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Colin Plunkett

As Shares Fall, Thomson Reuters' Buyback Creates Value

The best thing that could happen to narrow-moat-rated Thomson Reuters’ long-term investors is a decline in the share price, which is exactly what happened after the company reported first-quarter results. Given that the company is expected to repurchase around a third of its outstanding shares based on the May 11 price, we cannot stress enough to investors how sensitive our Thomson Reuters fair value estimate is to movements in the share price. In 2018, the company really has little incentive to...
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Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters provides source of news and information. Co. operates three business: Financial & Risk, a provider of news, information and analytics, enabling transactions and connecting communities of trading, investment, financial and corporate professionals, as well as a provider of regulatory and operational risk management solutions; Legal, a provider of online and print information, decision tools, software and services that support legal, investigation, business and government professionals; and Tax & Accounting, a provider of integrated tax compliance and accounting information, software and services for professionals in accounting firms, corporations, law firms and government.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Colin Plunkett

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