Forensic Analysis · Consumer Staples / Food & Beverage · as of Aug 9, 2026
Tootsie Roll Industries Inc (TR)
A forensic read on Tootsie Roll Industries Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
B · Sound & dependable
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
11.9
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
4
Forensic signals
30.2
P / E (ttm)
10.6%
ROE
$3.0B
Market cap
0.91%
Dividend yield
1.3%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
Tootsie Roll Industries Inc earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 11.9, placing it in the Safe zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+10.6%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +10.6% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. The build is led by receivables up +9% against revenue +1%. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 4% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
7.2%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 7.2% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 10% — around its ~8% cost of capital, so growth is roughly value-neutral.
-0.0%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share count.Diluted share count changed -0% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (-0.0%/yr). Roughly flat — the count is neither shrinking nor growing meaningfully. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.
-73%
FY2012→FY2013
Dividend — cut.The payout was CUT ~73% in FY2013 (from FY2012) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$732.5M
Revenue Growth YoY+1.3%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+2.2%
Net Margin13.7%
Free Cash Flow$96.4M
Return on Equity10.6%
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