TT vs. TRI, WM, MRVL, FI, RSG, SPOT, NU, CPRT, ADP, and PLTR
Should you be buying Trane Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trane Technologies include Thomson Reuters (TRI), Waste Management (WM), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Fiserv (FI), Republic Services (RSG), Spotify Technology (SPOT), NU (NU), Copart (CPRT), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Trane Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $300.54, suggesting a potential downside of 8.46%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $164.31, suggesting a potential downside of 4.74%. Given Thomson Reuters' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Thomson Reuters is more favorable than Trane Technologies.
In the previous week, Trane Technologies had 14 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Trane Technologies and 5 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Trane Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.84 indicating that Trane Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trane Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Trane Technologies pays out 35.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 41.1% 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.
83.0% of Trane Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Trane Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 34.87% compared to Trane Technologies' net margin of 11.81%. Trane Technologies' return on equity of 32.78% beat Thomson Reuters' return on equity.
Thomson Reuters received 392 more outperform votes than Trane Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.82% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote while only 42.71% of users gave Trane Technologies an outperform vote.
Trane Technologies has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Thomson Reuters has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Trane Technologies. Thomson Reuters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trane Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Trane Technologies beats Thomson Reuters on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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