- Prev close
- $171.94
- Day range
- $170.72 – $174.24
- From 52-wk high
- -32.1%
- Next earnings
- in 35 days
Verisk slid -1.9% in a strong tape, but the move looks more like ordinary idiosyncratic weakness than a business break because revenue is still +5.0% YoY TTM and margins remain high. The picture is mixed: solid quality, but a 25.3 P/E and 2.85 PEG leave less room for error.
VRSK
VERISK ANALYTICS INC
As of Sep 21, 2026
56/100
Worth keeping an eye onHealth ScoreWhy it moved
VRSK fell -1.9% even as the S&P 500 rose +1.6% and the Nasdaq 100 rose +2.8%, so the stock clearly lagged a broadly strong market. No sector-peer move was provided, but the size and direction of the gap point to stock-specific weakness rather than a market selloff. The intraday path was also soft: it opened at $174.13, traded as high as $175.1454, then fell to a low of $170.88 and closed at $172.02, which reads like steady selling rather than a clean reversal.
Volatility read
This looks like ordinary volatility, not a fundamental break. The business is still growing, with revenue +5.0% YoY TTM and +4.4% YoY in the latest quarter, and margins remain strong at gross +70.2%, operating +43.4%, and net +28.2%. EPS growth is only +0.4% YoY TTM, so earnings momentum is modest, and the valuation is not cheap at PE 25.3, forward PE 24.3, and PEG 2.85 — PEG is P/E divided by growth, so strong growth is already priced in. Beta 0.69 also suggests the shares usually move less than the market, which makes a -1.9% session noticeable but not automatically alarming. No analyst consensus change was provided in the facts, so there is no evidence here of a cut driving the move.
Earnings preview
The next earnings date is not available this period, so I cannot place the report on a calendar date. The market will still be focused on the same setup the facts already show: revenue growth of +5.0% YoY TTM, latest-quarter growth of +4.4% YoY, EPS growth of +0.4% YoY TTM, and margins of gross +70.2%, operating +43.4%, and net +28.2%. The key questions are whether subscription-led growth is still holding near the +4.4% to +5.0% range, whether the operating margin stays near +43.4%, and whether EPS can accelerate from the +0.4% TTM pace. Prior print reaction data were not provided in the facts, so I cannot infer a reliable reaction pattern.
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