TRI vs. MORN, NYT, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, VALU, VSME, ACN, and SPGI
Should you be buying Thomson Reuters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thomson Reuters include Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal (DJCO), MarketWise (MKTW), Value Line (VALU), VS MEDIA (VSME), Accenture (ACN), and S&P Global (SPGI).
Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) and Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morningstar has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Thomson Reuters currently has a consensus target price of $168.42, suggesting a potential downside of 2.15%. Morningstar has a consensus target price of $320.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.01%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Thomson Reuters.
Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Thomson Reuters pays out 40.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morningstar pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Morningstar shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.9% of Morningstar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Morningstar had 10 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Morningstar and 8 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Morningstar's score of 0.73 indicating that Thomson Reuters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Thomson Reuters has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. Thomson Reuters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 34.87% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 10.13%. Morningstar's return on equity of 21.79% beat Thomson Reuters' return on equity.
Thomson Reuters received 194 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.52% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 48.82% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.
Summary
Thomson Reuters and Morningstar tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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