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.
Smithfield Foods (NASDAQ:SFD) and Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Smithfield Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Smithfield Foods currently has a consensus price target of $27.86, suggesting a potential upside of 33.99%. Given Smithfield Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Smithfield Foods is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
Smithfield Foods received 36 more outperform votes than Tootsie Roll Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.44% of users gave Smithfield Foods an outperform vote while only 58.39% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.
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 pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Smithfield Foods pays out 44.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 30.5% 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.
In the previous week, Smithfield Foods had 10 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Smithfield Foods and 2 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. Tootsie Roll Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Smithfield Foods' score of 0.15 indicating that Tootsie Roll Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smithfield Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Tootsie Roll Industries. Smithfield 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.
Summary
Smithfield Foods beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TR) was last updated on 4/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
