Verisk AnalyticsVRSK
Market Cap: $38.8B
About: Verisk Analytics is the leading provider of statistical, actuarial, and underwriting data for the United States' property and casualty insurance industry. Verisk leverages a vast contributory database and proprietary data assets to develop analytical tools helping insurance providers to better assess and price risk, achieve operational efficiency and optimize claim settlement processes. While Verisk also offers tools to quantify costs after loss events occur and to detect fraudulent activity, it is expanding into adjacent markets of life insurance, marketing, and non-U.S. operations.
Employees: 7,500
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q2 SEC filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
160% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $22.9M | Put options by funds: $8.81M
57% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 7 [Q1] → 11 (+4) [Q2]
12% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $30.6B [Q1] → $34.3B (+$3.67B) [Q2]
7% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 104 | Existing positions closed: 97
3% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 349 | Existing positions reduced: 339
1% more funds holding
Funds holding: 918 [Q1] → 925 (+7) [Q2]
1.62% less ownership
Funds ownership: 90.73% [Q1] → 89.11% (-1.62%) [Q2]
Research analyst outlook
8 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
8 analyst ratings
Wells Fargo Jason Haas 79% 1-year accuracy 11 / 14 met price target | 12%upside $305 | Overweight Initiated | 12 Aug 2024 |
Deutsche Bank Faiza Alwy 57% 1-year accuracy 4 / 7 met price target | 4%upside $282 | Hold Maintained | 1 Aug 2024 |
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 85% 1-year accuracy 41 / 48 met price target | 1%downside $268 | Outperform Reiterated | 1 Aug 2024 |
BMO Capital Jeffrey Silber 43% 1-year accuracy 12 / 28 met price target | 3%downside $263 | Market Perform Maintained | 1 Aug 2024 |
Baird Jeffrey Meuler 56% 1-year accuracy 9 / 16 met price target | 5%upside $285 | Outperform Maintained | 1 Aug 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 5 articles about VRSK published over the past 30 days