Verisk Analytics (VRSK)

• Market cap: $41.7B
• 1 day: 0.82%
• 5 days: -0.13%
• 1 month: 5.37%
• 3 months: 2.63%
• 6 months: 9.55%
• Year to date: 7.94%
• 1 year: 24.17%
• 5 years: 74.94%
• 10 years: 335.27%
• 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 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

61% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 108 | Existing positions closed: 67

8% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $33.8B [Q3] → $36.6B (+$2.84B) [Q4]

1.75% more ownership

Funds ownership: 88.53% [Q3] → 90.28% (+1.75%) [Q4]

2% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 354 | Existing positions reduced: 347

0% more funds holding

Funds holding: 937 [Q3] → 941 (+4) [Q4]

14% less funds holding in top 10

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

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $300 2% upside
• Avg. target: $309 5% upside
• High target: $325 10% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 50%
• neutral: 2 50%
• negative: 0 0%

Wells Fargo Jason Haas 58% 1-year accuracy 21 / 36 met price target	10% upside $325	Overweight Maintained	21 Feb 2025
Barclays Manav Patnaik 73% 1-year accuracy 30 / 41 met price target	5% upside $310	Equal-Weight Downgraded	10 Jan 2025
RBC Capital Ashish Sabadra 87% 1-year accuracy 47 / 54 met price target	2% upside $300	Outperform Reiterated	7 Jan 2025
Morgan Stanley Toni Kaplan 44% 1-year accuracy 12 / 27 met price target	2% upside $300	Equal-Weight Maintained	12 Dec 2024