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Thomson Reuters (TRI) Competitors

$201.08 +0.17 (+0.08%)
As of 08/1/2025

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

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

Thomson Reuters vs. Its Competitors

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

Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. News pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Thomson Reuters pays out 49.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. News pays out 23.3% 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.

Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 29.74% compared to News' net margin of 5.18%. Thomson Reuters' return on equity of 14.26% beat News' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Thomson Reuters29.74% 14.26% 9.25%
News 5.18%5.64%3.09%

In the previous week, News had 8 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for News and 1 mentions for Thomson Reuters. News' average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.00 indicating that News is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

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

17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.6% of News 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 is poised for long-term growth.

Thomson Reuters has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Thomson Reuters$7.26B12.48$2.21B$4.7941.98
News$10.09B1.87$266M$0.8638.66

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Thomson Reuters
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
News
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 9 of the 17 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$90.61B$46.77B$2.54B$9.35B
Dividend Yield1.18%1.18%2.62%4.14%
P/E Ratio41.9820.9922.2123.78
Price / Sales12.4812.4879.0797.26
Price / Cash35.8735.8726.9427.20
Price / Book7.547.5438.225.61
Net Income$2.21B$2.21B$28.61M$265.26M
7 Day PerformanceN/AN/A-2.21%-4.34%
1 Month PerformanceN/AN/A-1.42%4.11%
1 Year PerformanceN/AN/A26.87%17.92%

Thomson Reuters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TRI
Thomson Reuters
N/A$201.08
+0.1%
N/AN/A$90.61B$7.26B41.9826,400Analyst Downgrade
NWS
News
0.6871 of 5 stars
$33.25
-0.5%
N/A+22.5%$18.92B$10.09B38.6625,500Upcoming Earnings
PSO
Pearson
3.2634 of 5 stars
$14.96
+5.1%
$18.00
+20.3%
+11.2%$9.29B$4.54B15.9117,116Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
3.0984 of 5 stars
$38.08
-2.5%
N/A-20.7%$2.08B$1.68B24.899,500Positive News
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
2.2299 of 5 stars
$38.21
-1.0%
N/A-17.0%$2.06B$1.68B24.975,200Positive News
Short Interest ↑
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.1225 of 5 stars
$9.23
-8.1%
$14.36
+55.5%
-53.1%$1.31B$1.35B-6.411,800Positive News
Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
GCI
Gannett
4.0418 of 5 stars
$4.04
+6.0%
$5.55
+37.4%
-5.6%$557.92M$2.51B11.888,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Gap Down
DALN
DallasNews
0.5629 of 5 stars
$14.86
+0.3%
N/A+247.2%$79.32M$125.39M-15.32660Earnings Report
LEE
Lee Enterprises
0.3558 of 5 stars
$4.64
-6.5%
N/A-51.5%$30.85M$591.09M-0.644,360Negative News
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.0665 of 5 stars
$1.34
-4.3%
N/A+6.3%$11.19M$8.25M0.00N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
SOBR
SOBR Safe
0.4508 of 5 stars
$3.67
-5.9%
N/A-97.2%$360K$210K-0.019Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
Gap Down

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