TR vs. POST, LANC, FLO, JJSF, CALM, THS, JBSS, BGS, HAIN, and CVGW Should you be buying Tootsie Roll Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tootsie Roll Industries include Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), and Calavo Growers (CVGW). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR ) and Post (NYSE:POST ) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Post has a consensus target price of $113.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.63%. Given Post's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Post is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
Post received 261 more outperform votes than Tootsie Roll Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 58.52% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Post had 49 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 51 mentions for Post and 2 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. Post's average media sentiment score of -0.21 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of -0.49 indicating that Post is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Post shares are owned by institutional investors. 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of Post shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Post has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.51% compared to Post's net margin of 4.38%. Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity of 11.63% beat Post's return on equity.
Post has higher revenue and earnings than Tootsie Roll Industries. Post 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.
Summary Post beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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