Verisk Analytics (VRSK)
Industrials · NASDAQ · US
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Verisk Analytics trades at $201.49, which is 49% above the $102.99 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 62 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 28.3 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Verisk Analytics
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.
VRSK passes 2 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Verisk Analytics (VRSK) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of $102.99, VRSK at $201.49 is 49% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is VRSK's P/E ratio?
VRSK trades at 28.3 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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