Verisk Analytics Inc VRSK
Stock research in plain language · As of Oct 04, 2026 · updated once a week, after the trading week closes
What the company does
Verisk Analytics Inc is a large-cap company in the Industrials sector (Consulting Services), with a market value of $21.3B, based in the USA.
It employs about 8,000 people and has been listed since Oct 07, 2009.
Verisk Analytics, Inc. engages in the provision of data analytics and technology solutions to the insurance industry in the United States and internationally. The company offers underwriting solutions, including forms, rules, and loss costs services that provides policy language, prospective loss costs, policy writing and rating rules, and underwriting solutions for risk selection and segmentation, pricing, and workflow optimization; underwriting data and analytics solutions, which provides property and auto specific rating, and underwriting information solutions; catastrophe modelling and risk solutions; life insurance solutions for transforming current workflows in life insurance underwriting, claim insights, policy administration, unclaimed property/equity, compliance and fraud detection, and actuarial and portfolio modelling; specialty business solutions, which provides full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business; and international underwriting solutions.
Cheap or expensive? priced in line with its group
Its price-to-earnings (P/E) is 25.2 versus 29.0 for the median of the Industrials sector in our universe (21 companies) — priced in line with its group.
Revenue is growing 4% versus the same quarter last year.
On analysts' next-year forecasts the multiple drops to 20.1 — they expect higher earnings.
The average analyst price target is 234.76, 43% above the current price (their view, not ours).
The stock sits at 10% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).
The risks
- • The stock is 34% below its one-year high.
Strengths
- ✅ Profitable — 28 of every 100 dollars of revenue stays as profit.
- ✅ Generates free cash flow — profit becomes cash in the bank.
- ✅ Buys back its shares (7% fewer shares in a year).
- ✅ Most analysts rate it buy (11 vs 0).
- ✅ Pays a dividend (1.1% a year).
What changed this week
Over the past week the stock fell 3.1% (for comparison: S&P 500 -0.2%, sector ETF XLI -0.3%).
This week's news
- 2 Reasons VRSK is Risky and 1 Stock to Buy Instead finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-02
- Verisk to Announce Fiscal Third-Quarter 2026 Results on November 5, 2026 finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-01
- Verisk Analytics (VRSK), What Is Behind The Fresh Attention? finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-01
- All You Need to Know About Verisk (VRSK) Rating Upgrade to Buy finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-29
- AI-Led Growth & Strong Cash Generation Support VRSK Amid High Debt finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-29
- Truepic Brings Verified Visual Evidence to Verisk’s ClaimSearch® Workflow finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-29
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