LOCO Stock Price, El Pollo Loco Holdings Quote, Chart

Market Summary

USD11.03-0.07

Delayed

-0.63%

LOCO Stock Price

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LOCO Valuation

Market Cap

343.0M

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

12.92

Price/Sales (Trailing)

0.73

EV/EBITDA

5.86

Price/Free Cashflow

12.03

LOCO Price/Sales (Trailing)

LOCO Profitability

EBT Margin

7.68%

Return on Equity

10.36%

Return on Assets

4.44%

Free Cashflow Yield

8.31%

LOCO Fundamentals

LOCO Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

470.3M

Rev. Growth (Yr)

1.42%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

3.48%

LOCO Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

26.5M

Earnings Growth (Yr)

20.21%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

35.88%

Breaking Down LOCO Revenue

Last 7 days

5.1%

Last 30 days

33.4%

Last 90 days

18.9%

Trailing 12 Months

12.2%

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LOCO Financial Health

Current Ratio

0.36

LOCO Investor Care

Dividend Yield

14.99%

Dividend/Share (TTM)

1.5

Buy Backs (1Y)

13.67%

Diluted EPS (TTM)

0.81

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2024	470.3M	0	0	0
2023	474.4M	471.8M	472.3M	468.7M
2022	456.7M	458.8M	463.0M	470.0M
2021	428.6M	451.0M	455.7M	454.4M
2020	438.5M	424.4M	423.3M	426.1M
2019	439.0M	441.2M	441.0M	442.3M
2018	407.7M	413.7M	424.8M	435.8M
2017	385.5M	393.6M	399.0M	401.7M
2016	359.0M	367.0M	374.0M	380.1M
2015	353.9M	356.4M	358.7M	355.1M
2014	319.2M	324.3M	331.1M	344.9M
2013	298.9M	304.2M	309.4M	314.7M
2012	0	0	0	293.6M

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
May 09, 2024	hollandsworth maria	sold (taxes)	-14,655	10.35	-1,416	president & coo
May 09, 2024	fils ira	sold (taxes)	-24,343	10.35	-2,352	chief financial officer
Nov 08, 2023	hollandsworth maria	sold (taxes)	-13,228	8.41	-1,573	coo & interim ceo
Nov 07, 2023	hollandsworth maria	acquired	-	-	23,641	coo & interim ceo
Nov 07, 2023	fils ira	acquired	-	-	18,322	chief financial officer
Aug 23, 2023	fils ira	sold (taxes)	-45,601	9.83	-4,639	chief financial officer
Aug 17, 2023	biglari, sardar	bought	201,600	10.08	20,000	-
Aug 16, 2023	biglari, sardar	bought	553,860	10.2	54,300	-
Aug 15, 2023	biglari, sardar	bought	465,226	10.18	45,700	-
Aug 08, 2023	roberts laurance	acquired	-	-	28,222	ceo & president

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
May 16, 2024	JANE STREET GROUP, LLC	sold off	-100	-220,059	-	-%
May 16, 2024	CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM	reduced	-38.9	-13,135	27,243	-%
May 15, 2024	BARCLAYS PLC	reduced	-22.24	-105,000	636,000	-%
May 15, 2024	Cubist Systematic Strategies, LLC	sold off	-100	-733,358	-	-%
May 15, 2024	MIRABELLA FINANCIAL SERVICES LLP	new	-	104,541	104,541	0.01%
May 15, 2024	Tudor Investment Corp Et Al	reduced	-74.13	-354,139	141,668	-%
May 15, 2024	Aquatic Capital Management LLC	new	-	142,204	142,204	-%
May 15, 2024	Tyler-Stone Wealth Management	sold off	-100	-4,410	-	-%
May 15, 2024	Corton Capital Inc.	sold off	-100	-126,514	-	-%
May 15, 2024	OCCUDO QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES LP	reduced	-37.24	-95,212	214,952	0.04%

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Unveiling El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc's Major ShareHolders

