El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOCO) operates a limited-service restaurant chain specializing in citrus-marinated, fire-grilled chicken and Mexican-inspired meals for individual diners and families. Its menu includes bone-in chicken meals, burritos, bowls, tostadas, salads, fresh salsas, and dressings, with… From the company’s description.
Over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026, El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. reported revenue of $505.58M, up 5.1% from a year earlier, and net income of $34.38M. Its operating margin was 10.2%, and operations generated $66.52M in cash. In fiscal 2025, it reported revenue of $490.05M, up 3.6% from fiscal 2024, and net income of $26.49M.
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What El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. does
In the company’s own words
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOCO) operates a limited-service restaurant chain specializing in citrus-marinated, fire-grilled chicken and Mexican-inspired meals for individual diners and families. Its menu includes bone-in chicken meals, burritos, bowls, tostadas, salads, fresh salsas, and dressings, with most items prepared in restaurants using fresh ingredients. The company operates as one reportable segment, with revenue generated primarily from food and beverage sales at company-operated and franchised restaurants. At December 31, 2025, its system comprised 503 U.S. restaurants—175 company-operated and 328 franchised—and eight licensed locations in the Philippines; restaurants are concentrated mainly in California, with locations in several other U.S. states. The company began with its first restaurant in Los Angeles in 1980 and has expanded through both company ownership and franchising. Its Loco Rewards loyalty program had 5.3 million members at year-end 2025, and digital and delivery orders represented 13.8% of total sales that fiscal year. Its website is www.elpolloloco.com.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry (SIC)
- Restaurants
- Headquarters
- COSTA MESA, CA
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1606366
- SIC
- 5812
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2014–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.’s weight in each
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Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
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