BGS vs. TR, THS, JBSS, HAIN, CVGW, SENEA, LWAY, FARM, MDLZ, and HSY
Should you be buying B&G Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&G Foods include Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), and Hershey (HSY). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) and B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, B&G Foods had 4 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for B&G Foods and 2 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. Tootsie Roll Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat B&G Foods' score of -0.49 indicating that B&G Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. B&G Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 27.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. B&G Foods pays out -52.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Tootsie Roll Industries has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and B&G Foods has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. B&G Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.51% compared to Tootsie Roll Industries' net margin of -5.42%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 11.63% beat Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity.
Tootsie Roll Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than B&G Foods. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tootsie Roll Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B&G Foods has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.47%. Given Tootsie Roll Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B&G Foods has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods received 196 more outperform votes than Tootsie Roll Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.52% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote while only 54.80% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
Tootsie Roll Industries and B&G Foods tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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