Verisk Analytics VRSK

equity

Price History

2009-10 · DCA start$27.43

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

2009-102026-08 · -42.6%

Worst drawdown: −44%, peaking May 2025 and bottoming May 2026 — still unrecovered after 15 months.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $20,300
Value today: $45,795
Return: +125.6%
Months invested: 203

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $26,350 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +73.8%.

Lump sum instead — $20,300 all at once in Oct 2009: $133,493 (+557.6%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (May 2025): $1,321 on $1,600 invested (-17.4%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2009-10: +125.6%

About Verisk Analytics

Verisk Analytics, Inc. is an American multinational data analytics and risk assessment firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, with clients in insurance, government, and risk management sectors. The company uses proprietary data sets and industry expertise to provide predictive analytics and decision support consultations in areas including fraud prevention, actuarial science, insurance coverage, fire protection, catastrophe and weather risk, and data management. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and research & consulting services, with a market cap of about $23.5B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.3/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (4.0/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: leverage / financial, concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.3/5)60% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)2/520.4
Max drawdown from ATH2/544.3
Beta vs S&P 5002/50.59

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5427.5m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financialunrated · weight 20%

Debt / equitynot yet researched
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched

Earnings Quality4.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility4/545.5

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governanceunrated · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit historynot yet researched

Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

Linked Assets

Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.