El Pollo Ownership
| LOCO Stock | USD 10.17 0.01 0.1% |
Shares in Circulation | First Issued 2013-03-31 | Previous Quarter 29.4 M | Current Value 29.5 M | Avarage Shares Outstanding 36.4 M | Quarterly Volatility 3.1 M |
LOCO |
LOCO Stock Ownership Analysis
About 100.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The company has price-to-book ratio of 1.16. Typically companies with comparable Price to Book (P/B) are able to outperform the market in the long run. El Pollo Loco has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.16. The entity last dividend was issued on the 21st of October 2022. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, El Pollo Loco, Inc., develops, franchises, licenses, and operates quick-service restaurants under the El Pollo Loco name. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. El Pollo operates under Restaurants classification in the United States and is traded on NASDAQ Exchange. It employs 4626 people. To find out more about El Pollo Loco contact Elizabeth Williams at 714 599 5000 or learn more at https://www.elpolloloco.com.Besides selling stocks to institutional investors, El Pollo also allocates a substantial amount of its earnings to a pull of share-based compensation to be paid out to its employees, managers, executives, and members of the board of directors. Share-Based compensation (also sometimes called Stock-Based Compensation) is a way of paying different El Pollo's stakeholders with equity in the business. It is typically used as a motivation factor for employees to contribute beyond their regular compensation (salary and bonus). It is also used as a tool to align El Pollo's strategic interests with those of the company's shareholders. Shares issued to employees are usually subject to a vesting period before they are earned and sold.
El Pollo Quarterly Liabilities And Stockholders Equity |
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El Pollo Insider Trades History
About 9.0% of El Pollo Loco are currently held by insiders. Unlike El Pollo's institutional investors, corporate insiders most likely have a limit on the maximum percentage of share ownership. This is done to align insiders' influence against El Pollo's private investors even though both sides will benefit from rising prices or experience loss when the share price declines. The good rule to have in mind is that the maximum share ownership percentage of the corporate insiders should not surpass 25%. View all of El Pollo's insider trades
LOCO Stock Institutional Investors
Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as El Pollo is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading El Pollo Loco backward and forwards among themselves. El Pollo's institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase El Pollo's securities or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
| Shares | Geode Capital Management, Llc | 2024-12-31 | 582.6 K | Biglari, Sardar | 2024-12-31 | 489.2 K | Jpmorgan Chase & Co | 2024-12-31 | 456.4 K | Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisers, Llc | 2024-12-31 | 453.4 K | Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. | 2024-12-31 | 382.7 K | Renaissance Technologies Corp | 2024-12-31 | 363 K | Nuveen Asset Management, Llc | 342.6 K | Bridgeway Capital Management, Llc | 2024-12-31 | 333.9 K | Prudential Financial Inc | 2024-12-31 | 289.7 K | Biglari Capital Corp. | 2024-12-31 | 4 M | Blackrock Inc | 2024-12-31 | 2.3 M |
El Pollo Loco Insider Trading Activities
Some recent studies suggest that insider trading raises the cost of capital for securities issuers and decreases overall economic growth. Trading by specific El Pollo insiders, such as employees or executives, is commonly permitted as long as it does not rely on El Pollo's material information that is not in the public domain. Local jurisdictions usually require such trading to be reported in order to monitor insider transactions. In many U.S. states, trading conducted by corporate officers, key employees, directors, or significant shareholders must be reported to the regulator or publicly disclosed, usually within a few business days of the trade. In these cases El Pollo insiders are required to file a Form 4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when buying or selling shares of their own companies.
El Pollo Outstanding Bonds
El Pollo issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. El Pollo Loco uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most LOCO bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when El Pollo Loco has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.
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El Pollo Corporate Filings
F4 | 13th of March 2025 The report filed by a party regarding the acquisition or disposition of a company's common stock, as well as derivative securities such as options, warrants, and convertible securities | ViewVerify |
F3 | 12th of March 2025 The report used by insiders such as officers, directors, and major shareholders (beneficial owners holding more than 10% of any class of the company's equity securities) to declare their ownership of a company's stock | ViewVerify |
10K | 7th of March 2025 Annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of a company financial performance | ViewVerify |
8K | 6th of March 2025 Report filed with the SEC to announce major events that shareholders should know about | ViewVerify |
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Is Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of El Pollo. If investors know LOCO will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about El Pollo listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth 0.509 | Earnings Share 0.86 | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.018 | Return On Assets |
The market value of El Pollo Loco is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of LOCO that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of El Pollo's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is El Pollo's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because El Pollo's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect El Pollo's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between El Pollo's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if El Pollo is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, El Pollo's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.