Thomson Reuters TRI
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Thomson Reuters (TRI) Return on Assets [ROA] (2009 - 2020)

Updated

Thomson Reuters' Return on Assets [ROA] came in at 23.33% for Q3 2019, up 20.33 percentage points from 2.99% a year earlier but down 0.87 percentage points from the prior quarter.

Analysis

Thomson Reuters (TRI) Return on Assets [ROA] (2009 - 2020) Analysis & Trends

For FY2018, Thomson Reuters' Return on Assets [ROA] was 18.50%, up 13.13 percentage points from FY2017.

  • Return on Assets [ROA] carries a five-year change of +17.93 percentage points (FY2013 to FY2018).
  • Going back by year, Return on Assets [ROA] was 5.37% in FY2017 (-5.69 pp), 11.06% in FY2016 (+7.28 pp), 3.78% in FY2015 (-2.44 pp) and 6.22% in FY2014 (+5.65 pp).
  • The five-year range for quarterly Return on Assets [ROA] is 1.27% (Q1 2018) to 26.59% (Q1 2019).
  • Year-over-year, Return on Assets [ROA] has increased for five consecutive quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +9.85 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
  • The fastest year-over-year change in Return on Assets [ROA] over five years came in Q1 2019 (a gain of 25.31 percentage points), and the weakest in Q3 2016 (a drop of 2.95 percentage points).
  • Business Quant data shows TRI's Return on Assets [ROA] at 24.20% (Q2 2019), 26.59% (Q1 2019) and 18.38% (Q4 2018) in the three quarters before Q3 2019.
Peer Set

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROA (Qtr)
1 Palantir Technologies 472.77 Bn 441.83 Bn 1.64 Bn 27.71%
2 Oracle 381.27 Bn 253.82 Bn - 6.70%
3 Sap Se 292.64 Bn 221.00 Bn 8.40 Bn 11.08%
4 Salesforce 204.54 Bn 160.41 Bn 8.70 Bn 8.95%
5 ServiceNow 164.40 Bn 142.85 Bn 2.82 Bn 5.96%
6 Automatic Data Processing 120.99 Bn 103.12 Bn 2.51 Bn 6.91%
7 Intuit 92.16 Bn 71.51 Bn 3.44 Bn 12.00%
8 Relx 73.71 Bn 72.82 Bn - -
9 Thomson Reuters 54.81 Bn 51.59 Bn - -
10 Strategy 51.39 Bn 44.38 Bn 81.55 Mn -56.94%
Historic Data

Historic Data

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DateValue
Dec 31, 2020 3.03%
Mar 31, 2020 9.72%
Dec 31, 2019 6.82%
Sep 30, 2019 15.43%
Jun 30, 2019 16.49%
Mar 31, 2019 18.18%
Dec 31, 2018 18.33%
Sep 30, 2018 4.57%
Jun 30, 2018 4.77%
Mar 31, 2018 3.12%
Dec 31, 2017 5.48%
Sep 30, 2017 11.67%
Jun 30, 2017 11.47%
Mar 31, 2017 11.72%
Dec 31, 2016 22.56%
Sep 30, 2016 9.24%
Jun 30, 2016 4.62%
Mar 31, 2016 4.34%
Dec 31, 2015 4.51%
Sep 30, 2015 6.94%
API Access

Thomson Reuters Return on Assets [ROA] API

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