Pulling SEC filings + quote and writing the call…
| Fiscal year | FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $380M | $402M | $436M | $442M | $426M | $454M | $470M | $469M | $473M | $490M |
| Revenue growth | — | 5.7% | 8.5% | 1.5% | -3.7% | 6.6% | 3.4% | -0.3% | 0.9% | 3.6% |
| Operating income | $34.6M | $6.82M | -$9.46M | $38.3M | $33.6M | $41.3M | $30.1M | $39.8M | $41.2M | $42.0M |
| Operating margin | 9.1% | 1.7% | -2.2% | 8.7% | 7.9% | 9.1% | 6.4% | 8.5% | 8.7% | 8.6% |
| Net income | $18.3M | $8.62M | -$8.99M | $24.9M | $24.5M | $29.1M | $20.8M | $25.6M | $25.7M | $26.5M |
| Net margin | 4.8% | 2.1% | -2.1% | 5.6% | 5.7% | 6.4% | 4.4% | 5.5% | 5.4% | 5.4% |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.47 | $0.22 | -$0.23 | $0.67 | $0.68 | $0.80 | $0.57 | $0.74 | $0.86 | $0.90 |
| Fiscal year | FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $49.3M | $53.7M | $45.4M | $36.1M | $40.5M | $52.1M | $38.5M | $40.7M | $46.8M | $48.1M |
| Capital expenditures | $37.4M | $36.2M | $27.8M | $15.4M | $6.69M | $17.0M | $19.9M | $21.3M | $19.1M | $22.6M |
| Free cash flow | $11.9M | $17.4M | $17.6M | $20.7M | $33.9M | $35.1M | $18.6M | $19.4M | $27.7M | $25.4M |
| Share buybacks | $0.00 | $0.00 | $981K | $48.4M | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | $59.2M | $20.6M | $1.84M |
| Dividends paid | — | — | — | — | — | — | $55.6M | — | — | — |
| Fiscal year | FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & equivalents | $2.17M | $8.55M | $6.97M | $8.07M | $13.2M | $30.0M | $20.5M | $7.29M | $2.48M | $6.23M |
| Total assets | $471M | $443M | $450M | $625M | $605M | $614M | $597M | $592M | $592M | $607M |
| Total liabilities | $206M | $168M | $185M | $379M | $328M | $303M | $316M | $342M | $331M | $316M |
| Long-term debt | — | — | — | — | $62.8M | $40.0M | $66.0M | $84.0M | $71.0M | $51.0M |
| Shareholders' equity | $265M | $275M | $265M | $246M | $278M | $311M | $281M | $251M | $261M | $291M |
| Retained earnings | -$107M | -$98.4M | -$111M | -$86.0M | -$61.5M | -$32.4M | -$11.6M | $14.0M | $18.9M | $43.6M |
| Shares (wtd avg diluted) | 39.0M | 39.1M | 38.6M | 37.4M | 35.8M | 36.4M | 36.6M | 34.4M | 30.0M | 29.4M |
Every figure is extracted from El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.’s annual reports as filed with the SEC (XBRL company facts) — no third-party estimates. Fiscal years are labeled by period end; filers occasionally re-tag concepts, so a sparse cell means the company didn’t report that concept for that year. Free cash flow = operating cash flow − capital expenditures.
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