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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CHUY Chuy's	$30.77 +1.3%	$33.23	$30.04 ▼ $43.17	$533.24M	1.63	130,895 shs	206,645 shs
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$8.46 +2.4%	$8.95	$8.11 ▼ $11.02	$263.78M	1.41	232,196 shs	594,760 shs
NDLS Noodles & Company	$1.40 +7.7%	$1.97	$1.11 ▼ $5.00	$62.99M	1.66	269,615 shs	268,799 shs
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	$21.49	$21.47	$14.65 ▼ $21.50	$690.47M	1.82	827,164 shs	N/A
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$9.51	$9.48	$3.47 ▼ $9.54	$545.68M	2.5	948,230 shs	465,288 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CHUY Chuy's	-0.69%	-1.94%	-10.07%	-9.80%	-14.59%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	-0.72%	-4.07%	-8.32%	-9.92%	-10.31%
NDLS Noodles & Company	+9.24%	-11.56%	-29.73%	-50.57%	-73.31%
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	+31.28%
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	-0.11%	+0.21%	+0.11%	+1.17%	+160.55%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CHUY Chuy's	2.8367 of 5 stars	3.3	2.0	0.0	0.0	1.8	1.7	2.5
LOCO El Pollo Loco	0.735 of 5 stars	0.0	2.0	0.0	1.2	1.0	1.7	2.5
NDLS Noodles & Company	3.2279 of 5 stars	3.3	1.0	0.0	3.4	1.7	1.7	0.6
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	1.2842 of 5 stars	0.0	0.0	2.5	2.6	0.6	1.7	1.9
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	2.7746 of 5 stars	1.0	3.0	0.8	1.8	2.6	3.3	1.3

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CHUY Chuy's	2.57	Moderate Buy	$39.71	29.07% Upside
LOCO El Pollo Loco	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NDLS Noodles & Company	2.50	Moderate Buy	$5.33	280.95% Upside
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	2.00	Hold	N/A	N/A
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	2.00	Hold	$8.87	-6.76% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest CHUY, RUTH, NDLS, TAST, and LOCO Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/12/2024	CHUY Chuy's	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Overweight	$40.00
3/12/2024	NDLS Noodles & Company	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$5.00 ➝ $4.00
2/23/2024	CHUY Chuy's	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$39.00 ➝ $35.00
2/23/2024	CHUY Chuy's	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$41.00 ➝ $38.00

(Data available from 4/23/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CHUY Chuy's	$461.31M	1.16	$3.86 per share	7.97	$14.40 per share	2.14
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$468.66M	0.56	$1.23 per share	6.86	$7.61 per share	1.11
NDLS Noodles & Company	$503.40M	0.13	$0.58 per share	2.40	$0.60 per share	2.33
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	$505.86M	1.36	$1.97 per share	10.92	$3.99 per share	5.39
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$1.88B	0.29	$2.01 per share	4.73	$3.40 per share	2.80

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CHUY Chuy's	$31.51M	$1.74	17.68	14.79	N/A	6.83%	13.96%	7.37%	5/9/2024 (Confirmed)
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$25.55M	$0.75	11.28	12.09	N/A	5.45%	9.20%	4.13%	5/2/2024 (Confirmed)
NDLS Noodles & Company	-$9.86M	-$0.22	N/A	N/A	N/A	-1.96%	-13.20%	-1.20%	5/8/2024 (Confirmed)
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	$38.62M	$1.20	17.91	16.79	N/A	7.66%	32.00%	8.63%	N/A
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$33.80M	$0.52	18.29	∞	N/A	1.80%	19.41%	2.08%	5/9/2024 (Estimated)

Latest CHUY, RUTH, NDLS, TAST, and LOCO Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/9/2024	N/A	CHUY Chuy's	$0.36	N/A	-$0.36	N/A	N/A	N/A
5/8/2024	N/A	NDLS Noodles & Company	-$0.19	N/A	+$0.19	N/A	N/A	N/A
5/2/2024	N/A	LOCO El Pollo Loco	$0.13	N/A	-$0.13	N/A	N/A	N/A
3/8/2024	Q4 2023	TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$0.05	$0.10	+$0.05	$0.12	$470.41 million	$470.36 million
3/7/2024	Q4 2023	LOCO El Pollo Loco	$0.16	$0.16	N/A	$0.18	$109.07 million	$112.20 million
3/7/2024	Q4 2023	NDLS Noodles & Company	-$0.01	-$0.07	-$0.06	N/A	$124.95 million	$124.32 million
2/22/2024	Q4 2023	CHUY Chuy's	$0.38	$0.45	+$0.07	$0.59	$116.63 million	$116.30 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CHUY Chuy's	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
LOCO El Pollo Loco	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NDLS Noodles & Company	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	$0.64	2.98%	N/A	53.33%	1 Years
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	$0.08	0.84%	N/A	15.38%	N/A

Latest CHUY, RUTH, NDLS, TAST, and LOCO Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/22/2024	TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	Quarterly	$0.02	0.85%	3/8/2024	3/11/2024	4/5/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CHUY Chuy's	N/A	1.65	1.61
LOCO El Pollo Loco	0.34	0.35	0.32
NDLS Noodles & Company	2.95	0.34	0.18
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	0.11	0.46	0.39
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	2.28	0.49	0.41

