LOCO vs. XHR, FWRG, CNNE, PTLO, KRUS, TH, MSC, BALY, PBPB, and CVEO
Should you be buying El Pollo Loco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of El Pollo Loco include Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Cannae (CNNE), Portillo's (PTLO), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Target Hospitality (TH), Studio City International (MSC), Bally's (BALY), Potbelly (PBPB), and Civeo (CVEO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
El Pollo Loco vs.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus target price of $17.38, suggesting a potential upside of 24.24%. El Pollo Loco has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.89%. Given Xenia Hotels & Resorts' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Xenia Hotels & Resorts is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
El Pollo Loco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Xenia Hotels & Resorts. El Pollo Loco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xenia Hotels & Resorts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.4% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Xenia Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Xenia Hotels & Resorts had 5 more articles in the media than El Pollo Loco. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Xenia Hotels & Resorts and 4 mentions for El Pollo Loco. Xenia Hotels & Resorts' average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat El Pollo Loco's score of 0.00 indicating that Xenia Hotels & Resorts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.11% compared to Xenia Hotels & Resorts' net margin of 2.37%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 10.34% beat Xenia Hotels & Resorts' return on equity.
El Pollo Loco received 46 more outperform votes than Xenia Hotels & Resorts when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.27% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote while only 56.83% of users gave Xenia Hotels & Resorts an outperform vote.
Summary
Xenia Hotels & Resorts beats El Pollo Loco on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LOCO) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
