Who owns The Chefs' Warehouse (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-Q2 13F filings (latest filed 2026-09-22). 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
The tracked-fund tape on CHEF is one-sided between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2: 139 added or opened and 35 trimmed or exited — on balance accumulating.
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 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2, across 265 tracked filers holding CHEF, 163 increased or opened the position and 132 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, open-market insider Form 4s were net sales.
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 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2 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 24
- Capital Research Global Investors$33M
- Artisan Partners Limited Partnership$32M
- WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC$19M
- Lighthouse Investment Partners, LLC$12M
- Informed Momentum Co LLC$7M
- RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$6M
Full exits 23
- BESSEMER GROUP INC$14M
- ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$10M
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans$9M
- HENNESSY ADVISORS INC$9M
- Masterton Capital Management, LP$7M
- LORD, ABBETT & CO. LLC$6M
Largest adds
- BlackRock, Inc.$353M
- STATE STREET CORP$61M
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$60M
- D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$46M
- Select Equity Group, L.P.$41M
- FMR LLC$41M
Largest trims
- ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P.$13M
- MORGAN STANLEY$8M
- WASATCH ADVISORS LP$4M
- Woodline Partners LP$4M
- Penn Capital Management Company, LLC$3M
- Summit Creek Advisors LLC$1M
Institutional holders
One row per tracked fund, most shares held first (every row is from one quarter; reported value breaks ties). “% of value” is the fund’s share of this security’s tracked institutional value — not of shares outstanding.
| Fund | Shares | Reported value | % of value | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. added | 6,039,964 | $580M | 16.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP trimmed | 2,390,951 | $230M | 6.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC added | 1,621,521 | $156M | 4.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO trimmed | 1,557,862 | $149M | 4.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| STATE STREET CORP added | 1,507,277 | $145M | 4.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| VICTORY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC trimmed | 1,354,101 | $130M | 3.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. trimmed | 1,075,880 | $64M | 1.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC added | 1,000,925 | $96M | 2.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP added | 992,743 | $95M | 2.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC added | 963,665 | $93M | 2.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| FMR LLC added | 948,054 | $91M | 2.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/ trimmed | 943,154 | $91M | 2.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| NOMURA ASSET MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL INC. trimmed | 898,627 | $86M | 2.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| Invesco Ltd. trimmed | 815,554 | $78M | 2.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Select Equity Group, L.P. added | 765,435 | $74M | 2.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. added | 664,493 | $64M | 1.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| KENNEDY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 652,042 | $63M | 1.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| JENNISON ASSOCIATES LLC trimmed | 577,047 | $55M | 1.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| FEDERATED HERMES, INC. added | 508,907 | $49M | 1.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| NORTHERN TRUST CORP added | 493,545 | $47M | 1.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC added | 443,298 | $43M | 1.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC added | 440,161 | $42M | 1.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| VOYA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC added | 421,969 | $41M | 1.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC trimmed | 416,839 | $40M | 1.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| MORGAN STANLEY trimmed | 402,233 | $39M | 1.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| TimesSquare Capital Management, LLC trimmed | 391,460 | $38M | 1.0% | 2026-Q2 |
| Capital Research Global Investors new | 347,104 | $33M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| Artisan Partners Limited Partnership new | 334,734 | $32M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| Nuveen, LLC trimmed | 328,043 | $32M | 0.9% | 2026-Q2 |
| Woodline Partners LP trimmed | 304,909 | $29M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| BANK OF MONTREAL /CAN/ added | 292,488 | $28M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, THE added | 291,465 | $28M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| ROYAL BANK OF CANADA trimmed | 282,188 | $27M | 0.8% | 2026-Q2 |
| JANE STREET GROUP, LLC added | 272,189 | $26M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD FIDUCIARY TRUST CO added | 260,865 | $25M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT GROUP added | 249,726 | $24M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| BNP PARIBAS FINANCIAL MARKETS added | 244,697 | $24M | 0.7% | 2026-Q2 |
| WCM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC trimmed | 235,895 | $22M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ trimmed | 234,486 | $23M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp added | 230,130 | $22M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| NEW YORK STATE COMMON RETIREMENT FUND added | 226,253 | $22M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC trimmed | 225,452 | $22M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS Group AG trimmed | 222,914 | $21M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC added | 216,917 | $21M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| BARCLAYS PLC trimmed | 212,927 | $20M | 0.6% | 2026-Q2 |
| Aberdeen Group plc trimmed | 197,101 | $19M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC added | 196,882 | $19M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC new | 194,636 | $19M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| Pictet Asset Management Holding SA trimmed | 186,851 | $18M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| First Eagle Investment Management, LLC added | 181,519 | $17M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| SILVERCREST ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC trimmed | 173,610 | $17M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC added | 169,651 | $16M | 0.5% | 2026-Q2 |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC added | 150,827 | $14M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC added | 146,697 | $14M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| Penn Capital Management Company, LLC trimmed | 137,839 | $13M | 0.4% | 2026-Q2 |
| WASATCH ADVISORS LP trimmed | 127,951 | $12M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Lighthouse Investment Partners, LLC new | 124,727 | $12M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board trimmed | 124,636 | $12M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| CITIGROUP INC added | 124,204 | $12M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. trimmed | 123,728 | $12M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD trimmed | 111,155 | $11M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP trimmed | 106,870 | $10M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Nicholas Investment Partners, LP added | 104,457 | $10M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH trimmed | 98,817 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| HEALTHCARE OF ONTARIO PENSION PLAN TRUST FUND added | 96,443 | $9M | 0.3% | 2026-Q2 |
| Granahan Investment Management, LLC trimmed | 93,187 | $9M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| RHUMBLINE ADVISERS trimmed | 87,008 | $8M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Legal & General Group Plc added | 84,564 | $8M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Summit Creek Advisors LLC trimmed | 80,970 | $8M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO trimmed | 77,466 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC trimmed | 76,846 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Granite Investment Partners, LLC trimmed | 76,389 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Swiss National Bank added | 73,700 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Informed Momentum Co LLC added | 70,932 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN added | 70,562 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| DEUTSCHE BANK AG\ added | 67,659 | $7M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Welch & Forbes LLC added | 65,255 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC trimmed | 63,749 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ added | 59,488 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| OBERWEIS ASSET MANAGEMENT INC/ new | 57,544 | $6M | 0.2% | 2026-Q2 |
| Numerai GP LLC added | 55,847 | $5M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Aristotle Capital Boston, LLC trimmed | 55,295 | $5M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| LAZARD ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC trimmed | 52,096 | $5M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP trimmed | 49,625 | $5M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| CITADEL ADVISORS LLC trimmed | 46,330 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. AG trimmed | 44,597 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM trimmed | 43,264 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Quantbot Technologies LP added | 38,695 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Holocene Advisors, LP new | 38,072 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| ALGERT GLOBAL LLC trimmed | 37,777 | $4M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Susquehanna Portfolio Strategies, LLC added | 35,990 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC added | 34,485 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| PDT Partners, LLC | 34,082 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Odyssean, LLC added | 32,758 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Aquatic Capital Management LLC added | 29,197 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| NFJ INVESTMENT GROUP, LLC trimmed | 28,559 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| ExodusPoint Capital Management, LP trimmed | 28,033 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| Quantinno Capital Management LP added | 27,894 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd added | 26,259 | $3M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
| TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL trimmed | 25,337 | $2M | 0.1% | 2026-Q2 |
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.