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The Motley Fool
October 20, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ChoicePoint Will the data collator make it three in a row for earnings misses when it reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers? Investors, take note.   |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ChoicePoints Elsewhere The data collator's newsflash is one investors won't want to miss. Big changes are afoot, making the news of how many pennies the company earned in second-quarter 2006 fade to insignificance. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ChoicePoint's Direction Investors, look for continued margin deterioration as ChoicePoint works through the last of its data security-related charges. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2005
Rich Smith |
ChoicePoint Cheated Out of Growth The massive data theft notwithstanding, this company has some problems. For even without the $0.03 charge to earnings, ChoicePoint would only have earned $0.46 in the third quarter -- a mere 7% increase over last year, and far less than the growth in revenues. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2007
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: A Few ChoicePoints The the data collector, collator, and disseminator is set to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 results. Investors, here's what to expect. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: American Standard American Standard's gross margin, which wasn't impacted at all by restructuring charges, has remained strong -- even growing slightly. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ChoicePoints to Better Times Last year was one of lousy press and mediocre numbers for the data collator. Will the new fiscal year be better for the company and shareholders alike? |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2005
Rich Smith |
IRS Chooses ChoicePoint The contrite data company makes some moves that weren't welcome by investors, but the IRS took note and awarded ChoicePoint a $20 million contract. Will it be enough to please shareholders? |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2005
Rich Smith |
ChoicePoint Weathers Storm Data vendor holds profits steady, despite damage done by identity theft scandal. It would seem that investors have again become cautiously optimistic about the company's prospects. |
InternetNews
December 7, 2006
Roy Mark |
ChoicePoint ID Theft Victims' Day Has Come The Federal Trade Commission notifies out-of-pocket identity theft victims how to tap a $5 million restitution fund. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2007
Roy Mark |
ChoicePoint Settles With 44 States in Data Losses Data broker ChoicePoint agrees to pay $500,000 and to strengthen data protection measures. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Pro Forma Earnings Reports: A Deceptive View of Performance The Securities and Exchange Commission is concerned with a widespread corporate habit -- the growing practice of issuing "pro forma" earnings reports that tend to paint a rosy picture of company results... |
InternetNews
May 2, 2005
Clint Boulton |
ChoicePoint Makes Fraud Detection Buy ChoicePoint adds new fraud detection software from Magnify to the mix after selling sensitive data. |
The Motley Fool
February 22, 2005
Rich Smith |
ChoicePoint Steps Up Identity theft scam shakes confidence in the information broker, despite its efforts to right its wrongs. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2006
Roy Mark |
FTC Slaps Record Fine on ChoicePoint Info broker agrees to $15 million in penalties for last year's massive data breach. The company's stock subsequently dropped $3.05 a share to $43.25. |
InternetNews
September 24, 2010 |
FTC Issuing Slim Payments to ChoicePoint Victims Following a settlement stemming from the latest breach from data integrator ChoicePoint, the Federal Trade Commission is distributing paltry compensation to the victims. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Pro Forma's Bottom Line Be careful what you say and how you say it. The Financial Executives International, Morristown, N.J., and the National Investor Relations Institute, Vienna, Va., have come up with guidelines for clear and consistent public statements of corporate earnings. Five key suggestions... |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2005
Rich Smith |
ChoicePoint's Flag Farm Warning signs begin to multiply like a field of red banners at the data collector, collator, and disseminator. Investors and regulators alike are taking a closer look. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2007
Rich Smith |
Waste Management Gets Dumped A strike and declining volume lead to a disappointing quarter. |
InternetNews
October 21, 2009 |
FTC Reprimands ChoicePoint for Latest Data Breach Incident ChoicePoint agreed to pay $275,000 to redress consumers this week after the Federal Trade Commission said it failed to adequately safeguard one of its databases, an oversight that exposed the personal information of 13,750 people in 2008. |
InternetNews
June 20, 2007
Roy Mark |
Getting More Money to ID Theft Victims FTC sends another 2,400 reimbursement forms to consumers victimized by ChoicePoint's 2004 data breach. |
The Motley Fool
July 21, 2004
Tom Taulli |
ChoicePoint Strong at 100 The 100 year-old comprehensive provider of data services for security continues to grow, helped by its aggressive mergers and acquisitons strategy. |
InternetNews
February 18, 2005
Tim Gray |
Data Theft Fallout Spreads to 145,000 Data aggregation firm ChoicePoint responds to pressure to let more people know if identity thieves have their data, which may include credit reports, addresses, and social security numbers. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2005
Rich Smith |
What, Me Worry About ID Theft? Reed Elsevier's security breach grows 10 times in size. And no one cares. Hard as that is to fathom, it suggests that the data collection industry may escape this series of fiascoes without Congress imposing additional regulations on it. |
InternetNews
March 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
Staggered Start For ChoicePoint Hearing Senate ID theft hearing postponed but Schumer and Corzine promise new privacy legislation. |
Information Today
February 25, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Dean Foust |
Keeping A Grip On Identity How to hold info brokers accountable for security without fouling up commerce. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2006
Rich Smith |
AT&T Gets Touched The epidemic of data thefts continues. A hacker broke into AT&T's computer system, accessing the credit card data of roughly 19,000 customers who had previously used the company's online store to purchase DSL equipment. |
The Motley Fool
July 21, 2004 |
When "Pro Forma" Is Bad Forma Don't let a company you own fool you with "pro forma" numbers. They're gussied-up numbers that companies would prefer you focus on instead of less attractive numbers that are often more accurate representations of their health or performance. |
InternetNews
March 15, 2005
Roy Mark |
Data Brokers Back Federal Disclosure Law Lawmakers prod ChoicePoint, LexisNexis into supporting mandatory disclosure of security breaches. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2005
Rich Smith |
No Rest for the Wicked ChoicePoint's breach alone might not have tipped the scales, but if many other businesses are being ransacked as well, and most importantly, if the privacy of actual senators is now at risk, I think it's safe to say that regulation is on its way. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2005
Tim Gray |
It's the Economics, Techie Security guru Bruce Schneier says bottom line financial considerations can make or break computer security. |
CFO
Edward Teach & Tim Reason |
Lies, Damn Lies, and Pro Forma Pro forma earnings reports may be a cause du jour of reformers, but CFOs aren't about to back down from issuing them... |
