Thomson Reuters Corp vs Yum! Brands, Inc. — how do they compare? Thomson Reuters Corp trades at $90.84 (market cap $41.28B), while Yum! Brands, Inc. trades at $148 (market cap $40.62B). The key difference: Thomson Reuters Corp and Yum! Brands, Inc. are close in size by market cap, and Thomson Reuters Corp pays the higher dividend (2.75%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TRI | YUM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $41.28B | $40.62B |
Sector | Industrials | Consumer Cyclical |
52-Week High | $205.54 | $168.16 |
52-Week Low | $76.55 | $138.21 |
Enterprise Value | $43.24B | $51.88B |
Dividend Yield | 2.75% | 2.04% |
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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.
Read more on TRI →Yum Brands is a U.S.-based restaurant operator featuring a portfolio of four brands: KFC (26,930 global units), Pizza Hut (18,380 units), Taco Bell (7,790 units), and The Habit Burger (310 units) at year-end 2021. With $58 billion in 2021 systemwide sales, the firm is the second-largest restaurant company in the world, behind McDonald's ($112.5 billion) but ahead of Restaurant Brands International ($36 billion) and Starbucks ($25 billion). Yum is 98% franchised, with the largest franchisee, Yum China, created via a 2016 spinoff transaction (after which Yum China agreed to pay 3% royalties to Yum Brands in perpetuity). Yum is the newest evolution of Tricon Brands, formerly a division of PepsiCo, and generates the bulk of its revenue from franchise royalties and marketing contributions.
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