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About El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc
El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, El Pollo Loco, Inc., develops, franchises, licenses, and operates quick-service restaurants under the El Pollo Loco name. The company operates and franchises restaurants located in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Louisiana. It also licenses its brand to restaurants in the Philippines. Read full Trend Edge analysis →
Sector: Consumer Cyclical
Industry: Restaurants
Exchange: NASDAQ
IPO Date: July 25, 2014
Headquarters: 3535 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, 92626
Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.
Timeframe
SMA
Value
Trend Context
Weekly
10-Week SMA
$13.79
Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly
40-Week SMA
$11.46
Medium-term trend
Weekly
80-Week SMA
$11.15
Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly
200-Week SMA
$10.59
Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly
10-Month SMA
$11.44
Near-term monthly trend
Monthly
20-Month SMA
$11.28
Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly
40-Month SMA
$10.68
Secular monthly trend
Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance
Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume
creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative
volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.
Trend Edge's AI Consult feature delivers a comprehensive, multi-layer trade plan for El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc
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The analysis covers five layers:
technical analysis (near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular trend, momentum,
volume shelf support and resistance, breakout and breakdown signals),
qualitative analysis (business model, competitive moat, sector dynamics),
insider sentiment (buy and sell signals from executive and director transactions),
share stats analysis (institutional accumulation, fund positioning, short float squeeze potential), and
fundamental analysis (valuation, revenue growth, profit margin, earnings quality).
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Whether you are building a long position, initiating a short, or looking for a reversal setup,
AI Consult identifies the highest-probability signal from the current trend.