TRI vs. CP, CNR, WCN, WSP, RBA, CGY, GDI, ISV, DXT, and KBL
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), Dexterra Group (DXT), and K-Bro Linen (KBL). 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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
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. Canadian Pacific Kansas City is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Thomson Reuters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Thomson Reuters currently has a consensus target price of C$182.56, indicating a potential downside of 12.41%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a consensus target price of C$120.63, indicating a potential upside of 12.99%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than Thomson Reuters.
22.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.7% 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, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 0.7%. Thomson Reuters pays out 37.4% 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.
In the previous week, Canadian Pacific Kansas City had 34 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City and 13 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's score of -0.37 indicating that Thomson Reuters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 422 more outperform votes than Thomson Reuters when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.30% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 53.35% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.
Summary
Canadian Pacific Kansas City beats Thomson Reuters on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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