Before Equifax Plunged, and After, No Analysts Dared to Say Sell

If you waited for a Wall Street analyst to tell you what to do with your shares of Equifax Inc. — sorry.

All 16 analysts tracked by Bloomberg have reiterated or at least not altered their advice that clients should hold or buy the credit-reporting company’s stock since it announced Sept. 7 that hackers accessed sensitive data on 143 million Americans. None recommend selling. Evercore ISI analyst David Togut, for example, told clients to snap up shares “aggressively” because the incident won’t likely hurt long-term profits and insurance will cover some costs.