How do I be able to store the output of this method into a single variable.

function sum(num) {
  var numString = num.toString();
  var newString = "";
  while (numString.length > 1) { // (1)
    newString += (parseInt(numString[0]) + parseInt(numString[numString.length - 1])).toString(); // (2)
    numString = numString.substring(1, numString.length - 1); // (3)
  }
  newString += numString; // (4)

  if (newString.length > 2) { // (5)
    console.log(newString)
    return sum(newString);
  } else {
    return newString;
  }
}