NASDAQ:LOCO - El Pollo LoCo Stock Price, Forecast & News

El Pollo LoCo trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LOCO."

El Pollo LoCo Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:LOCO) released its earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The restaurant operator reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.02. The restaurant operator earned $112.10 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $110.21 million. El Pollo LoCo had a positive return on equity of 10.85% and a negative net margin of 0.46%. El Pollo LoCo's quarterly revenue was down .1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.19 earnings per share. View El Pollo LoCo's Earnings History.

El Pollo LoCo is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for El Pollo LoCo.

El Pollo LoCo will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, March 5th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for El Pollo LoCo's shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $15.00. On average, they expect El Pollo LoCo's stock price to reach $14.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for El Pollo LoCo.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for El Pollo LoCo in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for El Pollo LoCo.

Press coverage about LOCO stock has trended neutral this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. El Pollo LoCo earned a news impact score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for El Pollo LoCo.

El Pollo LoCo saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,860,000 shares, a decrease of 9.6% from the December 31st total of 4,270,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 400,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 9.7 days. Currently, 21.8% of the company's stock are sold short. View El Pollo LoCo's Current Options Chain.

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El Pollo LoCo's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Alliancebernstein L.P. (7.04%), Investment Counselors of Maryland LLC (4.16%), State Street Corp (1.64%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (1.49%), Royce & Associates LP (1.10%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (0.83%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for El Pollo LoCo.

LOCO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oxford Asset Management LLP, Royce & Associates LP, Martingale Asset Management L P, Bessemer Group Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Geode Capital Management LLC and Arizona State Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for El Pollo LoCo.

LOCO stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Maverick Capital Ltd., Personal Capital Advisors Corp, Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, Landscape Capital Management L.L.C., Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management UK Ltd. and Alpha Windward LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for El Pollo LoCo.

Shares of LOCO can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LOCO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.70.

El Pollo LoCo has a market capitalization of $512.78 million and generates $435.83 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $-8,990,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.74 on an earnings per share basis. El Pollo LoCo employs 5,573 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About El Pollo LoCo.

The official website for El Pollo LoCo is http://www.elpolloloco.com/.

El Pollo LoCo's mailing address is 3535 HARBOR BOULEVARD SUITE 100, COSTA MESA CA, 92626. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 714-599-5000 or via email at [email protected]