Verisk Analytics (VRSK) Stock Price, News & Analysis

14 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Verisk Analytics in the last twelve months. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" VRSK shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in VRSK, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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14 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Verisk Analytics' shares. Their VRSK share price targets range from $219.00 to $288.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $252.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.0% from the stock's current price.
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Verisk Analytics' stock was trading at $238.86 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, VRSK shares have decreased by 6.6% and is now trading at $222.98.
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Verisk Analytics saw a drop in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,190,000 shares, a drop of 22.9% from the March 15th total of 2,840,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 869,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.5 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Verisk Analytics will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 1st at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 647-362-9199 with passcode "4026897".

Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 21st. The business services provider reported $1.40 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.44 by $0.04. The business services provider earned $677.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $673.56 million. Verisk Analytics had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 305.15% and a net margin of 22.92%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 7.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.43 earnings per share.
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Verisk Analytics announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 14th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.39 per share on Friday, March 29th. This represents a $1.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.70%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 14th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.34.
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Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.70%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 5 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 37.05%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, VRSK will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.64% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Verisk Analytics declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, February 21st 2024, which allows the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to purchase up to 2.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Verisk Analytics updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 21st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $6.30-6.60 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.60. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.84-2.90 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.88 billion.

166 employees have rated Verisk Analytics Chief Executive Officer Scott Stephenson on Glassdoor.com. Scott Stephenson has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Scott Stephenson in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Verisk Analytics' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.25%), Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.15%), Norris Perne & French LLP MI (0.06%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.04%), Global Assets Advisory LLC (0.03%) and Westwind Capital (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Bruce Edward Hansen, Christopher M Foskett, Constantine Iordanou, David B Wright, David J Grover, Kathy Card Beckles, Lee Shavel, Mark V Anquillare, Nicholas Daffan, Samuel G Liss, Scott G Stephenson, Therese M Vaughan and Wendy E Lane.
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