ChoicePoint net income up
Atlanta Business Chronicle
ChoicePoint Inc.'s profit rose 18 percent in the second quarter.
The Alpharetta, Ga.-based identification and credential verification services provider had net income of $42 million and earnings of 60 cents a share, compared with net income of $35.6 million and earnings of 43 cents a share in the second quarter of 2007. Revenue increased 6 percent to $240.7 million.
The results for the second quarter of 2008 include $16.4 million in charges for costs associated with the company's pending sale to Reed Elsevier and lease abandonment and asset impairment charges at various business units. Reed Elsevier, parent of LexisNexis, is buying ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) in a $4.1 billion transaction expected to close in 2008. ChoicePoint will be absorbed into Reed Elsevier's (NYSE: RUK) LexisNexis Risk Information and Analytics Group to form a risk management unit with $1.5 billion in revenues and a leading position in the risk management marketplace.
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