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Data-analytics provider mainly to the insurance industry, supplying risk, claims and underwriting data.
Data-analytics provider mainly to the insurance industry, supplying risk, claims and underwriting data.
Sells data and analytics mostly on annual subscriptions that insurers renew, so revenue builds steadily rather than from one-off projects. It began as an insurance-industry statistics bureau, and sold its energy research business (Wood Mackenzie) in 2022 to focus on insurance.
Moat: wide (data, switching costs, scale). Decades of proprietary industry loss/claims data embedded in insurer workflows, hard to replicate.
Headquarters: Jersey City, New Jersey, US · Founded: 1971 · Employees: 8,000
Size Verisk Analytics (VRSK) is a United States Industrials company (Data Processing Services) with a market value of $26.6B, the 403rd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $204.59 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 19.4%, against -1.9% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 4th highest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 5.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.7%); the operating margin is 44.8% (peer median 16.6%).
Valuation It trades at 24.3× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.7× (7th most expensive of 20).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 5% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +2%, so the hurdle is +3 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 30.9 points above its cost of capital (7.7% WACC).
Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $526M at 30 Sep 2026, up 4% on a year earlier — 0.2 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →
Credit Verisk Analytics has 7 bonds outstanding ($3.75B), rated BBB by the agencies and trading like BBB at a weighted spread of 97 bp.
Short interest Short interest is 3.4% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
Next results Next results expected around 23 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $3.14B | $3.07B | $2.88B | $2.68B | $2.50B |
| Revenue growth | — | +7% | +7% | +7% | — |
| Gross profit | $1.87B | $1.82B | $1.67B | $1.52B | $1.43B |
| EBITDA | $1.73B | $1.70B | $1.58B | $1.42B | $1.27B |
| Net income | $886M | $908M | $958M | $615M | $954M |
| Free cash flow | $1.24B | $1.19B | $920M | $831M | $784M |
| Capital expenditure | $267M | $244M | $224M | $230M | $275M |
| Total debt | $4.62B | $4.90B | $3.25B | $3.10B | $3.96B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verisk Analytics VRSK | $26.6B | +19% | +5% | 45% | 24.3× | 5.0% |
| Moody's MCO | $87.2B | +12% | +9% | 46% | 28.1× | n/a |
| Relx REL.L | $70.4B | +23% | +2% | 32% | 21.3× | 1.8% |
| Guidewire Software GWRE | $13.3B | +17% | +23% | 10% | 38.5× | 39.4% |
| TransUnion TRU | $15.5B | +13% | +13% | 15% | 15.9× | 20.3% |
Peer set: Sector in the same market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | VRSK | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +16.6% | +4.7% | 4th highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | +19.4% | -1.9% | 4th highest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -9.5% | -19.5% | 2nd highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +5.0% | +9.7% | 5th lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 44.8% | 16.6% | highest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 24.3× | 19.7× | 7th most expensive of 20 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 5.0% | 9.5% | 2nd least demanding of 17 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +2.0% | +8.0% | lowest of 16 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | +3.0 pp | +0.8 pp | 8th most demanding of 16 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +30.9 pp | +3.7 pp | 3rd highest of 20 |
| EV / EBITDA | 17.7× | 14.6× | 4th most expensive of 18 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.4× | 1.0× | 7th most indebted of 20 |
| Bond spread | 97 bp | 80 bp | 5th widest of 11 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verisk Analytics VRSK | United States | $26.6B | +19% | +5% | 45% | 24.3× | 5.0% | +2.0% |
| Emcor EME | United States | $26.6B | -34% | +22% | 10% | 15.5× | 6.2% | +14.1% |
| Dover DOV | United States | $27.1B | -7% | +8% | 18% | 17.6× | 12.2% | +3.9% |
| Axon Enterprise AXON | United States | $25.4B | -22% | +35% | 1% | 36.5× | n/a | n/a |
| Veralto VLTO | United States | $28.5B | +35% | +6% | 22% | 24.6× | 8.3% | +4.8% |
| Ryanair Holdings PLC Sponsored ADR RYAAY | United States | $29.5B | +2% | +9% | 13% | 17.0× | 6.4% | +56.7% |
| Expeditors International EXPD | United States | $24.0B | +18% | +19% | 10% | 21.1× | 8.9% | +2.9% |
| Copart CPRT | United States | $29.6B | -6% | 0% | 35% | 19.7× | 7.2% | +11.6% |
| Otis Worldwide OTIS | United States | $30.1B | +6% | +6% | 15% | 18.1× | 2.3% | +2.5% |
| Hubbell HUBB | United States | $22.7B | -13% | +16% | 21% | 19.1× | 10.5% | +9.7% |
| Sunbelt Rentals SUNB | United States | $31.6B | +5% | +3% | 21% | 17.7× | 8.8% | +4.9% |
| Xylem XYL | United States | $22.4B | -14% | +2% | 16% | 17.4× | 12.1% | +13.1% |
| Rocket Lab RKLB | United States | $31.8B | -50% | +53% | -29% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| SYM SYM | United States | $22.3B | -30% | +20% | 1% | 101.9× | n/a | n/a |
| Ingersoll Rand IR | United States | $31.9B | +10% | +8% | 19% | 21.8× | 17.3% | +14.0% |
| Equifax EFX | United States | $22.2B | +8% | +11% | 19% | 20.9× | 16.9% | +8.0% |
| Elbit Systems ESLT | United States | $32.0B | -13% | +12% | 9% | 46.5× | 10.1% | +11.5% |
| Southwest Airlines LUV | United States | $21.8B | +8% | +14% | 5% | 13.7× | n/a | n/a |
| Broadridge Financial Solutions BR | United States | $21.5B | +28% | +7% | 17% | 17.9× | 8.5% | +7.8% |
| Arxis ARXS | United States | $21.5B | +42% | +114% | 20% | 54.2× | 58.8% | n/a |
| Old Dominion ODFL | United States | $34.2B | -17% | +4% | 27% | 24.9× | 15.7% | +6.5% |
Verisk Analytics has 7 bonds outstanding with $3.75B face value. The agencies rate it BBB; its bonds trade like BBB. Weighted yield 5.71%, a spread of 97 bp over government bonds.
Verisk Analytics reported $526M of remaining performance obligations at 30 Sep 2026, up 4% from a year earlier and down 10% from the previous quarter. That is 0.2 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 0.93.