Verisk Analytics, Inc 10-Q for FY2021 Q3
Verisk Analytics, Inc. (VRSK)
About this 10-Q
Verisk Analytics, Inc filed this 10-Q on November 2, 2021, covering the quarter ended September 30, 2021 (FY2021 Q3).
Headline figures
Quarter ended September 30, 2021, as reported in this filing, compared with the same period a year earlier where the filing states it.
- Revenue
- $759M
- up 8.0% from $702.7M a year earlier
- Net income
- $201.7M
- up 8.6% from net income of $185.8M a year earlier
- Diluted EPS
- $1.24
- up 10.7% from $1.12 a year earlier
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Index to Form 10-Q
Table of Contents
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| PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION |
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| Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity |
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| Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
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| Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk |
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| PART II — OTHER INFORMATION |
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| Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds |
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PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED)
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| Total assets | $ | $ | ||||||
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| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
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| Commitments and contingencies (Note 16) | ||||||||
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| Treasury stock, at cost, and shares, respectively | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
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| Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | $ | ||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED)
| Three Months Ended September 30, |
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| Net income attributable to Verisk |
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| Basic net income per share attributable to Verisk |
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| Diluted net income per share attributable to Verisk |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (UNAUDITED)
| Three Months Ended September 30, |
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| Net income |
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| Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax: |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)
For The Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 and 2020
| Common Stock Issued | Par Value | Additional Paid-in Capital | Treasury Stock | Retained Earnings | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Losses | Total Verisk Stockholders' Equity | Noncontrolling Interest | Total Stockholders' Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Balance, July 1, 2021 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive loss | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: Comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling interest | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common stock dividend (1) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Treasury stock acquired ( shares) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock options exercised ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restricted stock and performance share units lapsed ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net share settlement from restricted stock awards ( shares withheld for tax settlement) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other stock issuances ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, September 30, 2021 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, July 1, 2020 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common stock dividend (1) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Treasury stock acquired ( shares) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock options exercised ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restricted stock lapsed ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net share settlement from restricted stock awards ( shares withheld for tax settlement) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other stock issuances ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, September 30, 2020 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(1) Refer to Note 11. Stockholders' Equity for discussion related to quarterly cash dividends declared per share
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)
For The Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 and 2020
| Common Stock Issued | Par Value | Additional Paid-in Capital | Treasury Stock | Retained Earnings | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Losses | Total Verisk Stockholders' Equity | Noncontrolling Interest | Total Stockholders' Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Balance, January 1, 2021 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive loss | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: Comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling interest | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment in noncontrolling interest | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common stock dividend (1) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Treasury stock acquired ( shares) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Restricted stock and performance share units lapsed ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net share settlement from restricted stock awards ( shares withheld for tax settlement) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other stock issuances ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, September 30, 2021 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, January 1, 2020 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjustment to opening retained earnings related to Topic 326 | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive loss | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common stock dividend (1) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Treasury stock acquired ( shares) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock options exercised ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restricted stock lapsed ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net share settlement from restricted stock awards ( shares withheld for tax settlement) | — | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other stock issuances ( shares transferred from treasury stock) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, September 30, 2020 | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(1) Refer to Note 11. Stockholders' Equity for discussion related to quarterly cash dividends declared per share
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)
For The Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 and 2020
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| Amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount, net of original issue premium |
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| Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions: |
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| Acquisitions and purchase of controlling interest, net of cash acquired of $0.0 and $5.2; and $5.7 and $5.2, respectively |
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| Income taxes paid |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)
(Amounts in millions, except for share and per share data, unless otherwise stated)
Verisk Analytics, Inc. is a data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Using various technologies to collect and analyze billions of records, we draw on numerous data assets and domain expertise to provide first-to-market innovations that are integrated into customer workflows. We offer predictive analytics and decision support solutions to customers in rating, underwriting, claims, catastrophe and weather risk, global risk analytics, natural resources intelligence, economic forecasting, commercial banking and finance, and many other fields. Around the world, we help customers protect people, property, and financial assets.
We were established to serve as the parent holding company of Insurance Services Office, Inc. ("ISO") upon the completion of the initial public offering ("IPO"), which occurred on October 9, 2009. ISO was formed in 1971 as an advisory and rating organization for the property and casualty ("P&C") insurance industry to provide statistical and actuarial services, to develop insurance programs, and to assist insurance companies in meeting state regulatory requirements. Over the past decade, we broadened our data assets, entered new markets, placed a greater emphasis on analytics, and pursued strategic acquisitions. We trade under the ticker symbol "VRSK" on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
Since January 2020, an outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") has evolved into a worldwide pandemic. We have modified our operations in line with our business continuity plans due to COVID-19. While our facilities generally remain open, we are making extensive use of the work-from-home model at this moment. On a daily basis, management is reviewing our operations and there have been to date minimal interruptions in our customer-facing operations. Given the digital nature of our business and the move toward cloud enablement, we expect to remain operationally stable and fully available to our customers. We are in compliance with all financial and non-financial covenants and have not observed a loss of any significant customers, a significant deterioration in the collectability of receivables, a significant reduction in our liquidity, nor a significant decline in subscription renewal rates.
2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies:
Our accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the basis of accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. ("U.S. GAAP"). The preparation of financial statements in conformity with these accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant estimates include acquisition purchase price allocations, the fair value of goodwill, the realization of deferred tax assets and liabilities, acquisition-related liabilities, fair value of stock-based compensation for stock options and performance share units granted, and assets and liabilities for pension and postretirement benefits. Actual results may ultimately differ from those estimates.
Our condensed consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2021 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring items, to present fairly our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. Our operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year. Our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 have been prepared on the same basis as and should be read in conjunction with our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to the rules of the SEC. We believe the disclosures made are adequate to keep the information presented from being misleading.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
| Accounting Standard | Description | Effective Date | Effect on Consolidated Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters |
| Income Tax (Topic 740), In December 2019, FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12, "Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes" ("ASU No. 2019-12") | The amendments in this guidance reflect the FASB’s effort to reduce the complexity of accounting standards while maintaining or enhancing the helpfulness of information provided to financial statement users. Changes include treatment of Hybrid tax regimes, tax basis step-up in goodwill obtained in a transaction that is not a business combination, separate financial statements of legal entities not subject to tax, intraperiod tax allocation, ownership changes in investments, interim-period accounting for enacted changes in tax law, year-to-date loss limitation in interim-period tax accounting, income statement presentation of tax benefits of tax-deductible dividends, and impairment of investment in qualified affordable housing projects accounted for under the equity method. | Fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020 with early adoption permitted. | We adopted this amendment on January 1, 2021 on a prospective basis. We evaluated ASU No. 2019-12 and determined that there was no material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. |
| Compensation-Retirement Benefits-Defined Benefit Plans - General (Subtopic 715-20), In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-14, "Changes to the Disclosure requirements for defined benefit plans" ("ASU No. 2018-14") | This amendment removes certain disclosures that are not considered cost beneficial and helps clarify certain required disclosures along with adding additional disclosures. This impacts employers that sponsor defined benefit pension and/or other postretirement plans. The amendment clarifies guidance in ASC 715-20-50-3 to disclose projected benefit obligation (PBO) and accumulated benefit obligation (ABO). | Fiscal years ending after December 15, 2020 with early adoption permitted. | We adopted ASU No. 2018-14 on December 31, 2020 on a retroactive basis and applied to each comparative period presented in our Consolidated Financial Statements. The adoption of ASU No. 2018-14 did not have a material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. |
Disaggregated revenues by type of service and by country are provided below for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020. No individual customer or country outside of the U.S. accounted for 10.0% or more of our consolidated revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 or 2020.
