The company, best known for running consumer credit checks for banks, landlords and retailers, reported a 10.9 percent rise in pre-tax profit to $1.07 billion (825.4 million pounds).

The FTSE-100 company said revenue for the year ended 2016 rose 2.3 percent to $4.34 billion, excluding the impact of a 75 percent stake sale in its email marketing division.

"We anticipate another year of good growth with stable margins and further progress in benchmark earnings per share," the company said in a statement.

Experian, which earns the bulk of its revenue overseas, said benchmark earnings before interest and taxes for the period rose 4.7 percent to $1.20 billion.

The company said in January that it expected full-year organic revenue to grow in mid-single digits in percentage terms on a constant currency basis, and an impact of about 1 percent to full-year benchmark earnings before interest and taxes on current exchange rates.

(Reporting By Justin George Varghese; editing by Susan Thomas)