The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF)

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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $4.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 14.9% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 30% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-26, The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 5.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 9% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 18 sales (1 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-26, The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 50 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 70 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $4.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 28% by size; a net margin of 1.7% ranks in the top 33%; revenue growth of 16.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 10% (its annual reports).

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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Pappas, Christopher (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2011-07-27, 15.3 years (top 16% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.3 years (top 43%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (top 48%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $121 million against debt of $720 million leaves -29.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 22% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.1% of revenue (top 39%); a gross margin of 24.2% (top 35%) (its annual report).

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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 16.7% a year over the last three filed years against 14.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 7% of its family); the newest year grew 9.4% (top 19%); capital spending grew -3.3% a year (top 42%) (its annual reports). The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. reported 8 product lines in fiscal 2025: Center of the Plate Product at $1.6 billion (39%), Dry Goods Product at $657 million (16%), Pastry Product at $562 million (14%), and 5 more; 7 of 8 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $4.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 9.3% below the $4.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 20% of its family); net income of $72 million against a prior three-year average of $39 million (top 11%); a net margin of 1.7% against 1.2% before (top 23%) (its annual reports).