TRI vs. TT, WM, FI, MRVL, RSG, SPOT, NU, ADP, CPRT, and PLTR
Should you be buying Thomson Reuters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thomson Reuters include Trane Technologies (TT), Waste Management (WM), Fiserv (FI), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Republic Services (RSG), Spotify Technology (SPOT), NU (NU), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Copart (CPRT), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) and Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and community ranking.
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 presently has a consensus target price of $164.31, suggesting a potential downside of 4.82%. Trane Technologies has a consensus target price of $300.54, suggesting a potential downside of 9.89%. Given Thomson Reuters' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Thomson Reuters is more favorable than Trane Technologies.
Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Trane Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Thomson Reuters pays out 41.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trane Technologies pays out 35.9% 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 held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of Trane Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Trane Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trane Technologies has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Trane Technologies had 4 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Trane Technologies and 8 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Trane Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.89 indicating that Trane Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Thomson Reuters has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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.
Summary
Trane Technologies beats Thomson Reuters on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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