How to buy Verisk Analytics shares

Verisk Analytics shares have increased 1.18% from their previous closing price ($233.93). Learn how to easily invest in Verisk Analytics shares in the UK.

Verisk Analytics Inc (VRSK) is a publicly traded consulting services business based in the US which employs around 7,500 staff. Verisk Analytics is listed on the NASDAQ and traded in US dollars. Its current price of $233.93 is 3.3% down on its price a month ago ($242).

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  6. Buy your shares. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares. It's that simple.
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Alternative ways to invest in Verisk Analytics

Buying shares in just one company is generally considered a riskier bet than investing in a range of investments - AKA a "diversified portfolio". Experts generally recommend holding a mix of investments in specific assets and funds. Funds are ready-made portfolios of multiple companies' shares (potentially including Verisk Analytics), and the idea is that drops in the value of one constituent company's share price might be offset by rises in others.

Verisk Analytics is a major part of the NASDAQ, so it's included in many global funds and investment trusts, as well as tracker-style exchange traded funds (ETFs).

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Is it a good time to buy Verisk Analytics stock?

Only you can make the decision on the time to leap... but here's some supporting information and analysis.

Use our graph to track the performance of VRSK stocks over time.

Share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Verisk Analytics's shares have ranged in value from as little as $185.8452 up to $251.564. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

VRSK.US volatility(beta: 0.79)Avg. volatility(beta: 1.00)LowHigh

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Verisk Analytics's is 0.787. This would suggest that Verisk Analytics's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Historical closes compared with the last close of $233.93

1 week (2024-03-20)-0.84%
1 month (2024-02-27)-3.33%
3 months (2023-12-27)-1.55%
6 months (2023-09-27)-2.75%
1 year (2023-03-27)24.64%
2 years (2022-03-24)12.47%
3 years (2021-03-25)30.96%
5 years (2019-03-27)76.14%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Verisk Analytics under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Verisk Analytics P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA

Verisk Analytics's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 44x. In other words, Verisk Analytics shares trade at around 44x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Verisk Analytics's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.6095. Higher PEG ratios such as this can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value given the current rate of growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Verisk Analytics's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Verisk Analytics's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $1.3 billion (£991 million).

The EBITDA is a measure of a Verisk Analytics's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

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