Smart Money · Holder IQ
51.9 / 100
Below median holder quality (percentile 41.4 this quarter). Holder trend is not available.
CHEF
The Chefs Warehouse IncNASDAQ
Consumer Defensive • Food Distribution
Factor tilt: Mid-Cap Momentum
$107.27+3.37%
Close Nov 9, 2026
- Market cap
- $4.37B
- 1 month
- -6.2%
- 3 months
- -1.9%
- 1 year
- +68.5%
- 52-week range
- $57.27$116.42
Reading stored signals…
More market facts
- Dividend
- No dividends on record
- Short interest
- 8.3% of float3.1M shares · settled Oct 15, 2026 · -23.8% since Sep 30, 2026 · FINRA
Fundamentals · trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026
- Revenue
- $4.51B
- Net income
- $102.44M
- Free cash flow
- $125.77M
- Book value
- $686.56M
- Total debt
- $945.78M
- P/E
- 42.7×
- Price / sales
- 1×
- Price / book
- 6.4×
- FCF yield
- +2.9%
- Net margin
- +2.3%
EODHD (TTM) · as of Nov 9, 2026
End-of-day close from stored market data, not a live quote.
About The Chefs Warehouse Inc
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes specialty food and center-of-the-plate products in the United States, the Middle East, and Canada.
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It offers specialty food products, such as artisan charcuterie, specialty cheeses, unique oils and vinegars, truffles, caviar, chocolate, and pastry products and center-of-the-plate products that includes custom cut beef, seafood, and hormone-free poultry, as well as produce and broadline food products comprising cooking oils, butter, eggs, milk, and flour. The company serves menu-driven independent restaurants, fine dining establishments, country clubs, hotels, caterers, culinary schools, bakeries, patisseries, chocolatiers, cruise lines, casinos, and specialty food stores. It markets its center-of-the-plate products directly to consumers through a mail and e-commerce platform. The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
- Website
- chefswarehouse.com
- Headquarters
- Ridgefield, CT, United States
- Employees
- 5,156
- Listed
- Jul 28, 2011
- Fiscal year ends
- December
Company profile from EODHD, stored Oct 30, 2026.
Quarterly results
The last 8 fiscal quarters from EODHD’s latest stored vendor-normalized figures. These may include restatements. Year over year compares the same quarter a year earlier.
| Quarter | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026filed Oct 28, 2026 | $1.1B | +11.2% | 25.0% | $51.5M | $29.6M |
| Jun 2026filed Jul 29, 2026 | $1.2B | +12.9% | 25.1% | $58.6M | $33.8M |
| Mar 2026filed Apr 29, 2026 | $1.1B | +11.4% | 24.3% | $33.1M | $17.4M |
| Dec 2025filed Feb 24, 2026 | $1.1B | +10.5% | 24.2% | $51.2M | $21.7M |
| Sep 2025filed Oct 29, 2025 | $1.0B | +9.6% | 24.2% | $38.9M | $19.1M |
| Jun 2025filed Jul 30, 2025 | $1.0B | +8.4% | 24.6% | $40.2M | $21.2M |
| Mar 2025filed Apr 30, 2025 | $950.7M | +8.7% | 23.8% | $22.7M | $10.3M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 25, 2025 | $1.0B | +8.7% | 24.3% | $46.5M | $23.9M |
Balance sheet · cash, debt and near-term obligations
What resources sit beside the obligations? These are balances at each fiscal quarter end, not cash earned during the quarter. Amounts are in USD, the reporting currency.
As of
- Reported cash
- $164.7M
- Reported total debt
- $945.8M
- Current assets
- $1.0B
- Current liabilities
- $471.1M
Vendor filing date:
As of
- Reported cash
- $135.5M
- Reported total debt
- $946.6M
- Current assets
- $975.8M
- Current liabilities
- $454.3M
Vendor filing date:
As of
- Reported cash
- $122.7M
- Reported total debt
- $978.2M
- Current assets
- $930.9M
- Current liabilities
- $427.7M
Vendor filing date:
As of
- Reported cash
- $121.0M
- Reported total debt
- $1.2B
- Current assets
- $969.9M
- Current liabilities
- $473.5M
Vendor filing date:
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Compare cash and debt across dates when reviewing its reliance on financing. Current assets can include receivables and inventory; current liabilities include bills as well as borrowings. They are not all spendable cash or all debt. These figures alone do not establish the ability to repay.
