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TRI vs. MORN, NYT, SSTK, DJCO, SCHL, VALU, MKTW, WBTN, VSME, and PLTR

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), Daily Journal (DJCO), Scholastic (SCHL), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), VS MEDIA (VSME), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR).

Thomson Reuters vs.

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

Thomson Reuters currently has a consensus target price of $183.70, suggesting a potential downside of 5.88%. Morningstar has a consensus target price of $361.67, suggesting a potential upside of 18.26%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Thomson Reuters.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Thomson Reuters
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.18
Morningstar
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morningstar has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Morningstar had 16 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Morningstar and 17 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Morningstar's score of 0.54 indicating that Thomson Reuters is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Thomson Reuters
16 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Morningstar
17 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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
Thomson Reuters$7.27B12.09$2.21B$4.7940.75
Morningstar$2.31B5.58$141.10M$8.9034.36

17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. 36.2% of Morningstar shares are held by company 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 received 142 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.28% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 47.68% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Thomson ReutersOutperform Votes
482
47.68%
Underperform Votes
529
52.32%
MorningstarOutperform Votes
340
55.28%
Underperform Votes
275
44.72%

Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 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. Morningstar pays out 20.4% 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 increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 30.45% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 14.69%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.28% beat Thomson Reuters' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Thomson Reuters30.45% 14.62% 9.19%
Morningstar 14.69%23.28%9.66%

Summary

Morningstar beats Thomson Reuters on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TRI vs. The Competition

MetricThomson Reuterspublishing IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$87.91B$26.49B$7.74B$19.37B
Dividend Yield1.25%0.85%2.49%3.84%
P/E Ratio39.919.9832.1234.23
Price / Sales12.095.21266.9734.85
Price / Cash31.5329.2831.5317.51
Price / Book7.3210.565.284.69
Net Income$2.21B$794.21M$195.26M$1.02B
7 Day Performance5.44%-0.61%-0.96%-1.34%
1 Month Performance8.34%2.65%17.45%9.79%
1 Year Performance12.75%-15.07%14.67%3.27%

Thomson Reuters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.8688 of 5 stars
$195.17
-0.5%
$183.70
-5.9%
+14.5%$87.91B$7.27B39.9124,400Positive News
MORN
Morningstar
3.6827 of 5 stars
$309.36
+1.7%
$361.67
+16.9%
+4.5%$13.07B$2.31B40.8712,200
NYT
New York Times
3.265 of 5 stars
$54.21
+1.1%
$56.00
+3.3%
+12.9%$8.85B$2.63B30.465,800Trending News
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.028 of 5 stars
$19.86
+6.7%
$45.33
+128.3%
-56.1%$700.14M$963.57M19.471,330Analyst Forecast
DJCO
Daily Journal
0.4835 of 5 stars
$404.00
+2.8%
N/A+6.6%$556.31M$71.64M7.28320News Coverage
Earnings Report
SCHL
Scholastic
3.1102 of 5 stars
$18.85
-0.5%
N/A-51.0%$529.70M$1.59B-104.726,880News Coverage
VALU
Value Line
2.5609 of 5 stars
$40.70
+3.4%
N/A+0.4%$383.15M$35.70M17.32140Positive News
MKTW
MarketWise
0.8277 of 5 stars
$15.21
+0.5%
N/A-45.8%$246.78M$408.70M126.76800High Trading Volume
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.9369 of 5 stars
$9.55
+4.7%
$16.75
+75.4%
N/A$1.24B$1.35B20.761,854Positive News
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.6676 of 5 stars
$0.78
+22.2%
N/A-76.1%$6.25M$8.25M0.00N/AGap Up
PLTR
Palantir Technologies
1.6336 of 5 stars
$118.46
+1.0%
$83.95
-29.1%
+480.9%$277.83B$3.12B623.513,936Trending News

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