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$160.74 -0.03 (-0.02%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

TRI vs. MORN, NYT, SSTK, DJCO, SCHL, VALU, MKTW, WBTN, VSME, 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), Daily Journal (DJCO), Scholastic (SCHL), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), VS MEDIA (VSME), and S&P Global (SPGI).

Thomson Reuters vs.

Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

Morningstar currently has a consensus price target of $360.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.41%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $176.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.70%. Given Thomson Reuters' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Thomson Reuters is more favorable than Morningstar.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Morningstar
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Thomson Reuters
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

Morningstar has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 32.12% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 14.69%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.28% beat Thomson Reuters' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Morningstar14.69% 23.28% 9.66%
Thomson Reuters 32.12%14.85%9.11%

57.0% of Morningstar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.7% of Morningstar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Morningstar pays out 21.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 42.5% 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. Morningstar has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years.

Thomson Reuters received 183 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.45% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 48.68% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MorningstarOutperform Votes
297
57.45%
Underperform Votes
220
42.55%
Thomson ReutersOutperform Votes
480
48.68%
Underperform Votes
506
51.32%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Morningstar$2.22B6.48$141.10M$7.5744.36
Thomson Reuters$6.79B10.64$2.70B$5.0831.64

In the previous week, Morningstar had 14 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Morningstar and 7 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Morningstar's score of 0.66 indicating that Thomson Reuters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Morningstar
10 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Thomson Reuters
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Morningstar beats Thomson Reuters on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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TRI vs. The Competition

MetricThomson Reuterspublishing IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$72.32B$22.45B$6.93B$19.89B
Dividend Yield1.34%1.15%2.92%3.54%
P/E Ratio31.646.3346.0942.83
Price / Sales10.645.80203.9418.13
Price / Cash31.1227.5124.3317.86
Price / Book6.589.545.085.52
Net Income$2.70B$1.89B$121.42M$986.45M
7 Day Performance-4.54%-1.19%-1.11%-0.22%
1 Month Performance-4.66%-15.69%8.17%0.12%
1 Year Performance15.70%-14.86%29.60%23.71%

Thomson Reuters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TRI
Thomson Reuters
4.2064 of 5 stars
$160.74
0.0%
$176.33
+9.7%
+15.7%$72.33B$6.79B31.6425,600Positive News
MORN
Morningstar
4.3026 of 5 stars
$335.77
+0.3%
$360.67
+7.4%
+23.3%$14.36B$2.04B44.3611,334
NYT
New York Times
3.6404 of 5 stars
$52.00
-0.2%
$54.83
+5.4%
+14.5%$8.54B$2.43B30.775,900
SSTK
Shutterstock
3.8239 of 5 stars
$30.46
+3.1%
$53.67
+76.2%
-33.5%$1.03B$874.59M29.861,274
DJCO
Daily Journal
N/A$561.62
+3.4%
N/A+74.6%$748.08M$71.61M17.23350
SCHL
Scholastic
4.1352 of 5 stars
$24.80
+2.2%
N/A-36.8%$682.90M$1.59B44.296,660
VALU
Value Line
1.5625 of 5 stars
$50.95
+1.1%
N/A+18.5%$474.77M$37.49M24.03140High Trading Volume
MKTW
MarketWise
3.4139 of 5 stars
$0.54
-1.8%
$2.00
+270.6%
-82.6%$175.04M$423.38M4.50578
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.7133 of 5 stars
$11.96
+7.7%
$26.83
+124.4%
N/A$1.43BN/A0.001,854Positive News
VSME
VS MEDIA
N/A$1.10
-2.7%
N/A-79.3%$3.23M$7.99M0.00N/A
SPGI
S&P Global
4.9041 of 5 stars
$503.12
+0.2%
$571.31
+13.6%
+22.3%$155.87B$12.50B44.4140,450Analyst Revision
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:TRI) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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