TT vs. TRI, RSG, MRVL, NU, PLTR, CPRT, SPOT, SQ, WM, and WCN
Should you be buying Trane Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trane Technologies include Thomson Reuters (TRI), Republic Services (RSG), Marvell Technology (MRVL), NU (NU), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Copart (CPRT), Spotify Technology (SPOT), Block (SQ), Waste Management (WM), and Waste Connections (WCN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) and Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and valuation.
Thomson Reuters presently has a consensus price target of $156.85, indicating a potential upside of 0.57%. Trane Technologies has a consensus price target of $232.31, indicating a potential downside of 22.49%. Given Trane Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Thomson Reuters is more favorable than Trane Technologies.
Thomson Reuters has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
In the previous week, Thomson Reuters and Thomson Reuters both had 6 articles in the media. Trane Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.97 indicating that Thomson Reuters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Thomson Reuters received 395 more outperform votes than Trane Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.12% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Trane Technologies an outperform vote.
17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of Trane Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Trane Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Trane Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Thomson Reuters pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trane Technologies pays out 38.2% 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. Thomson Reuters has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Trane Technologies has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Thomson Reuters is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trane Technologies has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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
Thomson Reuters beats Trane Technologies on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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