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

El Pollo Loco Holdings' FCF Margin history spans 13 years, with the latest figure at 15.66% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, FCF Margin rose 392.0% year-over-year to 15.66%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 7.15%, down 135.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 9.05%, 492.0% up from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin for Q3 2025 was 15.66% at El Pollo Loco Holdings, up from 7.23% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 19.22% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 5.52% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 4.3% (2024), against an average of 6.32%.
  • The largest YoY upside for FCF Margin was 1070bps in 2021 against a maximum downside of -1503bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 4.98% in 2021, then tumbled by -104bps to 0.21% in 2022, then surged by 1004bps to 1.91% in 2023, then soared by 125bps to 4.3% in 2024, then surged by 264bps to 15.66% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LOCO's FCF Margin are 15.66% (Q3 2025), 7.23% (Q2 2025), and 1.13% (Q1 2025).