Tootsie Roll Industries (TR) Competitors

Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) and Smithfield Foods (NASDAQ:SFD) 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.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of TR or SFD?

14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 60.8% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Smithfield Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, TR or SFD?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tootsie Roll Industries	$716.56M	3.19	$86.83M	$1.22	26.16
Smithfield Foods	$14.14B	0.62	$892.37M	$2.27	9.78

Does the media favor TR or SFD?

In the previous week, Smithfield Foods had 13 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Smithfield Foods and 1 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. Tootsie Roll Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Smithfield Foods' score of 0.79 indicating that Tootsie Roll Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Tootsie Roll Industries	Positive
Smithfield Foods	Positive

Is TR or SFD a better dividend stock?

Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Smithfield Foods pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Smithfield Foods pays out 44.1% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TR or SFD?

Smithfield Foods received 35 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 58.33% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tootsie Roll Industries	Outperform Votes 161 58.33%	Underperform Votes 115 41.67%
Smithfield Foods	Outperform Votes 196 61.44%	Underperform Votes 123 38.56%

Do analysts rate TR or SFD?

Smithfield Foods has a consensus target price of $27.86, indicating a potential upside of 25.43%. Given Smithfield Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Smithfield Foods is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tootsie Roll Industries	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Smithfield Foods	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is TR or SFD more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tootsie Roll Industries	12.14%	10.23%	7.79%
Smithfield Foods	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Smithfield Foods beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.