Which data companies are a good fit for income portfolios?

As UK equity income investors, one sector we have found attractive is data or information service providers, which offer services to either corporates or consumers.

Successful companies in this space tend to enjoy competitive advantages and strong incumbent positions from having strong networks, owning unique data sets or having expertise in improving workflow for their customers.  Are unloved UK equity income trusts due a comeback? Almost every industry we can think of is increasingly relying on data and analytics to work more efficiently, which sets a healthy growth backdrop for well-invested businesses capable of providing such solutions.  Some of the UK information services companies that investors may wish to consider are RELX, which prov...