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CHUY Chuy's	99.92%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	81.28%
NDLS Noodles & Company	65.67%
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	87.33%
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	86.80%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CHUY Chuy's	1.30%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	1.90%
NDLS Noodles & Company	2.60%
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	6.01%
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	33.10%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CHUY Chuy's	7,400	17.33 million	17.11 million	Optionable
LOCO El Pollo Loco	4,362	31.18 million	30.59 million	Optionable
NDLS Noodles & Company	7,600	44.99 million	43.82 million	Optionable
RUTH Ruth's Hospitality Group	4,768	32.13 million	30.20 million	Optionable
TAST Carrols Restaurant Group	25,000	57.38 million	38.39 million	Optionable

CHUY, RUTH, NDLS, TAST, and LOCO Headlines

Source	Headline
	StockNews.com Begins Coverage on Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) americanbankingnews.com - April 23 at 2:14 AM
	Top 2 Consumer Stocks That May Implode In April msn.com - April 22 at 7:49 PM
	Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC Has $2.26 Million Stock Position in Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) marketbeat.com - April 22 at 4:41 AM
	Yum China (NYSE:YUMC): Strongest Q4 Results from the Traditional Fast Food Group finance.yahoo.com - April 12 at 8:01 AM
	Traditional Fast Food Stocks Q3 Recap: Benchmarking Carrols (NASDAQ:TAST) finance.yahoo.com - April 10 at 10:29 AM
	Assenagon Asset Management S.A. Sells 251,729 Shares of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) marketbeat.com - April 5 at 4:35 AM
	Enjoy a taste of Mississippi's best culinary offerings at this event clarionledger.com - April 4 at 9:36 PM
	Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) Short Interest Update marketbeat.com - March 30 at 12:39 PM
	Carrols: No Meat Left On This Bone, Sell seekingalpha.com - March 27 at 9:03 PM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) Flat As Market Sinks: What You Should Know zacks.com - March 22 at 7:21 PM
	CARROLS RESTAURANT GROUP INVESTOR ALERT by the Former Attorney General of Louisiana: Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC Investigates Adequacy of Price and Process in Proposed Sale of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. - TAST businesswire.com - March 19 at 12:24 PM
	5 Top Stocks to Gain on Signs of Household Spending Resilience zacks.com - March 18 at 9:20 AM
	Kaskela Law LLC MERGER INVESTIGATION: Does $9.55 Per Share Represent Sufficient Cash Out Value for Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TAST) Shares for Investors? businesswire.com - March 16 at 8:00 AM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) Flat As Market Sinks: What You Should Know zacks.com - March 15 at 7:21 PM
	TAST Stock Earnings: Carrols Restaurant Group Beats EPS, Misses Revenue for Q4 2023 investorplace.com - March 15 at 1:01 PM
	SHAREHOLDER UPDATE: Halper Sadeh LLC Investigates ETRN, SCX, TAST, HES stockhouse.com - March 12 at 2:04 PM
	SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Kaskela Law LLC Announces Investigation of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (TAST) and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm stockhouse.com - March 11 at 10:26 AM
	5 Restaurant Stocks to Add to Your Portfolio on Soaring Sales zacks.com - March 11 at 10:16 AM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) Flat As Market Gains: What You Should Know zacks.com - March 7 at 7:16 PM
	Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: Here's Why zacks.com - March 1 at 7:16 PM
	Carrols Restaurant (TAST) Upgraded to Strong Buy: What Does It Mean for the Stock? zacks.com - March 1 at 1:01 PM
	Best Momentum Stocks to Buy for March 1st zacks.com - March 1 at 11:00 AM
	Should Value Investors Buy Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) Stock? zacks.com - February 27 at 10:46 AM
	What's in Store for Carrols Restaurant's (TAST) in Q4 Earnings? zacks.com - February 26 at 12:36 PM

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Company Descriptions

Chuy's

NASDAQ:CHUY

Chuy's Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates full-service restaurants under the Chuy's name in the United States. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

El Pollo Loco

NASDAQ:LOCO

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 and franchises restaurants located in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, 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.

Noodles & Company

NASDAQ:NDLS

Noodles & Company, a restaurant concept company, develops and operates fast-casual restaurants. It offers cooked-to-order dishes, including noodles and pasta, soups, salads, and appetizers. It operates company owned locations and franchise locations. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Broomfield, Colorado.

Ruth's Hospitality Group

NASDAQ:RUTH

Ruth's Hospitality Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises fine dining restaurants under the Ruth's Chris Steak House name. Its restaurants offer food and beverage products to special occasion diners and frequent customers, as well as business clients. The company was formerly known as Ruth's Chris Steak House, Inc. and changed its name to Ruth's Hospitality Group, Inc. in May 2008. Ruth's Hospitality Group, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Winter Park, Florida.

Carrols Restaurant Group

NASDAQ:TAST

Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates restaurants in the United States. It operates quick service restaurants as a franchisee under the Burger King and Popeyes brands in 23 Northeastern, Midwestern, Southcentral, and Southeastern states. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Syracuse, New York.

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