TR vs. SFD, POST, LANC, CALM, FLO, JJSF, THS, JBSS, SENEA, and BGS
Should you be buying Tootsie Roll Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tootsie Roll Industries include Smithfield Foods (SFD), Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Flowers Foods (FLO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), and B&G Foods (BGS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Tootsie Roll Industries vs.
Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) and Smithfield Foods (NASDAQ:SFD) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Smithfield Foods had 12 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Smithfield Foods and 1 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. Smithfield Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of 0.22 indicating that Smithfield Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tootsie Roll Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Smithfield Foods.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Smithfield Foods' net margin of 0.00%. Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity of 10.23% beat Smithfield Foods' return on equity.
Smithfield Foods has a consensus target price of $27.67, suggesting a potential upside of 32.57%. Given Smithfield Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Smithfield Foods is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Smithfield Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Smithfield Foods received 33 more outperform votes than Tootsie Roll Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.08% of users gave Smithfield Foods an outperform vote while only 58.39% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
Smithfield Foods beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TR) was last updated on 3/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
