26-Dec-2025
El Pollo Loco Appoints Robert D. Wright and Tana Davila to Board of Directors
Globe Newswire (Mon, 15-Dec 4:40 PM ET)
El Pollo Loco Is Celebrating "12 Days of Pollo" with Delicious Deals
Globe Newswire (Wed, 26-Nov 9:01 AM ET)
Margin Expansion and Franchise Growth Stand Out in El Pollo Loco’s Third Quarter Results
Market Chameleon (Fri, 31-Oct 7:21 AM ET)
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results
Globe Newswire (Thu, 30-Oct 4:05 PM ET)
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. to Announce Third Quarter 2025 Results on Thursday, October 30, 2025
Globe Newswire (Thu, 16-Oct 9:00 AM ET)
El Pollo Loco Celebrates Growth Milestone with 500th U.S. Restaurant
Globe Newswire (Tue, 14-Oct 6:39 PM ET)
El Pollo Loco Introduces Flavorful Double Chicken Burrito Bowls That Will Actually Fill You Up
Globe Newswire (Tue, 30-Sep 9:01 AM ET)
El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc operates and franchises hundreds of fast-casual chicken restaurants in the United States. Restaurant locations are typically free-standing and include drive-thrus, and menus include many low-priced options. Poultry is the company's largest food cost, accounting for roughly 38% of total food and paper cost, and the company manages that commodity price risk by using multiple suppliers and entering supply contracts of varying lengths depending on market conditions.
El Pollo Loco Holdings trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol LOCO.
As of December 26, 2025, LOCO stock price climbed to $10.87 with 123,584 million shares trading.
LOCO has a beta of 0.96, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LOCO has a correlation of 0.25 to the broad based SPY ETF.
LOCO has a market cap of $325.61 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
Last quarter El Pollo Loco Holdings reported $122 million in Revenue and $.27 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-2 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.
In the last 3 years, LOCO traded as high as $14.25 and as low as $8.11.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that LOCO belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VXF, IWN, DFAT.
LOCO has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -7.5% while the SPY ETF gained +16.0%. However, in the short term, LOCO had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +8.6% vs +4.6% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, LOCO shares have been beat by the market, returning -6.4% compared to an SPY return of +1.5%.
LOCO support price is $10.52 and resistance is $10.94 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that LOCO shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
