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

LOCO POWR Grades

• LOCO scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 87.86% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LOCO is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• LOCO's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 18.7% 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; merely 21.69% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.95, El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc has a higher such ratio than merely 22.44% 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 5.33% -- higher than that of 74.06% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be POAI, AEL, MFIN, MXC, and MCS.
• 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/earnings ratio is 23.2% higher, now standing at 23.9.
• Over the past 86 months, LOCO's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.2.
• LOCO's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 31.4 over the prior 86 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LOCO.

LOCO Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -65.91%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -21.18%.
• The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -9.96%.

Over the past 15 months, LOCO's revenue has gone up $31,071,000.

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
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
2021-03-31	428.645	55.471	24.838
2020-12-31	426.087	40.547	24.474
2020-09-30	423.292	37.759	22.517

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.