TRI vs. CP, CNR, WCN, WSP, RBA, CGY, GDI, ISV, KBL, and DXT
Should you be buying Thomson Reuters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thomson Reuters include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Canadian National Railway (CNR), Waste Connections (WCN), WSP Global (WSP), RB Global (RBA), Calian Group (CGY), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Information Services (ISV), K-Bro Linen (KBL), and Dexterra Group (DXT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Thomson Reuters (TSE:TRI) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSE:CP) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of C$2.91 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Thomson Reuters pays out 37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 18.1% 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 presently has a consensus price target of C$181.78, suggesting a potential downside of 13.77%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a consensus price target of C$116.75, suggesting a potential downside of 2.24%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than Thomson Reuters.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 419 more outperform votes than Thomson Reuters when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.56% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 53.44% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.
22.4% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.8% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by institutional investors. 69.5% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Canadian Pacific Kansas City had 6 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City and 3 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.07 indicating that Canadian Pacific Kansas City is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 39.67% compared to Canadian Pacific Kansas City's net margin of 31.28%. Thomson Reuters' return on equity of 23.06% beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has higher revenue and earnings than Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Pacific Kansas City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Canadian Pacific Kansas City beats Thomson Reuters on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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