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Equifax

The past year was a relatively good year for Equifax investors

Over the last 12 months (from December 2015 till December 2016), that were profitable period for the investors in Equifax, the stock gained around 4 percent. Over the past 5 years Equifax' stock rose at around 204 percent in value. Equifax's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 2,16 billion dollars and 2,66 billion dollars. Equifax's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 240,2 million dollars and 434,8 million dollars.

Equifax has it' headquarter based in Atlanta. Equifax is active in the financial services sector. Richard F. Smith is operating by ' CEO. John W. Gamble runs the company as a CFO. Over the past 10 years the global financial companies gained around 15 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 38 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 15 percent.

Equifax paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Equifax's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 4,4 percent annually.

Equifax financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 4,51 billion dollars. 2,2 billion dollars (48,75 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. At the end of 2016 the American company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 22. So investors paid 22 times the company's 2015's EPS. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the financial company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 12,98 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 118,7 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

All Equifax's annual reports can be found here. More information about Equifax can be found it's website. .