El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO) vs its competitors

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. against restaurants

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. is the 29th largest of 51 graded companies. Showing 5 of them, including LOCO itself. 1 more is in this industry but has no grade yet, so it is left out rather than shown blank.

Company	Grade	Market value	Revenue	Profit margin	Free cash flow	Price to earnings
Happy City Holdings LimitedHCHL	F-	—	$6.8M	-35.7%	-$2.2M	—
Mcdonald’s CorporationMCD	A+	$165.6B	$27.7B	31.7%	$7.8B	19.01
Starbucks CorporationSBUX	A	$108.8B	$38.3B	5.2%	$3.6B	54.85
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.CMG	A+	$40.4B	$12.4B	11.4%	$1.6B	29.27
EL Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.LOCO	A	$439.8M	$500.8M	7.0%	$41M	12.35

46 more restaurants companies

Graded on the same five checks, from their own SEC filings.

A blank price-to-earnings means a loss, not a missing figure — the ratio has no meaning when there are no earnings to divide by, and printing a negative one would make the least profitable company look the cheapest.

Grades are trailing twelve months from each company’s own SEC filings, so they move only when a company files. Every column is computed by the same code that graded El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. on the overview — nothing here comes from a data vendor’s own ratios.

Industry membership is not a judgement about how similar two businesses are. It groups companies by what they are classified as, which is a starting point for comparison rather than a claim that they compete.