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 quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The restaurant operator reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.02. The restaurant operator earned $112.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $110.21 million. El Pollo LoCo had a negative net margin of 0.46% and a positive return on equity of 10.85%. The business's quarterly revenue was down .1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $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 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for El Pollo LoCo's shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $15.00. On average, they anticipate El Pollo LoCo's share price to reach $14.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.9%. 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.

News articles about LOCO stock have trended extremely negative on Thursday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. El Pollo LoCo earned a coverage optimism score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for El Pollo LoCo.

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

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El Pollo LoCo's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 bought 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 $15.25.

El Pollo LoCo has a market capitalization of $531.75 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]