Who owns The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF)
Which tracked institutional funds hold CHEF, how they are positioned, and who is buying versus exiting — from SEC Form 13F-HR filings. See CHEF company fundamentals →
Ownership as of the 2026-Q1 13F filings (latest filed 2026-05-18). 13F is disclosed up to 45 days after quarter-end, so the most recent quarter fills in over the following weeks.
How the tape is positioned
57 tracked funds added or opened CHEF while 64 trimmed or exited it between 2025-Q4 and 2026-Q1 — the tape is split. When large holders disagree on a name, the funds moving first are sometimes ahead of the story.
A prompt to read the filings, not a verdict. 13F is a quarter-end snapshot disclosed up to 45 days late; a fund adds or exits for mandate, benchmark, and timing reasons that have nothing to do with a view on the stock. This is a starting question, not a signal to trade.
Conviction spread
CHEF’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, BlackRock, Inc., sizes it at 0.0% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.0% of theirs — a 0.0pp gap the other way — the median holder sizes CHEF more heavily than its largest holder by dollar value does.
Book-share is each fund’s reported value in CHEF divided by its whole reported 13F book, so it is comparable across funds of different sizes and is unaffected by stock splits. A higher share means a fund has committed more of its book to the name — a starting question about conviction, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
Institutional & insider positioning
Between 2025-Q4 and 2026-Q1, across 249 tracked filers holding CHEF, 136 increased or opened the position and 112 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, open-market insider Form 4 buying and selling roughly offset.
This fuses two public signals for the same quarter — how tracked institutions changed their positions and whether insiders bought or sold in the open market. It describes what was filed; it is a starting question, not a verdict or a signal to trade.
New buyers & exits
Funds opening or closing a position in CHEF between the 2025-Q4 and 2026-Q1 13F filings, and the largest changes among funds holding it in both. New buyers and exits are counted on fund presence (split-invariant); adds and trims are measured on reported value.
New buyers 19
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$96M
- VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC$56M
- VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO$15M
- Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC$6M
- Nicholas Investment Partners, LP$5M
- Graham Capital Management, L.P.$2M
Full exits 13
- VANGUARD GROUP INC$156M
- Greenhouse Funds LLLP$15M
- Point72 Asset Management, L.P.$10M
- CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$5M
- TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL$5M
- NORGES BANK$5M
Largest adds
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC$22M
- WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP$18M
- BESSEMER GROUP INC$14M
- VICTORY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC$13M
- BARCLAYS PLC$9M
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO$6M
Largest trims
- BlackRock, Inc.$113M
- AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC$44M
- MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$13M
- Pictet Asset Management Holding SA$12M
- KENNEDY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$11M
- TimesSquare Capital Management, LLC$9M
Institutional holders
One row per tracked fund, largest reported value first. “% of value” is the fund’s share of this security’s tracked institutional value — not of shares outstanding. Rows marked stale are from an earlier filing than the security’s latest quarter — that fund is absent from the newest snapshot (position exited, or reported under a different name).
| Fund | Shares | Reported value | % of value | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. trimmed | 3,827,740 | $228M | 9.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP added | 3,369,602 | $200M | 8.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO added | 1,883,080 | $111M | 4.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| VICTORY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC added | 1,710,882 | $102M | 4.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC new | 1,617,892 | $96M | 3.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| STATE STREET CORP added | 1,410,903 | $84M | 3.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. trimmed | 1,231,558 | $77M | 3.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| NOMURA ASSET MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL INC. added | 1,288,165 | $77M | 3.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/ added | 1,176,702 | $70M | 2.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP added | 977,464 | $58M | 2.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC new | 948,222 | $56M | 2.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 906,291 | $54M | 2.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Invesco Ltd. trimmed | 865,975 | $51M | 2.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| FMR LLC trimmed | 850,636 | $51M | 2.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| MORGAN STANLEY added | 791,089 | $47M | 1.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| KENNEDY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 677,638 | $40M | 1.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC added | 622,385 | $37M | 1.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| JENNISON ASSOCIATES LLC trimmed | 612,536 | $36M | 1.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Woodline Partners LP added | 555,928 | $33M | 1.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Select Equity Group, L.P. added | 551,686 | $33M | 1.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| FEDERATED HERMES, INC. trimmed | 508,877 | $30M | 1.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP trimmed | 456,597 | $27M | 1.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC added | 434,532 | $26M | 1.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| TimesSquare Capital Management, LLC trimmed | 421,258 | $25M | 1.0% | 2026-Q1 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ added | 385,438 | $23M | 0.9% | 2026-Q1 |
| Nuveen, LLC trimmed | 341,006 | $20M | 0.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| ROYAL BANK OF CANADA added | 332,391 | $20M | 0.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| WCM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC trimmed | 335,478 | $20M | 0.8% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS Group AG added | 302,255 | $18M | 0.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. added | 299,221 | $18M | 0.7% | 2026-Q1 |
| WASATCH ADVISORS LP added | 273,246 | $16M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| Penn Capital Management Company, LLC added | 269,219 | $16M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| SILVERCREST ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC trimmed | 264,604 | $16M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO new | 252,656 | $15M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT GROUP trimmed | 236,608 | $14M | 0.6% | 2026-Q1 |
