TR vs. JBSS, DNUT, WLYB, ENR, WLY, HELE, THS, KLG, CCU, and TLRY
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), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Energizer (ENR), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Helen of Troy (HELE), TreeHouse Foods (THS), WK Kellogg (KLG), Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), and Tilray (TLRY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
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 contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.8% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son 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.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a beta of 0.08, meaning that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, John B. Sanfilippo & Son had 10 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for John B. Sanfilippo & Son and 0 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of -0.38 indicating that John B. Sanfilippo & Son is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.51% compared to John B. Sanfilippo & Son's net margin of 6.29%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's return on equity of 21.48% beat Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity.
Tootsie Roll Industries and John B. Sanfilippo & Son both received 158 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 63.97% of users gave John B. Sanfilippo & Son an outperform vote while only 58.52% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote.
Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 27.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays out 14.4% 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.
Summary
John B. Sanfilippo & Son beats Tootsie Roll Industries on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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