Seneca Foods (SENEA) Competitors

Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) and Seneca Foods (NASDAQ:SENEA) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, TR or SENEA?

Tootsie Roll Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Seneca Foods. Seneca 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tootsie Roll Industries	$715.53M	3.22	$86.83M	$1.22	26.46
Seneca Foods	$1.46B	0.38	$63.32M	$5.48	14.69

Is TR or SENEA more profitable?

Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Seneca Foods' net margin of 2.49%. Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity of 10.23% beat Seneca Foods' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tootsie Roll Industries	12.14%	10.23%	7.79%
Seneca Foods	2.49%	9.71%	4.23%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor TR or SENEA?

Tootsie Roll Industries received 31 more outperform votes than Seneca Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.17% of users gave Seneca Foods an outperform vote while only 58.39% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tootsie Roll Industries	Outperform Votes 160 58.39%	Underperform Votes 114 41.61%
Seneca Foods	Outperform Votes 129 59.17%	Underperform Votes 89 40.83%

Does the media prefer TR or SENEA?

In the previous week, Tootsie Roll Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Seneca Foods. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries and 4 mentions for Seneca Foods. Seneca Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of 1.09 indicating that Seneca Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Tootsie Roll Industries	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Seneca Foods	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, TR or SENEA?

Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seneca Foods has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in TR or SENEA?

14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.5% of Seneca Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Seneca Foods shares are owned by 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.

Summary

Tootsie Roll Industries beats Seneca Foods on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.