Tootsie Roll Industries (TR) Competitors

Smithfield Foods (NASDAQ:SFD) and Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.

Is SFD or TR a better dividend stock?

Smithfield Foods pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. 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 29.5% 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. Tootsie Roll Industries has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Is SFD or TR 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
Smithfield Foods	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tootsie Roll Industries	12.14%	10.23%	7.79%

Do analysts prefer SFD or TR?

Smithfield Foods currently has a consensus price target of $27.86, indicating a potential upside of 21.12%. 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
Smithfield Foods	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Tootsie Roll Industries	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SFD or TR?

Smithfield Foods received 34 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 58.27% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Smithfield Foods	Outperform Votes 196 61.44%	Underperform Votes 123 38.56%
Tootsie Roll Industries	Outperform Votes 162 58.27%	Underperform Votes 116 41.73%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in SFD or TR?

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

Which has better earnings and valuation, SFD or TR?

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
Smithfield Foods	$14.47B	0.62	$892.37M	$2.27	10.13
Tootsie Roll Industries	$718.50M	3.46	$86.83M	$1.22	27.93

Does the media favor SFD or TR?

In the previous week, Tootsie Roll Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Smithfield Foods. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries and 3 mentions for Smithfield Foods. Smithfield Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of -0.85 indicating that Smithfield Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Summary

Smithfield Foods beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.