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| Insurance: | ||||||||||||||||
| Underwriting & rating | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Claims | ||||||||||||||||
| Total Insurance | ||||||||||||||||
| Energy and Specialized Markets | ||||||||||||||||
| Financial Services | ||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
| United States ("U.S.") | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| United Kingdom ("U.K.") | ||||||||||||||||
| Other countries | ||||||||||||||||
| Total revenues | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Contract assets are defined as an entity's right to consideration in exchange for goods or services that the entity has transferred to a customer when that right is conditioned on something other than the passage of time. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had
Our most significant remaining performance obligations relate to providing customers with the right to use and update the online content over the remaining contract term. The disclosure of the timing for satisfying the performance obligation is based on the requirements of contracts with customers. However, from time to time, these contracts may be subject to modifications, impacting the timing of satisfying the performance obligations. These performance obligations, which are expected to be satisfied within one year, comprised approximately
We recognize an asset for incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer if we expect the benefits of those costs to be longer than one year. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had deferred commissions of $
We have certain assets and liabilities that are reported at fair value in our accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. To increase consistency and comparability of assets and liabilities recorded at fair value, Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 820-10, Fair Value Measurements ("ASC 820-10"), established a three-level fair value hierarchy to prioritize the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. ASC 820-10 requires disclosures detailing the extent to which companies measure assets and liabilities at fair value, the methods and assumptions used to measure fair value, and the effect of fair value measurements on earnings. In accordance with ASC 820-10, we applied the following fair value hierarchy:
| Level 1 - | Assets or liabilities for which the identical item is traded on an active exchange, such as publicly-traded instruments. |
| Level 2 - | Assets or liabilities valued based on observable market data for similar instruments. |
| Level 3 - | Assets or liabilities for which significant valuation assumptions are not readily observable in the market; instruments valued based on the best available data, some of which are internally-developed, and considers risk premiums that market participants would require. |
The fair values of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, and short-term debt approximate their carrying amounts because of the short-term nature of these instruments. Our investments in registered investment companies, which are Level 1 assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis, were $
We elected not to carry our long-term debt at fair value. The carrying value of the long-term debt represents amortized cost, inclusive of unamortized premium, and net of unamortized discount and debt issuance costs. We assess the fair value of these financial instruments based on an estimate of interest rates available to us for financial instruments with similar features, our current credit rating, and spreads applicable to us. The following table summarizes the carrying value and estimated fair value of these financial instruments as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively:
| 2021 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
| Fair Value | Carrying | Estimated | Carrying | Estimated | |||||||||||||
| Hierarchy | Value | Fair Value | Value | Fair Value | |||||||||||||
| Financial instruments not carried at fair value: | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior notes (Note 10) | Level 2 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
On February 1, 2020, the sale of the aerial imagery sourcing group was completed. We contributed the assets related to the disposed business and cash of $
As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had securities of $
We have operating and finance leases for corporate offices, data centers, and certain equipment that are accounted for under ASC 842, Leases ("ASC 842"). Some leases include the options to extend for up to years, and some include the options to terminate within one year. Extension and termination options are considered in the calculation of our right-of-use ("ROU") assets and lease liabilities when we determine it is reasonably certain that we will exercise those options.
The following table presents lease cost and cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities for finance and operating leases for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively:
| Three Months Ended September 30, |
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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| 2021 |
2020 |
2021 |
2020 |
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| Lease cost: |
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| Operating lease cost (1) |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Sublease income |
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| Finance lease costs: |
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| Depreciation of finance lease assets (2) |
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| Interest on finance lease liabilities (3) |
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| Total lease cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Other information: |
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| Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities |
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| Operating cash outflows from operating leases |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | ||||
| Operating cash outflows from finance leases |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | ||||
| Financing cash outflows from finance leases |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | ||||
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(1) Included in "Cost of revenues" and "Selling, general and administrative" expenses in our accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations
(2) Included in "Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets" in our accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations
(3) Included in "Interest expense" in our accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations
The following table presents weighted-average remaining lease terms and weighted-average discount rates for finance and operating leases as of September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively:
| September 30, |
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| 2021 |
2020 |
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| Weighted-average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years) |
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| Weighted-average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years) |
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| Weighted-average discount rate - operating leases |
% | % | ||||||
| Weighted-average discount rate - finance leases |
% | % | ||||||
Our ROU assets and lease liabilities for finance leases were $
Maturities of lease liabilities for the remainder of 2021 and the years through 2026 and thereafter are as follows:
| September 30, 2021 |
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| Years Ending |
Operating Leases |
Finance Leases |
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| 2021 |
$ | $ | ||||||
| 2022 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2024 |
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| 2025 |
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| 2026 and thereafter |
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| Total lease payments |
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| Less: Amount representing interest |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
| Present value of total lease payments |
$ | $ | ||||||
2021 Acquisitions and Purchase of Controlling Interest
For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, we had acquisitions and a purchase of controlling interest totaling $
On September 1, 2021, we acquired
On June 17, 2021, we acquired
On March 2, 2021, we acquired a
The preliminary purchase price allocation of the 2021 acquisitions and purchase of controlling interest resulted in the following:
| Total | ||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | |||
| Accounts receivable | ||||
| Other current assets | ||||
| Fixed assets | ||||
| Operating lease right-of-use assets, net | ||||
| Intangible assets | | |||
| Goodwill | ||||
| Other assets | ||||
| Total assets acquired | ||||
| Current liabilities | ||||
| Deferred revenues | ||||
| Operating lease liabilities | ||||
| Deferred income tax, net | ||||
| Other liabilities | ||||
| Total liabilities assumed | ||||
| Net assets acquired | ||||
| Less: Noncontrolling interest | | |||
| Less: Cash acquired | ||||
| Net cash purchase price | $ | |||
The preliminary amounts assigned to intangible assets by type for the 2021 acquisitions and purchase of controlling interest are summarized in the table below:
| Weighted Average Useful Life (in years) | Total | |||||||
| Technology-based | $ | |||||||
| Marketing-related | ||||||||
| Customer-related | ||||||||
| Database-based | ||||||||
| Total intangible assets | $ | |||||||
The preliminary allocations of the purchase price for the 2021 and 2020 acquisitions and purchase of controlling interest with less than a year of ownership are subject to revisions as additional information is obtained about the facts and circumstances that existed as of each acquisition date. The revisions may have a significant impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements. The allocations of the purchase price will be finalized once all the information that was known and knowable as of the acquisition date is obtained and analyzed, but not to exceed one year from the acquisition date. The primary areas of the purchase price allocation that are not yet finalized relate to income and non-income taxes, deferred revenues, the valuation of intangible assets acquired, and residual goodwill. The goodwill associated with our acquisitions includes the acquired assembled work force, the value associated with the opportunity to leverage the work force to continue to develop the technology and content assets, as well as our ability to grow through adding additional customer relationships or new solutions in the future. Of the $
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, we incurred transaction costs of $
Acquisition Escrows and Related Liabilities
Pursuant to the related acquisition agreements, we have funded various escrow accounts to satisfy pre-acquisition indemnity and tax claims arising subsequent to the applicable acquisition dates. At September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the current portion of the escrows amounted to $
The acquisitions of Arium Limited and Rebmark Legal Solutions Limited included acquisition-related contingent payments, for which the sellers of these acquisitions could receive additional payments by achieving the specific predetermined revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA margin earn-out targets for exceptional performance. We believe that the liabilities recorded as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 reflect the best estimate of acquisition-related contingent payments. The associated current portion of contingent payments were $
On February 1, 2020, the sale of the aerial imagery sourcing group was completed. We contributed assets related to the disposed business, including cash of $
On February 14, 2020, the sale of the compliance background screening business was completed for net cash proceeds of $
On March 1, 2020, the sale of the data warehouse business within the Financial Services segment was completed. We recorded a gain of $
8. Goodwill and Intangible Assets:
The following is a summary of the change in goodwill from December 31, 2020 through September 30, 2021, both in total and as allocated to our operating segments:
| Insurance |
Energy and Specialized Markets |
Financial Services |
Total |
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| Goodwill at December 31, 2020 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Acquisitions and purchase of controlling interest |
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| Purchase accounting reclassifications |
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| Current period adjustment (1) |
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) | ||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
| Goodwill at September 30, 2021 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
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(1) Of which $
Goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives are subject to impairment testing annually as of June 30, or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be fully recoverable. Goodwill impairment testing compares the carrying value of each reporting unit to its fair value. If the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds the carrying value of the net assets, including goodwill assigned to that reporting unit, goodwill is not impaired. If the carrying value of the reporting unit’s net assets, including goodwill, exceeds the fair value of the reporting unit, then an impairment loss is recorded for the difference between the carrying amount and the fair value of the reporting unit. We completed the required annual impairment test as of June 30, 2021 and concluded that there was
Our intangible assets and related accumulated amortization consisted of the following:
| Weighted Average Useful Life (in years) |
Cost |
Accumulated Amortization |
Net |
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| September 30, 2021 |
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| Technology-based |
|
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||||
| Marketing-related |
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) | ||||||||||
| Contract-based |
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) | ||||||||||
| Customer-related |
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| Database-based |
|
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) | ||||||||||
| Total intangible assets |
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||
| December 31, 2020 |
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| Technology-based |
|
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||||
| Marketing-related |
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) | ||||||||||
| Contract-based |