Date Filed	Name of Filer	Percent of Class	No. of Shares	Form Type
Feb 14, 2024	biglari capital corp.	0.4%	120,000	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2024	dimensional fund advisors lp	7.5%	2,360,543	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2024	capitalspring finance company, llc	4.90%	1,541,862	SC 13G
Jan 26, 2024	blackrock inc.	7.9%	2,475,121	SC 13G/A
Dec 04, 2023	fs capital partners v, llc	4.81%	1,514,051	SC 13D/A
Aug 08, 2023	fs capital partners v, llc	9.1%	2,994,251	SC 13D/A
Aug 08, 2023	biglari capital corp.	11.3%	4e+06	SC 13G/A
Jul 28, 2023	biglari capital corp.	9.1%	3,277,064	SC 13G
Jun 08, 2023	blackrock inc.	11.4%	4,113,576	SC 13G/A
Apr 19, 2023	cibc employee private equity fund us i l p	4.57%	1,662,288	SC 13G/A

Recent SEC filings of El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
May 16, 2024	4	Insider Trading
May 10, 2024	4	Insider Trading
May 10, 2024	4	Insider Trading
May 10, 2024	144	Notice of Insider Sale Intent
May 08, 2024	144	Notice of Insider Sale Intent
May 03, 2024	10-Q	Quarterly Report
May 02, 2024	8-K	Current Report
Apr 16, 2024	DEF 14A	DEF 14A
Apr 03, 2024	PRE 14A	PRE 14A
Mar 08, 2024	10-K	Annual Report

Peers (Alternatives to El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc)

Name	Mkt Capsorted ascending	Revenue	Price %, 1M	Returns, 1Y	P/E	P/S	Rev 1-Yr	Inc 1-Yr
LARGE-CAP
MCD	196.3B	25.8B	0.90%	-7.37%	22.84	7.62	10.04%	25.02%
CMG	88.3B	10.2B	10.70%	53.32%	68.09	8.65	13.61%	25.56%
SBUX	88.2B	36.5B	-9.72%	-27.32%	21.2	2.41	7.45%	16.97%
DRI	18.4B	11.2B	0.67%	-5.02%	17.77	1.64	8.53%	9.08%
DPZ	17.9B	4.5B	6.48%	64.85%	33.14	3.94	-0.24%	15.90%
TXRH	11.3B	4.8B	13.56%	46.42%	33.22	2.37	13.73%	18.99%
MID-CAP
SHAK	4.2B	1.1B	4.53%	48.70%	173.21	3.76	18.35%	298.28%
BLMN	2.0B	4.6B	-12.86%	-10.70%	28.09	0.44	2.24%	-38.66%
PZZA	1.7B	2.1B	-16.19%	-30.39%	22.65	0.79	1.73%	-6.65%
SMALL-CAP
CAKE	2.0B	3.5B	14.84%	9.73%	18.4	0.57	2.64%	121.81%
JACK	1.0B	1.6B	-10.26%	-44.25%	8.93	0.63	0.14%	-10.41%
BJRI	858.9M	1.3B	15.69%	10.00%	35.93	0.65	0.21%	292.03%
CHUY	472.1M	459.3M	-9.63%	-29.44%	15.63	1.03	5.77%	28.21%
BDL	52.9M	181.9M	14.48%	0.78%	14.99	0.29	9.56%	-56.30%
ARKR	52.5M	185.2M	4.89%	-22.03%	-7.25	0.28	-2.24%	-199.86%

