With 0.63 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.67 million shares. During the session, the Consulting Services company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $291.39 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $286.89. The 52-week range on VRSK shows that it touched its highest point at $291.42 and its lowest point at $217.34 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $293.20. With its current market cap of 41.51 billion, VRSK has annualized dividend of $1.51 while the current yield stands at 0.52%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.87.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VRSK was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.54%, but this was up by 9.72% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.49% while six-month performance rose 15.56%. The stock gained 21.12% in the past year, while it has gained 21.72% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VRSK yields 6.42 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.29. For the next quarter, that number is 1.60. This implies an EPS growth rate of 16.32% for this year and 9.82% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.03% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.24%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 143.31 million VRSK shares are outstanding with a float of 140.92 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 1.82 million, which was 128.999995 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Lee M. Shavel as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Ms. Elizabeth D. Mann serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95478994 of VRSK’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, VRSK reported revenue of $725300000.0 and operating income of $311500000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $387900000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.54.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VRSK since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With VRSK analysts setting a high price target of 325.0 and a low target of 230.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 285.93332. Based on these targets, VRSK could surge 11.79% to reach the target high and fall by -20.89% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -1.65% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.70188 being high and $6.59168 being low. For VRSK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.64177. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.64. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.77 and the low estimate is $1.71. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.74.
