LOCO vs. WING, CNNE, XHR, HDL, PLAY, KRUS, FWRG, PTLO, MSC, and MRNO
Should you be buying El Pollo Loco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of El Pollo Loco include Wingstop (WING), Cannae (CNNE), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Super Hi International (HDL), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Portillo's (PTLO), Studio City Ih (MSC), and Murano Global BV (MRNO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
El Pollo Loco vs. Its Competitors
Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership and earnings.
81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Wingstop shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wingstop has a net margin of 26.45% compared to El Pollo Loco's net margin of 5.30%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 9.91% beat Wingstop's return on equity.
Wingstop presently has a consensus target price of $358.16, suggesting a potential upside of 12.53%. El Pollo Loco has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 43.65%. Given El Pollo Loco's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe El Pollo Loco is more favorable than Wingstop.
In the previous week, Wingstop had 35 more articles in the media than El Pollo Loco. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Wingstop and 2 mentions for El Pollo Loco. El Pollo Loco's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Wingstop's score of 0.76 indicating that El Pollo Loco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wingstop has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wingstop has higher revenue and earnings than El Pollo Loco. El Pollo Loco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wingstop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wingstop beats El Pollo Loco on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LOCO) was last updated on 7/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff