NASDAQ: VRSK

Verisk Analytics (VRSK) Stock Analysis & Forecast

Sep 28 close

$167.77−1.44 (−0.9%)

Gekko Brief

AI summary

Verisk this week reaffirmed its target of 6% to 8% annual organic constant-currency revenue growth, both in a standalone statement and at the U.S. All Stars Conference, even as it flagged pressure from light weather-related claims and a normalizing insurance premium environment. Coverage also noted a Form 144 filing dated 27 September indicating an intent to sell restricted securities.

The stock closed at $167.77, down 0.9%, and sits below both its 50-day average of $186.45 and its 200-day average of $191.03, with the 50-day itself below the 200-day. The GekkoIndex reads 67, placing VRSK in the Accumulation zone, while the price stands 27.1% below the Gekko Fair Value of $230.19. Trailing returns show a 1-month decline of 12.2% and a 1-year decline of 31.3%, with the stock trading closer to its 52-week low of $155.94 than its high of $253.35.

Verisk's next earnings report is scheduled for 4 November 2026, before the open, which falls outside a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the prior report on 29 July showed EPS of $1.98 against an estimate of $1.94, with a -5.6% reaction. No insider, Congress or unusual options activity appears in the current windows. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged -1.4% over five years, rising in 3 of them, worth noting alongside the reaffirmed growth target.

Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.

Verisk Analytics price vs fair value

$230.19$167.77Sep ’25Mar ’26Sep ’26
Close $167.77200-day averageGekko Fair Value $230.19

Verisk Analytics quick facts

Market cap
$21.84B
P/E ratio
26.4
Forward P/E
20.1
EPS, TTM
$6.40
Revenue, TTM
$3.14B
Profit margin
28.2%
Dividend yield
1.11%
Beta
0.66
Volume
1.15M avg 1.22M
1-year return
−31.3%
Typical daily move
±3.3%
Typical 20-day move
±4.4%
50-day average
$186.45
200-day average
$191.03
Next earnings
Nov 4 before open
Shares outstanding
130.2M
52-week range
$155.94$253.35

Verisk Analytics swing-trade checklist

Verisk Analytics scores 3 supportive, 1 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.

Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.

3 supportive1 mixed1 headwind

  • Trendheadwind

    Below 50 and 200-day

    Close $167.77 is below the 50-day ($186.45) and 200-day ($191.03) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.

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  • GekkoIndexsupportive

    67, Accumulation

    Reading 67 is in the Accumulation zone.

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  • Fair valuesupportive

    27.1% below

    Price is 27.1% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).

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  • Smart moneyno data

    No data

    No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.

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  • Earnings risksupportive

    Reports in 36 days

    Next report Nov 4, 2026, 36 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.

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  • Seasonalitymixed

    −1.4% on average

    From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −1.4% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.

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Verisk Analytics stock chart and price history

Verisk Analytics closed at $167.77 on Sep 28, 2026, −31.3% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $155.94 to $253.35.

Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
Verisk Analytics share price, past year, with 50-day and 200-day moving averages and volume$150$200$225$250$275NovDecJan 2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSep167.77

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Performance Breakdown

1 month
−12.2%
3 months
−6.4%
6 months
−8.2%
1 year
−31.3%
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About Verisk Analytics

Verisk Analytics develops data-driven tools that turn large amounts of information into insight for organizations making complex decisions. Clients span insurance risk work, weather and catastrophe planning, natural resource intelligence, economic projections, and banking and finance. It has become recognized in particular for helping property and casualty insurers gauge potential losses, set prices, and price coverage while meeting regulatory requirements, drawing on machine learning and artificial intelligence to produce both routine reports and custom studies, including work on spotting fraud and calculating losses after events occur.

The business is structured around three main areas. One focuses on insurance, giving carriers tools for underwriting, claims handling, and risk selection. A second, covering energy and other specialized markets, supports companies across oil, gas, chemicals, metals, mining, power, and renewable energy with research, advisory work, and help evaluating assets, planning strategy, and completing transactions. A third serves banks, payment companies, alternative lenders, regulators, and merchants with tools for benchmarking, decision-making, and broader business intelligence.

Verisk Analytics traces back to 1971 and operates out of Jersey City, New Jersey. Its stock trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker VRSK.

Listed
NASDAQ
Sector
Technology services
Industry
Data processing services
Website
verisk.com

Verisk Analytics GekkoIndex: the smart money zone

Verisk Analytics’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 67, in the Accumulation zone, down 0.1 points over five sessions.

