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El Pollo Loco Holdings (LOCO) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

El Pollo Loco Holdings' EBIT Margin history spans 13 years, with the latest figure at 9.43% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, EBIT Margin rose 101.0% year-over-year to 9.43%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 8.48%, up 7.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 8.7%, 21.0% up from the prior year.
  • EBIT Margin for Q3 2025 was 9.43% at El Pollo Loco Holdings, up from 8.98% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBIT Margin topped out at 12.31% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 3.02% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for EBIT Margin is 8.33% (2024), against an average of 8.2%.
  • The largest annual shift saw EBIT Margin crashed -659bps in 2022 before it surged 565bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of EBIT Margin shows it stood at 7.73% in 2021, then rose by 6bps to 8.2% in 2022, then dropped by -19bps to 6.65% in 2023, then rose by 19bps to 7.9% in 2024, then rose by 19bps to 9.43% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LOCO's EBIT Margin are 9.43% (Q3 2025), 8.98% (Q2 2025), and 7.53% (Q1 2025).