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) | ||||||||||
| Customer-related |
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| Database-based |
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) | ||||||||||
| Total intangible assets |
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||
Amortization expense related to intangible assets for the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 was $
| Years Ending |
Amount |
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| 2021 |
$ | |||
| 2022 |
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| 2023 |
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| 2024 |
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| 2025 |
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| 2026 and thereafter |
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| Total |
$ | |||
Our effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 was
The following table presents short-term and long-term debt by issuance as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020:
| Issuance Date | Maturity Date | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||
| Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt: | ||||||||||
| Syndicated revolving credit facility | Various | Various | $ | $ | ||||||
| Senior notes: | ||||||||||
| % senior notes, less unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $() | 9/12/2012 | 9/12/2022 | ||||||||
| % senior notes, less unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $() | 4/6/2011 | 5/1/2021 | ||||||||
| Finance lease liabilities (1) | Various | Various | ||||||||
| Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt | ||||||||||
| Long-term debt: | ||||||||||
| Senior notes: | ||||||||||
| % senior notes, less unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $() and $(), respectively | 5/13/2020 | 5/15/2050 | ||||||||
| % senior notes, inclusive of unamortized premium, and net of unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $ and $, respectively | 3/6/2019 | 3/15/2029 | ||||||||
| % senior notes, less unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $() and $(), respectively | 5/15/2015 | 6/15/2025 | ||||||||
| % senior notes, less unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $() and $(), respectively | 5/15/2015 | 6/15/2045 | ||||||||
| % senior notes, less unamortized discount and debt issuance costs of $() | 9/12/2012 | 9/12/2022 | — | |||||||
| Finance lease liabilities (1) | Various | Various | ||||||||
| Syndicated revolving credit facility debt issuance costs | Various | Various | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Long-term debt | ||||||||||
| Total debt | $ | $ | ||||||||
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(1) Refer to Note 5. Leases
As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had senior notes with an aggregate principal amount of $
As of September 30, 2021, we had a $
We have
We have
On February 17, 2021, April 28, 2021, and July 28, 2021, our Board approved a cash dividend of $
Share Repurchase Program
Since the introduction of share repurchase as a feature of our capital management strategies in 2010, we have authorized repurchases of up to $
In December 2020, March 2021, and June 2021, we entered into Accelerated Share Repurchase ("ASR") agreements to repurchase shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $
During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, we repurchased
Treasury Stock
As of September 30, 2021, our treasury stock consisted of
Earnings Per Share
Basic EPS is computed by dividing net income attributable to Verisk by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. The computation of diluted EPS is similar to the computation of basic EPS except that the denominator is increased to include the number of additional common shares that would have been outstanding, using the treasury stock method, if the dilutive potential common shares, including vested and nonvested stock options, nonvested restricted stock awards, nonvested restricted stock units, nonvested performance awards consisting of performance share units ("PSU"), and nonvested deferred stock units, had been issued.
The following is a presentation of the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted EPS computations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| Numerator used in basic and diluted EPS: | ||||||||||||||||
| Net income attributable to Verisk | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Denominator: | ||||||||||||||||
| Weighted average number of common shares used in basic EPS | ||||||||||||||||
| Effect of dilutive shares: | ||||||||||||||||
| Potential common shares issuable from stock options and stock-based awards | ||||||||||||||||
| Weighted average number of common shares and dilutive potential common shares used in diluted EPS | ||||||||||||||||
The potential shares of common stock that were excluded from diluted EPS were
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Losses
The following is a summary of accumulated other comprehensive losses as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020:
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment, net of tax | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive losses | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
The before tax and after tax amounts of other comprehensive income (loss) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 are summarized below:
| Before Tax | Tax (Expense) Benefit | After Tax | ||||||||||
| For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | |||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment before reclassifications | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Amortization of net actuarial loss and prior service benefit reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive losses (1) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | |||
| For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2020 | ||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment before reclassifications | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Amortization of net actuarial loss and prior service benefit reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive losses (1) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive income | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||
| Before Tax | Tax (Expense) Benefit | After Tax | ||||||||||
| For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | |||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment before reclassifications | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Amortization of net actuarial loss and prior service benefit reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive losses (1) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | |||
| For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020 | ||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | ( | ) | $ | $ | ( | ) | |||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment before reclassifications | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Amortization of net actuarial loss and prior service benefit reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive losses (1) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Pension and postretirement adjustment | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | |||
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| (1) | These accumulated other comprehensive loss components, before tax, are included under "Cost of revenues" and "Selling, general and administrative" in our accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations. These components are also included in the computation of net periodic (benefit) cost (see Note 13. Pension and Postretirement Benefits for additional details). |
12. Equity Compensation Plans:
On May 19, 2021 (the "Approval Date"), our shareholders approved the Verisk Analytics, Inc. 2021 Incentive Plan, which replaced the 2013 Incentive Plan for any new grants made after the Approval Date. As of the Approval Date, the number of shares of our common stock available for issuance under the 2021 Incentive Plan was
We grant equity awards to our key employees. The nonqualified stock options have an exercise price equal to the adjusted closing price of our common stock on the grant date, with a -year contractual term. The fair value of the restricted stock is determined using the closing price of our common stock on the grant date. The restricted stock is not assignable or transferable until it becomes vested. PSUs vest at the end of a -year performance period, subject to the recipient’s continued service. Each PSU represents the right to receive
On January 15, 2021, we granted
A summary of the status of the stock options, restricted stock, and PSUs awarded under our 2021, 2013, and 2009 Incentive Plans as of December 31, 2020 and September 30, 2021 and changes during the interim period are presented below:
| Stock Option |
Restricted Stock |
PSU |
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| Number of Options |
Weighted Average Exercise Price |
Aggregate Intrinsic Value |
Number of Shares |
Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value Per Share |
Number of Shares |
Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value Per Share |
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| (in millions) |
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| Outstanding at December 31, 2020 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Granted |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dividend reinvestment |
$ | $ | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercised or lapsed |
( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Canceled, expired or forfeited |
( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outstanding at September 30, 2021 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercisable at September 30, 2021 |
$ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercisable at December 31, 2020 |
$ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nonvested at September 30, 2021 |
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| Expected to vest at September 30, 2021 |
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| (1) |
Includes estimated performance achievement |
The fair value of the stock options granted was estimated using a Black-Scholes valuation model that uses the weighted average assumptions noted in the following table for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020:
| 2021 |
2020 |
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| Option pricing model |
Black-Scholes | Black-Scholes | ||||||
| Expected volatility |
% | % | ||||||
| Risk-free interest rate |
% | % | ||||||
| Expected term in years |
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| Dividend yield |
% | % | ||||||
| Weighted average grant date fair value per stock option |
$ | $ | ||||||
The expected term for the stock options granted was estimated based on studies of historical experience and projected exercise behavior. However, for certain awards granted, for which no historical exercise pattern exists, the expected term was estimated using the simplified method. The risk-free interest rate is based on the yield of U.S. Treasury zero coupon securities with a maturity equal to the expected term of the equity award. The volatility factor is calculated using historical daily closing prices over the most recent period that is commensurate with the expected term of the stock option awards. The expected dividend yield was based on our expected annual dividend rate on the date of grant.
Intrinsic value for stock options is calculated based on the exercise price of the underlying awards and the adjusted closing price of our common stock as of the reporting date. Excess tax benefits from exercised stock options were recorded as income tax benefit in our condensed consolidated statements of operations. This tax benefit is calculated as the excess of the intrinsic value of options exercised and restricted stock lapsed in excess of compensation recognized for financial reporting purposes. The weighted average remaining contractual terms were
For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, there was $
Our U.K. Sharesave Plan offers qualifying employees in the United Kingdom the opportunity to own shares of our common stock. Employees who elect to participate are granted stock options, of which the exercise price is equal to the average of the closing price on the five trading days immediately preceding the plan invitation date discounted by
Our ESPP offers eligible employees the opportunity to purchase shares of our common stock at a discount of its fair market value at the time of purchase. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, we issued
13. Pension and Postretirement Benefits:
We maintain a frozen qualified defined benefit pension plan for certain employees through membership in our Pension Plan for Insurance Organizations (the "Pension Plan"), a multiple-employer trust. We also apply a cash balance formula to determine future benefits. Under the cash balance formula, each participant has an account, which is credited annually based on the interest earned on the previous year-end cash balance. We also have a frozen non-qualified supplemental cash balance plan ("SERP") for certain employees. The SERP is funded from our general assets. During the first quarter of 2021, we changed the investment guidelines on our Pension Plan assets to target investment allocation of
We also provide certain healthcare and life insurance benefits to certain qualifying active and retired employees. Our Postretirement Health and Life Insurance Plan (the "Postretirement Plan"), which has been frozen, is contributory, requiring participants to pay a stated percentage of the premium for coverage. The components of net periodic (benefit) cost for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 are summarized below:
| Pension Plan and SERP |
Postretirement Plan |
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| For the Three Months Ended September 30, |
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| 2021 |
2020 |
2021 |
2020 |
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| Interest cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Expected return on plan assets |
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) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
| Amortization of net actuarial loss |
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| Net periodic benefit |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ||||||||
| Employer contributions, net |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Pension Plan and SERP |
Postretirement Plan |
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| For the Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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| 2021 |
2020 |
2021 |
2020 |
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The expected contributions to the Pension Plan, SERP, and Postretirement Plan for the year ending December 31, 2021 are consistent with the amounts previously disclosed as of December 31, 2020.
