LOCO vs. CNNE, FWRG, SHCO, XHR, PTLO, BALY, TH, KRUS, MSC, and CVEO
Should you be buying El Pollo Loco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of El Pollo Loco include Cannae (CNNE), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Portillo's (PTLO), Bally's (BALY), Target Hospitality (TH), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Studio City International (MSC), and Civeo (CVEO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
El Pollo Loco vs.
Cannae (NYSE:CNNE) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
El Pollo Loco received 228 more outperform votes than Cannae when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.04% of users gave Cannae an outperform vote while only 59.34% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote.
Cannae currently has a consensus target price of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 28.57%. El Pollo Loco has a consensus target price of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 63.50%. Given El Pollo Loco's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe El Pollo Loco is more favorable than Cannae.
88.1% of Cannae shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Cannae shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by 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.
Cannae has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, El Pollo Loco has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cannae and Cannae both had 4 articles in the media. Cannae's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat El Pollo Loco's score of 0.29 indicating that Cannae is being referred to more favorably in the media.
El Pollo Loco has higher revenue and earnings than Cannae. Cannae is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than El Pollo Loco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.11% compared to Cannae's net margin of -68.61%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 10.34% beat Cannae's return on equity.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats Cannae on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LOCO) was last updated on 4/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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