Synopsys, Inc. vs Thomson Reuters Corp — how do they compare? Synopsys, Inc. trades at $390 (market cap $72.47B), while Thomson Reuters Corp trades at $90.98 (market cap $41.28B). The key difference: Synopsys, Inc. is the larger of the two by market cap, and Thomson Reuters Corp pays a 2.75% dividend while Synopsys, Inc. pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SNPS | TRI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $72.47B | $41.28B |
Sector | Technology | Industrials |
52-Week High | $645.59 | $205.54 |
52-Week Low | $378.46 | $76.55 |
Enterprise Value | $80.82B | $43.24B |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.75% |
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Synopsys is a provider of electronic design automation software, intellectual property, and software integrity products. EDA software automates the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy, productivity, and complexity in a full-flow end-to-end solution. The firm's growing SI business allows customers to continuously manage and test the code base for security and quality. Synopsys' comprehensive portfolio is benefiting from a mutual convergence of semiconductor companies moving up-stack toward systems-like companies, and systems companies moving down-stack toward in-house chip design. The resulting expansion in EDA customers alongside secular digitalization of various end markets benefits EDA vendors like Synopsys.
Read more on SNPS →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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