At the time of writing, El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc [LOCO] stock is trading at $315890.0, up 727817%. Until recently, the best way to gauge how the stock has performed was to look at its short-term value. The LOCO shares have gain 5.46% over the last week, with a monthly amount glided 22.27%, and seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.
From an analyst’s perspective:
El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc [NASDAQ: LOCO] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on March 11, 2025, when Craig Hallum initiated its Buy rating and assigned the stock a price target of $18. On February 08, 2021, downgrade downgraded it’s rating to Hold but maintained its price target of $20 on the stock. CL King started tracking the stock assigning a Buy rating. SunTrust upgraded its rating to a Buy but $11 remained the price target by the analyst firm on April 01, 2020. Stifel downgraded its rating to Hold for this stock on July 26, 2016. In a note dated April 27, 2016, Sun Trust Rbsn Humphrey downgraded an Neutral rating on this stock.
For the past year, the stock price of El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc fluctuated between $8.29 and $14.25. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $18 within the next 12 months. El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc [NASDAQ: LOCO] shares were valued at $315890.0 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential drop of -99.99% based on the average LOCO price forecast.
Analyzing the LOCO fundamentals
According to El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc [NASDAQ:LOCO], the company’s sales were 476.03M for trailing twelve months, which represents an 2.60% jump. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.2% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.09%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.07%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.05%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 0.04, Equity is 0.1 and Total Capital is 0.08. Upon thorough examination of the company’s fundamental financial framework, it becomes apparent that the debt-to-equity ratio stands at 0.98.
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Ratios To Look Out For
It is important to note that El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc [NASDAQ:LOCO] has a current ratio of 0.32. As well, the Quick Ratio is 0.29, while the Cash Ratio is 0.06. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 0.71, the price to book ratio is 1.27 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 13.17.
Transactions by insiders
Recent insider trading involved Buller Mark, Director, that happened on Jun 06 ’25 when 11363.0 shares were sold. Officer, Buller Mark completed a deal on Jun 06 ’25 to buy 11363.0 shares. Meanwhile, Director Buller Mark sold 10500.0 shares on Aug 08 ’24.
