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El Pollo Loco (LOCO) Competitors

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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
El Pollo Loco
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Wingstop
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
21 Buy rating(s)
4 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
El Pollo Loco$479.69M0.60$25.68M$0.8411.45
Wingstop$669.74M10.81$108.72M$6.0043.21

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
El Pollo Loco
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Wingstop
10 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
3 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
El Pollo Loco5.15% 9.83% 4.38%
Wingstop 25.61%-17.07%16.53%

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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LOCO vs. The Competition

MetricEl Pollo LocoRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$288.40M$11.21B$27.15B$10.56B
Dividend YieldN/A3.21%172.46%4.88%
P/E Ratio11.4532.3118.9527.16
Price / Sales0.601.899.01166.44
Price / Cash6.6515.0762.8561.65
Price / Book1.104.515.126.45
Net Income$25.68M$405.78M$911.66M$276.51M
7 Day Performance1.85%1.00%0.22%-2.38%
1 Month Performance-2.88%0.85%-2.38%0.49%
1 Year Performance-25.00%-10.01%6.97%30.73%

El Pollo Loco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LOCO
El Pollo Loco
4.0569 of 5 stars
$9.62
+1.0%
$18.00
+87.2%
-26.3%$288.40M$479.69M11.454,143Analyst Revision
WING
Wingstop
3.5939 of 5 stars
$254.90
+5.7%
$372.62
+46.2%
-27.6%$6.74B$625.81M42.481,335Analyst Forecast
CNNE
Cannae
4.4803 of 5 stars
$18.54
+2.6%
$24.00
+29.4%
-2.0%$1.01B$452.50M-2.777,317Short Interest ↓
FWRG
First Watch Restaurant Group
2.7549 of 5 stars
$16.25
+7.4%
$21.09
+29.8%
+5.9%$923.29M$1.02B270.8815,000Analyst Upgrade
MSC
Studio City Ih
1.3998 of 5 stars
$4.09
-6.0%
N/A-29.3%$916.61M$639.15M-11.695,848Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
SG
Sweetgreen
2.868 of 5 stars
$7.50
-0.4%
$16.73
+123.0%
-78.0%$890.14M$676.83M-8.936,407Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
HBNB
Hotel101 Global
N/A$3.38
-1.5%
N/AN/A$803.14MN/A0.00N/A
TH
Target Hospitality
2.1352 of 5 stars
$7.44
+1.1%
$13.00
+74.7%
-0.8%$734.37M$386.27M74.40820
KRUS
Kura Sushi USA
2.6025 of 5 stars
$57.68
+3.6%
$93.78
+62.6%
-25.6%$673.27M$237.86M-72.103,300Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
BALY
Bally's
2.1178 of 5 stars
$12.02
-8.3%
$11.00
-8.5%
-12.9%$644M$2.45B-1.0310,000Analyst Forecast
PLAY
Dave & Buster's Entertainment
4.3838 of 5 stars
$17.67
+4.8%
$31.33
+77.3%
-47.1%$584.48M$2.13B51.9723,420News Coverage
Analyst Revision

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This page (NASDAQ:LOCO) was last updated on 10/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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