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Thomson Reuters (TRI) Competitors

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$178.55 +2.46 (+1.40%)
As of 08/22/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

TRI vs. NWS, PSO, MH, WLY, WLYB, WBTN, GCI, DALN, LEE, and VSME

Should you be buying Thomson Reuters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thomson Reuters include News (NWS), Pearson (PSO), McGraw Hill (MH), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), Gannett (GCI), DallasNews (DALN), Lee Enterprises (LEE), and VS MEDIA (VSME). These companies are all part of the "printing and publishing" industry.

Thomson Reuters vs. Its Competitors

News (NASDAQ:NWS) and Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ:TRI) are both large-cap printing and publishing companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.

Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 22.34% compared to News' net margin of 13.21%. Thomson Reuters' return on equity of 14.04% beat News' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
News13.21% 5.66% 3.19%
Thomson Reuters 22.34%14.04%9.35%

14.6% of News shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.7% of News shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Thomson Reuters has lower revenue, but higher earnings than News. News is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Thomson Reuters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
News$8.45B2.35$1.18B$2.0816.91
Thomson Reuters$7.32B11.00$2.21B$3.6249.32

News has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. News pays out 9.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 65.7% 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.

In the previous week, News had 5 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for News and 6 mentions for Thomson Reuters. News' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.59 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
News
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Thomson Reuters
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
News
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Thomson Reuters
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
4.00

Summary

Thomson Reuters beats News on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TRI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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TRI vs. The Competition

MetricThomson ReutersMisc. Publishing IndustryManufacturing SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$80.46B$41.63B$2.58B$9.76B
Dividend Yield1.35%1.35%2.54%4.06%
P/E Ratio49.3224.6622.0426.05
Price / Sales11.0011.00282.1688.44
Price / Cash31.8531.8524.1559.36
Price / Book6.386.3831.916.60
Net Income$2.21B$2.21B$31.01M$265.65M
7 Day Performance4.22%6.59%1.08%2.00%
1 Month PerformanceN/AN/A1.16%0.46%
1 Year PerformanceN/AN/A28.72%18.88%

Thomson Reuters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TRI
Thomson Reuters
N/A$178.55
+1.4%
N/AN/A$80.46B$7.32B49.3226,400News Coverage
Ex-Dividend
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NWS
News
1.2291 of 5 stars
$35.17
+2.0%
N/A+20.4%$19.47B$8.45B16.9125,500News Coverage
PSO
Pearson
3.5676 of 5 stars
$14.87
+0.7%
$18.00
+21.1%
+8.1%$9.58B$4.54B15.8217,116
MH
McGraw Hill
N/A$14.58
-5.0%
$20.88
+43.2%
N/A$2.93BN/A0.004,200Trending News
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Analyst Revision
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
1.4009 of 5 stars
$41.27
+3.6%
N/A-12.1%$2.20B$1.68B26.975,200News Coverage
Positive News
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
2.7826 of 5 stars
$41.21
+3.6%
N/A-10.1%$2.12B$1.68B26.939,500Positive News
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WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
0.5816 of 5 stars
$15.18
+5.9%
$15.43
+1.6%
+12.0%$1.87B$1.37B-19.711,800Positive News
GCI
Gannett
4.2152 of 5 stars
$4.25
+2.8%
$5.55
+30.7%
-13.2%$605.53M$2.51B12.498,900Positive News
DALN
DallasNews
0.9018 of 5 stars
$14.97
+0.4%
N/A+218.5%$79.81M$125.39M-15.43660
LEE
Lee Enterprises
0.3489 of 5 stars
$4.08
+3.0%
N/A-53.6%$25.55M$581.81M-0.564,360Gap Up
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.2596 of 5 stars
$1.21
-6.2%
N/A+16.3%$10.31M$8.25M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:TRI) was last updated on 8/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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