
TSE:TRI
58%-60% of their revenues come from financial services. One of their challenges is that financial services have been getting smaller over the last couple of years. The potential catalyst and the reason to own this is that they have just been in the process of launching a new platform called Icon, competing with the Bloomberg platform. Not expensive. 4% yield.
Provide financial data to financial services and databases to the legal profession. Have gone through some management changes in the last couple of years. A lot of their business depends on employment levels in certain professions. When there is a recovery in those industries, they should do well. At the current level, he would Hold and buy more on weakness.
This is a tough one. What is really going to move the stock is when financials, banks and investment banks, start hiring again. Came out with a product to compete against Bloomberg and other financial information providers and it wasn’t very well received. Made some modifications and it is a pretty good product now and much more competitive. However, we are seeing the user base shrinking for the time being.
This is an issue of the Woodbridge family been able to get the company moving in the right direction and consolidating the components of his business. Have been trying to do this for years. Wait for the stock to cool off from where it has been.