By Connor Hart
Shares of Verisk Analytics fell after the company cut its full-year revenue outlook after temporary factors, such as an historically low level of severe weather events, hurt growth in the recent quarter.
The stock slipped 7% to $216 in premarket trading Wednesday. Through Tuesday's close, shares have lost about 15% of their value year-to-date.
The data-analytics and technology company said before the bell that it now expects revenue of $3.05 billion to $3.08 billion for the year, down from a prior outlook of $3.09 billion to $3.13 billion.
Verisk also cut its outlook for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization--which strip out exceptional and other one-off items--to between $1.69 billion and $1.72 billion, from between $1.7 billion and $1.74 billion. The company backed its adjusted per-share earnings outlook of $6.80 to $7.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected revenue of $3.11 billion, adjusted Ebitda of $1.73 billion and adjusted earnings of $7 a share.
The new outlook came as the Jersey City, N.J., company posted a profit of $225.5 million, or $1.61 a share, for its three months ended Sept. 30, compared with $220.1 million, or $1.54 a share, a year earlier.
Stripping out certain one-time items, third-quarter earnings were $1.72 a share. Analysts had forecast adjusted earnings of $1.70 a share.
Third-quarter revenue rose 5.9% to $768.3 million but missed the $776.3 million that Wall Street modeled.
Finance chief Elizabeth Mann said that temporary factors, such as an historically low level of severe weather events during the recent quarter, hurt growth.
Write to Connor Hart at connor.hart@wsj.com
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October 29, 2025 08:21 ET (12:21 GMT)
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