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Verisk Analytics, Inc. VRSK
Verisk Analytics, Inc. (VRSK) earns a Piotroski F-score of 5/9 (mixed financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It pays a dividend yielding 1.07% (safety: safe). FY2025 revenue was $3.1B at a 29.6% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 | UBS | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-07-30 | Evercore ISI Group | In-Line (main) |
| 2026-07-30 | Wells Fargo | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-07-23 | Jefferies | Buy (up) |
| 2026-05-19 | B of A Securities | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-04-30 | JP Morgan | Overweight (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Forward estimates · earnings calendar →
Consensus analyst estimates and scheduled dates — forward-looking, may change.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Services · percentile among 982 companies
Percentile vs other Services companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 5/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.075 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 1.261 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.217 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.053 |
Sector peers · similar-size Services companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VRSK | Verisk Analytics, Inc. | 5/9 | 6.12 | 25.9 | +6.6% |
| PLTK | Playtika Holding Corp. | 4/9 | -1.04 | — | +8.1% |
| RNG | RingCentral, Inc. | 8/9 | -5.56 | 71.9 | +4.8% |
| CLVT | CLARIVATE PLC | 4/9 | -1.51 | — | -4% |
| RDDT | Reddit, Inc. | 5/9 | 15.96 | 60.7 | +69.4% |
| BILI | Bilibili Inc. | 6/9 | — | — | +18.1% |
| PEGA | PEGASYSTEMS INC | 7/9 | 3.96 | 13.1 | +16.6% |
About 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.
FAQ
Is VRSK financially healthy?
Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s Piotroski F-score is 5/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does VRSK pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. Verisk Analytics, Inc. pays a dividend yielding about 1.07% with a 27.6% payout ratio, rated “safe” for safety.
How profitable is VRSK?
In FY2025, Verisk Analytics, Inc. had a net margin of 29.6% and a return on equity of 293.2%.
Is VRSK overvalued or undervalued?
Verisk Analytics, Inc. trades at about 27.8× trailing earnings — below its 10-year norm (10-year range 24.0×–60.2×, median 42.6×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for VRSK?
The average Wall-Street price target for Verisk Analytics, Inc. is $237.71, about 31.8% above the recent price, from 17 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is VRSK a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Verisk Analytics, Inc.: a Piotroski F-score of 5/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a P/E of about 25.9×, a dividend yield of 1.07%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.