El Pollo Loco Holdings (El Pollo Loco Holdings) Operating Income : $38.7 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)

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What is El Pollo Loco Holdings Operating Income?

El Pollo Loco Holdings's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $9.7 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $38.7 Mil.

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. El Pollo Loco Holdings's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $9.7 Mil. El Pollo Loco Holdings's Revenue for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $116.2 Mil. Therefore, El Pollo Loco Holdings's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 8.36%.

El Pollo Loco Holdings's 5-Year average Growth Rate for Operating Margin % was 0.00% per year.

Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition. El Pollo Loco Holdings's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.73%. El Pollo Loco Holdings's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 15.15%.

El Pollo Loco Holdings Operating Income Historical Data

The historical data trend for El Pollo Loco Holdings's Operating Income can be seen below:

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El Pollo Loco Holdings Operating Income Chart

El Pollo Loco Holdings Annual Data

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El Pollo Loco Holdings Quarterly Data
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Operating Income	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															7.48	10.87	9.79	8.29	9.71

El Pollo Loco Holdings Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $38.7 Mil.

El Pollo Loco Holdings (NAS:LOCO) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

El Pollo Loco Holdings's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

	ROC % (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	NOPAT	/	Average Invested Capital
=	Operating Income * ( 1 - Tax Rate % )	/	( (Invested Capital (Q: Dec. 2023 )	+	Invested Capital (Q: Mar. 2024 ))	/ count )
=	38.844 * ( 1 - 27.15% )	/	( (596.199	+	600.357)	/ 2 )
=	28.297854	/	598.278
=	4.73 %

where

	Invested Capital		(Q: Dec. 2023 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	592.301	-	43.549	-	( 7.288	-	max(0, 72.581	-	25.134	+	7.288	))
=	596.199

	Invested Capital		(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	598.023	-	46.056	-	( 9.121	-	max(0, 75.221	-	26.831	+	9.121	))
=	600.357

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2024) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

El Pollo Loco Holdings's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

	ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %		(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Net fixed Assets	+	Net Working Capital)
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Property, Plant and Equipment	+	Net Working Capital)
			Q: Dec. 2023		Q: Mar. 2024
=	EBIT	/	( ( (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital)	+	(Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) )	/	count )
=	38.716	/	( ( (253.562 + max(-35.258, 0))	+	(257.567 + max(-37.703, 0)) )	/	2 )
=	38.716	/	( ( 253.562	+	257.567 )	/	2 )
=	38.716	/	255.5645
=	15.15 %

where Working Capital is:

	Working Capital		(Q: Dec. 2023 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(10.148	+	1.911	+	5.634)	-	(43.549	+	0.586	+	8.816)
=	-35.258

	Working Capital		(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(10.613	+	1.736	+	5.361)	-	(46.056	+	0.571	+	8.786)
=	-37.703

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2024) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

El Pollo Loco Holdings's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %	=	Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )	/	Revenue (Q: Mar. 2024 )
	=	9.711	/	116.153
	=	8.36 %

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Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

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El Pollo Loco Holdings (El Pollo Loco Holdings) Business Description

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Address

3535 Harbor Boulevard, Suite 100, Costa Mesa, CA, USA, 92626

Website

https://www.elpolloloco.com

El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc operates and franchises hundreds of fast-casual chicken restaurants in the United States. Restaurant locations are typically free-standing and include drive-thrus, and menus include many low-priced options. Poultry is the company's largest food cost, accounting for roughly 38% of total food and paper cost, and the company manages that commodity price risk by using multiple suppliers and entering supply contracts of varying lengths depending on market conditions.

Executives

Sardar Biglari,	10 percent owner	C/O BIGLARI HOLDINGS INC., 19100 RIDGEWOOD PKWY, SUITE 1200, SAN ANTONIO TX 78259
Biglari Holdings Inc.	10 percent owner	19100 RIDGEWOOD PKWY, SUITE 1200, SAN ANTONIO TX 78259
John M Roth	director	299 PARK AVENUE, 20TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10171
Fs Capital Partners V, Llc	10 percent owner	11100 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD, SUITE 1900, LOS ANGELES CA 90025
Biglari Capital Corp.	10 percent owner	19100 RIDGEWOOD PKWY, SUITE 1200, SAN ANTONIO TX 78259
Lion Fund Ii, L.p.	10 percent owner	19100 RIDGEWOOD PKWY, SUITE 1200, SAN ANTONIO TX 78259
Laurance Roberts	officer: Chief Financial Officer	C/O EL POLLO LOCO HOLDINGS, INC., 3535 HARBOR BLVD., SUITE 100, COSTA MESA CA 92626
Maria Hollandsworth	officer: Chief Operating Officer	3535 HARBOR BLVD, STE 100, COSTA MESA CA 92626
Fs Equity Partners V Lp	10 percent owner	11100 SANTA MONICA BLVD., LOS ANGELES CA 90025
Fs Affiliates V, L.p.	10 percent owner	11100 SANTA MONICA BLVD, SUITE 1900, LOS ANGELES CA 90025
John M. Roth	director, 10 percent owner	C/O EL POLLO LOCO HOLDINGS, INC., 3535 HARBOR BLVD., SUITE 100, COSTA MESA CA 92626
Ira Fils	officer: Chief Financial Officer	C/O EL POLLO LOCO HOLDINGS, INC., 3535 HARBOR BLVD., SUITE 100, COSTA MESA CA 92614
Miguel Lozano	officer: CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER	3535 HARBOR BLVD., # 100, COSTA MESA CA 92626
Deborah Gonzalez	director	3535 HARBOR BLVD., SUITE 100, COSTA MESA CA 92626
Faginas Cody Nancy	director	3535 HARBOR BLVD, SUITE 100, COSTA MESA CA 92626