Equifax, Inc (NYSE:EFX) shares, rose in value on Friday, November 22, with the stock price up by 0.27% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $253.58.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $252.90, falling within a range of $252.66 and $255.43. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.594 whereas the PE ratio was 56.26 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $309.63, and the low was $208.67. On the whole, EFX has fluctuated by -6.69% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Equifax, Inc currently standing at about $31.43 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in December. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.95, with its dividend yield at 0.77%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 5.7B, with a low estimate of 1.42B and a high estimate of 1.46B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 1.45B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that EFX’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 3.63, with the price of EFX currently trading nearly -3.13% and -8.65% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 36.53, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.16% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.30%. Furthermore, Equifax, Inc (EFX)’s beta value is 1.58, and its average true range (ATR) is 6.26.
A comparison of Equifax, Inc (EFX) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. EFX showed an intraday change of 0.27% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 20.44%%.
Data on historical trading for Equifax, Inc (NYSE:EFX) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.17 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 985.63K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 123.30 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.53% of Equifax, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 95.41% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.48 million shares as on 2024-10-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.66. According to the data, the short interest in Equifax, Inc (EFX) stood at 259.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-10-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-09-30 reached 2.31 million. The stock has risen by 2.54% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the EFX stock heading into the next quarter.
