Northrop Grumman Corporation vs Thomson Reuters Corp — how do they compare? Northrop Grumman Corporation trades at $510.06 (market cap $74.42B), while Thomson Reuters Corp trades at $91.19 (market cap $41.28B). The key difference: Northrop Grumman Corporation is the larger of the two by market cap, and Thomson Reuters Corp pays the higher dividend (2.75%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NOC | TRI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $74.42B | $41.28B |
Sector | Industrials | Industrials |
52-Week High | $768.02 | $205.54 |
52-Week Low | $496.02 | $76.55 |
Enterprise Value | $88.65B | $43.24B |
Dividend Yield | 1.79% | 2.75% |
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Northrop Grumman is a defense contractor that is diversified across short-cycle and long-cycle businesses. The firm's segments include aeronautics, mission systems, defense services, and space systems. The company's aerospace segment creates the fuselage for the massive F-35 program and produces various piloted and autonomous flight systems. Mission systems creates a variety of sensors and processors for defense hardware. The defense systems segment is a long-range missile manufacturer. Finally, the company's space systems segment produces various space structures, sensors, and satellites.
Read more on NOC →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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