Thomson Reuters Corporation - TRI

Thomson Reuters Corporation a.k.a. Thomson Reuters is a provider of information for the world’s businesses and professionals. Stock ticker TRI pays a 32 cent quarterly dividend, which is currently a 4.54% dividend yield. They have paid a dividend since August 20th, 2002 and increase it annually. TRI is a long term hold for any educated investor's Roth IRA stock portfolio.

As of January 1, 2012, TRI was organized in four business units:

• Financial & Risk, a provider of news, information and analytics
• Legal, a provider of critical information, decision support tools, software and services to legal, investigation, business and Government professionals worldwide 
• Tax & Accounting, a provider of integrated tax compliance and accounting information, software and services for professionals in accounting firms, corporations, law firms
• Government, and Intellectual Property & Science, a provider of intellectual property and scientific resources

Thomson Reuters’ corporate headquarters are located in New York, New York with key operations in the United Kingdom, India, Eagan, Minnesota and Stamford, Connecticut. It operates in over 100 countries. In February 2012, the Company acquired RedEgg.

TRI has come down in price during the past two year and it is finally looking like a good value pick. Get in while this stock is below $30.00. They will always be one of the top leading information distributors worldwide and are very quick to increase the speed to its customers. The market for business intelligence collected and distributed by companies such as TRI is growing. One of TRI's offerings is Westlaw, a standard legal resource. With the number of legal proceedings in this country, there's little chance that demand for Westlaw will diminish.

Statistics as of April 6th, 2012:
52 week 25.28 - 41.35
Vol / Avg. 874,734.00/1.36M
Mkt cap 23.36B
Div/yield $0.32/4.54%
EPS -1.70
Shares 828.07M
Beta 0.95
Inst. own 38%

Bottomline: TRI is a great dividend paying blue chip stock and they have a solid balance sheet. The company is insider controlled. Feel free to visit Thomson's homepage here, and watch the videos below.

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