Thomson Reuters Reports Second-Quarter 2024 Results
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Dividends
In February
2024, the company announced a 10% or $0.20 per share annualized increase in the dividend to $2.16 per common share, representing the 31st consecutive year of dividend increases. A quarterly
dividend of $0.54 per share is payable on September 10, 2024 to common shareholders of record as of August 15, 2024.
Share Repurchases
Completed $1.0 Billion Buyback Program
In November 2023, Thomson Reuters announced that it planned to repurchase up to $1.0 billion of its common
shares. In the second quarter of 2024, the company completed this plan by repurchasing approximately 1.8 million of its common shares for $287 million.
As of July 30, 2024, Thomson Reuters had approximately 449.7 million common shares outstanding.
LSEG Ownership Interest
Thomson Reuters indirectly owned LSEG shares
through an entity that it jointly owns with Blackstones consortium. During the second quarter of 2024, the company sold its remaining 5.9 million shares that it indirectly owned and received $0.6 billion of gross proceeds.
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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
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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.
As of September 30, 2023, Thomson Reuters amended its definition of adjusted earnings to exclude amortization from
acquired computer software. While the company has always excluded amortization from acquired identifiable intangible assets other than computer software from its definition of adjusted earnings, this change aligns its treatment of
amortization for all acquired intangible assets. Prior period amounts were revised for comparability.
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