VRSK · Verisk Analytics, Inc. — research history
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About VRSK · Verisk Analytics, Inc.
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. It also provides claims insurance solutions, including property estimating solutions, provide data, analytics, and networking solutions for professionals involved in estimating all phases of building repair and reconstruction; anti-fraud solutions that provide fraud-detection tools for the property and casualty insurance industry; casualty solutions, which focus on compliance, casualty claims decision, and workflow automation; and international claims solutions, which focus on personal injury and motor franchises with complementary offerings to the property claims solutions. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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SELL (score -9) · 12-1 mom -44.6% · RSI 47.4 · below_both · -44.2% from high
Targets blend Wall Street consensus (17 analysts: low $185.00 / mean $220.47 / high $275.00) with chart-derived floors and ceilings.
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Score is well below threshold due to zero insider conviction, absence of bullish options flow, and a highly leveraged balance sheet (net debt/EBITDA >5x) that creates downside risk in a risk-off environment. The technical setup is depressed with no near-term catalyst to drive a re-rate, making this a value trap rather than a tradeable thesis.
Score is well below threshold due to zero insider conviction, absence of bullish options flow, and a highly leveraged balance sheet (net debt/EBITDA >5x) that creates downside risk in a risk-off environment. The technical setup is depressed with no near-term catalyst to drive a re-rate, making this a value trap rather than a tradeable thesis.
VRSK triggered on a cluster of 4 Form 4 filings in 14 days, but inspection reveals all four recent filings (05/26) are director equity compensation grants at $0 — not open-market purchases. The CFO made two small sales (800 shares total, ~$127K) via a pre-set 10b5-1 plan. No genuine executive open-market buying exists in the trigger window. Technically, VRSK is deeply depressed (-32% YTD, -47% from 52w high), hovering near its 52-week low with RSI neutral and MACD showing a recent bullish cross — suggesting an oversold bounce setup. The company beats Q1 estimates on organic revenue growth (underwriting + claims), reaffirmed guidance, raised the dividend, and has aggressive $1.5B buybacks ongoing. However, net debt/EBITDA exceeds 5x with stockholder deficit of -$1.17B from years of leveraged buybacks — a structural balance sheet concern that limits upside optionality in a risk-off environment.