ASC 280-10, Disclosures About Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information ("ASC 280-10"), establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments. ASC 280-10 requires that a public business enterprise reports financial and descriptive information about its reportable operating segments. Operating segments are components of an enterprise for which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the Chief Operating Decision Maker ("CODM") in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. Our President and Chief Executive Officer is identified as the CODM as defined by ASC 280-10. Our operating segments are the following: Insurance, Energy and Specialized Markets, and Financial Services. These
Each of the reportable segments, Insurance, Energy and Specialized Markets, and Financial Services, has a portion of its revenue from more than one of the three revenue types described within our revenue recognition policy. Below is the overview of the solutions offered within each reportable segment.
Insurance: We are the leading provider of statistical, actuarial, and underwriting data for the U.S. P&C insurance industry. Our databases include cleansed and standardized records describing premiums and losses in insurance transactions, casualty and property risk attributes for commercial buildings and their occupants, and fire suppression capabilities of municipalities. We use this data to create policy language and proprietary risk classifications that are industry standards and to generate prospective loss cost estimates used to price insurance policies, which are accessed via a hosted platform. We also develop solutions that our customers use to analyze key processes in managing risk. Our combination of algorithms and analytic methods incorporate our proprietary data to generate solutions. We also help businesses and governments better anticipate and manage climate and weather-related risks. In most cases, our customers integrate the solutions into their models, formulas, or underwriting criteria in order to predict potential loss events, ranging from hurricanes to earthquakes. We develop catastrophe and extreme event models and offer solutions covering natural and man-made risks, including acts of terrorism. We further develop solutions that allow customers to quantify costs after loss events occur. Our multitier, multispectral terrestrial imagery and data acquisition, processing, analytics, and distribution system using the remote sensing and machine learning technologies helps gather, store, process, and deliver geographic and spatially referenced information that supports uses in many markets. Additionally, we offer fraud-detection solutions including review of data on claim histories, analysis of claims to find emerging patterns of fraud, and identification of suspicious claims in the insurance sector. Our underwriting & rating, insurance anti-fraud claims, catastrophe modeling, loss quantification, and weather risk solutions are included in this segment. During the first quarter of 2021, due to management restructuring, our CODM reorganized Atmospheric and Environmental Research ("AER"), an immaterial component of the Energy and Specialized Markets segment, to the Insurance segment. Consequently, AER became part of the underwriting and rating category within the Insurance segment. The inclusion of AER within our Insurance segment better aligns with how our CODM makes operating decisions, assesses the performance of the business, and allocates resources. Our prior year results have been recast to reflect this change. The related impact to our condensed consolidated financial statements was not material for all periods presented.
Energy and Specialized Markets: We are a leading provider of data analytics via hosted platform for the global energy, chemicals, and metals and mining industries. Our research and consulting solutions focus on exploration strategies and screening, asset development and acquisition, commodity markets, and corporate analysis in the areas of business environment, business improvement, business strategies, commercial advisory, and transaction support. We gather and manage proprietary information, insight, and analysis on oil and gas fields, mines, refineries, and other assets across the interconnected global energy sectors to advise customers in making asset investment and portfolio allocation decisions. Our analytical tools measure and observe environmental properties and translate those measurements into actionable information based on customer needs. In addition, we provide market and cost intelligence to energy companies to optimize financial results. We further offer a suite of data and information services that enable improved compliance with global Environmental Health and Safety requirements related to the safe manufacturing, distribution, transportation, usage, and disposal of chemicals and products. Our energy business and environmental health and safety services are included in this segment.
Financial Services: We maintain a bank account consortia to provide competitive benchmarking, decisioning algorithms, business intelligence, and customized analytic services that help financial institutions, payment networks and processors, alternative lenders, regulators, and merchants make better strategy, marketing, and risk decisions. Customers apply our solutions in the areas of tailored data management and media effectiveness that include business intelligence platforms, profile views, mobile data solutions, enterprise database services, and fraud risk scoring algorithms for marketing, fraud, and risk mitigation. In addition, our bankruptcy management solutions assist creditors, debt servicing businesses, and credit services to enhance regulatory compliance by eliminating stay violation and portfolio valuation risk.
The three aforementioned operating segments represent the segments for which discrete financial information is available and upon which operating results are regularly evaluated by our CODM in order to assess performance and allocate resources. We use EBITDA as the profitability measure for making decisions regarding ongoing operations. EBITDA is net income before interest expense, provision for income taxes, and depreciation and amortization of fixed and intangible assets. EBITDA is the measure of operating results used to assess corporate performance and optimal utilization of debt and acquisitions. Operating expenses consist of direct and indirect costs principally related to personnel, facilities, software license fees, consulting, travel, and third-party information services. Indirect costs are generally allocated to the segments using fixed rates established by management based upon estimated expense contribution levels and other assumptions that management considers reasonable. We do not allocate interest expense and provision for income taxes since these items are not considered in evaluating the segment’s overall operating performance. In addition, our CODM does not evaluate the financial performance of each segment based on assets. See Note 3. Revenues for information on disaggregated revenues by type of service and by country.
The following tables provide our revenue and EBITDA by reportable segment for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, and the reconciliation of EBITDA to income before income taxes as shown in our accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations:
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We consider our stockholders that own more than
16. Commitments and Contingencies:
We are a party to legal proceedings with respect to a variety of matters in the ordinary course of business, including the matters described below. With respect to ongoing matters, we are unable, at the present time, to determine the ultimate resolution of or provide a reasonable estimate of the range of possible loss attributable to ongoing matters or the impact these matters may have on our results of operations, financial position, or cash flows. Although we believe we have strong defenses and have appealed adverse rulings to us, we could in the future incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims that could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position, or cash flows.
Xactware Solutions, Inc. Patent Litigation
On October 8, 2015, we were served with a summons and complaint in an action titled Eagle View Technologies, Inc. and Pictometry International Group, Inc. v. Xactware Solutions, Inc. and Verisk Analytics, Inc. filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (the "Court"). The complaint alleged that our Roof InSight (now known as Geomni Roof), Property InSight product (now known as Geomni Property) and Aerial Sketch product in combination with our Xactimate product infringe patents owned by Eagle View and Pictometry namely, Patent Nos. 8,078,436 (the "436 patent"), 8,170,840 (the "840 patent"), 8,209,152 (the "152 patent"), 8,542,880 (the "880 patent"), 8,818,770 (the "770 patent"), 8,823,732 (the "732 patent"), and 8,825,454 (the "454 patent"). On November 30, 2015, plaintiffs filed a First Amended Complaint adding Patent Nos. 9,129,376 (the "376 patent") and 9,135,737 (the "737 patent") to the lawsuit. The First Amended Complaint sought an entry of judgment by the Court that defendants have and continue to directly infringe and/or indirectly infringe, including by way of inducement, the Patents-in-Suit, permanent injunctive relief, damages, costs and attorney’s fees. On May 19, 2017, the District Court entered a Joint Stipulated Order of Partial Dismissal with Prejudice dismissing all claims or assertions pertaining to the 880 and 732 patents, and certain asserted claims of the 436, 840, 152, 770, 454, 376 and 737 patents (collectively the "Patents in Suit"). Subsequently, Eagle View dropped the 152 patent and the 737 patent and reduced the number of asserted claims from the remaining Patents in Suit to six asserted claims. On September 25, 2019, following a trial, the jury determined that we had willfully infringed the asserted claims, and assessed damages in the amount of $
ERISA Litigation
On September 24, 2020, former employees Jillyn Peterson, Gabe Hare, Robert Heynen and Adam Krajewski ("Plaintiffs"), filed suit in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey (No. 2:20-cv-13223-CCC-MF) against Defendants Insurance Services Office Inc. ("ISO"), the Plan Administration Committee of Insurance Services Office Inc. and its members ("Committee Defendants"), and the Trust Investment Committee of Insurance Services Office Inc. and its members. The class action complaint alleges violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, ("ERISA"). The class is defined as all persons who were participants in or beneficiaries of the ISO 401(k) Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("Plan"), at any time between September 24, 2014 through the date of judgment. The complaint alleges that all defendants are fiduciaries with respect to the Plan. Plaintiffs challenge the amount of fees paid by Plan participants to maintain the investment funds in the plan portfolio and the amount of recordkeeper fees paid by participants. Plaintiffs allege that by permitting the payment of excessive fees, the Committee Defendants breached their ERISA duties of prudence and loyalty. Plaintiffs further allege that ISO breached its ERISA duty by failing to monitor the Committee Defendants who they allege committed known breaches of their fiduciary duties. The complaint does not specify damages but alleges the fiduciary breaches cost Plan participants millions of dollars. Defendants filed their motion to dismiss the complaint on January 12, 2021, which the Court partially denied on April 13, 2021. The parties are currently proceeding with discovery. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the liability related to this matter as the case is still in its early stages.
