Us Foods Holding Corp.

Consumer Discretionary
Food Distributors
www.usfoods.com

Earnings Score
Moat Score
Safety Score

Market Cap $16.37B
PE 28
Debt $4.91B
Cash $81.00M
EV $21.19B
FCF $718.00M

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	$575.00M
EBIT	$1.08B
ROE	12%
ROA	8%
FCF	$718.00M
Equity	$4.61B
Growth Stability	-55%
PE	28.46
PEG	0.77
PB	3.55
P/FCF	22.79
P/S	0.44
Price/Cash	0
Debt/Equity	1.07
Debt/FCF	6.83
Net Margins	2%
Gross Margins	17%
Op. Margins	3%
Earnings CAGR	2%
Sales Growth YoY	7%
Sales Growth QoQ	0%
Sales CAGR	6%
FCF CAGR	3%
Equity CAGR	9%
Earnings Stability	0.01
Earnings Growth YoY	56%
Earnings Growth QoQ	-25%

Earnings CAGR 5Y	37%
Sales CAGR 5Y	11%
FCF CAGR 5Y	19%
Equity CAGR 5Y	8%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	8%
Sales CAGR 3Y	8%
FCF CAGR 3Y	121%
Equity CAGR 3Y	12%
Market Cap	$16.37B
Revenue	$37.32B
Assets	$13.48B
Total Debt	$4.91B
Cash	$81.00M
Shares Outstanding	235.4M
EV	21.19B
Earnings Score	6%
Moat Score	78%
Safety Score	49%
Final Score	44%
Working Capital	647M
Current Ratio	1.19
Gross Profit	$6.46B
Shares Growth 3y	4%
Equity Growth QoQ	-8%
Equity Growth YoY	-2%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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US Foods is the second-largest U.S. food service distributor behind Sysco, holding 10% market share of the highly fragmented food service distribution industry. us Foods distributes more than 400,000 food and nonfood products to the healthcare and hospitality industries (collectively 22% of 2021 sales), restaurants (61%), and education, government facilities, and grocers (17%). In addition to its delivery business, the firm has 80 cash-and- carry stores under the Chef'Store banner. After Sysco's attempt to purchase us Foods failed to gain federal approval in 2015, us Foods entered the public market via an initial public offering.

SEC Filings

Direct access to Us Foods Holding Corp. (USFD) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2024
- 10-Q Sep 28
- 10-Q Jun 29
- 10-Q Mar 30
2023
- 10-K Dec 30
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jul 01
- 10-Q Apr 01
2022
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Oct 01
- 10-Q Jul 02
- 10-Q Apr 02
- 10-K Jan 01

Sector Comparison

How does Us Foods Holding Corp. compare to its competitors?

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of Us Foods Holding Corp. compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

CAGR 2%

Stability 1%

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Us Foods Holding Corp. Discounted Cash Flow

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Years

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= $9B

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
fcf	$718M	$742M	$767M	$793M	$820M	$848M	$876M	$906M	$937M	$968M	$1B	$10B
DCF		$675M	$634M	$596M	$560M	$526M	$495M	$465M	$437M	$411M	$386M	$3.9B
Value	$9B

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	01/2016	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	01/2021	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	TTM
Net Margins	1%	1%	2%	2%	1%	-1%	1%	1%	1%	2%
ROA	-	5%	6%	7%	6%	-1%	3%	5%	8%	8%
ROE	-	8%	16%	13%	10%	-6%	4%	7%	11%	12%

Bad Net Margins (1.51%)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	01/2016	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	01/2021	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	9.91	7.41	9.56	9.8	26.51	35.6	10.03	5.8	6.83
Debt over Equity	2.56	1.53	1.42	1.11	1.33	1.68	1.38	1.27	1.01	1.07
Growth Stability	-	-	-	100%	100%	-55%	87%	100%	100%	-55%

Bad Debt/FCF ratio (6.83)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Neutral Debt/Equity ratio (1.07)

The company has a balance between equity and debt that is not too good nor too bad.

Bad Graham’s Stability (-55%)

The company has a bad stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a bad competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	01/2016	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	01/2021	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	-1%	5%	0%	7%	-12%	29%	15%	5%	11%
Earnings YoY growth	-	25%	112%	-8%	-5%	-159%	-173%	62%	91%	37%
Equity YoY growth	-	35%	8%	17%	15%	-5%	6%	6%	20%	8%
FCF YoY growth	-	6%	35%	-29%	34%	-55%	-35%	245%	66%	19%