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El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO) vs Portillo's Inc. (PTLO)

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. and Portillo's Inc. are both Restaurants companies. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. and Portillo's Inc. are of similar size ($533.1M and $500.9M). El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. trades at the lower P/E: 13.9× against 29.9×. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 4.40% against 4.17%. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. has the higher net margin (6.96% vs 2.25%) and the higher return on invested capital (9.82% vs 3.44%). Across the 22 metrics below, El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. leads on 17 and Portillo's Inc. on 5.

Valuation

Metric LOCO PTLO Restaurants median
P/E 13.94 29.91 26.18
P/S 0.98 0.66 1.11
P/B 1.54 0.96 2.06
Price to free cash flow 11.93 39.73 17.92
EV/EBITDA 7.32 9.76 12.81
EV/Sales 1.02 0.94 1.29
Earnings yield 7.17% 3.34% 2.23%
Free cash flow yield 8.39% 2.52% 3.23%

Profitability

Metric LOCO PTLO Restaurants median
Gross margin 32.23% 65.34% 38.86%
Operating margin 10.52% 5.30% 4.59%
Net margin 6.96% 2.25% 1.83%
Free cash flow margin 8.19% 1.65% 2.47%
Return on equity 11.79% 3.41% 3.72%
Return on assets 5.74% 1.07% 1.10%
Return on invested capital 9.82% 3.44% 3.01%

Growth

Metric LOCO PTLO Restaurants median
Revenue growth (TTM) 4.40% 4.17% 5.52%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 4.65% (41.30%) (5.05%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 2.84% 9.96% 10.57%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 1.59% 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric LOCO PTLO Restaurants median
Debt to equity 0.10 0.46 0.22
Current ratio 0.41 0.27 0.78
Net debt to EBITDA 0.79 3.05 0.43

Dividend

Metric LOCO PTLO Restaurants median
Dividend yield — — 1.79%
Payout ratio — — 0.45

Size

Metric LOCO PTLO Restaurants median
Market cap 500.93m 533.12m 612.23m

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