Growth Metrics

Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF) EBITDA Margin (2016 - 2025)

Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF) has disclosed EBITDA Margin for 16 consecutive years, with 1.93% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, EBITDA Margin fell 26.0% to 1.93% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 1.77%, a 36.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 1.77%, up 36.0% from a year prior.
  • EBITDA Margin was 1.93% for Q4 2025 at Chefs' Warehouse, up from 1.84% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, EBITDA Margin ranged from a high of 2.6% in Q2 2022 to a low of 6.37% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.84% and a median of 1.18% in 2022 define the central range for EBITDA Margin.
  • Biggest YoY gain for EBITDA Margin was 1460bps in 2021; the steepest drop was -251bps in 2021.
  • Chefs' Warehouse's EBITDA Margin stood at 1.51% in 2021, then crashed by -91bps to 0.14% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 1118bps to 1.72% in 2023, then grew by 28bps to 2.19% in 2024, then decreased by -12bps to 1.93% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CHEF's EBITDA Margin are 1.93% (Q4 2025), 1.84% (Q3 2025), and 2.13% (Q2 2025).