ISO Claims Partners Litigation
On October 23, 2020, Cara Jane Penegar, as Executrix of the Estate of Johnny Ray Penegar, Jr., filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, 3:20-cv-585-RJC-DCK, against Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company (collectively "Liberty Mutual"), as well as Verisk Analytics, Inc. and ISO Claims Partners, Inc. (collectively "we"). The complaint alleges that Liberty Mutual violated the Medicare Secondary Payer Act ("MSPA") by failing to reimburse Medicare for medical services that should have been covered by its policies, with the result that Medicare bore the cost instead. The suit alleges that we are jointly and severally liable because of our involvement in Medicare reporting and/or other plan management. The complaint pleads a North Carolina class and a nationwide class, each composed of: all Medicare enrollees (within the respective geographic areas) for whom Medicare paid for an item or service where Liberty Mutual was the carrier and/or we were involved in claims administration; where defendants were demonstrated to be responsible for payment of the medical services via a workers’ compensation judgment, settlement, award, or contractual obligation; where defendants provided notice to the government of the fact of the settlement, judgment or award establishing their responsibility on or after October 23, 2017; but where defendants failed to make timely payment. The complaint does not identify the amount of damages sought but seeks double damages under the MSPA on behalf of all class members for all amounts at issue, as well as interest and attorneys’ fees. The Plaintiffs subsequently amended the complaint to add agency and conspiracy claims against us and Liberty Mutual. We filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint. The court has not yet set a hearing date on our motion. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the liability related to this matter.
Jornaya Litigation
On December 10, 2020, we were served with a putative class action lawsuit brought by Erica Jackson in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania against Lead Intelligence, Inc. d/b/a Jornaya ("we" or "us"), Case No. 2020 CV 03695. The class complaint alleges that we violated Pennsylvania’s Wiretap Act ("PWA"), 18 Pa. Const. Stat. § 5701 et seq. by "wiretapping" and "intercepting" the plaintiff’s communications on the website colleges.educationgrant.com. The plaintiff alleges a class of all persons whose electronic communications were intercepted through the use of our wiretapping on the website. The complaint claims damages pursuant to the PWA for actual damages, but not less than liquidated damages computed at the rate of $
Financial Services Government Inquiry
We continue to cooperate with an inquiry by the civil division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia related to government contracts within our financial services segment. The inquiry is ongoing, we have voluntarily produced documents, and we cannot anticipate the timing, outcome or possible impact of the inquiry, financial or otherwise.
Breach of Contract Litigation
On April 2, 2021, Leica Geosystems ("Leica") and its subsidiary, Intergraph Corporation filed a lawsuit against Verisk Analytics and Geomni, Inc. ("we" "our" or "us") in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Alabama, titled Leica Geosystems AG, et al. v. Geomni, Inc., Verisk Analytics, Inc., Vexcel Imaging, Inc., et al. Co-Defendant, Vexcel Imaging, through its subsidiary, GV Air, is alleged to have breached a master lease agreement related to Leica’s aerial sensor units. The complaint further alleges breach of a license agreement for royalties earned from the sale of aerial imagery data, and breach of a mutual nondisclosure agreement related to the alleged disclosure of confidential information to co-defendant, Vexcel Imaging. Leica seeks compensatory and punitive damages, as well as attorney’s fees and costs. We filed a motion to dismiss the Plaintiffs’ claims and the hearing has been reset for January 7, 2022. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the liability related to this matter.
Wood Mackenzie Litigation
On August 10, 2021, S&P Global Inc. d/b/a Platts filed a lawsuit against Wood Mackenzie (“we,” “us,” or “our”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, titled S&P Global Inc. d/b/a Platts v. Wood Mackenzie Ltd., Civil Action No. 21-cv-6739. The Complaint alleges that our use of Platts’ data exceeded the scope of the applicable licensing agreement between the two parties. Platts seeks to recover actual damages as a result of the alleged breach of the agreement, attorney’s fees and costs, as well as injunctive relief requiring Wood Mackenzie to cease all use of its proprietary data. The deadline to file our responsive pleading is November 9, 2021. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the liability related to this matter.
In September 2021, we entered into an additional ASR agreement with Wells Fargo Bank to repurchase shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $
On October 19, 2021, we entered into an agreement to acquire approximately
On November 2, 2021, we acquired
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| Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our historical financial statements and the related notes included in our annual report on Form 10-K ("2020 10-K") dated and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2021. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic ("COVID-19"). Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in or implied by any of the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including but not limited to those listed under "Risk Factors" and "Special Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements" in our 2020 10-K and those listed under Item 1A in Part II of this quarterly report on Form 10-Q.
We are a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Using advanced technologies to collect and analyze billions of records, we draw on unique data assets and deep domain expertise to provide innovations that may be integrated into customer workflows. We offer predictive analytics and decision support solutions to customers in rating, underwriting, claims, catastrophe and weather risk, global risk analytics, natural resources intelligence, economic forecasting, commercial banking and finance, and many other fields. In the United States ("U.S.") and around the world, we help customers protect people, property, and financial assets.
Our customers use our solutions to make better decisions about risk and opportunities with greater efficiency and discipline. We refer to these products and services as "solutions" due to the integration among our services and the flexibility that enables our customers to purchase components or the comprehensive package. These solutions take various forms, including data, statistical models, or tailored analytics, all designed to allow our customers to make more logical decisions. We believe our solutions for analyzing risk positively impact our customers’ revenues and help them better manage their costs.
We organize our business in three segments: Insurance, Energy and Specialized Markets, and Financial Services. Our Insurance segment provides underwriting and rating, and claims insurance data for the U.S. P&C insurance industry. This segment's revenues represented approximately 73% and 72% of our revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Our Energy and Specialized Markets segment provides research and consulting data analytics for the global energy, chemicals, and metals and mining industries. Our Energy and Specialized Markets segment's revenues represented approximately 22% of our revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020. Our Financial Services segment provides competitive benchmarking, decisioning algorithms, business intelligence, and customized analytic services to financial institutions, payment networks and processors, alternative lenders, regulators, and merchants. Our Financial Services segment's revenues represented approximately 5% and 6% of our revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively. During the first quarter of 2021, due to management restructuring, our CODM reorganized Atmospheric and Environmental Research ("AER"), an immaterial component of our Energy and Specialized Markets segment, to the Insurance segment. See Note 14. Segment Reporting for further discussion.
COVID-19
Since January 2020, an outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") has evolved into a worldwide pandemic. We have modified our operations in line with our business continuity plans due to COVID-19. While our facilities generally remain open, we are making extensive use of the work-from-home model at this moment. We continue to review our operations and there have been to date minimal interruptions in our customer-facing operations. Given the digital nature of our business and the move toward cloud enablement, we have remained operationally stable and fully available to our customers. We are in compliance with all financial and non-financial covenants and have not observed a loss of any significant customers, a significant deterioration in the collectability of receivables, a significant reduction in our liquidity, nor a significant decline in subscription renewal rates.
In March 2020, we analyzed our solutions and services to assess the impact of COVID-19 on our revenue streams. We did not identify any material impact stemming from COVID-19 on approximately 85% of our revenues as much of these revenues are subscription in nature and subject to long-term contracts. These revenues grew approximately 6% for the three months ended September 30, 2021 as compared to September 30, 2020.
Of the remaining 15%, we have identified specific solutions and services, largely transactional in nature, that are being impacted by COVID-19. The primary causal factors are lower auto and travel insurance activity, the inability to enter commercial buildings to perform engineering analyses, decreased capital expenditure in the energy sector, and reduced levels of advertising by financial institutions and marketers. The portion of our revenue that is attributable to these solutions has been negatively impacted by COVID-19 beginning in March 2020 with the onset of the pandemic. These revenues increased approximately 2% for the three months ended September 30, 2021 as compared to the same quarter in 2020. As the global outbreak of COVID-19 continues to evolve, management continues to closely monitor its impact on our business.
