LOCOEl Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.

$14.92+61% 1Y

Is the price fair?

Good

Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.

2 good, 1 without data
What the price assumes~−2% a yearderived · Jul 1, 2026

Priced for a decline (~−2% a year). The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 2% a year, expectations look modest.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 76% of its own historyderived

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.

12.8

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.

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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%
What the market has paid for these earnings: 37 quarters of its own multiple × $1.17 of trailing earnings per share
MethodPer 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.