Source: EODHD’s latest stored vendor-normalized balance sheets, matched to the same security and fiscal end as these income periods. They may include restatements and are not an originally-filed or knowledge-time history. No net debt, coverage ratio or replacement balance is calculated. Read the SEC guide to financial statements for the distinction between balances and cash flows.
Fiscal years · last 6
| Fiscal year | Revenue | YoY | Gross margin | Op. income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025filed Feb 24, 2026 | $4.1B | +9.4% | 24.2% | $153.1M | $72.4M |
| Dec 2024filed Feb 25, 2025 | $3.8B | +10.5% | 24.1% | $128.2M | $55.5M |
| Dec 2023filed Feb 27, 2024 | $3.4B | +31.4% | 23.7% | $100.9M | $34.6M |
| Dec 2022filed Feb 28, 2023 | $2.6B | +49.7% | 23.7% | $85.7M | $27.8M |
| Dec 2021filed Feb 22, 2022 | $1.7B | +57.0% | 22.4% | $10.8M | -$4.9M |
| Dec 2020filed Feb 23, 2021 | $1.1B | -30.2% | 22.3% | -$102.7M | -$82.9M |
Annual cash generation
Does profit turn into cash? Compare CHEF’s accounting profit with operating cash flow and capital spending. Amounts are in USD.
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- $72.4M
- Operating cash flow
- $129.2M
- Capital spending
- $41.4M
- Free cash flow
- Unavailable
Free cash flow is withheld: the reported amount is missing, or operating cash flow and positive-outflow capital spending do not reconcile with it. No replacement is calculated.
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- $55.5M
- Operating cash flow
- $153.1M
- Capital spending
- $49.5M
- Free cash flow
- $103.6M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- $34.6M
- Operating cash flow
- $61.6M
- Capital spending
- $57.4M
- Free cash flow
- $4.2M
Earlier cash-flow years
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- $27.8M
- Operating cash flow
- $23.1M
- Capital spending
- $45.8M
- Free cash flow
- -$22.7M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$4.9M
- Operating cash flow
- -$19.9M
- Capital spending
- $38.8M
- Free cash flow
- -$58.7M
Fiscal year ending
- Net income
- -$82.9M
- Operating cash flow
- $42.9M
- Capital spending
- $7.0M
- Free cash flow
- $35.8M
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Compare cash generation and investment needs with your thesis. Working capital and non-cash charges can separate profit from cash. Capital spending can reduce free cash flow while earnings rise. For a long or short position, that gap alone does not predict a price move.
Cash-flow source and meaning
Source: EODHD annual financial statements, latest stored vendor-normalized figures. These may include restatements and may differ from the filer’s own XBRL. A filing date is not the knowledge date of this version of the values.
Free cash flow is the vendor’s reported figure, shown only when it agrees with operating cash flow less capital spending recorded as a positive outflow. It is not cash guaranteed for dividends or buybacks, and it does not subtract every financing obligation. Missing or sign-incompatible inputs are not filled in. An unlabelled currency is used only for a confirmed domestic USD filer. These are annual statements, not forecasts or an originally-filed history.
Cash allocation: dividends, shares and debt
Where did CHEF’s financing cash go? Compare cash paid as dividends with net share and debt transactions across fiscal years. Amounts are in USD, the reporting currency. These are company-wide totals, not per-share payouts.
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- Unavailable
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$15.0M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- -$48.6M
- Total financing cash flow
- -$76.2M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- Unavailable
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$24.8M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- -$10.1M
- Total financing cash flow
- -$38.5M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- $2.1M
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$2.1M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- $24.5M
- Total financing cash flow
- $9.0M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- $69.0K
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$2.7M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- $278.6M
- Total financing cash flow
- $253.2M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- Unavailable
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$1.8M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- -$5.9M
- Total financing cash flow
- -$9.2M
Fiscal year ended
Vendor filing date:
- Cash dividends paid
- $100.0M
- Net share issuance / purchases
- -$3.7M
- Net borrowing / repayment
- -$1.3M
- Total financing cash flow
- $78.1M
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Compare these uses of cash with operating cash generation and the debt on the balance sheet. A negative net share movement means purchases exceeded issuance; it does not give gross buybacks. A dividend or share purchase can be financed with borrowing, and none of these flows guarantees a future payment or price return.
