Chefs' Warehouse CHEF Institutional Ownership

Updated Oct 11, 2026

Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHEF) was reported as a holding by 286 institutional investors in 13F filings for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

• Total shares held in CHEF fell 0.34% from Q1 2026; the number of holders rose 26.55% from Q2 2025.
• Looking at the 286 holders of CHEF individually, 171 added to their positions, 89 reduced their stakes and 26 left their positions unchanged.
• Combined, institutional investors held 40.01Mn shares of CHEF as of Q2 2026, down 134.67K from the prior quarter and up 1.97Mn from a year earlier.
• As of June 30, 2026, the biggest holder of Chefs' Warehouse was BlackRock, Inc. with 6.04Mn shares.
• The biggest increases in CHEF positions during Q2 2026 came from Voya Investment Management LLC (+402.34K shares), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (+373.2K shares), D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. (+359.57K shares), Ameriprise Financial Inc (+290.55K shares) and Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, The (+274.26K shares).
• The biggest cuts to CHEF positions during Q2 2026 came from Wellington Management Group LLP (-978.65K shares), Nomura Asset Management International Inc. (-389.54K shares), Morgan Stanley (-388.86K shares), Victory Capital Management Inc (-356.78K shares) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (-325.22K shares).
• Business Quant data shows the 10 biggest positions in Chefs' Warehouse as of Q2 2026 were held by BlackRock, Inc. (6.04Mn shares), Wellington Management Group LLP (2.39Mn shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (1.62Mn shares), JPMorgan Chase & Co (1.56Mn shares), State Street Corp (1.51Mn shares), Victory Capital Management Inc (1.35Mn shares), AllianceBernstein L.P. (1.08Mn shares), Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC (1Mn shares), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (992.74K shares) and Geode Capital Management, LLC (963.66K shares).