TRI vs. MORN, NYT, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, APP, FI, and WM
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), Fiserv (FI), and Waste Management (WM).
Thomson Reuters vs. Its Competitors
Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Morningstar pays out 20.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 49.7% 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 increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Morningstar had 21 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Morningstar and 4 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.64 indicating that Morningstar is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Morningstar presently has a consensus target price of $361.67, suggesting a potential upside of 21.35%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus target price of $187.30, suggesting a potential downside of 6.83%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Thomson Reuters.
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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 30.45% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 16.60%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.23% beat Thomson Reuters' return on equity.
Morningstar has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Morningstar beats Thomson Reuters on 12 of the 18 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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This page (NYSE:TRI) was last updated on 7/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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