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Company snapshot — TransUnion

TRU in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
TransUnion runs a consumer credit reporting business through two segments, U.S. Markets and International. It supplies credit reports, scores, analytics, identity verification, fraud detection and marketing tools to financial services, insurance, retail, telecoms and public-sector customers, and also sells credit monitoring and identity products directly to consumers. It is headquartered in Chicago.
Where it sits in the stack
TransUnion holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index. It sits instead in the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges sector of the wider universe, grouped with exchanges, ratings agencies and data providers rather than with chip or infrastructure names.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it alongside Financial Data & Stock Exchanges names — Moody's, S&P Global, Nasdaq, Intercontinental Exchange, MSCI, Morningstar, FactSet Research Systems and Coinbase — ranked on trend state, since none of them here carry a score. The market also names Equifax as a direct credit-bureau competitor.
Why Closelook tracks it
TransUnion holds a seat in the Russell 1000. It carries no Closelook score, so no module can be called stronger or weaker, and the diary has recorded no quotes or mentions of it to date.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the stock's gap below its 50- and 200-day averages narrows or widens, since without a score this cohort is read on trend state alone.

TransUnion (TRU) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-20. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for TRU, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Financial Data & Stock Exchanges · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Financial Data & Stock Exchanges · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against TRU on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.68%, quarterly · last 0.13 USD on 2026-08-20

Dividends and capital return

What TRU pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.49 USD per share · a 0.68% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +8.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.45 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.13 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-20
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.10 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.42 USD · 2025: 0.46 USD · 2026: 0.38 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-16

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is TransUnion (TRU)?

TransUnion trades as TRU on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is TRU in a Closelook index?

Not currently — TransUnion is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does TRU trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -9.2% vs the 50-day and -4.9% vs the 200-day average, 22.8% below the 52-week high and +14.3% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 19 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does TransUnion do?

TransUnion runs a consumer credit reporting business through two segments, U.S. Markets and International. It supplies credit reports, scores, analytics, identity verification, fraud detection and marketing tools to financial services, insurance, retail, telecoms and public-sector customers, and also sells credit monitoring and identity products directly to consumers. Closelook's peer group places it alongside Financial Data & Stock Exchanges names — Moody's, S&P Global, Nasdaq, Intercontinental Exchange, MSCI, Morningstar, FactSet Research Systems and Coinbase — ranked on trend state, since none of them here carry a score. The market also names Equifax as a direct credit-bureau competitor.

Where does TransUnion sit in the AI build-out?

TransUnion holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index. It sits instead in the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges sector of the wider universe, grouped with exchanges, ratings agencies and data providers rather than with chip or infrastructure names. TransUnion holds a seat in the Russell 1000. It carries no Closelook score, so no module can be called stronger or weaker, and the diary has recorded no quotes or mentions of it to date.

Does TransUnion pay a dividend?

TransUnion has paid 0.49 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.68% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.13 USD on 2026-08-20. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for TRU, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Financial Data & Stock Exchanges, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.