Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries manufacture and sell confectionery products in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It sells its products under various names. The company markets its products to wholesale distributors of candy and groceries, supermarkets, variety stores, dollar stores, chain grocers, drug chains, discount chains, cooperative grocery associations, warehouse and membership club stores, vending machine operators, and the U. S. military and fund-raising charitable organizations. Tootsie Roll Industries was founded in 1896 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing various chocolate and confectionery products, pantry items, and gum and mint refreshment products worldwide. It offers various chocolate and confectionery products as well as various snack products, a line of refreshment products, such as mints, chewing gum, and bubble gum, and a line of pantry items. It sells its products through sales representatives and food brokers, primarily to wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, department stores, and natural food stores. The company was founded in 1893 and is based in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Interpretation and Comparison between the two companies' ratios Earnings per share serves as an indicator of a company's profitability. The EPS is a good measure of profitability and when compared with EPS of similar companies and it gives a view of the comparative earnings or earnings power of the company. The EPS of Tootsie Roll Industries of $0.94 is slightly lower than the EPS of Hershey Foods Corporation's $0.96. Both companies