LOCO vs. CNNE, FWRG, KRUS, TH, PTLO, BALY, MSC, THCH, CVEO, and PBPB
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), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Target Hospitality (TH), Portillo's (PTLO), Bally's (BALY), Studio City International (MSC), TH International (THCH), Civeo (CVEO), and Potbelly (PBPB). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
El Pollo Loco vs.
El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) and Cannae (NYSE:CNNE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Cannae shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Cannae shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cannae has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
El Pollo Loco currently has a consensus price target of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.54%. Cannae has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.58%. Given Cannae's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cannae is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
El Pollo Loco received 226 more outperform votes than Cannae when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.68% of users gave Cannae an outperform vote while only 59.37% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote.
In the previous week, El Pollo Loco had 3 more articles in the media than Cannae. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for El Pollo Loco and 1 mentions for Cannae. Cannae's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat El Pollo Loco's score of 0.59 indicating that Cannae is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats Cannae on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LOCO) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
