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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Stocks - Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CHUY Chuy's	$30.18 -1.1%	$33.17	$29.96 ▼ $43.17	$523.02M	1.63	128,402 shs	4,269 shs
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	$106.84 -2.0%	$104.84	$51.02 ▼ $122.81	$1.20B	1.98	123,701 shs	8,811 shs
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$8.31 -1.4%	$8.94	$8.11 ▼ $11.02	$259.11M	1.41	232,621 shs	54,992 shs
NDLS Noodles & Company	$1.32 +1.2%	$1.95	$1.11 ▼ $5.00	$59.16M	1.65	269,588 shs	54,736 shs
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	$12.51	$12.50	$7.34 ▼ $12.56	$455.26M	2.06	928,773 shs	1 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	-0.78%	+0.69%	-8.62%	-9.65%	-10.99%
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	-2.47%	-0.91%	-5.86%	+19.54%	+62.95%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	-0.35%	+1.93%	-7.57%	-10.51%	-6.23%
NDLS Noodles & Company	-7.14%	+4.00%	-29.73%	-51.67%	-72.01%
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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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	2.6273 of 5 stars	3.3	2.0	0.0	0.0	1.1	1.7	2.5
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	1.4096 of 5 stars	2.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.2	2.5	1.9
LOCO El Pollo Loco	0.871 of 5 stars	0.0	2.0	0.0	1.2	1.6	1.7	2.5
NDLS Noodles & Company	3.0471 of 5 stars	3.3	1.0	0.0	3.4	1.0	1.7	0.6
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CHUY Chuy's	2.57	Moderate Buy	$39.71	31.59% Upside
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	2.50	Moderate Buy	$109.50	2.49% Upside
LOCO El Pollo Loco	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NDLS Noodles & Company	2.50	Moderate Buy	$5.00	280.23% Upside
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest TACO, KRUS, LOCO, CHUY, and NDLS Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/24/2024	KRUS Kura Sushi USA	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$114.00
4/24/2024	NDLS Noodles & Company	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$4.00 ➝ $3.00
4/12/2024	CHUY Chuy's	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Overweight	$40.00
4/5/2024	KRUS Kura Sushi USA	Roth Mkm Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$87.00 ➝ $120.00
4/5/2024	KRUS Kura Sushi USA	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$82.00 ➝ $95.00
4/5/2024	KRUS Kura Sushi USA	William Blair Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform
4/5/2024	KRUS Kura Sushi USA	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$122.00 ➝ $124.00
4/5/2024	KRUS Kura Sushi USA	Lake Street Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$70.00 ➝ $93.00
4/2/2024	KRUS Kura Sushi USA	Craig Hallum Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$90.00 ➝ $130.00
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

(Data available from 4/25/2021 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	1.13	$3.77 per share	8.01	$14.40 per share	2.10
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	$187.43M	6.40	$0.80 per share	133.47	$14.72 per share	7.26
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$468.66M	0.55	$1.19 per share	6.98	$7.61 per share	1.09
NDLS Noodles & Company	$503.40M	0.12	$0.46 per share	2.83	$0.60 per share	2.19
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	$491.88M	0.93	$1.67 per share	7.47	$5.70 per share	2.19

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	17.34	14.51	N/A	6.83%	13.96%	7.37%	5/9/2024 (Confirmed)
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	$1.50M	$0.14	763.20	184.21	N/A	0.73%	0.95%	0.51%	7/4/2024 (Estimated)
LOCO El Pollo Loco	$25.55M	$0.75	11.08	11.87	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)
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	-$89.74M	$0.53	23.60	22.75	N/A	3.83%	9.43%	2.73%	N/A

Latest TACO, KRUS, LOCO, CHUY, and NDLS 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
3/7/2024	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
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	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
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	$0.16	1.28%	N/A	30.19%	N/A

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CHUY Chuy's	N/A	1.65	1.61
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	N/A	2.43	2.37
LOCO El Pollo Loco	0.34	0.35	0.32
NDLS Noodles & Company	2.95	0.34	0.18
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	0.49	0.19	0.16