Executive Summary
Key Performance Metrics
We believe our business's ability to grow recurring revenue and generate positive cash flow is the key indicator of the successful execution of our business strategy. We use year-over-year revenue and EBITDA growth as metrics to measure our performance. EBITDA and EBITDA margin are non-GAAP financial measures (See footnote 2 within the Condensed Consolidated Results of Operations section of Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations). The nearest equivalent respective GAAP financial measures are net income and net income margin.
Revenue growth. We use year-over-year revenue growth as a key performance metric. We assess revenue growth based on our ability to generate increased revenue through increased sales to existing customers, sales to new customers, sales of new or expanded solutions to existing and new customers, and strategic acquisitions of new businesses.
EBITDA growth. We use EBITDA growth as a measure of our ability to balance the size of revenue growth with cost management and investing for future growth. EBITDA growth allows for greater transparency regarding our operating performance and facilitate period-to-period comparison.
EBITDA margin. We use EBITDA margin as a metric to assess segment performance and scalability of our business. We assess EBITDA margin based on our ability to increase revenues while controlling expense growth. We calculate EBITDA margin as EBITDA divided by revenues.
Revenues
We earn revenues through agreements for hosted subscriptions, advisory/consulting services, and for transactional solutions, recurring and non-recurring. Subscriptions for our solutions are generally paid in advance of rendering services either quarterly or in full upon commencement of the subscription period, which is usually for one year and automatically renewed each year. As a result, the timing of our cash flows generally precedes our recognition of revenues and income and our cash flow from operations tends to be higher in the first quarter as we receive subscription payments. Examples of these arrangements include subscriptions that allow our customers to access our standardized coverage language, our claims fraud database, or our actuarial services throughout the subscription period. In general, we experience minimal revenue seasonality within the business.
Approximately 81% and 82% of the revenues in our Insurance segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 were derived from hosted subscriptions through agreements (generally one to five years) for our solutions, respectively. Our customers in this segment include most of the P&C insurance providers in the U.S. Approximately 83% and 85% of the revenues in our Energy and Specialized Markets segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 were derived from hosted subscriptions with long-term agreements for our solutions, respectively. Our customers in this segment include most of the top 10 global energy providers. Approximately 84% and 76% of the revenues in our Financial Services segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 were derived from subscriptions with long-term agreements for our solutions, respectively. Our customers in this segment include financial institutions, payment networks and processors, alternative lenders, regulators, merchants, and the top 30 credit card issuers in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
We also provide advisory/consulting services, which help our customers get more value out of our analytics and their subscriptions. In addition, certain of our solutions are paid for by our customers on a transactional basis, recurring and non-recurring. For example, we have solutions that allow our customers to access property-specific rating and underwriting information to price a policy on a commercial building, or compare a P&C insurance or a workers' compensation claim with information in our databases, or use our repair cost estimation solutions on a case-by-case basis. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, approximately 19% and 18% of our consolidated revenues were derived from providing transactional and advisory/consulting solutions, respectively.
Operating Costs and Expenses
Personnel expenses are the major component of both our cost of revenues and selling, general and administrative expenses. Personnel expenses, which represented approximately 58% and 60% of our total operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, include salaries, benefits, incentive compensation, equity compensation costs, sales commissions, employment taxes, recruiting costs, and outsourced temporary agency costs.
We assign personnel expenses between two categories, cost of revenues and selling, general and administrative expense, based on the actual costs associated with each employee. We categorize employees who maintain our solutions as cost of revenues, and all other personnel, including executive managers, salespeople, marketing, business development, finance, legal, human resources, and administrative services, as selling, general and administrative expenses. A significant portion of our other operating costs, such as facilities and communications, is also either captured within cost of revenues or selling, general and administrative expenses based on the nature of the work being performed.
While we expect to grow our headcount over time to take advantage of our market opportunities, we believe that the economies of scale in our operating model will allow us to grow our personnel expenses at a lower rate than revenues. Historically, our EBITDA margin has improved because we have been able to increase revenues without a proportionate corresponding increase in expenses. However, part of our corporate strategy is to invest in new solutions and new businesses, which may offset margin expansion.
Cost of Revenues. Our cost of revenues consists primarily of personnel expenses. Cost of revenues also includes the expenses associated with the acquisition, disposition and verification of data, the maintenance of our existing solutions, and the development and enhancement of our next-generation solutions. Our cost of revenues excludes depreciation and amortization.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. Our selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs. A portion of the other costs such as facilities, insurance, and communications are also allocated to selling, general and administrative expenses based on the nature of the work being performed by the employee. Our selling, general and administrative expenses exclude depreciation and amortization.
Condensed Consolidated Results of Operations
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$ | 557.9 | $ | 504.3 | 10.6 | % | $ | 1,643.5 | $ | 1,491.8 | 10.2 | % | ||||||||||||
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165.9 | 158.1 | 5.0 | % | 484.4 | 460.8 | 5.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
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35.2 | 40.3 | (12.7 | )% | 104.7 | 118.6 | (11.8 | )% | ||||||||||||||||
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759.0 | 702.7 | 8.0 | % | 2,232.6 | 2,071.2 | 7.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
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| Cost of revenues (exclusive of items shown separately below) |
265.3 | 240.0 | 10.6 | % | 792.6 | 733.4 | 8.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
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115.1 | 96.4 | 19.4 | % | 346.3 | 304.8 | 13.6 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets |
52.1 | 49.4 | 5.5 | % | 153.9 | 141.3 | 8.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets |
37.6 | 41.5 | (9.4 | )% | 133.1 | 123.6 | 7.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
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— | — | N/A | — | (19.4 | ) | (100.0 | )% | ||||||||||||||||
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470.1 | 427.3 | 10.0 | % | 1,425.9 | 1,283.7 | 11.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income |
288.9 | 275.4 | 4.9 | % | 806.7 | 787.5 | 2.4 | % | ||||||||||||||||
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0.1 | (0.1 | ) | (212.5 | )% | 1.3 | (3.1 | ) | (143.2 | )% | ||||||||||||||
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(29.9 | ) | (35.3 | ) | (15.5 | )% | (96.8 | ) | (102.9 | ) | (5.9 | )% | ||||||||||||
| Total other expense, net |
(29.8 | ) | (35.4 | ) | (16.3 | )% | (95.5 | ) | (106.0 | ) | (9.9 | )% | ||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes |
259.1 | 240.0 | 8.0 | % | 711.2 | 681.5 | 4.4 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes |
(54.2 | ) | (54.2 | ) | — | % | (186.7 | ) | (145.0 | ) | 28.8 | % | ||||||||||||
| Net income |
204.9 | 185.8 | 10.4 | % | 524.5 | 536.5 | (2.2 | )% | ||||||||||||||||
| Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest |
(3.2 | ) | — | N/A | (0.2 | ) | — | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
| Net income attributable to Verisk |
$ | 201.7 | $ | 185.8 | 8.6 | % | $ | 524.3 | $ | 536.5 | (2.3 | )% | ||||||||||||
| Basic net income per share attributable to Verisk: |
$ | 1.25 | $ | 1.14 | 9.6 | % | $ | 3.24 | $ | 3.30 | (1.8 | )% | ||||||||||||
| Diluted net income per share attributable to Verisk: |
$ | 1.24 | $ | 1.12 | 10.7 | % | $ | 3.21 | $ | 3.24 | (0.9 | )% | ||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared per share (1): |
$ | 0.29 | $ | 0.27 | 7.4 | % | $ | 0.87 | $ | 0.81 | 7.4 | % | ||||||||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding: |
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| Basic |
161,366,544 | 162,502,191 | (0.7 | )% | 162,005,382 | 162,589,473 | (0.4 | )% | ||||||||||||||||
| Diluted |
162,792,791 | 165,731,226 | (1.8 | )% | 163,425,349 | 165,519,899 | (1.3 | )% | ||||||||||||||||
| The financial operating data below sets forth the information we believe is useful for investors in evaluating our overall financial performance: |
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| Other data: |
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| EBITDA (2): |
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| Insurance |
$ | 311.5 | $ | 292.1 | 6.6 | % | $ | 911.2 | $ | 848.3 | 7.4 | % | ||||||||||||
| Energy and Specialized Markets |
60.5 | 62.4 | (3.0 | )% | 171.8 | 163.4 | 5.2 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Financial Services |
6.7 | 11.7 | (42.5 | )% | 12.0 | 37.6 | (68.2 | )% | ||||||||||||||||
| EBITDA |
$ | 378.7 | $ | 366.2 | 3.4 | % | $ | 1,095.0 | $ | 1,049.3 | 4.4 | % | ||||||||||||
| The following is a reconciliation of net income to EBITDA: |
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| Net income |
$ | 204.9 | $ | 185.8 | 10.4 | % | $ | 524.5 | $ | 536.5 | (2.2 | )% | ||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets and intangible assets |
89.7 | 90.9 | (1.3 | )% | 287.0 | 264.9 | 8.3 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense |
29.9 | 35.3 | (15.5 | )% | 96.8 | 102.9 | (5.9 | )% | ||||||||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes |
54.2 | 54.2 | — | % | 186.7 | 145.0 | 28.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| EBITDA |
$ | 378.7 | $ | 366.2 | 3.4 | % | $ | 1,095.0 | $ | 1,049.3 | 4.4 | % | ||||||||||||
| (1) |
Cash dividends declared per share is calculated by the aggregate cash dividends declared in a fiscal quarter divided by the shares issued and outstanding. See Note 11. of our consolidated financial statements included in this interim report on Form 10-Q. |
| (2) | EBITDA is a financial measure that management uses to evaluate the performance of our segments. "EBITDA" is defined as net income before interest expense, provision for income taxes, and depreciation and amortization of fixed and intangible assets. See Note 14 of our condensed consolidated financial statements included in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q.