| BESSEMER GROUP INC added | 231,181 | $14M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Pictet Asset Management Holding SA trimmed | 228,068 | $14M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC trimmed | 226,744 | $13M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| BARCLAYS PLC added | 225,529 | $13M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp trimmed | 224,719 | $13M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| Aberdeen Group plc added | 213,574 | $13M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| NEW YORK STATE COMMON RETIREMENT FUND added | 199,568 | $12M | 0.5% | 2026-Q1 |
| ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP added | 172,040 | $10M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| BANK OF MONTREAL /CAN/ trimmed | 170,923 | $10M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| First Eagle Investment Management, LLC added | 167,472 | $10M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC added | 164,418 | $10M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| Thrivent Financial for Lutherans added | 158,259 | $9M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| HENNESSY ADVISORS INC trimmed | 155,598 | $9M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| Summit Creek Advisors LLC trimmed | 153,772 | $9M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC trimmed | 149,615 | $9M | 0.4% | 2026-Q1 |
| STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD trimmed | 134,817 | $8M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| BNP PARIBAS FINANCIAL MARKETS added | 131,295 | $8M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board added | 129,532 | $8M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. added | 128,910 | $8M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH trimmed | 123,992 | $7M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Masterton Capital Management, LP added | 122,375 | $7M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO added | 121,984 | $7M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC trimmed | 121,852 | $7M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP added | 120,786 | $7M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Granahan Investment Management, LLC added | 114,599 | $7M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| LORD, ABBETT & CO. LLC added | 108,689 | $6M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC added | 108,691 | $6M | 0.3% | 2026-Q1 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS added | 96,188 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Nicholas Investment Partners, LP added | 90,904 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Legal & General Group Plc trimmed | 83,022 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC added | 80,008 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Darwins River Capital, LP added | 76,667 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Granite Investment Partners, LLC trimmed | 76,427 | $5M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Swiss National Bank | 72,400 | $4M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| LAZARD ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 66,953 | $4M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Aristotle Capital Boston, LLC trimmed | 65,018 | $4M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| Welch & Forbes LLC added | 64,255 | $4M | 0.2% | 2026-Q1 |
| B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. AG | 61,565 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| DEUTSCHE BANK AG\ added | 60,114 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| Trexquant Investment LP added | 57,728 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| JANE STREET GROUP, LLC trimmed | 55,965 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ added | 50,961 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP trimmed | 50,677 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| ALGERT GLOBAL LLC trimmed | 46,037 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM added | 44,406 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 43,587 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q1 |
| VANGUARD GROUP INC trimmed | 2,508,278 | $156M | 6.2% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| MACQUARIE GROUP LTD added | 1,063,648 | $62M | 2.5% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Driehaus Capital Management LLC added | 438,734 | $26M | 1.0% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Greenhouse Funds LLLP trimmed | 236,270 | $15M | 0.6% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Point72 Asset Management, L.P. added | 156,961 | $10M | 0.4% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A/S added | 92,474 | $6M | 0.2% | 2025-Q2 stale |
| Global IMC LLC trimmed | 89,386 | $6M | 0.2% | 2025-Q2 stale |
| CITADEL ADVISORS LLC added | 83,256 | $5M | 0.2% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC trimmed | 88,771 | $5M | 0.2% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Jefferies Financial Group Inc. added | 85,000 | $5M | 0.2% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL trimmed | 77,491 | $5M | 0.2% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| NORGES BANK added | 73,556 | $5M | 0.2% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Stephens Investment Management Group LLC trimmed | 68,460 | $4M | 0.2% | 2025-Q2 stale |
| Cubist Systematic Strategies, LLC trimmed | 64,077 | $4M | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Hudson Bay Capital Management LP trimmed | 59,878 | $4M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| OP Asset Management Ltd added | 57,659 | $4M | 0.1% | 2025-Q4 stale |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd added | 61,085 | $4M | 0.1% | 2025-Q3 stale |
| Informed Momentum Co LLC trimmed | 59,307 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q1 stale |
| Alberta Investment Management Corp added | 56,115 | $3M | 0.1% | 2025-Q1 stale |
Ownership over time
Tracked institutional holder count and total shares held by filing quarter (independent scales). The curated-era tail and any mid-ingest latest quarter are handled honestly — a partial quarter is not drawn as a collapse.
Reading this table
Funds hold the same stock for different reasons — an index fund “holds” almost everything, an active manager sizes a name to a mandate and a benchmark, and each fund entered at its own price and time. Because 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter-end, every row is a backward-looking snapshot; a manager may have traded since. Share-class siblings (a company’s A and C shares) are rolled up to one line so a dual-class name is never double-counted. Compare like-for-like. A large holder is not an endorsement, and a fund exiting is not a warning — this is a starting question, not a verdict.
About 13F filings
A Form 13F is a quarterly disclosure that institutional investment managers with over $100 million in US-listed equities must file with the SEC. In plain English: it is a snapshot of the long stock positions a fund held at the end of a quarter. It covers long US-listed equities only — not short positions, options, cash, or private holdings — and the funds shown are the large sample we track, not the complete 13F universe.