Equifax, Inc. (EFX) with a beta value of 1.58 appears to be a promising investment opportunity.

Equifax, Inc. (NYSE: EFX) on Friday, soared 0.60% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $280.30. Within the past 52 weeks, EFX’s price has moved between $159.95 and $309.63.

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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 9.32% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 9.29%. With a float of $123.08 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $123.30 million.

The firm has a total of 14900 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 58.38%, operating margin of 18.38%, and the pretax margin is 13.74%.

Equifax, Inc. (EFX) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Observing investor behavior towards Consulting Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Equifax, Inc. is 0.53%, while institutional ownership is 98.81%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 28 ’24, was worth 914,977. In this transaction EVP, Chief Legal Officer of this company sold 3,000 shares at a rate of $304.99, taking the stock ownership to the 12,259 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 28 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 3,000 for $303.00, making the entire transaction worth $909,000.

Equifax, Inc. (EFX) Recent Fiscal highlights

As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 1.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 1.74) by 0.07. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.98 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.29% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.40% during the next five years compared to 12.25% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Equifax, Inc. (NYSE: EFX) Trading Performance Indicators

Equifax, Inc. (EFX) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.79 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.24. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 44.83.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.51, a number that is poised to hit 2.14 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.58 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Equifax, Inc. (EFX)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Equifax, Inc., EFX], we can find that recorded value of 1.22 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.85 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 42.98%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.65.

During the past 100 days, Equifax, Inc.’s (EFX) raw stochastic average was set at 66.41%, which indicates a significant increase from 34.75% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 24.18% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 25.41% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $294.39, while its 200-day Moving Average is $260.73. Now, the first resistance to watch is $284.54. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $287.10. The third major resistance level sits at $289.89. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $279.19, it is likely to go to the next support level at $276.40. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $273.84.

Equifax, Inc. (NYSE: EFX) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 34.89 billion based on 123,611K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 5,265 M and income totals 545,300 K. The company made 1,431 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 163,900 K in sales during its previous quarter.