Verisk Analytics (VRSK)

• Market cap: $39.1B
• 1 day: 0.46%
• 5 days: -2.43%
• 1 month: -2.58%
• 3 months: 4.53%
• 6 months: 3.27%
• Year to date: 16.34%
• 1 year: 18.58%
• 5 years: 84.97%
• 10 years: 324.96%
• 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: 7,500

Fund manager confidence

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

1,008% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $73.9M | Put options by funds: $6.67M

0% less funds holding

Funds holding: 934 [Q2] → 933 (-1) [Q3]

1% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 78 | Existing positions closed: 79

5% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $35.3B [Q2] → $33.6B (-$1.67B) [Q3]

8% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 337 | Existing positions reduced: 365

3.66% less ownership

Funds ownership: 91.71% [Q2] → 88.05% (-3.66%) [Q3]

36% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 11 [Q2] → 7 (-4) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $276 0% upside
• Avg. target: $291 5% upside
• High target: $301 9% upside

5 analyst ratings

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

Morgan Stanley Toni Kaplan 50% 1-year accuracy 11 / 22 met price target	8% upside $300	Equal-Weight Maintained	12 Dec 2024
BMO Capital Jeffrey Silber 56% 1-year accuracy 20 / 36 met price target	0% downside $276	Market Perform Maintained	1 Nov 2024
Baird Jeffrey Meuler 67% 1-year accuracy 16 / 24 met price target	9% upside $301	Outperform Maintained	31 Oct 2024
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 65% 1-year accuracy 33 / 51 met price target	8% upside $300	Outperform Maintained	17 Oct 2024
Evercore ISI Group David Motemaden 53% 1-year accuracy 8 / 15 met price target	1% upside $279	In-Line Assumed	2 Oct 2024