Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR – Get Free Report) and Bunge Global (NYSE:BG – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Tootsie Roll Industries and Bunge Global, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Tootsie Roll Industries | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Bunge Global | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2.73 |
Bunge Global has a consensus price target of $129.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.67%. Given Bunge Global’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bunge Global is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Tootsie Roll Industries | $734.74 million | 3.84 | $100.05 million | $1.28 | 29.37 |
| Bunge Global | $70.33 billion | 0.29 | $816.00 million | $5.15 | 20.81 |
Bunge Global has higher revenue and earnings than Tootsie Roll Industries. Bunge Global 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.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Bunge Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.8% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Bunge Global 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.
Risk and Volatility
Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bunge Global has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dividends
Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Bunge Global pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bunge Global pays out 55.9% 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.
Profitability
This table compares Tootsie Roll Industries and Bunge Global’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Tootsie Roll Industries | 13.14% | 10.16% | 7.64% |
| Bunge Global | 1.10% | 9.15% | 3.43% |
Summary
Tootsie Roll Industries beats Bunge Global on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Tootsie Roll Industries
Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. It sells its products under the Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Fruit Rolls, Frooties, Tootsie Pops, Tootsie Mini Pops, Child's Play, Caramel Apple Pops, Charms, Blow-Pop, Charms Mini Pops, Cella's, Dots, Junior Mints, Charleston Chew, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Babies, Andes, Fluffy Stuff, Dubble Bubble, Razzles, Cry Baby, NIK-L-NIP, and Tutsi Pop trademarks. The company sells its products directly to wholesale distributors of candy, and food and groceries; and supermarkets, variety stores, dollar stores, chain grocers, drug chains, discount chains, cooperative grocery associations, mass merchandisers, warehouse and membership club stores, vending machine operators, e-commerce merchants, the United States military, and fund-raising charitable organizations, as well as through food and grocery brokers. Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
About Bunge Global
Bunge Global SA operates as an agribusiness and food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Agribusiness, Refined and Specialty Oils, Milling, and Sugar and Bioenergy. The Agribusiness segment purchases, stores, transports, processes, and sells agricultural commodities and commodity products, including oilseeds primarily soybeans, rapeseed, canola, and sunflower seeds, as well as grains comprising wheat and corn; and processes oilseeds into vegetable oils and protein meals. This segment offers its products for animal feed manufacturers, livestock producers, wheat and corn millers, and other oilseed processors, as well as third-party edible oil processing and biofuel companies for biofuel production applications. The Refined and Specialty Oils segment sells packaged and bulk oils and fats that comprise cooking oils, shortenings, margarines, mayonnaise, renewable diesel feedstocks, and other products for baked goods companies, snack food producers, confectioners, restaurant chains, foodservice operators, infant nutrition companies, and other food manufacturers, as well as grocery chains, wholesalers, distributors, and other retailers. This segment also refines and fractionates palm oil, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, and shea butter, and olive oil; and produces specialty ingredients derived from vegetable oils, such as lecithin. The Milling segment provides wheat flours and bakery mixes; corn milling products that comprise dry-milled corn meals and flours, wet-milled masa and flours, and flaking and brewer’s grits, as well as soy-fortified corn meal, corn-soy blends, and other products; whole grain and fiber ingredients; die-cut pellets; and non-GMO products. The Sugar and Bioenergy segment produces sugar and ethanol; and generates electricity from burning sugarcane bagasse. Bunge Global SA was founded in 1818 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri.
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