010067Accumulation

Down 0.1 points over five sessions.

Reading for Sep 28, 2026

What followed past readings in each zone

ZoneReadings5 days10 days20 days50 days
Buying46+0.9%+2.5%+4.0%−1.5%
Accumulation (current zone)275−0.5%−0.9%−1.3%−0.6%
Neutral3260.0%−0.3%−0.7%−1.8%
Distribution21−1.2%−1.0%−2.3%−6.0%
Selling4Too few readings yet

Average VRSK share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.

Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →

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Is Verisk Analytics stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value

Verisk Analytics trades 27.1% below Gekko Fair Value of $230.19, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.

Gekko’s own estimate of what Verisk Analytics shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.

$230.19

Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026

27.1% Undervalued

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Verisk Analytics insider and Congress trading

No open-market insider purchases were filed for Verisk Analytics, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.

Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.

Insider buying last 90 days

No open-market insider purchases were filed for VRSK in the last 90 days.

From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.

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Congress trades last 90 days

No trades in VRSK were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.

From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.

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Buybacks

Verisk Analytics has been buying back its own shares.

Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
$200.1M
As a share of market cap
0.92%
Trailing four quarters
$2.15B

From company filings.

Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Dec 31

0of the funds Gekko tracks hold VRSK.

0added0opened0trimmed1sold out
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Verisk Analytics earnings: next date and track record

Verisk Analytics reports on Nov 4, 2026, before the open (36 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.

8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±4.6%average move across the report
4 of 8reports followed by a gain

Share-price move across each report

+4.2%Oct ’24−3.2%Feb ’25+3.9%May ’25−5.2%Jul ’25−6.3%Oct ’25+3.7%Feb ’26+4.4%Apr ’26−5.6%Jul ’26

Last earnings call, Jul 29, 2026 AI summary

What they said
Verisk’s Q2 2026 earnings call emphasized steady, subscription-driven growth, healthy margin expansion, and increased confidence in AI-driven product enhancements and monetization. Management reported organic constant currency revenue growth of 5.8% and subscription growth of 8%, with adjusted EBITDA growth of 7.4% and strong margins. GAAP revenue was $806M; net income declined 10% (to $229M) and diluted EPS declined 3% to $1.75, driven by a 2025 divestiture, a higher tax rate, increased interest expense, and higher legal fees. Management reiterated the full-year 2026 guidance and Investor Day targets, highlighted product innovations (Verisk Synergy Studio, Synergy Studio’s next-gen catastrophe models, Premium Audit AI, XactAI, MCP connectors), and announced a small acquisition (McKenzie Intelligence Services). They discussed AI partnerships with frontier model companies, data governance and security, and a measured monetization path from transactional tests to subscription expansion. Risks mentioned included weather variability (hurricane/El Niño), a prior federal work stoppage (now lifted), elongated sales cycles due to AI/legal governance, litigation/legal costs, and possible softness in transactional revenue (commercial property). Overall tone was confident and constructive, with management emphasizing product differentiation, client engagement, and disciplined cost control though acknowledging near-term headwinds.
Guidance
Management reaffirmed full-year 2026 financial guidance and Investor Day targets (no new numeric guidance disclosed on the call). They expect sequential improvement in revenue growth through H2 2026 driven by subscription momentum, normalization of short-term headwinds (weather, federal contract), and continued AI-driven price realization and product monetization.
Risks flagged
- Weather variability (hurricane activity/El Niño) could reduce transactional revenues (noted as a base-case risk). - Work stoppage in a federal government contract (now lifted, but was a near-term drag). - Ongoing litigation and higher legal fees impacting GAAP net income. - Elongated sales cycles and customer concerns around AI data usage and governance. - Potential softness in the commercial property transactional market and lower ILS securitization contribution vs. prior quarter.
ReportedEPSSurpriseRevenueSurpriseMove
Jul 29, 2026$1.98
est $1.94
+2.1%$806.3M
est $804.0M
+0.3%−5.6%
Apr 29, 2026$1.82
est $1.74
+4.6%$782.6M
est $771.6M
+1.4%+4.4%
Feb 18, 2026$1.82
est $1.60
+13.7%$778.8M
est $773.6M
+0.7%+3.7%
Oct 29, 2025$1.72
est $1.70
+1.2%$768.3M
est $776.3M
−1.0%−6.3%
Jul 30, 2025$1.88
est $1.77
+6.2%$772.6M
est $768.7M
+0.5%−5.2%
May 7, 2025$1.73
est $1.68
+3.0%$753.0M
est $749.8M
+0.4%+3.9%
Feb 26, 2025$1.61
est $1.60
+0.8%$735.6M
est $733.7M
+0.3%−3.2%
Oct 30, 2024$1.67
est $1.60
+4.4%$725.3M
est $722.2M
+0.4%+4.2%

“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.

