Verisk Analytics (VRSK): Is Its Insurance-Data Moat Wide Enough to Justify the Price?

Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) is a highly valued data company among the property-and-casualty insurers. The company supplies the rating forms, catastrophe models, and anti-fraud databases that insurers use to price policies and settle claims, tools they cannot easily build themselves. At about $172 a share and $22 billion in value, it trades near 26 times […]