secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (LOCO)
CIK:        0001606366
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001606366-25-000047
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

El Pollo Loco Q3 net income rises to $7.4M; adjusted EPS $0.27 vs $0.21
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- Total revenue $121.5M vs $120.4M YoY; system-wide comp sales down 0.8%.
- Net income $7.4M ($0.25 diluted EPS) vs $6.2M ($0.21) YoY.
- Adjusted net income $7.8M ($0.27 diluted EPS) vs $6.3M ($0.21).
- Restaurant contribution margin improved to 18.3% from 16.7%.
- Adjusted EBITDA $17.4M vs $15.5M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636625000047/0001606366-25-000047-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636625000047/loco-20251030x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001606366-25-000047

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