TR vs. PPC, POST, LANC, FLO, JJSF, CALM, THS, JBSS, BGS, and HAIN
Should you be buying Tootsie Roll Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tootsie Roll Industries include Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), 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), and The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) and Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Pilgrim's Pride presently has a consensus price target of $37.25, suggesting a potential upside of 9.24%. Given Tootsie Roll Industries' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Pilgrim's Pride is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
Pilgrim's Pride has higher revenue and earnings than Tootsie Roll Industries. Pilgrim's Pride 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.
In the previous week, Pilgrim's Pride and Pilgrim's Pride both had 5 articles in the media. Tootsie Roll Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Pilgrim's Pride's score of 0.43 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pilgrim's Pride received 188 more outperform votes than Tootsie Roll Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.45% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote while only 58.67% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.
16.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 82.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.51% compared to Tootsie Roll Industries' net margin of 2.80%. Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity of 17.35% beat Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity.
Summary
Pilgrim's Pride beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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