secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO)
CIK:        0001606366
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-03-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001606366-25-000004
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

El Pollo Loco Q4 net income up to $6.0M; revenue $114.3M, system comp sales +0.5%
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- Total revenue $114.3M, up 1.9% YoY from $112.2M.
- Net income $6.0M ($0.20/diluted) vs $4.4M ($0.14/diluted) in prior year.
- Adjusted net income $5.9M ($0.20/diluted) vs $5.2M ($0.16/diluted).
- Income from operations $9.0M (7.9% margin) vs $7.5M (6.7% margin).
- Adjusted EBITDA $14.3M, up from $13.6M; restaurant contribution margin improved to 16.7%.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636625000004/0001606366-25-000004-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636625000004/loco-20250306x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606366-25-000004

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