Equifax is a consulting services business based in the US. Equifax shares (EFX) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Equifax employs 14,900 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $5.5 billion.
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| Latest market close | $264.99 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $159.15 - $276.69 |
| 50-day moving average | $242.24 |
| 200-day moving average | $235.61 |
| Wall St. target price | $284.65 |
| PE ratio | 56.4509 |
| Dividend yield | $1.56 (0.59%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $4.68 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $264.99 from 2024-07-23
| 1 week (2024-07-17) | 2.21% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-06-24) | 10.26% |
| 3 months (2024-04-24) | 17.40% |
| 6 months (2024-01-24) | 7.10% |
| 1 year (2023-07-24) | 28.29% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-21) | 32.13% |
| 3 years (2021-07-23) | 4.71% |
| 5 years (2019-07-24) | 89.91% |
Valuing Equifax stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Equifax's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Equifax's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 56x. In other words, Equifax shares trade at around 56x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Equifax's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.9039. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Equifax's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Equifax's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.7 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Equifax's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $5.5 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 19.73% |
| Gross profit TTM | $2.9 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.44% |
| Return on equity TTM | 13.05% |
| Profit margin | 10.67% |
| Book value | $37.96 |
| Market Capitalization | $32.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 18.14% of net profits
Recently Equifax has paid out, on average, around 18.14% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.59% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Equifax shareholders could enjoy a 0.59% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Equifax's case, that would currently equate to about $1.56 per share.
While Equifax's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Equifax is investing more in its future growth.
Equifax's most recent dividend payout was on 13 June 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 22 May 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Equifax's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 17 December 1995. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Equifax shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Equifax shares which in turn could have impacted Equifax's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Equifax's shares have ranged in value from as little as $159.1534 up to $276.69. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Equifax's is 1.561. This would suggest that Equifax's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Equifax Inc. operates as a data, analytics, and technology company. The company operates through three segments: Workforce Solutions, U. S. Information Solutions (USIS), and International. The Workforce Solutions segment offers services that enables customers to verify income, employment, educational history, criminal justice data, healthcare professional licensure, and sanctions of people in the United States; and employer customers with services that assist them in complying with and automating payroll-related and human resource management processes throughout the entire cycle of the employment relationship. The USIS segment provides consumer and commercial information services, such as credit information and credit scoring, credit modeling and portfolio analytics, locate, fraud detection and prevention, identity verification, and other consulting services; mortgage services; financial marketing services; identity management services; and credit monitoring products.
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