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Verisk Analytics Inc (VRSK) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for VRSK, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index HALO Growth 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-09-25

DayWeekMonth3 months
VRSK+0.3%−3.5%−9.9%−7.1%
Payments & Financial Infrastructure+0.6%−0.8%−8.1%—
HALO Growth 1000.0%+0.2%−7.6%—

Against the index: 3.7 pts behind on the week, 2.3 pts behind on the month; against its Payments & Financial Infrastructure sleeve 1.8 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Daily Pulse, “AI Search — The Owners of the Facts Are Down 20–40%, the Answer Boxes Sit Near Their Highs” (2026-09-22)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where VRSK appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: +0.7% week · −5.2% month · −5.7% quarter · +1.0% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-26
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.12 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How VRSK has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.12 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Verisk Analytics Inc moved 0.12% on average · correlation 0.03 · higher than 16% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.49 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days 0.00% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −1.83% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against HALO Growth 100 · Payments & Financial Infrastructure · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

HALO Growth 100 · Payments & Financial Infrastructure

Payments rails, exchanges, data-and-analytics franchises. The toll-booth economics of finance, hard to displace.

Compared against VRSK on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Verisk Analytics Inc

VRSK in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Verisk supplies data, analytics and software that insurers use to price risk, handle claims and detect fraud, spanning underwriting rules, catastrophe modelling and property, auto and specialty claims work. It sells to insurers, reinsurers and related professionals rather than to consumers, across the United States and abroad. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Where it sits in the stack
Verisk sits outside our Rubin index. It belongs to the HALO Growth 100 — our growth index for companies outside the largest names — in the Payments & Financial Infrastructure sleeve, which groups data and analytics franchises embedded in financial workflows that are hard to route around.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with other toll-booth style finance and data names in that sleeve — Wise, Toast, HDFC Bank, Deutsche Börse, Nu Holdings, CME Group and Adyen — grouped for similar franchise economics. The market also compares it with Moody's, another data and ratings business built into how risk gets priced.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It holds seats in the HALO Growth 100 and the Nasdaq-100, and it carries a Closelooknet score, with quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest. The diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
Whether the gap between its strong quality read and its weaker momentum read narrows, and whether the shares steady against their recent trend.

Verisk Analytics Inc (VRSK) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials. Constituent of HALO Growth 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 56/100 composite (momentum 24, quality 89, valuation 44) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.15%, quarterly · buybacks 624 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What VRSK pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.95 USD per share · a 1.15% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +12.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.74 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.50 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.34 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.56 USD · 2025: 1.80 USD · 2026: 1.50 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-14
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 251 m USD 27% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 624 m USD 2.8% of today's market value
  • Share count −2.6% in FY2025 54 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 875 m USD · 73% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Verisk Analytics Inc (VRSK)?

Verisk Analytics Inc trades as VRSK on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is VRSK in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Verisk Analytics Inc is a constituent of HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-09-26.

What is Verisk Analytics Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

56 out of 100, with momentum 24, quality 89 and valuation 44 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-26. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does VRSK trade against its moving averages?

Resizing — 38.2% off its high: 38.2% below its 52-week high, under its 200-day — a deeper resizing of the trend, not a shallow dip. As of 2026-09-24 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is VRSK doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Verisk Analytics Inc is −9.9% against −7.6% for the HALO Growth 100 — 2.3 points behind its index, as of 2026-09-25. Its Payments & Financial Infrastructure sleeve is −8.1% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Verisk Analytics Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Verisk Analytics Inc had a beta of 0.12 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 16% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved 0.00% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Verisk Analytics Inc?

Verisk Analytics Inc appears in 1 Closelooknet piece, most recently Daily Pulse: AI Search — The Owners of the Facts Are Down 20–40%, the Answer Boxes Sit Near Their Highs (2026-09-22). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Verisk Analytics Inc do?

Verisk supplies data, analytics and software that insurers use to price risk, handle claims and detect fraud, spanning underwriting rules, catastrophe modelling and property, auto and specialty claims work. It sells to insurers, reinsurers and related professionals rather than to consumers, across the United States and abroad. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Closelooknet's peer group places it with other toll-booth style finance and data names in that sleeve — Wise, Toast, HDFC Bank, Deutsche Börse, Nu Holdings, CME Group and Adyen — grouped for similar franchise economics. The market also compares it with Moody's, another data and ratings business built into how risk gets priced.

Where does Verisk Analytics Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Verisk sits outside our Rubin index. It belongs to the HALO Growth 100 — our growth index for companies outside the largest names — in the Payments & Financial Infrastructure sleeve, which groups data and analytics franchises embedded in financial workflows that are hard to route around. It holds seats in the HALO Growth 100 and the Nasdaq-100, and it carries a Closelooknet score, with quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest. The diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does Verisk Analytics Inc pay a dividend?

Verisk Analytics Inc has paid 1.95 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.15% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.50 USD on 2026-09-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 251 m USD in dividends and bought back 624 m USD of its own shares, 73% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 2.6% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for VRSK, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

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