TRI vs. MORN, NYT, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, WBTN, VSME, and ARM
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 (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN), VS MEDIA (VSME), and ARM (ARM).
Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Thomson Reuters had 1 more articles in the media than Morningstar. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Thomson Reuters and 8 mentions for Morningstar. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.68 indicating that Thomson Reuters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 34.87% compared to Thomson Reuters' net margin of 11.34%. Thomson Reuters' return on equity of 22.83% beat Morningstar's return on equity.
Morningstar presently has a consensus price target of $320.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.93%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $170.64, indicating a potential upside of 5.52%. Given Morningstar's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Thomson Reuters is more favorable than Morningstar.
57.0% of Morningstar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.9% of Morningstar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Morningstar pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 40.6% 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 15 consecutive years.
Thomson Reuters has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. Thomson Reuters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Morningstar has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Thomson Reuters received 194 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.52% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 48.82% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.
Summary
Thomson Reuters beats Morningstar on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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