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Mar 19, 2019

Del Taco (TACO, $9.87) shares tumble after missing Q4 estimates

Shares of Del Taco Restaurants Inc. fell after the company failed to meet its fourth quarter estimates.

Missing earnings estimates by a penny, Del Taco’s Q4 earnings stood at 18 cents per share. However, sales for the quarter came in at $157.3 million, beating estimates by $290,000.  Further, the company issued weak earnings guidance. It expects full-year adjusted EPS somewhere between 47 cents to 52 cents, lower than the estimate of 58 cents.

The company’s CEO is optimistic, however, as he interprets fourth quarter sales to be the sixth year of consistent achievement in a row. He believes that this was made possible by a strong franchise comparable restaurant sales growth across a diverse 13 state footprint that supports Del Taco's brand portability, including 25 new system-wide openings across ten states during 2018 -- of which nearly half were franchised restaurants.

He further commented that amidst challenges like wage and operation inflation, the company has demonstrated effective cost management and pricing strategies to post a strong annual restaurant contribution margin that remained near or above 20% in each of the last four years.

Some of the key Q4 highlights include system-wide restaurant sales up 2.5%, average check growth of 3.6%, 7.2% revenue growth year-over-year, and 25 system wide openings.

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Market Cap

The average market capitalization across the group is 455.89M. The market cap for tickers in the group ranges from 455.89M to 455.89M. TACO holds the highest valuation in this group at 455.89M. The lowest valued company is TACO at 455.89M.

High and low price notable news

The average weekly price growth across all stocks in the group was -0%. For the same group, the average monthly price growth was 1%, and the average quarterly price growth was 0%. TACO experienced the highest price growth at -0%, while TACO experienced the biggest fall at -0%.

Volume

The average weekly volume growth across all stocks in the group was 3%. For the same stocks of the group, the average monthly volume growth was 125% and the average quarterly volume growth was 0%

Fundamental Analysis Ratings

The average fundamental analysis ratings, where 1 is best and 100 is worst, are as follows

Valuation Rating: 44
P/E Growth Rating: 4
Price Growth Rating: 50
SMR Rating: 70
Profit Risk Rating: 100
Seasonality Score: -50 (-100 ... +100)
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