Fair Isaac (FICO)

• Market cap: $46.3B
• 1 day: -3.51%
• 5 days: 0.58%
• 1 month: -11.11%
• 3 months: -6.79%
• 6 months: 18.58%
• Year to date: -4.78%
• 1 year: 54.50%
• 5 years: 369.30%
• 10 years: 2,482.96%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Business Services

About: Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac Corporation is a leading applied analytics company. Fair Isaac is primarily known for its FICO credit scores, which is a widely used industry benchmark to determine the creditworthiness of an individual consumer. The firm's credit scores business accounts for most of the firm's profits and consists of business-to-business and business-to-consumer services. In addition to scores, Fair Isaac also sells software primarily to financial institutions for areas such as analytics, decision-making, customer workflows, and fraud.

Employees: 3,586

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

255% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 142 | Existing positions closed: 40

23% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $34.4B [Q2] → $42.1B (+$7.77B) [Q3]

14% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 21 [Q2] → 24 (+3) [Q3]

11% more funds holding

Funds holding: 811 [Q2] → 904 (+93) [Q3]

9% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $407M | Put options by funds: $447M

3.03% less ownership

Funds ownership: 93.77% [Q2] → 90.74% (-3.03%) [Q3]

15% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 292 | Existing positions reduced: 343

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $2,000 5% upside
• Avg. target: $2,309 22% upside
• High target: $2,661 40% upside

9 analyst ratings

• positive: 6 67%
• neutral: 3 33%
• negative: 0 0%

Jefferies Surinder Thind 75% 1-year accuracy 9 / 12 met price target	20% upside $2,275	Buy Maintained	15 Jan 2025
Oppenheimer Owen Lau 72% 1-year accuracy 41 / 57 met price target	27% upside $2,409	Outperform Maintained	7 Jan 2025
JP Morgan Alexander Hess 0 / 0 met price target	13% upside $2,150	Neutral Initiated	20 Dec 2024
Goldman Sachs George Tong 34% 1-year accuracy 10 / 29 met price target	40% upside $2,661	Buy Maintained	5 Dec 2024
Needham Kyle Peterson 57% 1-year accuracy 34 / 60 met price target	32% upside $2,500	Buy Maintained	7 Nov 2024