $38.94 M | $40.22 M |
| Pretax Income | $42.49 M | $49.22 M | $22.74 M | $33.16 M | $28.40 M | $29.50 M |
| Tax Provision | $12.87 M | $15.45 M | $5.37 M | $11.47 M | $9.25 M | $8.26 M |
| Net Income | $29.62 M | $33.77 M | $17.37 M | $21.68 M | $19.15 M | $21.24 M |
| EPS (Basic) | $0.76 | $0.87 | $0.45 | $0.56 | $0.50 | $0.55 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $0.64 | $0.76 | $0.40 | $0.50 | $0.44 | $0.49 |
| Shares Outstanding | 38.81 M | 38.93 M | 38.80 M | 38.72 M | 38.58 M | 38.88 M |
Quarterly figures; YoY compares the same fiscal quarter a year earlier. Source: public market data.