Although EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure, EBITDA is frequently used by securities analysts, lenders, and others in their evaluation of companies. EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for an analysis of our operating income, net income, or cash flows from operating activities reported under GAAP. Management uses EBITDA in conjunction with GAAP operating performance measures as part of its overall assessment of company performance. Some of these limitations are: |
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EBITDA does not reflect our cash expenditures, or future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments; |
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EBITDA does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; |
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Although depreciation and amortization are noncash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized often will have to be replaced in the future and EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements; and |
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Other companies in our industry may calculate EBITDA differently than we do, limiting its usefulness as a comparative measure. |
Consolidated Results of Operations
Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2020
Revenues
Revenues were $759.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $702.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $56.3 million or 8.0%. Our recent acquisitions (Franco Signor, Jornaya, Whitespace, and Ignite Software Systems within the Insurance segment and Roskill within the Energy and Specialized Markets segment) contributed revenues of $15.9 million. The remaining movement in our consolidated revenue increased $40.4 million or 5.8% related to the following: revenues within our Insurance segment increased $38.9 million or 7.7%; revenues within our Energy and Specialized Markets segment increased $6.6 million or 4.2%; and revenues within our Financial Services segment decreased $5.1 million or 12.7%. Refer to the Results of Operations by Segment within this section for more information regarding our revenues.
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Percentage | Percentage change excluding | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | change | recent acquisitions and dispositions |
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| (in millions) |
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| Insurance |
$ | 557.9 | $ | 504.3 | 10.6 | % | 7.7 | % | ||||||||
| Energy and Specialized Markets |
165.9 | 158.1 | 5.0 | % | 4.2 | % | ||||||||||
| Financial Services |
35.2 | 40.3 | (12.7 | )% | (12.7 | )% | ||||||||||
| Total Revenues |
$ | 759.0 | $ | 702.7 | 8.0 | % | 5.8 | % | ||||||||
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues was $265.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $240.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $25.3 million or 10.6%. Our recent acquisitions accounted for an increase of $5.0 million in cost of revenues. The remaining cost of revenues increased $20.3 million or 8.5% primarily due to increases of salaries and employee benefits of $9.8 million, information technology expenses of $4.7 million, professional consulting costs of $4.1 million, travel expenses of $0.4 million, data costs of $0.1 million, and other operating costs of $1.2 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities in the prior year's period as a result of COVID-19, which have gradually resumed in the second half of 2020 through 2021.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses ("SGA") were $115.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $96.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $18.7 million or 19.4%. Our recent acquisitions accounted for an increase of $6.9 million in SGA primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. Our acquisition-related costs (earn-outs) accounted for an increase of $0.1 million. The remaining SGA increase of $11.7 million or 12.4% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $4.8 million, professional consulting costs of $3.3 million, information technology expenses of $2.0 million, travel expenses of $0.3 million, and other operating costs of $1.3 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities in the prior year's period as a result of COVID-19, which have gradually resumed in the second half of 2020 through 2021.
Depreciation and Amortization of Fixed Assets
Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets was $52.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $49.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $2.7 million or 5.5%. The increase was primarily driven by $2.6 million attributed to assets placed into service to support data capacity expansion and revenue growth and recent acquisitions of $0.1 million.
Amortization of Intangible Assets
Amortization of intangible assets was $37.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $41.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, a decrease of $3.9 million or 9.4%. The decrease was primarily driven by intangible assets that were fully amortized for the three months ended September 30, 2021, partially offset by additional amortization of intangible assets incurred in connection with our recent acquisitions.
Investment Income (Loss) and Others, net
Investment income (loss) and others, net was a gain of $0.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a loss of $0.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to a gain on foreign currencies.
Interest Expense
Interest expense was $29.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $35.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, a decrease of $5.4 million or 15.5%. We repaid our 5.800% senior notes in May 2021, which contributed to a lower interest expense.
Provision for Income Taxes
The provision for income taxes was $54.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020. The effective tax rate was 20.9% for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 22.6% for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2021 was lower than the effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2020 primarily due to the deferred tax impact of the prior year United Kingdom tax rate increase from 17% to 19% that was enacted and recorded in the three months ended September 30, 2020. This decrease was partially offset by the impact of reduced stock option exercises resulting in lower tax benefits from equity compensation in the current period versus the prior period.
Net Income Margin
The net income margin was 27.0% for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 26.4% for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase in net income margin was primarily due to a decrease in interest expense.
EBITDA Margin
The EBITDA margin for our consolidated results was 49.9% for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 52.1% for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The decrease in EBITDA margin was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring process related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the prior year's period, resulting in lower salaries and employee benefits.
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
Revenues
Revenues were $2,232.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $2,071.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $161.4 million or 7.8%. Our recent acquisitions (Franco Signor, Jornaya, Whitespace, and Ignite Software Systems within the Insurance segment and Roskill within the Energy and Specialized Markets segment) and dispositions (the aerial imagery sourcing group and the compliance background screening business within the claims category of the Insurance segment and the data warehouse business within the Financial Services segment) contributed net revenues of $39.5 million. The remaining movement in our consolidated revenue increased $121.9 million or 5.9% related to the following: revenues within our Insurance segment increased $112.5 million or 7.6%; revenues within our Energy and Specialized Markets segment increased $22.0 million or 4.8%; and revenues within our Financial Services segment decreased $12.6 million or 10.7%. Refer to the Results of Operations by Segment within this section for more information regarding our revenues.
| Nine Months Ended September 30, |
Percentage |
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2020 |
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recent acquisitions and dispositions |
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| Insurance |
$ | 1,643.5 | $ | 1,491.8 | 10.2 | % | 7.6 | % | ||||||||
| Energy and Specialized Markets |
484.4 | 460.8 | 5.1 | % | 4.8 | % | ||||||||||
| Financial Services |
104.7 | 118.6 | (11.8 | )% | (10.7 | )% | ||||||||||
| Total Revenues |
$ | 2,232.6 | $ | 2,071.2 | 7.8 | % | 5.9 | % | ||||||||
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues was $792.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $733.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $59.2 million or 8.1%. Our recent acquisitions and dispositions accounted for an increase of $10.6 million in cost of revenues, which was primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining cost of revenues increased $48.6 million or 6.7% primarily due to increases salaries and employee benefits of $26.2 million, information technology expenses of $13.8 million, professional consulting costs of $5.7 million, data costs of $2.5 million, and other operating costs of $5.6 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities in the prior year's period as a result of COVID-19, which have gradually resumed in the second half of 2020 through 2021. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of $5.2 million. The decrease in travel expense primarily resulted from travel restrictions in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $346.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $304.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $41.5 million or 13.6%. Our recent acquisitions and dispositions accounted for an increase of $12.7 million in SGA primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. Our acquisition-related costs (earn-outs) accounted for a decrease of $2.5 million. The remaining SGA increase of $31.3 million or 10.5% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $21.2 million, professional consulting costs of $7.4 million, information technology expenses of $3.9 million, and other operating costs of $1.9 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities in the prior year's period as a result of COVID-19, which have gradually resumed in the second half of 2020 through 2021. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of $3.1 million.
Depreciation and Amortization of Fixed Assets
Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets was $153.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $141.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $12.6 million or 8.9%. The increase was primarily driven by $12.3 million attributed to assets placed into service to support data capacity expansion and revenue growth and recent acquisitions of $0.4 million. These increases were partially offset by our recent dispositions of $0.1 million.
