CHEF (Chefs’ Warehouse Inc) climbed 1.20 at the last close: Is This Today’s Most Popular Stock?

Chefs’ Warehouse Inc (NASDAQ: CHEF) on Tuesday, soared 1.20% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $39.91. Within the past 52 weeks, CHEF’s price has moved between $17.29 and $44.58.

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Consumer Defensive Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 23.63% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 8.94%. With a float of $34.53 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $39.67 million.

The firm has a total of 4873 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 23.89%, operating margin of 3.13%, and the pretax margin is 1.78%.

Chefs’ Warehouse Inc (CHEF) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Observing investor behavior towards Food Distribution industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Chefs’ Warehouse Inc is 13.30%, while institutional ownership is 91.20%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 08 ’24, was worth 425,000. In this transaction General Counsel of this company sold 10,000 shares at a rate of $42.50, taking the stock ownership to the 119,342 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 03 ’24, when Company’s General Counsel sold 7,809 for $40.00, making the entire transaction worth $312,360. This insider now owns 129,342 shares in total.

Chefs’ Warehouse Inc (CHEF) Recent Fiscal highlights

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 8.94% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 21.20% during the next five years compared to 4.60% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Chefs’ Warehouse Inc (NASDAQ: CHEF) Trading Performance Indicators

Chefs’ Warehouse Inc (CHEF) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.08 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.44. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 36.82.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.96, a number that is poised to hit 0.34 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.73 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Chefs’ Warehouse Inc (CHEF)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Chefs’ Warehouse Inc, CHEF], we can find that recorded value of 0.33 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 0.34 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 53.31%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.11.

During the past 100 days, Chefs’ Warehouse Inc’s (CHEF) raw stochastic average was set at 53.39%, which indicates a significant increase from 40.44% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 31.59% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 32.72% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $39.96, while its 200-day Moving Average is $37.34. Now, the first resistance to watch is $40.92. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $41.44. The third major resistance level sits at $42.04. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $39.79, it is likely to go to the next support level at $39.19. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $38.67.

Chefs’ Warehouse Inc (NASDAQ: CHEF) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 1.61 billion based on 39,772K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 3,434 M and income totals 34,590 K. The company made 954,700 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 15,520 K in sales during its previous quarter.