Monster Beverage Corp vs Thomson Reuters Corp — how do they compare? Monster Beverage Corp trades at $94.52 (market cap $93.35B), while Thomson Reuters Corp trades at $90.94 (market cap $41.28B). The key difference: Monster Beverage Corp is far larger — about 2.3× Thomson Reuters Corp's market cap, and Thomson Reuters Corp pays a 2.75% dividend while Monster Beverage Corp pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| MNST | TRI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $93.35B | $41.28B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Industrials |
52-Week High | $99.94 | $205.54 |
52-Week Low | $58.75 | $76.55 |
Enterprise Value | $91.65B | $43.24B |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.75% |
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Latest headlines on both assets
Monster Beverage is a leader in the energy drink subsegment of the beverage industry. The Monster trademark anchors the portfolio, and notable offerings include Monster Energy and Monster Ultra. The firm has also started to incubate new trademarks for emerging enclaves of the energy space, like Reign in performance energy. It is primarily a brand owner, outsourcing most of its manufacturing processes to third-party copackers. It primarily uses the Coca-Cola bottling system for distribution after a strategic agreement in which Coke became Monster's largest shareholder (nearly 20%) and that also included the exchange of certain businesses between the two firms. Most of Monster's revenue is generated in the United States, though international geographies are increasing in the mix.
Read more on MNST →Thomson Reuters is the result of the $17.6 billion megamerger of Canada's Thomson and the United Kingdom's Reuters Group in 2008 and the 2018 carve-out of its finance and risk business, Refinitiv, in which it holds a 45% stake. In 2019, the company agreed to exchange its 45% stake in Refinitiv for a 15% stake in LSE, which closed in early 2021. Since the divestiture, the company is more concentrated on selling its flagship legal data and software, Westlaw, and its tax accounting software, Onesource. Reuters sees roughly 80% of revenue and 70% of expenses attributed to the United States, while the remainder (largely through the global print and Reuters News segments) is distributed across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
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