---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-005361"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TR"
cik: "0000098677"
company_name: "TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T07:48:54.183216+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tootsie Roll Q1 2025 net sales down 3% to $146.5M; EPS up 14% to $0.25

## Summary
- Net sales $146.5M (down 3% YoY); net earnings $18.1M (up 14% YoY); EPS $0.25 vs $0.22.
- Gross margins improved from price hikes and efficiencies, but higher cocoa/chocolate costs expected in later 2025 and 2026.
- Company continues share buybacks; shares outstanding reduced over past 12 months.
- Tariff uncertainty on ingredients from outside USMCA; management says effects not ascertainable yet.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-005361
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TR
- cik: 0000098677
- company_name: TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98677/000155837025005361/0001558370-25-005361-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/98677/000155837025005361/tr-20250423x8k.htm

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