Globe Newswire (Mon, 16-Mar 3:26 PM ET)
Margin Gains and Expansion Plans Put El Pollo Loco’s Growth Strategy in Focus After Q4 Results
Market Chameleon (Fri, 13-Mar 7:09 AM ET)
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Results
Globe Newswire (Thu, 12-Mar 4:05 PM ET)
El Pollo Loco Fires Up Culinary Innovation with Five New Menu Tests
Globe Newswire (Thu, 5-Mar 1:21 PM ET)
Globe Newswire (Wed, 25-Feb 9:00 AM ET)
Globe Newswire (Tue, 24-Feb 11:37 AM ET)
El Pollo Loco Adds Shrimp to Lineup of Limited Time Baja Double Tostadas
Globe Newswire (Tue, 10-Feb 3:29 PM ET)
El Pollo Loco Appoints Frank Garrido to Board of Directors
Globe Newswire (Wed, 28-Jan 9:00 AM ET)
El Pollo Loco Partners with WNBA Star Arike Ogunbowale to Support School Sports Teams Nationwide
Globe Newswire (Tue, 20-Jan 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 operates and franchises hundreds of fast-casual chicken restaurants in the United States. It specializes in fire-grilling citrus-marinated chicken and operates in the limited service restaurant market segment. Its offerings include Mexican-inspired menu items, including burritos, tostadas, bowls, salads, and bone-in chicken meals in various portion sizes. It also offers citrus-marinated fire-grilled chicken, along with a range of salsas and dressings that allow customers to customize their meals. The company operates in one operating segment. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from company-operated restaurant revenue.
El Pollo Loco Holdings trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol LOCO.
As of April 8, 2026, LOCO stock price declined to $14.01 with 105,974 million shares trading.
LOCO has a beta of 0.66, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LOCO has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.
LOCO has a market cap of $419.67 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
Last quarter El Pollo Loco Holdings reported $124 million in Revenue and $.25 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-321,498 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.
In the last 3 years, LOCO traded as high as $14.50 and as low as $8.11.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that LOCO belongs to (by Net Assets): IWM, VTI, DFAT, IWN, BSVO.
LOCO has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +51.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +35.4%. In the last 3 month period, LOCO beat the market returning +30.7%, while SPY returned -1.8%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks LOCO has underperformed the stock market by returning -0.8%, while SPY returned +3.4%.
LOCO support price is $13.66 and resistance is $14.42 (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.
