Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001517175-25-000002
Chunk: 72

Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 5
Chunk 72
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Item 5.      MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. Common Stock

Our common stock is publicly traded under the symbol “CHEF” on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. As of December 27, 2024, there were 94 holders of record of our common stock. This does not include the number of persons whose stock is in nominee or “street” name accounts through brokers.

We have never paid, and have no immediate plans to pay, cash dividends on our common stock. Further, our ability to pay dividends is limited by the terms and conditions of our senior secured credit agreements, which require compliance with certain baskets and ratio tests and certain excess availability tests.

Stock Performance Graph

The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock during the period from December 27, 2019 through December 27, 2024 with the cumulative total return on the NASDAQ Composite and the S&P Smallcap Food Distributor Index. The comparison assumes that $100 was invested on December 27, 2019 in our common stock and in each of the foregoing indices and assumes reinvestment of dividends, if any. The comparisons in the graph below are based on historical data and are not indicative of, or intended to forecast, future performance of our common stock.

The following performance graph and related information shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the Securities and Exchange Commission, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate such information by reference into such filing.

COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN

AMONG THE CHEFS’ WAREHOUSE, INC.,

NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX AND THE S&P SMALLCAP FOOD DISTRIBUTOR INDEX

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December 27, 2019December 25, 2020December 24, 2021December 30, 2022December 29, 2023December 27, 2024The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc.$100.00 $62.92 $85.78 $87.65 $77.51 $128.21 NASDAQ Composite Index$100.00 $142.17