Thomson Reuters TRI
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Thomson Reuters (TRI) Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] (2009 - 2020)

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Thomson Reuters (TRI) posted Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] of 32.88% for Q2 2020, up 25.77 percentage points from 7.12% a year earlier.

Analysis

Thomson Reuters (TRI) Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] (2009 - 2020) Analysis & Trends

For FY2019, Thomson Reuters' Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] came in at 35.67%, up 31.58 percentage points from FY2018.

  • Annual Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] shows a five-year change of +26.22 percentage points (FY2014 to FY2019).
  • In prior years, Thomson Reuters' Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] was 4.09% in FY2018 (-0.53 pp), 4.62% in FY2017 (+1.72 pp), 2.90% in FY2016 (-3.34 pp) and 6.24% in FY2015 (-3.21 pp).
  • Quarterly Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] has run from a low of 4.06% in Q4 2018 to a high of 42.16% in Q4 2019 over five years.
  • On a year-over-year basis, Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] increased in five of the last seven quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +9.80 percentage points.
  • The strongest year-over-year quarter for Return on Capital Employed [ROCE] in the past five years was Q4 2019, with a gain of 38.09 percentage points; the weakest was Q2 2016, with a drop of 3.07 percentage points.
Peer Set

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROCE (Qtr)
1 Palantir Technologies 453.55 Bn 422.61 Bn 1.64 Bn 28.02%
2 Oracle 430.98 Bn 303.54 Bn - 9.81%
3 Sap Se 256.23 Bn 177.31 Bn 8.40 Bn 33.74%
4 Salesforce 193.08 Bn 148.96 Bn 8.70 Bn 10.68%
5 ServiceNow 138.94 Bn 117.40 Bn 2.82 Bn 10.59%
6 Automatic Data Processing 102.51 Bn 84.63 Bn 2.51 Bn -46.62%
7 Intuit 75.44 Bn 54.79 Bn 3.44 Bn 21.09%
8 Relx 60.79 Bn 57.76 Bn - -
9 Strategy 56.32 Bn 49.31 Bn 81.55 Mn -68.70%
10 Thomson Reuters 43.44 Bn 39.49 Bn - -
Historic Data

Historic Data

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DateValue
Jun 30, 2020 32.88%
Dec 31, 2019 42.16%
Sep 30, 2019 7.85%
Jun 30, 2019 7.12%
Mar 31, 2019 5.40%
Dec 31, 2018 4.06%
Sep 30, 2018 4.46%
Jun 30, 2018 5.12%
Mar 31, 2018 4.81%
Dec 31, 2017 4.74%
Sep 30, 2017 5.01%
Jun 30, 2017 5.18%
Mar 31, 2017 5.82%
Dec 31, 2016 5.90%
Sep 30, 2016 6.96%
Jun 30, 2016 6.62%
Mar 31, 2016 6.45%
Dec 31, 2015 6.45%
Sep 30, 2015 9.65%
Jun 30, 2015 9.68%
API Access

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