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LOCO
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
NASDAQ· Consumer Cyclical· Restaurants· CUSIP 268603107
$15.04-0.13%Price as of Oct 23, 00:53 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Restaurants, part of the Consumer Cyclical sector. It is headquartered in Costa Mesa, United States and has 4,000 employees. The company is worth $457.71M and trades at 12.9x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 17.7x. Revenue was $490.05M in fiscal 2025, up 3.6% from the year before. Net income was $26.49M. The share price is 13.6% below its 52-week high of $17.40. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $15.38M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $421.67K of its stock on the open market and bought none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $457.71M
- P/E
- 12.9x
- Forward P/E
- 13.6x
- P/B
- 1.4x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $1.17
- ROE
- 11.79%
- Profit margin
- 6.96%
- Revenue growth
- +3.00%
- Beta
- 0.67
- 52-week high
- $17.40
- 52-week low
- $8.99
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +29.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,283.46▲ +28.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 12 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $10.46 | $11.54 | $8.82 | $9.96 | $14.19 | $18.10 | $15.14 | $15.17 | $9.90 | $12.30 | $12.63 | $19.97 | |
| P/E | 17.7x | 11.6x | 13.4x | 11.9x | 17.5x | 17.7x | 26.6x | 22.6x | — | 45.0x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$16.56
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$6.75
Earnings growing 5.8% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$20.66
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$20.75
Median P/E of 17.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$13.23
Cash flow growing 5.8% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$18.53
Sector median of 10.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLDPSolid Power, Inc. | $2.01 | — | 0.9x | 0.00% | -20.58% | $458.64M |
| ARKOARKO Corp. | $4.10 | 51.3x | 1.1x | 2.93% | 4.09% | $459.96M |
| HBBHamilton Beach Brands Holding Co | $33.85 | 8.0x | 2.1x | 1.45% | 30.18% | $455.02M |
| CALCaleres Inc | $13.35 |
About the company
- 4,000
- Costa Mesa, United States