TRI vs. TT, MRVL, SPOT, RSG, WM, CPRT, FI, NU, PLTR, and SQ
Should you be buying Thomson Reuters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thomson Reuters include Trane Technologies (TT), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Spotify Technology (SPOT), Republic Services (RSG), Waste Management (WM), Copart (CPRT), Fiserv (FI), NU (NU), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), and Block (SQ). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Trane Technologies has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Thomson Reuters received 393 more outperform votes than Trane Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.12% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote while only 43.46% of users gave Trane Technologies an outperform vote.
Thomson Reuters has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Trane Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Trane Technologies pays out 38.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 37.0% 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. Trane Technologies has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Thomson Reuters has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Thomson Reuters is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Trane Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Trane Technologies and 6 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Trane Technologies' score of 0.90 indicating that Trane Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trane Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $251.83, indicating a potential downside of 13.50%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus target price of $157.42, indicating a potential upside of 2.92%. Given Trane Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Thomson Reuters is more favorable than Trane Technologies.
83.0% of Trane Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Trane Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 39.67% compared to Thomson Reuters' net margin of 11.45%. Thomson Reuters' return on equity of 32.01% beat Trane Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Trane Technologies beats Thomson Reuters on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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