Allocation source and sign conventions
Source: EODHD annual cash-flow statements, latest stored vendor-normalized values for the same security and fiscal year. These can include restatements; a filing date is not the knowledge date of this version.
Dividends are positive cash paid out. For net share transactions, net borrowing and total financing, positive means cash in and negative means cash out. Net share transactions combine issuance and purchases; they are not gross repurchases, a change in shares outstanding, or stock compensation. Total financing includes other flows and is not the sum of just these three lines. Missing amounts stay unavailable; zero means a reported zero. No FX conversion, shareholder-return total or forecast is inferred.
Company Quality Grade
How steadily did the business compound its per-share book value with dividends over 40 quarters? This historical measure is not a stock-price return or a forecast.
As of · Window to
Computed, excluded from ranking
- Book with dividends · annual growth
- 7.5%
- Consistency of fitted trend · R²
- 0.638
- Recent / whole-window slope
- 2.31×
Basis: total common book; the tangible starting base was too small, so the whole window uses the fallback basis. Dividends are reinvested at book value, not at market prices. R² near 1 means a steadier fitted trend; it does not establish accounting quality.
No percentile or compounder designation is assigned because the admission rules were not met.
The compounder rule requires a top-decile composite within the tangible-book eligible pool, positive slope and no detected decline. Total-common-book fallback rows cannot qualify. A decline means the 90% interval for the recent 12-quarter / full-window slope ratio lies below 1; this row does not detect a decline. An absent decline is not proof that growth is accelerating.
- Share issuance, rather than earned profits, drove too much of the book-value increase.
issuance_driven_book - The filed share counts could not be reconciled consistently across the window.
share_basis_inconsistent - A published method rule prevents admission.
share_count_discontinuity
Link an account to see your stake, watchlist and past holdings. Use this to question the durability of the business behind your investment case, alongside its filings and valuation. A withheld grade is a data or method limit, not a sell signal. For a short position, it does not predict timing, borrowing costs or downside. It does not measure your account’s return.
Method, filing sources and publication receipt
Source: SEC first-filed XBRL. Midas Edge API’s published Green Compounders method uses only filings public by the as-of date, split-adjusted shares and the original filed values. Restatements do not replace them. Issuer pools and entity types reflect the SEC submissions captured for this run, not historical classifications at each as-of date.
The primary form fits log book value with reinvested dividends against time. The method checks the starting book and market-cap floors and excludes identified non-reliance/enforcement windows. Its cohort is fixed at capture time, so historical percentiles have capture and survival limits. It does not check audit-opinion going-concern text. This grade is separate from InsiderIQ, HolderIQ and NetCredibility.
Input filings (41 in this window): 0001387131-16-005243; 0001387131-16-006304; 0001387131-16-007662. The links show up to three of the input filings.
Method labels: capture_missing_periodic_filing, compounder_ineligible:fallback_book_basis, going_concern_unchecked, no_dividend_fact_zero, preferred_untagged_zero, red_finding_basis_d1_enforcement_naming_issuer, tangible_base_small
- Parameters
- pg-g2-params.v17
- Plane
- sha256:841c1bb46826c45b96472bf9adff6a93c8ce5f5392636cff297045298e9bf517
- Grade row SHA-256
- sha256:a62cc48e64114b150f6cff3dc88688c0d061abfd3fc74e795a191c0da24f3138
- Manifest SHA-256
- sha256:c94c0931ffa7d9818ad0d34110b400f347a53da8a9c7d9aee1013095384d6a8a
- Engine SHA-256
- sha256:defa2e17f100b92a30576940d1632532b5cc4f37a2cb4bcc7fcc881856417811
- Hand-check receipt SHA-256
- sha256:03dd742b7b83e1130b4c01f9beaaf2671b20562c447a337dd047a41ad675ed3c
Short-interest history
FINRA reports open short positions for a settlement date. The publication date is later. These are reported positions, with a separate date for each observation.
Compare the reported short exposure around the dates you bought, sold or watched CHEF. A long position benefits from price rises; a short position benefits from falls. A change in these counts does not predict either move.
Settlement Oct 15, 2026
3,078,967 shares short
-962,889 shares (-23.8%) vs Sep 30, 2026
8.3% of the stored float. Published Oct 26, 2026.
