p/w of 10 with sales rising 20% YOY and turns around 80% of profit straight to cash worth 10 in my opinion thats why I bought it @ 550p the steal of the century ....

now out of its 90 day average heading toward 700p withing the month as understand the overhang of float shares out of the way

Director/PDMR Shareholding today, (Click on the News links for details.)

Wonder what he knows that we don't? he certainly didn't buy having looked at the chart I know.

This had a Director buying a few more recently. Also, given that the security issues of having 25m peoples details lost is going to have longer term repercussions, then now looks like EXPN could be a good medium term investment?
Just my 2p's worth....

Bought some of these last week, mainly on the basis that they have gone into Brazil (which has possibilities as a developing country), some rather large Director buying (despite poorish resent results or was it trading update?) they also carry No stamp Duty on purchase. Not sure how resent security issues will effect them Chris if at all but we shall see.

Hi, Stan. I dipped my toe in these this morning. Director buys are a good indicator. But I still don't think the full consequences of yesterdays announcement regarding loss of 25m peoples data has been realised yet. Some of the data will remain valid for life (eg DoB, NI #) whilst other details like address isn't going to change for most people in the short term. The consequencies are going to be there forever. Even if discs turn-up then there is no guarantee that they haven't been copied and returned. Credit checks will need to be enhanced and rapid responce credit report monitoring will become a norm for individuals. Perhaps because UK lost the most data first, then UK will unfortunately take the lead ..... but it'll become a necessity around the world as well.

With data such as was lost, if it does get in to pro fraudsters hands, then they might sit on it for a while and accumulate additional information before hitting the syatem with fraudulent transactions etc. If pro fraudsters have indeed got the info, then yesterdays date will be memorable...

PS: Given look on G.Browns face in the House of Commons yesterday when announcement was made, I think he's fairly aware of what longer term consequencies will be. .

"Credit checks will need to be enhanced and credit report monitoring will become a norm for individuals." Are yes I see your point, = more work for EXPN.

Well, I think it'll end up being a case of whole new procedures with credit checks .... plus individuals signed up to monitoring services will want to be notified of changes / searches etc as soon as possible - as provided by the premium subscription monitoring.....

Question time should interesting this afternoon -):

"The alarm bells will ring in every organisation" - that's the quote I've just heard from the Information Commissioner on the 10.00 radio news. He is aware of consequencies - he's been banging his head against the wall for quite a while already trying to raise awareness of possible problems...

Well, Experian just got a free plug on Sky News during Kay Burley interview with a security consultant. He said likely uptake of such credit monitoring facilities in UK would now increase. 'Nice' follow up from Kay was to ask him how people could enroll. Reasonably tight spread plus no stamp duty makes EXPN 'investor friendly'.

Excellent.

...And there's more http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/2007112310375537201.html

Stan ... I get 'Cannot find requested article' dislayed when I try the above link...

Nice to see todays RNS.... with Director splashing out nearly 95k of his own money on shares in it...

And a nice positive end to the day for EXPN. Await next week with interest.

Analysts at Panmure Gordon reiterate their "buy" rating on Experian Group Ltd (ticker: EXPN-GBX). The target price is set to 675p.
http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_1651389.html

Not sure whats wrong with the link unfortunately.

Might finally be sinking in:

HMRC fiasco: Security experts predict fallout
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39291023,00.htm

"It seems one of the few organisations under-reacting to the crisis is the government itself. The best advice it can come up with is that citizens likely to be affected should keep a close eye on their bank accounts. However, credit-checking service Experian says this may not be good enough."

...I agree with Helen -):

Experian says that if the missing CDs do fall into the wrong hands then the victims will have far more to worry about than fraudulent withdrawals from their bank accounts. 'Identity fraudsters are also willing to wait lengthy periods before using the data to commit identity fraud and, with so many potential victims, they could have supplies of personal information to keep them busy for many years.' Helen seems to be being kept busy. Full article at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/nov/25/scamsandfraud.businessandmedia?gusrc=rss&feed=business

a light hearted post from someone (no, not me) posting on another website discussion board:

"My view is that some poor sod in the revenue office has destroyed the disks and bought a lot of shares in Experian and Equifax."

:-)

Nice little flurry this morning, out at 435p back in if it drops.