Chewy, Inc. CHWY
Mixed Consumer Tech sector · Chewy — online pet retailer with loyal, recurring auto-ship customers.
▼ Downgraded Insufficient → Mixed on 2026-08-07.
🗓 Reports earnings in 64 days (2026-12-09) — calendar context, not a prediction.
Chewy, Inc. (CHWY) is an established Consumer Tech company, graded Mixed on FrontierLab's evidence-based quality rubric (data as of 2026-10-05). Revenue grew 5.1% year-over-year at a 29.5% gross margin. Gross-profits-to-assets is 1.02; Rule of 40 is 7. Net share issuance -4.3% YoY (buying back shares). 1 risk flag is noted below. Track record: 24% of Mixed-graded names beat the S&P over 63 sessions (95% CI 10–47%, N=17). Median excess vs the S&P was -7.2%.
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Key quality signals
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 5.1% |
|---|---|
| Gross margin | 29.5% |
| Gross profits / assets | 1.02 |
| Rule of 40 | 7 |
| Net margin | 1.9% |
| Cash runway (months) | — |
| PEG | 0.7 |
| Price / sales | 0.6 |
Quality checklist
Each line is one quality test behind the grade — ✓ passed · ~ borderline · ✗ failed. Hover a metric in the tables below for what it means.
- ✗ Revenue growth — 5.1% (pass ≥ 20%)
- ✓ Gross profits / assets — 1.02 (pass ≥ 0.33)
- · Rule of 40 — 7 (context — graded for software only)
- ~ Gross margin — 29.5% (pass ≥ 38% · Consumer Tech)
- ✓ Cash generation
- ✓ Share dilution — -4.3%
- ~ Competitive moat — Narrow
- ~ Market size (TAM) — Mod
Grade history
- 2026-08-07 — Mixed (from Insufficient)
- 2026-08-03 — Insufficient (from Mixed)
- 2026-06-10 — Mixed (first graded)
Every grade change since FrontierLab began tracking this name — the receipts behind the current grade.
How have Mixed-graded names performed?
The forward returns of all Mixed-graded names since each grade was recorded — the bucket this name currently sits in, not a forecast of this individual stock.
| Window | Forward record vs the S&P | Median |
|---|---|---|
| ~1 month | 28% of Mixed-graded names beat the S&P over 21 sessions (95% CI 12–51%, N=18). | Median excess vs the S&P was -8.2%. |
| ~3 months | 24% of Mixed-graded names beat the S&P over 63 sessions (95% CI 10–47%, N=17). | Median excess vs the S&P was -7.2%. |
| ~6 months | building — 46 more sessions needed | |
How have this name's flags scored?
| Flag | N | Mean excess vs S&P |
|---|---|---|
| Thin gross margin — keeps little of each sales dollar (judge it against its industry). | 21 | -18.4% |
These per-flag figures are observational — a flag firing is not a randomized assignment, so any edge can reflect what kind of names trip a flag, not the flag itself. Descriptive, not causal.
Scope: these are forward returns vs the S&P among names still covered at each horizon's end, within the curated universe — not a survivorship-clean whole-market backtest. Names later dropped from coverage are counted as attrition (not hidden), and single-session moves beyond ±300% are treated as split/data artifacts and excluded. How this is measured → · Full track record →
How it compares
Coarse same-sector, same-stage context — not a percentile or rank. GP/A is graded on its absolute level, not position.
Fundamentals
| Market cap | $7.52B |
|---|---|
| Stage | Established |
| Share issuance (YoY) | -4.3% · buying back shares |
| Moat | Narrow |
| TAM | MOD |
| P/E (trailing) | 34.9 |
| EPS (trailing) | $0.52 |
| Burn multiple | — |
| Gross-margin trend (pts) | 0 |
| Cash / assets | 0.16 |
| Accruals (%) | -14.6% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.4 |
| Statements as of | Q2 FY2026 · filed 2026-09-09 |
Momentum context — describes the past, not a signal
Low reached Jun 22, 2026 · high reached Oct 9, 2025 — by daily close.
| Price | $18.17 (as of 2026-10-02) |
|---|---|
| Last session move | — |
| % off 52-wk high | -54.2% |
| RSI (14) | 32 |
| Relative volume | 0.7× |
Risk flags
Insider activity (90 days)
| Cluster buyers | 0 |
|---|---|
| Sellers | 1 |
Insider selling is routine diversification, not a bearish signal.
From the headlines
Wall Street analysts see Chewy as a buy; compared favorably to Shopify.
AI take — daily, AI-generated
AI leans cautious
Slow 5.1% growth and thin 29.5% margin don't justify the hype; share buybacks and analyst support are nice, but this is a mature, low-margin business trading on sentiment rather than momentum.
Generated by an AI model from the day's news — an opinion for context only. Not financial advice, not a recommendation, and not a price target.
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