Settlement Sep 30, 2026
4,041,856 shares short
-614,038 shares (-13.2%) vs Sep 15, 2026
10.9% of the stored float. Published Oct 9, 2026.
Settlement Sep 15, 2026
4,655,894 shares short
-384,091 shares (-7.6%) vs Aug 31, 2026
Share of float unavailable. Published Sep 24, 2026.
Settlement Aug 31, 2026
5,039,985 shares short
-490,759 shares (-8.9%) vs Aug 14, 2026
13.7% of the stored float. Published Sep 10, 2026.
Settlement Aug 14, 2026
5,530,744 shares short
+87,465 shares (+1.6%) vs Jul 31, 2026
15% of the stored float. Published Aug 25, 2026.
Settlement Jul 31, 2026
5,443,279 shares short
+504,400 shares (+10.2%) vs Jul 15, 2026
14.8% of the stored float. Published Aug 11, 2026.
Change = this settlement’s shares short − the previous recorded settlement’s shares short; percentage change divides by that earlier count. A zero earlier count has no percentage change. Split-spanning counts are left uncompared. Float percentages use the stored settlement observation, not today’s float.
Source: stored FINRA equity short-interest records, up to six settlements from the last 240 days. FINRA data and reporting dates · How to read short interest
Dividends and stock splits
See the recorded cash amounts and dates behind CHEF’s income, and the splits that change its share count. Dates below are stored event records, not confirmation of a payment to your account.
Cash-dividend records
No qualified cash-dividend records are stored. This does not establish that the company pays no dividend.
Up to six Polygon cash-dividend events, including recorded ex-dates within the next 120 days. Amounts retain their recorded currency and decimal precision. Historical amounts are not restated to a common split basis, annualized, or converted to dollars.
For a long holding, compare the ex-date with when you held the shares and check the pay date against your broker’s cash history. Owning the stock today does not establish past entitlement. For a short holding, a dividend can create a payment obligation to the share lender.
Ex-dates and special dividend rules · Short-sale dividend obligations · Dividend data definitions
Split history
No qualified split events are stored. This does not establish that the stock has never split.
Up to six stored split dates through Nov 10, 2026. Equivalent vendor ratios are combined; conflicting ratios are left out. This history may be incomplete.
A split changes the share count and per-share price basis; it does not by itself add investment value. Put your holding’s earlier and later share counts on the same basis before comparing them. This applies to both long shares and shares owed on a short position.
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Smart money context
Holder IQ: MEDIUM
30 smart-money holders: institutions with a high Holder IQ
Q2 2026, filed Oct 30, 2026
Smart-money 13F trend: unchanged (light)
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Sentiment: bearish
Last trade: sell 84 days ago
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What it means for you
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What happened
Stored recent-activity label: bearish. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
Red flags: 1
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What it means for you
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What happened
Stored recent-activity label: bearish. This context label is separate from the scored insider signal read.
Why it can matter
A count of reported activity describes a sample, not purchase conviction, an insider’s intent or a future price move. Neutral is not an all-clear, and absent direction is not neutral evidence.
How we got this
The current context rule reads at most 50 nonduplicate issuer/share-class records filed in the last 90 days. It counts a bullish direction or purchase code P toward bullish, and a bearish direction or sale code S toward bearish. A side must exceed the opposite count by more than two to set its label; otherwise nonzero directional counts produce neutral. Calculation unavailable for this saved label: its counts, exact records, as-of time and rule version are not supplied here. Do not substitute the separate scored read’s different window or denominator.
Where the data comes from
Stored SEC Forms 3/4/5 insider-signal records, ordered by filing date with amendment duplicates excluded. Filing date is not transaction date. The last-trade line locates recent reported activity; it does not date or reconstruct the complete count.
Largest 13-F holders · Q2 2026
288 filers reported a long position in CHEF for Q2 2026. 13-F holdings are filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends.
