TR vs. CAG, SFD, CPB, POST, CALM, LANC, FLO, JJSF, THS, and JBSS
Should you be buying Tootsie Roll Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tootsie Roll Industries include Conagra Brands (CAG), Smithfield Foods (SFD), Campbell's (CPB), Post (POST), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), J & J Snack Foods (JJSF), TreeHouse Foods (THS), and John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Tootsie Roll Industries vs. Its Competitors
Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) and Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conagra Brands has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Conagra Brands had 79 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 80 mentions for Conagra Brands and 1 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. Conagra Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Conagra Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Conagra Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 60.9% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Conagra Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Conagra Brands has a consensus price target of $22.73, suggesting a potential upside of 17.21%. Given Conagra Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Conagra Brands is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Conagra Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Conagra Brands pays out 205.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tootsie Roll Industries has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Conagra Brands has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Conagra Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Conagra Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Tootsie Roll Industries. Tootsie Roll Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conagra Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Conagra Brands' net margin of 9.92%. Conagra Brands' return on equity of 12.52% beat Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Conagra Brands beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TR) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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