Verisk Analytics stock forecast and analyst price targets

Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Verisk Analytics is $234.76, +39.9% from the last close, from 13 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.

$234.76consensus 12-month target, +39.9% from the last close
Low $223High $260
Buy7
Hold6
Sell0

Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 13 firms.

Latest analyst actions

DateFirmRatingTargetvs price
Sep 18Wells FargoBuy, reiterated$260+55.0%
Sep 16BarclaysBuy, maintained$225+34.1%
Sep 8BarclaysBuy, maintained$225+34.1%
Aug 18RBC CapitalBuy, maintained$230+37.1%
Aug 10Bank of America SecuritiesHold, maintained$228+35.9%
−1.3%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
−1.4%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.3%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range

Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.

Verisk Analytics seasonality: the next 20 trading days

Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Verisk Analytics averaged −1.4% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.

Next 20 trading days, by year

+2.7%2021+1.6%2022−5.2%2023−1.9%2024−6.1%2025

Average move and hit rate

WindowAverageYears higher
Next 5 trading days+0.5%4 of 5
Next 10 trading days+0.9%3 of 5
Next 15 trading days−0.9%2 of 5
Next 20 trading days−1.4%3 of 5
Next 30 trading days+0.8%4 of 5

For scale, VRSK’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 4.4%.

Verisk Analytics market cap and key statistics

Verisk Analytics’s market cap is $21.84B, with a P/E ratio of 26.4 and revenue of $3.14B over the last twelve months.

Valuation

Market cap
$21.84B
P/E ratio
26.4
Forward P/E
20.1
EPS, TTM
$6.40
Gekko Fair Value
$230.19

Trading

Volume
1.15M
Avg volume, 20 days
1.22M
52-week high
$253.35
52-week low
$155.94
Shares outstanding
130.2M

Financials

Revenue, TTM
$3.14B
Profit margin
28.2%
Return on equity
43.8%
Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
−3.4%

Risk and income

Beta
0.66
Typical daily move
±3.3%
Typical 20-day move
±4.4%
Dividend yield
1.11%

Verisk Analytics stock news this week

Coverage of Verisk Analytics this week reads positive: 5 positive, 3 neutral and 2 negative headlines.

News sentiment positive

Verisk Analytics peers

Verisk Analytics’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.

StockTodayGekkoIndex zonevs Fair Value
PAYXPaychex−0.8%Buying24.5% below
JJacobs Solutions+0.7%Accumulation6.2% above
AKAMAkamai Technologies−3.4%Neutral15.4% below
IRENIREN−3.8%Neutral24.3% below
TYLTyler Technologies+1.0%Accumulation15.0% below
GDDYGoDaddy−2.4%Accumulation20.9% below

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In the Buying zone today

Reporting earnings this week

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Verisk Analytics stock FAQ

What is Verisk Analytics’s market cap?

Verisk Analytics’s market cap is $21.84B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $167.77, with 130.2M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 26.4.

What is the Verisk Analytics stock forecast?

The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Verisk Analytics is $234.76, +39.9% from the last close. Of the 13 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 7 rate it a buy, 6 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.

Is Verisk Analytics stock overvalued or undervalued?

On Gekko’s estimate Verisk Analytics is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $167.77 is 27.1% below Gekko Fair Value of $230.19. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.

When does Verisk Analytics report earnings next?

Verisk Analytics is expected to report on Nov 4, 2026, before the market opens (36 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.92 per share on revenue of $806.3M. Verisk Analytics beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 4.6% on average across the report.

What is Verisk Analytics’s 52-week high and low?

Verisk Analytics’s 52-week high is $253.35 and its 52-week low is $155.94; it closed at $167.77 on Sep 28, 2026, −31.3% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $322.92 on Jun 5, 2025.

Is Verisk Analytics stock a buy right now?

Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and earnings risk), 1 as mixed (seasonality) and 1 as a headwind (trend). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.

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