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Verisk Analytics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSK) is frequently featured in news coverage as a strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry. Company announcements often highlight new products, collaborations, and financial results that affect underwriting, claims, and risk management across the insurance ecosystem. Verisk’s news releases consistently describe how its data analytics, software, and scientific research support insurers in improving operating efficiency, underwriting and claims outcomes, fraud detection, and decision-making on global risks such as climate change, extreme events, sustainability, and political issues.
News about Verisk commonly includes product launches and enhancements, such as the introduction of Verisk Commercial Rebuild in the U.K. to help assess rebuild values for small- to mid-market commercial properties, and the launch of an ISO Pet Insurance Line of Business program in the U.S. that provides policy forms, rating rules, and loss costs for pet health insurance. These stories illustrate how Verisk develops tools for specific lines of business and geographies within the insurance sector.
Another major category of coverage involves strategic collaborations and partnerships. Recent examples include expanded collaboration with KYND to integrate cyber risk intelligence into Verisk’s Rulebook platform, a collaboration with Carpe Data to bring injury claim insights into the Verisk ClaimSearch fraud detection platform, and a partnership with Jopari Solutions to embed Verisk’s AI-powered medical record review capabilities into electronic medical billing workflows. Such news items show how Verisk works with other organizations to embed its analytics into existing insurance workflows.
Verisk news also features catastrophe and extreme event analysis, such as reports from its Extreme Event Solutions group estimating insured losses from major hurricanes and explaining the drivers of damage. In addition, the company regularly issues financial results and capital markets updates, including quarterly earnings, credit agreements, and debt offerings or redemptions related to acquisitions. Investors and industry professionals who follow VRSK news can expect a mix of product developments, partnerships, catastrophe analyses, and financial disclosures that reflect Verisk’s role in the global insurance industry.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) priced $1.0 billion of senior notes: $500 million of 4.450% due 2031 and $500 million of 5.125% due 2036. The offering is expected to close on February 26, 2026, and proceeds will repay short-term borrowings and support general corporate purposes.
The company intends to use net proceeds to repay borrowings under a 364-day term loan and its syndicated revolving credit facility, and to fund prior accelerated share repurchases.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) entered into accelerated share repurchase agreements totaling $1.5 billion with HSBC and Wells Fargo on Feb 23, 2026.
The ASR counterparties are expected to deliver an aggregate initial ~7.0 million shares at inception. Approximately $1.0 billion remains available under the company's existing repurchase authorization. Final settlement is expected no later than the fiscal third quarter ending Sept 30, 2026.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results. Q4 revenue was $779 million (+5.9%; OCC +5.2%) and full-year revenue was $3,073 million (+6.6%; OCC +6.6%). Net income was $197 million in Q4 (down 6.2%) and $908 million for 2025 (down 5.1%).
Key cash metrics: Q4 net cash from operations $343 million (+34.4%); 2025 free cash flow $1,192 million (+29.5%). Board approved a 50¢ dividend payable March 31, 2026, and increased buyback authorization to $2.5 billion; a $1.5 billion accelerated share repurchase is planned.
S&P Global Energy (NYSE:SPGI) and Verisk announced a data-sharing collaboration on Feb 17, 2026 to combine climate catastrophe and insurance exposure data. The integration delivers insured vs uninsured loss metrics, climate-adjusted inland flood projections through 2050, and Touchstone delivery to support stress testing and disclosure.
The joint solution aims to close regulatory data gaps and help insurers, banks, asset managers and real estate investors quantify, disclose and manage physical-climate financial risk with an auditable foundation.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) named Steven Kauderer president of its Claims Solutions business, effective immediately. Kauderer joins from EY-Parthenon with more than three decades of insurance and consulting experience and reports to CEO Lee Shavel. Elizabeth Mann will continue as CFO after serving as interim president since July 2025.
The move aims to strengthen claims leadership, accelerate data and technology initiatives, and allow the CFO to refocus on investor priorities.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) with APCIA reports a stronger U.S. property/casualty industry through Q3 2025, driven by premium growth and reduced extreme weather losses. Key metrics: $35.3B underwriting gain, 94% combined ratio, net written premiums of $740.7B, and policyholders' surplus of $1.20T.
Realized capital gains fell to $15.6B, and figures cover ~97.9% of U.S. P/C business written.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) estimates insured industry losses from Winter Storm Fern could reach USD 4 billion, driven primarily by freeze impacts with supplemental wind and snow losses.
Early modeling shows 14 states may each exceed USD 50 million in insured losses; if sustained, Fern would rank as the third costliest U.S. winter storm on record.
The event was modeled with Verisk's updated U.S. Winter Storm Model (scheduled for June 2026), which explicitly models freezing rain and power-interconnection vulnerabilities.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) will release fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 before the market opens. The company will post a press release and accompanying financial information on its investor website at http://investor.verisk.com.
Verisk management will host a live audio webcast on February 18, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. ET, available on the investor website and by dial-in at 1-800-715-9871 (U.S./Canada) or 1-646-307-1963 (international). A replay will be available for 30 days via the investor website and by conference call at 1-800-770-2030 (U.S./Canada) using Conference ID 9964974.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) announced the sale of Verisk Marketing Solutions (VMS) to ActiveProspect on January 8, 2026. The transaction transfers VMS — a consent-verified lead orchestration, identity resolution, and marketing intelligence business formed from Jornaya and Infutor — to ActiveProspect, which is backed by Five Elms Capital. Verisk said the divestiture reinforces its strategic focus on global insurance data, analytics and technology and enables disciplined capital allocation toward higher-growth opportunities. Advisors: TD Securities and Davis Polk Wardwell advised Verisk; Munck Wilson Mandala advised ActiveProspect.
Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) said it has terminated its definitive agreement to acquire AccuLynx after the Federal Trade Commission did not complete its review by the Dec. 26, 2025 termination date.
The company will redeem the $1.50 billion of senior notes issued for the planned acquisition at 101% of principal plus accrued interest, as required by the notes’ mandatory redemption provision. Pro forma for the redemption, Verisk’s leverage at Sept. 30, 2025 would have been 1.9x LTM adjusted EBITDA. As of Sept. 30, 2025 Verisk had $1.2 billion remaining capacity under its share repurchase authorization. AccuLynx disputes the termination; Verisk disagrees and intends to defend that position.