The top 10 hold
45.9%
of the 40M shares 13-F filers reported
Moves vs Q1 2026
7 added3 trimmed
Net shares held
-5.6%
across the 10 holders with a comparable Q1 2026 book
| Rank | Holder | Value | Shares | Shares vs Q1 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlackRock, Inc. | $580.4M · 6M shares | 6M | +4.4% |
| 2 | Wellington Management Group LLP | $229.8M · 2.4M shares | 2.4M | -29% |
| 3 | Vanguard Capital Management LLC | $155.8M · 1.6M shares | 1.6M | +0.2% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | $148.6M · 1.6M shares | 1.6M | -17.3% |
| 5 | State Street Corp | $144.8M · 1.5M shares | 1.5M | +6.8% |
| 6 | Victory Capital Management Inc | $130.1M · 1.4M shares | 1.4M | -20.9% |
| 7 | Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC | $96.2M · 1M shares | 1M | +5.6% |
| 8 | Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | $95.4M · 992.7K shares | 992.7K | +1.6% |
| 9 | Geode Capital Management, LLC | $92.6M · 963.7K shares | 963.7K | +6.3% |
| 10 | FMR LLC | $91.1M · 948.1K shares | 948.1K | +11.4% |
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Sign in5% holder filings (13D / 13G)
Holders of more than 5% of CHEF file with the SEC within days. A 13D holder may seek to influence the company; a 13G holder is passive. Each holder’s latest filing from the last three years.
| Filed | Holder | % of class |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | Wellington Management Group LLP13G · passive · amended | 5.9% |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Vanguard Group Inc13G · passive · amended | 0%under 5% |
Moves the factor model did not explain
How much of CHEF’s move accompanied the market and its measured style leanings, and how much was left? The residual is unexplained by this fitted model. It does not establish a cause, skill or future alpha.
- Market
- -3.90%
- Style leanings
- -24.20%
- Unexplained residual
- +18.88%
- Stock move
- -9.23%
Window contributions are percentage points of starting stock value. The market bar is the fitted common intercept, not an index return. Market + styles + residual = stock move; opposite signs can offset. Source: daily_returns, dated security_factor_exposures × barra_factor_returns, and stored security_specific_returns; 2026-10-09–2026-11-06, model v1.2.0. Returns are dimensionless on the USD listing; no currency conversion.
Link an account with dated transactions to see what share of your own holding’s move since its purchase-date close was unexplained, with long and short positions distinguished. Your private holdings never enter this public chart.
Dated model observations (20)
Daily percentage returns, not window contributions. Source: the same dated warehouse rows and model v1.2.0; observed 2026-11-10T22:47:29.890Z. Absent sessions are never interpolated; missing or failed inputs stay unavailable.
| Date | Stock | Market | Styles | Residual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -3.97% | -0.08% | -2.42% | -1.47% | |
| -1.81% | +0.02% | -0.76% | -1.07% | |
| +4.83% | -1.18% | -4.30% | +10.31% | |
| +1.12% | +0.52% | -0.32% | +0.92% | |
| -0.61% | -1.05% | -3.42% | +3.86% | |
| -2.02% | +0.36% | +1.26% | -3.63% | |
| -0.36% | +0.43% | +0.92% | -1.71% | |
| -0.70% | +0.49% | +1.75% | -2.94% | |
| -2.55% | -1.09% | -5.47% | +4.01% | |
| -1.31% | -0.46% | +0.92% | -1.78% | |
| +0.43% | +0.50% | +0.74% | -0.82% | |
| +2.50% | +0.68% | +2.89% | -1.07% | |
| -1.47% | +0.37% | +1.52% | -3.35% | |
| -5.43% | -0.46% | -4.45% | -0.52% | |
| +2.63% | -1.77% | -5.89% | +10.29% | |
| -0.96% | -0.24% | -2.75% | +2.03% | |
| -2.21% | +0.35% | +1.61% | -4.16% | |
| +5.83% | +1.75% | -3.62% | +7.71% | |
| -3.27% | -3.95% | -7.31% | +7.99% | |
| +0.41% | +0.71% | +3.31% | -3.61% |
How this split is calculated
Each day uses that day’s fitted market intercept and style exposures multiplied by that day’s published factor returns. Their sum plus the independently stored residual must reconcile to the stock return. Window effects are weighted by stock wealth at each day’s start and added; the stock return compounds. Every expected US market session must be present and pass source, identity, model and numerical checks. This retrospective fit is an explanation of measured returns, not evidence of causation or an investable forecast. The window ends at the latest published model session, which can lag the market; today’s unfinished session is excluded.
What insiders reported owning
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