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TRI vs. MORN, NYT, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, APP, WM, and CTAS

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), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), AppLovin (APP), Waste Management (WM), and Cintas (CTAS).

Thomson Reuters vs. Its Competitors

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

Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Morningstar pays out 19.4% 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. Morningstar has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 30.45% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 17.22%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.54% beat Thomson Reuters' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Morningstar17.22% 23.54% 10.52%
Thomson Reuters 30.45%14.62%9.19%

In the previous week, Morningstar had 22 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Morningstar and 6 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Morningstar's score of 0.54 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
8 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
3 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Thomson Reuters
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Morningstar has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are held by institutional investors. 36.2% of Morningstar shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Thomson Reuters has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. Morningstar 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
Morningstar$2.28B4.36$369.90M$9.3925.04
Thomson Reuters$7.32B10.01$2.21B$3.6244.89

Morningstar presently has a consensus price target of $361.67, indicating a potential upside of 53.80%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $202.82, indicating a potential upside of 24.80%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Thomson Reuters.

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)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Summary

Morningstar beats Thomson Reuters on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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 Reuterspublishing IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$73.24B$73.24B$26.64B$21.65B
Dividend Yield1.40%1.40%2.74%3.51%
P/E Ratio33.2333.2327.1229.96
Price / Sales10.0110.01783.1860.86
Price / Cash31.5331.5327.7124.97
Price / Book6.096.097.794.59
Net Income$2.21B$2.21B$198.75M$999.97M
7 Day Performance-6.06%-6.06%1.79%0.87%
1 Month Performance-7.54%-7.54%23.01%5.48%
1 Year Performance-4.13%-4.13%67.63%14.38%

Thomson Reuters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TRI
Thomson Reuters
4.6621 of 5 stars
$162.51
+1.2%
$202.82
+24.8%
-4.6%$73.24B$7.32B33.2324,400High Trading Volume
MORN
Morningstar
4.5417 of 5 stars
$246.61
-4.1%
$361.67
+46.7%
-26.7%$10.40B$2.28B26.2611,085Trending News
Short Interest ↑
NYT
New York Times
4.3312 of 5 stars
$59.27
+0.6%
$60.33
+1.8%
+7.1%$9.65B$2.69B30.555,900Trending News
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.2403 of 5 stars
$22.04
+5.3%
$43.67
+98.2%
-40.0%$781.67M$1.01B12.171,715Short Interest ↓
SCHL
Scholastic
4.6301 of 5 stars
$27.07
-1.7%
$37.00
+36.7%
-24.3%$678.10M$1.63B-676.757,090Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Gap Down
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.8617 of 5 stars
$445.87
+9.4%
N/A-12.6%$613.96M$79.16M6.35320High Trading Volume
VALU
Value Line
2.0365 of 5 stars
$38.34
+0.9%
N/A-17.2%$360.78M$35.08M17.51140Positive News
Earnings Report
MKTW
MarketWise
3.6255 of 5 stars
$17.84
-0.1%
$20.00
+12.1%
+18.7%$292.04M$408.70M6.51800Positive News
APP
AppLovin
2.8743 of 5 stars
$593.14
+1.9%
$501.95
-15.4%
+423.9%$200.63B$4.71B84.251,710Positive News
WM
Waste Management
4.7484 of 5 stars
$216.15
-0.9%
$254.35
+17.7%
+5.9%$87.07B$22.06B32.0761,700Analyst Forecast
CTAS
Cintas
4.8472 of 5 stars
$199.71
-1.3%
$224.54
+12.4%
-1.8%$80.48B$10.34B45.2948,300Positive News
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