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How good a business is VRSK?
Verisk Analytics earns 39% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
39%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 30 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 44%
Operating margin · Consulting Services median 10% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.24×
Cash conversion · 1.01× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −4.1%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 42% |
| FY2021 | 37% |
| FY2022 | 56% |
| FY2023 | 42% |
| FY2024 | 44% |
| FY2025 | 44% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 70%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 44%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 29%
- Free cash flow margin
- 36%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.10B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.13B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $910M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 39%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Consulting Services
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