Verisk Analytics, Inc. (VRSK)

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Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.9% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 13% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 4.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 22 sales (19 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03, buying about $449 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Verisk Analytics, Inc. earned about 294 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 35 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 95 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s standing among 68 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 8% by size; a net margin of 29.6% ranks in the top 12%; revenue growth of 7.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 49% (its annual reports).

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Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Shavel, Lee (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-05-31, 4.5 years (top 43% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.7 years (bottom 41%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 20%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $2.2 billion against debt of $3.2 billion leaves -16.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 12% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 38.8% of revenue (top 1%); a gross margin of 69.9% (top 42%); research spending of 1.3% of revenue (bottom 1%) (its annual report).

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Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.2% a year over the last three filed years against 4.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 14% of its family); the newest year grew 6.6% (bottom 44%); research spending grew -1.7% a year (bottom 47%); capital spending grew -3.9% a year (bottom 48%) (its annual reports). Verisk Analytics, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2024: Insurance at $2.9 billion, Financial Services at $0 thousand. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 100% of revenue (its annual report).

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Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.7% below the $3.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 40% of its family); net income of $908 million against a prior three-year average of $842 million (bottom 35%); a net margin of 29.6% against 31.5% before (bottom 21%) (its annual reports).