TRI vs. RBA, CGY, GDI, ISV, KBL, DXT, DCM, KUT, CP, and CNR
Should you be buying Thomson Reuters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thomson Reuters include RB Global (RBA), Calian Group (CGY), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Information Services (ISV), K-Bro Linen (KBL), Dexterra Group (DXT), DATA Communications Management (DCM), RediShred Capital (KUT), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), and Canadian National Railway (CNR). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Thomson Reuters (TSE:TRI) and RB Global (TSE:RBA) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
21.4% of Thomson Reuters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.3% of RB Global shares are held by institutional investors. 69.6% of Thomson Reuters shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of RB Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RB Global has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Thomson Reuters presently has a consensus target price of C$183.89, suggesting a potential downside of 17.78%. RB Global has a consensus target price of C$75.67, suggesting a potential downside of 30.92%. Given Thomson Reuters' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Thomson Reuters is more favorable than RB Global.
Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of C$2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. RB Global pays an annual dividend of C$1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Thomson Reuters pays out 41.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RB Global pays out 59.0% 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.
Thomson Reuters received 68 more outperform votes than RB Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.33% of users gave RB Global an outperform vote while only 53.06% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Thomson Reuters had 4 more articles in the media than RB Global. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Thomson Reuters and 2 mentions for RB Global. RB Global's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.16 indicating that RB Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Thomson Reuters has higher revenue and earnings than RB Global. Thomson Reuters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RB Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 34.87% compared to RB Global's net margin of 8.08%. Thomson Reuters' return on equity of 20.18% beat RB Global's return on equity.
Summary
Thomson Reuters beats RB Global on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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