Verisk Analytics (VRSK)

• Market cap: $40.4B
• 1 day: -0.86%
• 5 days: -2.43%
• 1 month: -1.72%
• 3 months: 0.96%
• 6 months: 6.93%
• Year to date: 5.35%
• 1 year: 20.98%
• 5 years: 106.49%
• 10 years: 305.68%
• Sector: Information Technology
• Industry: Computer Processing & Data Preparation

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-US operations.

Employees: 7,800

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

73% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $23.9M | Put options by funds: $13.8M

68% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 114 | Existing positions closed: 68

8% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $33.7B [Q3] → $36.6B (+$2.86B) [Q4]

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 938 [Q3] → 962 (+24) [Q4]

2.51% more ownership

Funds ownership: 88.41% [Q3] → 90.92% (+2.51%) [Q4]

2% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 359 | Existing positions reduced: 352

14% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 7 [Q3] → 6 (-1) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $297 3% upside
• Avg. target: $310 7% upside
• High target: $321 11% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 60%
• neutral: 2 40%
• negative: 0 0%

Wells Fargo Jason Haas 53% 1-year accuracy 23 / 43 met price target	11% upside $321	Overweight Maintained	27 Feb 2025
BMO Capital Jeffrey Silber 37% 1-year accuracy 15 / 41 met price target	3% upside $297	Market Perform Maintained	27 Feb 2025
Baird Jeffrey Meuler 54% 1-year accuracy 13 / 24 met price target	11% upside $320	Outperform Maintained	27 Feb 2025
Barclays Manav Patnaik 47% 1-year accuracy 16 / 34 met price target	8% upside $310	Equal-Weight Downgraded	10 Jan 2025
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 68% 1-year accuracy 36 / 53 met price target	4% upside $300	Outperform Reiterated	7 Jan 2025