LOCOEl Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.
Priced for a decline (~−2% a year). The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 2% a year, expectations look modest.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 12.8 vs a 17.2 median over 37 quarters (−26% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What LOCO's price assumes
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. trades at 12.8× earnings against 28.5× for the median Restaurants name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Restaurants median 28.5 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.85
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.0%
Free cash flow yield · Restaurants median 4.3%
- Growth the price implies
- −2.2%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −2.2% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +13% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / bookas of 2026-Q1
- 1.40
- EV / EBITas of 2026-Q1
- 14.3
- EV / salesas of 2026-Q1
- 1.31
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names
- 17.9
- Restaurants median P/E30 names
- 28.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $41M
- Market capitalisation
- $454M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +13%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $15.25 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $20.09 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $26.74 |
| 52-week range | $9.06 – $17.20 |
| Today | $14.92 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.