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Revenue	3.5%	116	112	120	121	115	116	120	124	110	109	116	122	108	110	111	100	105	108	112	114	109
Costs and Expenses	1.6%	106	105	107	111	107	106	113	114	107	101	101	109	102	102	99.00	92.00	99.00	102	102	93.00	107
S&GA Expenses	-100.0%	-	11.00	9.00	11.00	11.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	9.00	9.00	11.00	10.00	6.00	10.00	10.00	9.00	10.00	10.00	9.00	11.00
EBITDA Margin	3.3%	0.12*	0.12*	0.12*	0.11*	0.10*	0.10*	0.09*	0.11*	0.12*	0.12*	0.12*	0.12*	0.12*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Interest Expenses	7.9%	2.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Income Taxes	33.5%	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	3.00	1.00	2.00	4.00	3.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	3.00	6.00	0.00
Earnings Before Taxes	34.9%	8.00	6.00	12.00	10.00	7.00	9.00	7.00	10.00	3.00	8.00	14.00	12.00	6.00	7.00	12.00	6.00	5.00	4.00	9.00	20.00	1.00
EBT Margin	3.2%	0.08*	0.07*	0.08*	0.07*	0.07*	0.06*	0.06*	0.08*	0.08*	0.09*	0.09*	0.08*	0.07*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Income	35.9%	6.00	4.00	9.00	7.00	5.00	7.00	5.00	7.00	2.00	6.00	10.00	9.00	4.00	5.00	10.00	5.00	4.00	3.00	6.00	14.00	1.00
Net Income Margin	3.5%	0.06*	0.05*	0.06*	0.05*	0.05*	0.04*	0.04*	0.06*	0.06*	0.06*	0.06*	0.06*	0.06*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Free Cashflow	226.5%	7.00	2.00	5.00	15.00	-2.16	10.00	6.00	9.00	-6.08	5.00	12.00	16.00	2.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Assets	1.0%	598	592	593	597	590	597	602	619	609	614	604	599	599	605	622	666	653	625	635	637	647
Current Assets	6.8%	27.00	25.00	29.00	27.00	24.00	37.00	40.00	55.00	46.00	50.00	41.00	33.00	25.00	32.00	45.00	81.00	63.00	25.00	27.00	28.00	28.00
Cash Equivalents	25.2%	9.00	7.00	14.00	10.00	5.00	20.00	19.00	34.00	25.00	30.00	25.00	13.00	7.00	13.00	30.00	60.00	43.00	8.00	12.00	11.00	7.00
Inventory	-9.2%	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Net PPE	2.7%	86.00	84.00	82.00	85.00	80.00	79.00	78.00	76.00	76.00	76.00	75.00	74.00	80.00	80.00	81.00	-	88.00	92.00	93.00	91.00	94.00
Goodwill	0%	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249
Liabilities	0.0%	342	342	334	320	310	316	273	296	294	303	300	307	316	328	351	409	405	379	395	374	383
Current Liabilities	3.6%	75.00	73.00	70.00	74.00	64.00	69.00	70.00	70.00	71.00	75.00	70.00	73.00	66.00	66.00	70.00	67.00	59.00	74.00	80.00	77.00	99.00
Shareholder's Equity	2.2%	256	251	259	277	281	281	330	324	316	311	304	292	283	278	271	257	249	246	240	263	263
Retained Earnings	42.3%	20.00	14.00	10.00	0.00	-6.67	-11.59	-18.13	-23.14	-30.28	-32.39	-38.57	-48.73	-57.55	-61.51	-66.97	-76.89	-82.39	-85.99	-89.49	-95.89	-109
Additional Paid-In Capital	-0.1%	236	236	249	276	287	292	347	346	345	343	343	341	341	340	339	334	331	331	329	358	373
Shares Outstanding	-0.6%	31.00	31.00	33.00	36.00	36.00	37.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Float	-	-	-	-	168	-	-	-	193	-	-	-	352	-	-	-	269	-	-	-	214	-

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Cashflow From Operations	36.5%	11,163	8,179	10,713	17,977	3,819	16,642	10,087	14,125	-2,305	9,767	15,708	19,226	7,398	7,028	22,437	18,608	-7,526	4,240	19,036	2,882	9,977
Share Based Compensation	88.1%	900	479	900	800	771	678	1,000	1,000	826	326	1,000	1,000	853	926	900	700	534	680	700	600	488
Cashflow From Investing	31.7%	-4,121	-6,035	1,487	-3,219	-5,680	-5,893	-4,191	-5,059	-3,772	-4,342	-3,871	985	-5,257	-2,341	-1,870	-847	-1,632	-4,591	-4,950	3,055	-4,183
Cashflow From Financing	39.9%	-5,209	-8,671	-8,568	-9,364	-13,843	-9,531	-20,932	-206	1,482	-48.00	208	-14,256	-8,691	-20,997	-51,380	-823	44,492	-3,648	-13,298	-1,355	-6,064
Dividend Payments	-	-	-	-	-	-	13,894	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Buy Backs	-90.4%	1,227	12,782	28,464	11,941	5,848	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	987	29,244	15,122	3,029

