In this day and age, you really have to bring a differentiated taco to an increasingly diverse marketplace of Mexican foods. Chain restaurants aren't just up a growing number of one another's restaurants - there is a food truck movement chipping into their top line and companies like Del Taco ($TACO) have to do more than just create a brilliant market ticker to captivate taste buds and investors alike.
Del Taco will report earnings March 11, at a time when markets are turbulent and as global and local leaders grapple with the Coronavirus pandemic.
It might not be viewed as a positive that Del Taco analysts are looking for EPS that's flat year-over-year, given the Mexican chain's store count growth of 2.4% over the last 12 months. Analysts tracked by Zacks Investment Research are looking for EPS of $0.18 per share, the same as last year - shares are down a whopping 40% in 2020, and near all-time lows in trading March 11.
Del Taco's Twitter Following is meager (Taco Bell commands millions of followers in comparison), and growing slowly - up just 6.7% year-over-year.
Negative data points on Del Taco can be found within its Facebook ($FB) Likes and Talking About Count (the latter, not shown). Likes are down about 1% from their peak, and Del Taco's chatter on the social network has been meager at best.
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