Verisk Analytics (VRSK) Stock Price, News & Analysis

14 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Verisk Analytics in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Verisk Analytics' stock. Their VRSK share price targets range from $219.00 to $288.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $252.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.4% 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 7.0% and is now trading at $222.18.
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Verisk Analytics saw a drop in short interest in 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 short-interest ratio is presently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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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) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 21st. The business services provider reported $1.40 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates 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 net margin of 22.92% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 305.15%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 7.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.43 EPS.
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Verisk Analytics declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 14th. Investors of record on Friday, March 15th will be given 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 is Thursday, March 14th. This is a positive change 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 authorized a share buyback program on Wednesday, February 21st 2024, which allows the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 2.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Verisk Analytics issued an update on 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 shareholders include Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.15%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.04%), Global Assets Advisory LLC (0.03%), Westwind Capital (0.03%), Appleton Partners Inc. MA (0.03%) and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.02%). 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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