LOCO vs. WING, CNNE, FWRG, MSC, SG, HBNB, TH, KRUS, BALY, and PLAY
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), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Studio City Ih (MSC), Sweetgreen (SG), Hotel101 Global (HBNB), Target Hospitality (TH), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Bally's (BALY), and Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
El Pollo Loco vs. Its Competitors
El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) and Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
El Pollo Loco presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 87.21%. Wingstop has a consensus price target of $362.50, indicating a potential upside of 39.81%. Given El Pollo Loco's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe El Pollo Loco is more favorable than Wingstop.
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.
El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wingstop has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wingstop had 15 more articles in the media than El Pollo Loco. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Wingstop and 10 mentions for El Pollo Loco. Wingstop's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat El Pollo Loco's score of 0.20 indicating that Wingstop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wingstop has a net margin of 25.61% compared to El Pollo Loco's net margin of 5.15%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 9.83% beat Wingstop's return on equity.
81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Wingstop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Wingstop beats El Pollo Loco on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:LOCO) was last updated on 10/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
