El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO): Price and Financial Metrics

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO): $8.90

0.06 (+0.68%)

POWR Rating

Component Grades

Momentum

B

Stability

C

Sentiment

Quality

C

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Industry: Restaurants

Industry

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LOCO Price/Volume Stats

Current price $8.90 52-week high $13.00
Prev. close $8.84 52-week low $8.35
Day low $8.85 Volume 368,016
Day high $8.98 Avg. volume 423,176
50-day MA $9.76 Dividend yield N/A
200-day MA $10.19 Market Cap 315.63M

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LOCO POWR Grades

  • Value is the dimension where LOCO ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.5% of US stocks.
  • LOCO's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
  • LOCO's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 22.96% of US stocks).

LOCO Stock Summary

  • Of note is the ratio of EL POLLO LOCO HOLDINGS INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; just 22.55% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
  • With a price/sales ratio of 0.67, EL POLLO LOCO HOLDINGS INC has a higher such ratio than merely 24.13% of stocks in our set.
  • Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for LOCO comes in at 17.18% -- higher than that of 89.43% of stocks in our set.
  • Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to EL POLLO LOCO HOLDINGS INC are CGC, BFI, FWRD, OPRT, and CVEO.
  • LOCO's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit EL POLLO LOCO HOLDINGS INC's official web site, go to www.elpolloloco.com.

LOCO Valuation Summary

  • In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, LOCO's price/sales ratio is 63.16% lower, now standing at 0.7.
  • Over the past 111 months, LOCO's price/earnings ratio has gone up 64.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LOCO.

Stock Date P/S P/B P/E EV/EBIT
LOCO 2023-09-13 0.7 1.2 13.7 16.0
LOCO 2023-09-12 0.7 1.2 13.8 16.1
LOCO 2023-09-11 0.7 1.2 14.0 16.2
LOCO 2023-09-08 0.7 1.2 14.0 16.2
LOCO 2023-09-07 0.7 1.2 14.0 16.2
LOCO 2023-09-06 0.7 1.2 13.9 16.1

LOCO Growth Metrics

    Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 4.14%.
  • The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 55.22%.
  • The 3 year price growth rate now stands at -9.25%.
LOCO's revenue has moved up $11,968,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows LOCO's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date Revenue Operating Cash Flow Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30 462.994 31.674 20.443
2022-06-30 458.816 37.295 25.595
2022-03-31 456.69 42.396 27.272
2021-12-31 454.363 52.099 29.121
2021-09-30 455.747 49.36 28.398
2021-06-30 451.026 56.089 28.157

LOCO's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.
  • LOCO has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 73.33% of graded US stocks.
  • LOCO's asset turnover comes in at 0.744 -- ranking 31st of 79 Restaraunts Hotels Motels stocks.
  • NDLS, RRGB, and TAST are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LOCO.

The table below shows LOCO's key quality metrics over time.

Period Asset Turnover Gross Margin ROIC
2021-06-30 0.744 0.290 0.083
2021-03-31 0.688 0.286 0.067
2020-12-30 0.669 0.287 0.062
2020-09-23 0.660 0.292 0.055
2020-06-24 0.658 0.282 0.050
2020-03-25 0.688 0.283 0.075

LOCO Price Target

For more insight on analysts targets of LOCO, see our LOCO price target page. And for a list of of all stocks sorted by upside potential based on analyst target price, see our Top Price Target page.

Average Price Target $21.00 Average Broker Recommendation 1.8 (Moderate Buy)

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO) Company Bio


El Pollo Loco Holdings develops, franchises, licenses, and operates quick-service restaurants under the El Pollo Loco name in the United States. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Costa Mesa, California.


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LOCO Price Returns

1-mo -6.61%
3-mo 2.30%
6-mo -7.19%
1-year -1.33%
3-year -42.36%
5-year -29.08%
YTD -10.64%
2022 -29.81%
2021 -21.60%
2020 19.55%
2019 -0.20%
2018 53.23%

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