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Brett Horn, CFA

Experian Ends Its Fiscal Year on a Strong Note

Experian closed out the year on a fairly strong note, with headwinds starting to ease in its North American consumer business. Overall, the company delivered 5% year-over-year growth, excluding currency effects and acquisitions, during fiscal 2018. This is slightly below our long-term growth forecast but good considering the issues the company is facing in some areas of its business. Operating margins, excluding amortization and one-time items, improved slightly to 27.7% during fiscal 2018 from ...
Underlying
Experian PLC

Experian is an information services group. Co. has four businesses: Credit Services, which collects data to analyze the credit histories of people and businesses, sorting through information about the credit they applied for and how they repaid the credit; Decision Analytics, which combines Co.'s data with data from its clients and third parties, and uses software and analytics to access, organize and analyze this data to help its clients to minimize the risk of fraud; Marketing Services, which helps Co.'s clients to plan, build and deliver their marketing campaigns; and Consumer Services, which, among others, monitors the information in people's credit reports for suspected fraud patterns.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

Analysts
Brett Horn, CFA

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