TR vs. JBSS, IBA, THS, DNUT, WDFC, GO, OLPX, HELE, ENR, and CCU
Should you be buying Tootsie Roll Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tootsie Roll Industries include John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Industrias Bachoco (IBA), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), WD-40 (WDFC), Grocery Outlet (GO), Olaplex (OLPX), Helen of Troy (HELE), Energizer (ENR), and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Tootsie Roll Industries vs.
Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) and John B. Sanfilippo & Son (NASDAQ:JBSS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 32.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays out 13.3% 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 higher earnings, but lower revenue than John B. Sanfilippo & Son. John B. Sanfilippo & Son 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.
17.1% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are owned by institutional investors. 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are owned by company 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.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Tootsie Roll Industries and Tootsie Roll Industries both had 4 articles in the media. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of 0.33 indicating that John B. Sanfilippo & Son is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tootsie Roll Industries received 2 more outperform votes than John B. Sanfilippo & Son when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.67% of users gave John B. Sanfilippo & Son an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 11.01% compared to John B. Sanfilippo & Son's net margin of 6.41%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's return on equity of 23.51% beat Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity.
Summary
John B. Sanfilippo & Son beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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