LOCO vs. XHR, KRUS, FWRG, PTLO, TH, MSC, BALY, PBPB, CVEO, and GHG
Should you be buying El Pollo Loco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of El Pollo Loco include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Portillo's (PTLO), Target Hospitality (TH), Studio City International (MSC), Bally's (BALY), Potbelly (PBPB), Civeo (CVEO), and GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
El Pollo Loco vs. Its Competitors
El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) and Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) are both small-cap restaurants, hotels, motels companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, El Pollo Loco had 4 more articles in the media than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for El Pollo Loco and 1 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts. El Pollo Loco's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' score of 0.33 indicating that El Pollo Loco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
El Pollo Loco presently has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 42.20%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a consensus target price of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.43%. Given El Pollo Loco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe El Pollo Loco is more favorable than Xenia Hotels & Resorts.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.30% compared to Xenia Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 2.19%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 9.91% beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
El Pollo Loco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. El Pollo Loco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats Xenia Hotels & Resorts on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LOCO) was last updated on 6/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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