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

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

  • For Q3 2025, EBITDA Margin rose 101.0% year-over-year to 9.43%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 8.48%, down 161.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 8.7%, 303.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBITDA Margin for Q3 2025 was 9.43% at El Pollo Loco Holdings, up from 8.98% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBITDA Margin topped out at 15.51% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 6.29% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for EBITDA Margin is 10.08% (2024), against an average of 10.41%.
  • The largest annual shift saw EBITDA Margin plummeted -686bps in 2022 before it soared 597bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of EBITDA Margin shows it stood at 11.12% in 2021, then grew by 2bps to 11.39% in 2022, then decreased by -10bps to 10.21% in 2023, then dropped by -23bps 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 EBITDA Margin are 9.43% (Q3 2025), 8.98% (Q2 2025), and 7.53% (Q1 2025).