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

El Pollo Loco Holdings' EBT Margin history spans 13 years, with the latest figure at 8.51% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, EBT Margin rose 136.0% year-over-year to 8.51%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 7.49%, up 37.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 7.46%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • EBT Margin for Q3 2025 was 8.51% at El Pollo Loco Holdings, up from 8.02% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBT Margin topped out at 11.94% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 2.63% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for EBT Margin is 7.22% (2021), against an average of 7.4%.
  • The largest annual shift saw EBT Margin plummeted -630bps in 2022 before it surged 459bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of EBT Margin shows it stood at 7.22% in 2021, then rose by 5bps to 7.58% in 2022, then decreased by -29bps to 5.36% in 2023, then rose by 27bps to 6.79% in 2024, then increased by 25bps to 8.51% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LOCO's EBT Margin are 8.51% (Q3 2025), 8.02% (Q2 2025), and 6.54% (Q1 2025).