- Prev close
- $189.75
- Day range
- $187.60 – $194.96
- Next earnings
- in 80 days
VRSK’s +0.5% session looks stock-specific rather than market-led, with the company still showing steady 5.0% TTM revenue growth, 43.4% operating margin and a 2.85 PEG; the setup is fundamentally solid but not cheap, so the move reads as well-contained rather than especially informative.
VRSK
VERISK ANALYTICS INC
As of Aug 6, 2026
66/100
Worth keeping an eye onHealth ScoreWhy it moved
VRSK finished up +0.5% while the S&P 500 fell -0.2% and the Nasdaq 100 fell -0.4%, so the broad market was not the driver. Same-session peers were mixed — EFX -0.9%, LDOS +6.6%, and J -0.4% — which argues against a clean sector move and points more to stock-specific trading. The intraday path also matters: it opened at $188.75, traded as high as $190.03, and as low as $182.6368 before closing at $189.75, so the session included a sharp mid-day dip and recovery rather than a simple steady advance.
Volatility check
This looks like ordinary volatility for a defensive compounder, not a change in fundamentals. Revenue is up 0.5% YoY (TTM), the latest quarter was +4.4% YoY, and EPS is up 0.4% YoY (TTM), while margins remain strong at gross +70.2%, operating +43.4%, and net +28.2%. Valuation is not trivial at PE 28.6, forward PE 24.3, and PEG 2.85 — PEG is the P/E divided by the growth rate, so 2.85 means investors are paying well above 2x growth — which leaves less room for the stock to absorb surprises. Beta is 0.67, so the name is normally less volatile than the market, but the recent 1w -5.3% move shows it can still reprice when sentiment shifts. Analyst consensus is balanced at 8 strong-positive, 8 positive, 10 neutral, 0 negative, and 0 strong-negative, which is supportive but not a strong catalyst by itself.
Earnings preview
The next earnings date is 2026-10-27. The facts do not give a revenue or EPS consensus for that print, so I cannot state a forecasted growth rate or margin target for the upcoming quarter. What the market will be looking for is whether VRSK can keep revenue near the recent 5.0% TTM pace and the latest quarter’s +4.4% YoY rate, whether operating margin can stay near +43.4%, and whether the modest EPS trend of +0.4% YoY can reaccelerate. The provided facts do not include a prior post-earnings reaction history, so I cannot characterize how the stock has tended to trade around earlier prints from this dataset.
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