Food distribution company United Natural Foods (NYSE: UNFI) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.

United Natural Foods missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $7.84 billion, flat year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting United Natural Foods’s revenue to be flat year on year, slowing from the 4.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. United Natural Foods has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at United Natural Foods’s peers in the perishable food segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Fresh Del Monte Produce posted flat year-on-year revenue, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.7%, and Flowers Foods reported revenues up 11%, in line with consensus estimates. Fresh Del Monte Produce traded up 5% following the results while Flowers Foods was down 8.7%.

Read our full analysis of Fresh Del Monte Produce’s results here and Flowers Foods’s results here.

Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the perishable food stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.7% on average over the last month. United Natural Foods is down 6.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $41.13 (compared to the current share price of $37.00).

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