Thomson Reuters Reports Third-Quarter 2024 Results
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Dividends and common shares outstanding
A quarterly dividend of $0.54 per share is payable on December 10, 2024 to common shareholders of record as of November 21, 2024.
As of October 31, 2024, Thomson Reuters had approximately 449.9 million common shares outstanding.
Acquisitions
In August 2024, the company acquired Safe Sign
Technologies, a U.K-based startup that is developing legal-specific large language models (LLMs).
In October 2024, the
company acquired Materia, a US-based startup that has developed an agentic AI assistant for the tax, audit and accounting profession.
Sale agreement
In October 2024, the company announced the signing of
a definitive agreement to sell its FindLaw business. FindLaw operates an online legal directory and provides website creation and hosting services, law firm marketing solutions, and peer rating services. The sale is expected to close in the fourth
quarter of 2024 contingent on receiving regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
Thomson Reuters
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right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions
needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information, visit
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NON-IFRS FINANCIAL MEASURES
Thomson Reuters prepares its financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), as issued by the International Accounting
Standards Board (IASB).
This news release includes certain non-IFRS financial measures, which include ratios that
incorporate one or more non-IFRS financial measures, such as adjusted EBITDA (other than at the customer segment level) and the related margin, free cash flow, adjusted earnings and the effective tax rate on
adjusted earnings, adjusted EPS, accrued capital expenditures expressed as a percentage of revenues, selected measures excluding the impact of foreign currency, changes in revenues computed on an organic basis as well as all financial measures for
the Big 3 segments.
Thomson Reuters uses these non-IFRS financial measures as supplemental indicators of
its operating performance and financial position as well as for internal planning purposes and the companys business outlook. Additionally, Thomson Reuters uses non-IFRS measures as the basis for
management incentive programs. These measures do not have any standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS and therefore are unlikely to be comparable to the calculation of similar measures used by other companies and should not be viewed as
alternatives to measures of financial performance calculated in accordance with IFRS. Non-IFRS financial measures are defined and reconciled to the most directly comparable IFRS measures in the appended
tables.
The companys outlook contains various non-IFRS financial measures. The company believes that providing
reconciliations of forward-looking non-IFRS financial measures in its outlook would be potentially misleading and not practical due to the difficulty of projecting items that are not reflective of ongoing
operations in any future period. The magnitude of these items may be significant. Consequently, for outlook purposes only, the company is unable to reconcile these non-IFRS measures to the most directly
comparable IFRS measures because it cannot predict, with reasonable certainty, the impacts of changes in foreign exchange rates which impact (i) the translation of its results reported at average foreign currency rates for the year, and (ii)