Bunge Global (NYSE:BG) versus Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) Head to Head Analysis

Bunge Global (NYSE:BG) and Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Bunge Global and Tootsie Roll Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bunge Global	1.10%	9.15%	3.43%
Tootsie Roll Industries	13.14%	10.16%	7.64%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

86.2% of Bunge Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Bunge Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 46.8% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Bunge Global and Tootsie Roll Industries, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bunge Global	0	3	8	0	2.73
Tootsie Roll Industries	0	0	1	0	3.00

Bunge Global currently has a consensus price target of $129.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.44%. Given Bunge Global’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Bunge Global is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.

Dividends

Bunge Global pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Bunge Global pays out 55.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 28.1% 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 raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bunge Global and Tootsie Roll Industries”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bunge Global	$70.33 billion	0.30	$816.00 million	$5.15	21.20
Tootsie Roll Industries	$724.67 million	3.93	$100.05 million	$1.28	29.65

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.

Volatility & Risk

Bunge Global has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Tootsie Roll Industries beats Bunge Global on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.