Equifax, Inc. (NYSE:EFX) price on Thursday, April 18, fall -6.37% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $222.54.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $237.68. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 49.56. Turning to its 52-week performance, $275.10 and $159.95 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, EFX moved -14.36% over the past month.
Equifax, Inc.’s market cap currently stands at around $27.65 billion. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.56, with its dividend yield at 0.70%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $1.87, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to $7.64 and about $9.79 for fiscal year 2025. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be 13.90% for 2024 and 28.10% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $1.44 billion for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $1.42 billion and $1.47 billion respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 8.70% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2024 to grow to $5.78 billion, representing a 9.80% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that EFX is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 2.65, with EFX’s current price about -12.94% and -13.85% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 25.54, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.37% and 2.25% in the 30-day chart. Further, Equifax, Inc. (EFX) has a beta value of 1.52, and an average true range (ATR) of 7.80.
If we refocus on Equifax, Inc. (NYSE:EFX), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 781.73K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 124.23 million shares.
The 0.37% of Equifax, Inc.’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 97.28% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock -10.01% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the EFX stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
