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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.

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

In the previous week, Morningstar had 6 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Morningstar and 15 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Morningstar's score of 0.53 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)
2 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Thomson Reuters
9 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Morningstar presently has a consensus target price of $366.67, indicating a potential upside of 33.52%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus target price of $177.80, indicating a potential downside of 2.30%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly 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)
8 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.27

Thomson Reuters received 146 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.56% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 47.86% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MorningstarOutperform Votes
335
55.56%
Underperform Votes
268
44.44%
Thomson ReutersOutperform Votes
481
47.86%
Underperform Votes
524
52.14%

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$2.28B5.17$141.10M$8.5732.04
Thomson Reuters$7.26B11.29$2.21B$4.8937.21

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
Morningstar14.69% 23.28% 9.66%
Thomson Reuters 30.45%14.62%9.19%

Morningstar has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% 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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Morningstar pays out 21.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 48.7% 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.

Summary

Morningstar beats Thomson Reuters on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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TRI vs. The Competition

MetricThomson Reuterspublishing IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$81.91B$24.76B$7.08B$18.66B
Dividend Yield1.31%1.12%2.69%4.16%
P/E Ratio37.2211.3129.9831.63
Price / Sales11.294.79163.5827.49
Price / Cash31.5329.2831.6117.53
Price / Book6.829.944.704.36
Net Income$2.21B$794.21M$194.86M$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.02%2.62%18.20%1.58%
1 Month Performance6.07%0.76%-0.43%-7.33%
1 Year Performance19.20%-12.52%6.40%1.81%

Thomson Reuters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.8505 of 5 stars
$181.98
-0.2%
$177.80
-2.3%
+18.5%$81.91B$7.26B37.2224,400Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
MORN
Morningstar
4.3849 of 5 stars
$282.94
+3.5%
$366.67
+29.6%
-8.6%$12.12B$2.28B37.3812,200Upcoming Earnings
NYT
New York Times
3.8953 of 5 stars
$48.42
-0.1%
$56.00
+15.7%
+16.6%$7.91B$2.59B27.205,800
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.0995 of 5 stars
$15.27
-1.7%
$45.33
+196.9%
-62.2%$532.83M$935.26M14.971,330Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
DJCO
Daily Journal
0.7925 of 5 stars
$381.05
+0.5%
N/A+3.9%$524.71M$71.64M6.87320News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
SCHL
Scholastic
3.8361 of 5 stars
$16.10
-1.8%
N/A-53.4%$452.43M$1.59B-89.446,880
VALU
Value Line
1.2562 of 5 stars
$41.05
+4.4%
N/A+8.0%$386.45M$35.70M17.47140Dividend Increase
Positive News
MKTW
MarketWise
1.3886 of 5 stars
$14.26
+6.7%
N/A-60.4%$231.37M$408.70M118.84800High Trading Volume
WBTN
WEBTOON Entertainment
2.9024 of 5 stars
$8.09
flat
$17.17
+112.2%
N/A$1.04B$1.35B17.591,854Gap Down
VSME
VS MEDIA
0.4006 of 5 stars
$0.86
+7.0%
N/A-69.8%$2.45M$8.49M0.00N/AGap Down
PLTR
Palantir Technologies
1.4268 of 5 stars
$92.62
+4.6%
$74.95
-19.1%
+366.6%$217.23B$2.87B487.503,840Gap Up

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