Don't Buy Equifax Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Chris Stiles • Tuesday, November 21 12:03 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Equifax over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Diversified Financial stock at a price of $209.06? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Equifax has moved 8.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 14.0%
EFX has an average analyst rating of buy and is 1.3% away from its mean target price of $206.39 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $4.21
Equifax has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 49.7 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $7.97 and its forward P/E ratio is 26.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 6.0 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Equifax is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 14.34 and an average P/B of 1.57
EFX has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -2.2% and gross profit margins of 0.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $474.58 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
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. The International segment offers information service products, which include consumer and commercial services, such as credit and financial information, and credit scoring and modeling; and credit and other marketing products and services, as well as offers information, technology, and other services to support debt collections and recovery management. The company serves customers in financial services, mortgage, retail, telecommunications, utilities, automotive, brokerage, healthcare, and insurance industries, as well as government agencies. It operates in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and the Republic of Ireland. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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