Thomson Reuters TRI
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Thomson Reuters (TRI) Return on Assets [ROA] (2009 - 2019)

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 - 2019) 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 453.55 Bn 422.61 Bn 1.64 Bn 27.71%
2 Oracle 430.98 Bn 303.54 Bn - 6.70%
3 Sap Se 256.23 Bn 177.31 Bn 8.40 Bn 10.87%
4 Salesforce 193.08 Bn 148.96 Bn 8.70 Bn 8.95%
5 ServiceNow 138.94 Bn 117.40 Bn 2.82 Bn 5.96%
6 Automatic Data Processing 102.51 Bn 84.63 Bn 2.51 Bn 6.91%
7 Intuit 75.44 Bn 54.79 Bn 3.44 Bn 12.00%
8 Relx 60.79 Bn 57.76 Bn - -
9 Strategy 56.32 Bn 49.31 Bn 81.55 Mn -56.94%
10 Thomson Reuters 43.44 Bn 39.49 Bn - -
Historic Data

Historic Data

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DateValue
Sep 30, 2019 23.33%
Jun 30, 2019 24.20%
Mar 31, 2019 26.59%
Dec 31, 2018 18.38%
Sep 30, 2018 2.99%
Jun 30, 2018 2.94%
Mar 31, 2018 1.27%
Dec 31, 2017 2.99%
Sep 30, 2017 2.89%
Jun 30, 2017 3.37%
Mar 31, 2017 3.65%
Dec 31, 2016 3.76%
Sep 30, 2016 4.00%
Jun 30, 2016 4.04%
Mar 31, 2016 3.93%
Dec 31, 2015 4.31%
Sep 30, 2015 6.94%
Jun 30, 2015 6.72%
Mar 31, 2015 6.58%
Dec 31, 2014 6.29%
API Access

Thomson Reuters Return on Assets [ROA] API

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