Verisk Analytics is a consulting services business based in the US. Verisk Analytics shares (VRSK) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $293.90 – an increase of 1.9% over the previous week. Verisk Analytics employs 7,800 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.9 billion.
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| Latest market close | $293.90 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $235.70 - $306.68 |
| 50-day moving average | $292.10 |
| 200-day moving average | $280.47 |
| Wall St. target price | $294.02 |
| PE ratio | 44.063 |
| Dividend yield | $1.56 (0.61%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $6.67 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $293.9 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 2.74% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 3.13% |
| 3 months (2025-02-05) | 0.77% |
| 6 months (2024-11-05) | 5.08% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | 23.84% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-04) | 44.54% |
| 3 years (2022-05-04) | 54.77% |
| 5 years (2020-05-04) | 96.32% |
Valuing Verisk Analytics stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Verisk Analytics's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Verisk Analytics's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 44x. In other words, Verisk Analytics shares trade at around 44x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Verisk Analytics's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.9374. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Verisk Analytics's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Verisk Analytics's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.4 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Verisk Analytics's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $2.9 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 43% |
| Gross profit TTM | $2 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 18.28% |
| Return on equity TTM | 44.51% |
| Profit margin | 33.25% |
| Book value | $0.71 |
| Market Capitalization | $41.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Verisk Analytics.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 20.14
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Verisk Analytics's overall score of 20.14 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty good – landing it in it in the 25th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Verisk Analytics is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 0.61/100
Verisk Analytics's environmental score of 0.61 puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Verisk Analytics is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Social score: 11.58/100
Verisk Analytics's social score of 11.58 puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Verisk Analytics is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.
Governance score: 4.46/100
Verisk Analytics's governance score puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Verisk Analytics is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Controversy score: 1/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Verisk Analytics scored a 1 out of 5 for controversy – the highest score possible, reflecting that Verisk Analytics has managed to keep its nose clean.
Verisk Analytics Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 20.14 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 24.72 |
| Environmental score | 0.61 |
| Environmental score percentile | 1 |
| Social score | 11.58 |
| Social score percentile | 1 |
| Governance score | 4.46 |
| Governance score percentile | 1 |
| Level of controversy | 1 |
Dividend payout ratio: 32.27% of net profits
Recently Verisk Analytics has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Verisk Analytics shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Verisk Analytics's case, that would currently equate to about $1.56 per share.
While Verisk Analytics's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Verisk Analytics may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Verisk Analytics's most recent dividend payout was on 30 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Verisk Analytics's shares have ranged in value from as little as $235.6996 up to $306.68. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Verisk Analytics's is 0.882. This would suggest that Verisk Analytics's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
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; extreme event solutions, including catastrophe modeling 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 modeling; specialty business solutions, which provides full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business; marketing solutions, such as compliant, real-time decisioning, profitability, and risk assessment for inbound consumer interactions; 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 sector. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. .
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