Company Analysis

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. (TR)

NYSE: TR · Sugar & Confectionery Products · Chicago, IL · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.8
◀ Past 4.6● Present 5.8▶ Future 6.9
1 est.

The grade of Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.8/10
◀ Past4.630% of the headline
● Present5.840% of the headline
▶ Future6.930% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
4.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2020-11-06.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 42 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2018-06-11); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2020-11-06) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+3.9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 46th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $521 million in fiscal 2016 to $733 million in fiscal 2025, up 3.9% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span3.9%bottom 39% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 24% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak10.6%bottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count steady. 36% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 49th percentile among 32 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s diluted share count held steady, and dividends and buybacks returned about 36% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 50% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.8/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 11%: 11¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 25%: owes 25¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 67th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 21 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 25 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 15% of its family
  • return on equitytop 38% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 46% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 39% of 42 in its family; net margin 13.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $733 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 29% by size; a net margin of 13.6% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 2.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 42% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$733Mbottom 29% of its family
  • net margin13.6%top 6% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth2.2%top 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
3.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 3.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 35th percentile among 33 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, the chief executive's years under the title, which ranks in the bottom 35% of 33 in its family; fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
How it was reasoned
one part: the chief executive's years on the record, the one part on file, ranked among 33 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s leadership is put at 3.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the chief executive's years under the title, which ranks in the bottom 35% of 33 in its family; fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
8.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 18% of 42 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 42 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $127 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 10.1% of its assets as net cash, top 15% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 13.2% of revenue (top 15%); a gross margin of 35.3% (top 23%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets10.1%top 15% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue13.2%top 15% of its family
  • gross margin35.3%top 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 41% of 42 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.2% a year over the last three filed years against 3.9% over all 10, slowing (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew 1.3% (bottom 39%); capital spending grew 13.6% a year (top 23%) (its annual reports). Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $725 million (99%), Rental and Royalty at $8 million (1%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.7 points a yeartop 39% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth1.3%bottom 39% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending13.6%top 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 41% of 39 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 59th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $733 million in fiscal 2025 came in 1.3% below the $742 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 32% of its family); net income of $100 million against a prior three-year average of $85 million (top 35%); a net margin of 13.6% against 11.7% before (top 22%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-1.3%bottom 32% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+18%top 35% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+2.0 pointstop 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton TR · research, not advice