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CHUY Chuy's	99.92%
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	65.49%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	81.28%
NDLS Noodles & Company	65.67%
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	83.29%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CHUY Chuy's	1.30%
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	1.60%
LOCO El Pollo Loco	1.90%
NDLS Noodles & Company	2.90%
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	13.20%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CHUY Chuy's	7,400	17.33 million	17.11 million	Optionable
KRUS Kura Sushi USA	3,219	11.23 million	11.05 million	Not Optionable
LOCO El Pollo Loco	4,362	31.18 million	30.59 million	Optionable
NDLS Noodles & Company	7,600	44.99 million	43.69 million	Optionable
TACO Del Taco Restaurants	7,892	36.39 million	31.59 million	Optionable

TACO, KRUS, LOCO, CHUY, and NDLS Headlines

Source	Headline
	The Best & Worst Menu Items at Del Taco, According to a Dietitian msn.com - April 25 at 2:40 AM
	Exploring the Flavorful World of ‘tacolaos’ at Hijos del Josco elnuevodia.com - April 24 at 2:17 AM
	Popular Tex-Mex Restaurant Chain Files For Bankruptcy, Closes Locations msn.com - April 22 at 1:10 PM
	Popular fast-food chain files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, closes stores msn.com - April 20 at 5:07 PM
	Woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars from Palm Beach County restaurant msn.com - April 18 at 6:18 PM
	4/20 food deals: Cure your munchies with discounts on subs, cookies, burgers and more msn.com - April 18 at 1:27 AM
	District Taco to open on April 23 on Hampton Blvd. Yes, that's a Tuesday. wtkr.com - April 17 at 8:26 PM
	Del Taco's first Hampton Roads location set to open in Chesapeake in June msn.com - April 17 at 8:26 PM
	Del Taco is finally moving into NC, with the first location expected in the Triangle charlotteobserver.com - April 17 at 3:24 PM
	Del Taco plans five North Carolina locations. Could the Mexican chain come to Fayetteville? msn.com - April 17 at 9:38 AM
	Mexican restaurant Del Taco to open a location in Chesapeake this June wtkr.com - April 17 at 9:38 AM
	24 best taco restaurants in Greater Cleveland: Vote Now to help us find the Top 10 (poll) msn.com - April 14 at 7:38 PM
	As Dining Heats up, Toast And Qu Aim at Increasingly Larger Restaurant Operators digitaltransactions.net - April 11 at 3:29 PM
	Jack in the Box, Del Taco partner with Qu for digital transformation qsrweb.com - April 11 at 10:29 AM
	5 Restaurants With Alexandria Ties Nominated For 2024 RAMMYs msn.com - April 9 at 8:23 PM
	Discover downtown dining with restaurant tasting tours in Myrtle Beach msn.com - April 8 at 2:34 PM
	Tijuana restaurant La Corriente crosses the border and opens... sandiegored.com - April 4 at 9:00 PM
	Poll: What New Restaurant Would You Like To See In Cheyenne? kgab.com - April 4 at 10:59 AM
	The Best New Restaurants in Milwaukee 2024 milwaukeemag.com - April 2 at 11:11 PM
	Global Fast Food and Quick Service Restaurant Market Projected to Reach US$ 370.8 Billion by 2032 finance.yahoo.com - April 2 at 1:10 PM
	In San Diego Three Current and Former Minor League Baseball Players Indicted for Insider Trading in Del Taco Stocks goldrushcam.com - April 1 at 11:12 AM
	Del Taco Tic Tac Mints heat up those 100 layers of refreshment msn.com - April 1 at 6:11 AM
	Restaurant inspections: 6 Coachella Valley spots fail over food temps, handwashing, more msn.com - March 30 at 4:41 AM
	Celebrate Taco Day in one of the 5 best taquerias in Tijuana sandiegored.com - March 29 at 11:40 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.

Kura Sushi USA

NASDAQ:KRUS

Kura Sushi USA, Inc. operates technology-enabled Japanese restaurants in the United States. The company was formerly known as Kula Sushi USA, Inc. and changed its name to Kura Sushi USA, Inc. in October 2017. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Kura Sushi USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of Kura Sushi, Inc.

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.

Del Taco Restaurants

NASDAQ:TACO

Del Taco Restaurants, Inc. develops, franchises, owns, and operates Del Taco quick-service Mexican-American restaurants in the United States. The company's restaurants offer Mexican inspired and American classic dishes. As of August 31, 2021, it operated approximately 600 restaurants across 16 states. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, California.

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