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LOCO Income Statement

2024-03-27

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (UNAUDITED) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 27, 2024	Mar. 29, 2023
Revenue
Total revenue	$ 116,153	$ 114,526
Cost of operations
Food and paper cost	25,619	26,902
Labor and related expenses	30,580	31,541
Occupancy and other operating expenses	23,865	24,886
Gain on recovery of insurance proceeds, lost profits, net		(151)
Company restaurant expenses	80,064	83,178
General and administrative expenses	11,925	11,199
Franchise expenses	10,602	9,032
Depreciation and amortization	3,851	3,637
Loss on disposal of assets	41	30
Gain on recovery of insurance proceeds, property, equipment and expenses	(41)	(242)
Gain on disposition of restaurants		(136)
Impairment and closed-store reserves	32	77
Total expenses	106,474	106,775
Income from operations	9,679	7,751
Interest expense, net	1,564	1,004
Income tax receivable agreement income		(122)
Income before provision for income taxes	8,115	6,869
Provision for income taxes	2,203	1,951
Net income	$ 5,912	$ 4,918
Net income per share
Basic (usd per share)	$ 0.19	$ 0.14
Diluted (usd per share)	$ 0.19	$ 0.13
Weighted-average shares used in computing net income per share
Basic (shares)	30,777,769	36,234,105
Diluted (shares)	30,937,226	36,478,158
Company-operated restaurant revenue
Revenue
Total revenue	$ 97,153	$ 97,873
Franchise revenue
Revenue
Total revenue	11,348	9,672
Franchise advertising fee revenue
Revenue
Total revenue	$ 7,652	$ 6,981

LOCO Balance Sheet

2024-03-27

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Mar. 27, 2024	Dec. 27, 2023
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 9,121	$ 7,288
Accounts and other receivables, net	10,613	10,148
Inventories	1,736	1,911
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	5,361	5,634
Income tax receivable		153
Total current assets	26,831	25,134
Property and equipment, net	86,304	84,027
Property and equipment held under finance lease, net	1,635	1,528
Property and equipment held under operating leases, net ("ROU asset")	169,628	168,007
Goodwill	248,674	248,674
Trademarks	61,888	61,888
Other assets	3,063	3,043
Total assets	598,023	592,301
Current liabilities:
Current portion of obligations under finance leases	168	140
Current portion of obligations under operating leases	19,640	19,490
Accounts payable	11,881	12,541
Accrued salaries and vacation	6,877	9,332
Accrued insurance	11,739	11,831
Accrued income taxes payable	2,185	70
Accrued interest	325	394
Current portion of income tax receivable agreement payable	422	422
Other accrued expenses and current liabilities	21,984	18,361
Total current liabilities	75,221	72,581
Revolver loan	80,000	84,000
Obligations under finance leases, net of current portion	1,703	1,617
Obligations under operating leases, net of current portion	169,617	168,084
Deferred taxes	8,813	8,878
Other noncurrent liabilities	6,380	6,445
Total liabilities	341,734	341,605
Commitments and contingencies (Note 7)
Stockholders' equity
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized; 100,000 shares designated as Series A Preferred Stock; none issued or outstanding
Common stock, $0.01 par value, 200,000,000 shares authorized; 31,179,519 and 31,353,223 shares issued and outstanding as of March 27, 2024 and December 27, 2023, respectively	312	313
Additional paid-in-capital	236,103	236,421
Retained earnings	19,874	13,962
Total stockholders' equity	256,289	250,696
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$ 598,023	$ 592,301

About El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, El Pollo Loco, Inc., develops, franchises, licenses, and operates quick-service restaurants under the El Pollo Loco name. It operates franchised restaurants located in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Utah, and Louisiana. It also licenses its brand to restaurants in the Philippines. The company was formerly known as Chicken Acquisition Corp. and changed its name to El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. in April 2014. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.

CEO	Mr. Laurance Roberts
WEBSITE	elpolloloco.com
INDUSTRY	Restaurants
EMPLOYEES	4931

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As of Fri May 17 2024, LOCO's PE ratio (Price to Earnings) is 12.92 and Price to Sales (PS) ratio is 0.73. The price to earnings and price to sales ratio are two most important valuation metrics for any company. PE ratio tell us the number of years of earnings investors are ready to pay for owning the company. Historically, S&P500 price to earnings ratio has fallen below 12 during periods of gloom and gone past 30 during periods of euphoria. LOCO PE ratio will change depending on the future growth rate expectations of investors.