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TEAM-2.62% 13F +440META+1.00% 13F +2,694RCG+0.35% CLUSTERUTHR-0.54% 13F +425CRWV+5.68% 13F +694CRM-1.97% 13F +1,019CVNA+1.58% 13F +795TPL-1.11% 13F +444NET-1.96% 13F +711MSTR-1.39% 13F +527DELL+1.50% 13F +1,204CRWD-0.87% 13F +1,383ANET+1.22% 13F +1,324COIN-4.18% 13F +475TEAM-2.62% 13F +440META+1.00% 13F +2,694RCG+0.35% CLUSTERUTHR-0.54% 13F +425CRWV+5.68% 13F +694CRM-1.97% 13F +1,019CVNA+1.58% 13F +795TPL-1.11% 13F +444NET-1.96% 13F +711MSTR-1.39% 13F +527DELL+1.50% 13F +1,204CRWD-0.87% 13F +1,383ANET+1.22% 13F +1,324COIN-4.18% 13F +475

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Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.

WHOLESALE & RETAIL · WHOLESALE-GROCERIES, GENERAL LINE · CIK 0001517175

FORM 144 · 3☆ WATCH

INSIDER NET · 180D

-$25.3M

open-market buys minus sells, Form 4 codes P and S

INSIDER BUYERS · 180D

CONGRESS BUYERS · 1Y

FUNDS ADDED · QTR

13F, latest reported quarter

REVENUE GROWTH

+9.4%

XBRL, annual

NET MARGIN

1.7%

SEVEN FACTS, RANKED AGAINST THE SECTOR · RANK IS NOT A FORECAST

INSIDERS

net -$25.3M over 180 days

-$15.2M over 90 days

below 87% of Wholesale & Retail

CONGRESS

no member of Congress has reported trading it

FUNDS

fewer than five institutions report holding it

REVENUE

+9.4% year over year

more than 72% of Wholesale & Retail

MARGIN

1.7% net margin

more than 55% of Wholesale & Retail

BUYBACKS

$10.0M repurchased, FY to 2026-03-27

below 63% of Wholesale & Retail

SHORT

13.3% of shares outstanding short · 6.4 days to cover · settled 2026-07-31

more than 95% of Wholesale & Retail

THE SITUATION · EVERY LINE IS ONE RULE OVER ONE DATASET

Insiders are net sellers: -$25.3M across 3 people in 180 days.

The year, with the filings on it

Total return indexed to 100 over the last 12 months · every marker is a federal filing, placed at its date — hover any marker for the detail

TOTAL 12M RETURN +77.1%

+77.1%12M

INSIDER SELLFORM 144

INDEXED RETURN, DIVIDEND-ADJUSTED — NOT A PRICE CHART · LARGE TRADES DRAWN FIRST WHEN A NAME FILES HEAVILY

Live price

Daily candles from TradingView, on their licence — no filings are marked on this one

WHY THIS NAME IS ON THE DESK

Insiders have filed to sell — before selling.

The record shows a net $25.3M sold by insiders over 180 days, $15.4M in planned Form 144 sales. Every figure is a federal filing, dated the day it became public.

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Same sector, ranked by filing activity

Sector from the SEC's own SIC classification

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Insider transactions

Form 4 purchases and sales (codes P and S) — grants, option exercises and preferred conversions excluded

Over the last 180 days, Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. insiders sold a net $25.3M of stock across 49 Form 4 purchases and sales, with 0 insider(s) buying. Source: SEC Form 4 filings, as of 2026-09-06.

INSIDER

FILED

VALUE

Pappas Christopher

President and CEO

SELL

2026-08-14

50,000.0

$5.5M

Pappas Christopher

President and CEO

SELL

2026-08-14

50,000.0

$5.5M

Polychroni Christina

Chief Human Resources Officer

SELL

2026-08-14

2,752.0

$308.2K

Aldous Alexandros

General Counsel

SELL

2026-08-14

6,172.0

$698.6K

Aldous Alexandros

General Counsel

SELL

2026-08-14

8,364.0

$938.1K

49 TRANSACTIONS ON RECORD

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Institutional holders

13F · holdings as of the latest quarter funds have reported

no 13F holders found for this ticker

SCHEDULE 13D/G

No 5%+ ownership filings

Nobody has crossed 5% with a filing obligation. Absence is a fact here, not missing data.

Planned sales · Form 144

Filed before the sale — intent, not a trade

Alexandros Aldous

FILED 2026-08-14

$3.9M

Christina Polychroni

FILED 2026-08-14

$308.0K

Pappas Christopher

FILED 2026-08-14

$11.2M

Executive pay vs shareholder return · Christopher Pappas

DEF 14A pay-versus-performance disclosure · both the headline pay and the SEC's mark-to-market figure, beside the return the company delivered and the return of the peer group it chose itself

CEO TOTAL

ACTUALLY PAID

OTHER NEOs AVG

TSR

PEER TSR

2025

$22.0M

$23.6M

$5.1M

+166%

+120%

2024

$5.8M

$13.8M

$1.9M

+104%

+64%

2023

$5.0M

$5.3M

$1.6M

+24%

+46%

2022

$5.1M

$6.1M

$1.6M

+39%

+78%

2021

$6.4M

$8.4M

$2.1M

+36%

+94%

TAGGED BY THE COMPANY UNDER SEC ITEM 402(v) · RETURN IS CUMULATIVE FROM THE START OF THE DISCLOSURE PERIOD · GREEN WHERE THE COMPANY BEAT ITS OWN PEER GROUP

Fundamentals

Annual figures from XBRL filings · pick a past date to see them exactly as the market knew them then — restatements and all

	2025-12	2024-12	2023-12	2022-12
REVENUE	$4.1B	$3.8B	$3.4B	$2.6B
GROSS PROFIT	$1.0B	$914.1M	$814.5M	$618.6M
OPERATING INCOME	$145.1M	$128.2M	$100.9M	$85.7M
NET INCOME	$72.4M	$55.5M	$34.6M	$27.8M
EPS (DILUTED)	1.68	1.32	0.88	0.73
OPERATING CASH FLOW	$129.2M	$153.1M	$61.6M	$23.1M
CASH	$121.0M	$114.7M	$49.9M	$158.8M
LONG-TERM DEBT	$720.3M	$688.7M	$664.8M	$653.5M
BUYBACKS	$15.0M	$17.4M	$0	$0

SEC XBRL · FISCAL-YEAR PERIODS · AS KNOWN ON 2026-09-06 · NOBODY ELSE SHOWS FUNDAMENTALS AS OF A PAST DATE