EFD does not map to a listed company. A search of the EDGAR company tickers file, the canonical mapping of tickers to registrants, returns no entry for the symbol EFD. The closest match in the EDGAR system is EFD Asia, Inc., a Minnesota corporation with CIK 0001499979, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (CIK 0001136893, ticker FIS). The subsidiary has never had a public equity listing and has no independent financial statements of its own.
The only EDGAR filings under EFD Asia's CIK are four registration-related documents from 2010 to 2014, and in every one of them EFD Asia appears as a co-registrant or guarantor for FIS debt, not as an operating company. The most recent filing is a prospectus supplement, dated in late May 2014, registering $1.0 billion of FIS senior notes. That is the last document EFD Asia has produced on EDGAR, and the gap to the present is over twelve years.
For equity research purposes, the ticker EFD is defunct. There is no trading security, no market capitalization, no earnings stream, and no valuation framework that can be built around a name that does not exist in the public equity market. The rest of this report documents what EFD Asia actually is, what the four filings show, and why the symbol should not be used for any investment decision.