LOCOEl Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.

$14.42+51% 1Y

$14.42

$9.0652 weeks$17.20

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~−3% a yearderived · Jul 1, 2026

Priced for a decline (~−3% 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 78% of its own historyderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 12.3 vs a 17.2 median over 37 quarters (−28% vs median).

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. trades at 12.3× earnings against 28.5× for the median Restaurants name, cheaper than its own group.

12.3

Trailing P/E · Restaurants median 28.5 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales: 1.03
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
Free cash flow yield: 9.3%
Free cash flow yield · Restaurants median 4.5%
Growth the price implies: −2.7%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −2.7% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +13% a year over the last three.

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What the market has paid for these earnings: 37 quarters of its own multiple × $1.17 of trailing earnings per share
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	$14.42

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.