Amortization of Intangible Assets
Amortization of intangible assets was $133.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $123.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $9.5 million or 7.7%. This was primarily driven by the additional amortization of intangible assets incurred in connection with our recent acquisitions.
Other Operating Income
Other operating income was $0.0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $19.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily related to the gains associated with the dispositions of our compliance background screening business and data warehouse business that were recorded in 2020.
Investment Income (Loss) and Others, net
Investment income (loss) and others, net was a gain of $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a loss of $3.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to a gain on foreign currencies.
Interest Expense
Interest expense was $96.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $102.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, a decrease of $6.1 million or 5.9%. We repaid our 5.800% senior notes in May 2021, which contributed to a lower interest expense.
Provision for Income Taxes
The provision for income taxes was $186.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $145.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $41.7 million or 28.8%. The effective tax rate was 26.3% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 21.3% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was higher than the effective tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 primarily due to the larger deferred tax impact of the current year tax rate increase from 19% to 25% in the U.K. that was enacted and recorded in the second quarter of 2021, as well as the impact of reduced stock option exercises resulting in lower tax benefits from equity compensation in the current period versus the prior period.
Net Income Margin
The net income margin for our consolidated results was 23.5% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 25.9% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The decrease in net income margin was primarily due to the increase in the provision for income taxes that resulted from the deferred tax impact of the tax rate increase in the U.K. and the gains recorded in 2020 associated with the dispositions of our compliance background screening business and data warehouse business.
EBITDA Margin
The EBITDA margin for our consolidated results was 49.0% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 as compared to 50.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The decrease in EBITDA margin was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring process related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the prior year's period, resulting in lower salaries and employee benefits. Additionally, there were gains recorded in 2020 associated with the dispositions of our compliance background screening business and data warehouse business.
Results of Operations by Segment
Insurance
Revenues
Revenues for our Insurance segment were $557.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $504.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $53.6 million or 10.6%. Our underwriting & rating revenue increased $36.9 million or 10.4%. Our claims revenue increased $16.7 million or 11.1%.
Our revenue by category for the periods presented is set forth below:
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| Underwriting & rating |
$ | 390.5 | $ | 353.6 | 10.4 | % | 7.4 | % | ||||||||
| Claims |
167.4 | 150.7 | 11.1 | % | 8.5 | % | ||||||||||
| Total Insurance |
$ | 557.9 | $ | 504.3 | 10.6 | % | 7.7 | % | ||||||||
Our recent acquisitions (Franco Signor, Jornaya, Whitespace, and Ignite Software Systems) contributed revenues of $14.7 million and the remaining Insurance revenue increased $38.9 million or 7.7%. Our underwriting & rating revenue increased $26.2 million or 7.4%, primarily due to an annual increase in prices derived from continued enhancements to the content of the solutions within our industry-standard insurance programs as well as selling expanded solutions to existing customers in commercial and personal lines. In addition, catastrophe modeling services and our international software solutions contributed to the growth. Our claims revenue increased $12.7 million or 8.5%, primarily due to growth in our repair cost estimating solutions revenue and claims analytics revenue.
Revenues for our Insurance segment were $1,643.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $1,491.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $151.7 million or 10.2%. Our underwriting & rating revenue increased $103.1 million or 9.8%. Our claims revenue increased $48.6 million or 11.1%.
Our revenue by category for the periods presented is set forth below:
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2020 |
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recent acquisitions and dispositions |
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| Underwriting & rating |
$ | 1,156.0 | $ | 1,052.9 | 9.8 | % | 7.2 | % | ||||||||
| Claims |
487.5 | 438.9 | 11.1 | % | 8.6 | % | ||||||||||
| Total Insurance |
$ | 1,643.5 | $ | 1,491.8 | 10.2 | % | 7.6 | % | ||||||||
Our recent acquisitions (Franco Signor, Jornaya, Whitespace, and Ignite Software Systems) and dispositions (the aerial imagery sourcing group and the compliance background screening business) contributed net revenues of $39.2 million and the remaining Insurance revenue increased $112.5 million or 7.6%. Our underwriting & rating revenue increased $75.3 million or 7.2%, primarily due to an annual increase in prices derived from continued enhancements to the content of the solutions within our industry-standard insurance programs as well as selling expanded solutions to existing customers in commercial and personal lines. In addition, catastrophe modeling services and our international software solutions contributed to the growth. Our claims revenue increased $37.2 million or 8.6%, primarily due to growth in our repair cost estimating solutions revenue and claims analytics revenue.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues for our Insurance segment was $176.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $154.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $22.0 million or 14.1%. Our recent acquisitions within the Insurance segment represented an increase of $4.9 million in cost of revenues. The remaining cost of revenues increased $17.1 million or 11.0% primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $9.3 million, information technology expenses of $4.4 million, data costs of $0.8 million, travel expenses of $0.4 million, professional consulting costs of $0.2 million, and other operating costs of $2.0 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities in the prior year's period as a result of COVID-19, which have gradually resumed in the second half of 2020 through 2021.
Cost of revenues for our Insurance segment was $522.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $473.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $49.5 million or 10.4%. Our recent acquisitions and dispositions within the Insurance segment represented an increase of $11.2 million in cost of revenues, which was primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining cost of revenues increased $38.3 million or 8.2% primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $20.9 million, information technology expenses of $11.8 million, professional consulting costs of $2.6 million, data costs of $2.1 million, and other operating costs of $3.6 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities as stated above. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of $2.7 million.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Insurance segment were $69.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $57.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $12.4 million or 21.8%. Our recent acquisitions accounted for an increase of $4.4 million, which was primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. Our acquisition-related costs (earn-outs) accounted for an increase of $0.1 million. The remaining SGA increase of $7.9 million or 14.2% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $3.6 million, professional consulting costs of $1.6 million, information technology expenses of $1.5 million, travel expenses of $0.1 million, and other operating costs of $1.1 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities in the prior year's period as a result of COVID-19, which have gradually resumed in the second half of 2020 through 2021.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Insurance segment were $210.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $184.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $26.4 million or 14.4%. Our recent acquisitions and dispositions accounted for an increase of $9.6 million, which was primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. Our acquisition-related costs (earn-out) accounted for a decrease of $2.5 million. The remaining SGA increase of $19.3 million or 10.9% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $14.7 million, information technology expenses of $3.0 million, professional consulting costs of $2.4 million, and other operating costs of $1.4 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities as stated above. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of $2.2 million.
Other Operating Income
Other operating income was $0.0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $15.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily related to the gain associated with the disposition of our compliance background screening business that was recorded in 2020.
Investment Income (Loss) and Others, net
Investment loss and others, net was a loss of $0.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a loss of $0.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to the impact of foreign currencies.
Investment income (loss) and others, net was a gain of $1.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a loss of $1.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to a gain on foreign currencies.
EBITDA Margin
EBITDA for our Insurance segment was $911.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $848.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The EBITDA margin for our Insurance segment was 55.4% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 56.9% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The decrease in EBITDA margin was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring process in the prior year as stated above as well as the gain on the sale of our compliance background screening business that was recorded in 2020.
Energy and Specialized Markets
Revenues
Revenues for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment were $165.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $158.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $7.8 million or 5.0%. Our recent acquisition, Roskill, within this segment contributed revenues of $1.2 million. The remaining increase in Energy and Specialized Markets revenue of $6.6 million or 4.2% was primarily due to increases in our environmental health and safety service subscription revenues and consulting revenue.
Revenues for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment were $484.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $460.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $23.6 million or 5.1%. Our recent acquisition, Roskill, within this segment contributed revenues of $1.6 million. The remaining increase in Energy and Specialized Markets revenue of $22.0 million or 4.8% was primarily due to increases in our environmental health and safety service subscription revenues, core research solutions, and consulting revenue.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment was $67.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $60.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $6.7 million or 11.2%. Our recent acquisition accounted for an increase of $0.1 million. The remaining increase in cost of revenues of $6.6 million or 11.0% was primarily due to increases in professional consulting costs of $4.2 million, salaries and employee benefits of $2.0 million, information technology expenses of $0.6 million, data costs of $0.3 million, and travel expenses of $0.1 million. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in other operating costs of $0.6 million.
Cost of revenues for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment was $199.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $189.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $10.3 million or 5.5%. Our recent acquisition accounted for an increase of $0.1 million. The remaining increase in cost of revenues of $10.2 million or 5.4% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $5.0 million, professional consulting costs of $4.0 million, information technology expenses of $1.8 million, data costs of $1.0 million, and other operating costs of $0.1 million. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of $1.7 million.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment were $38.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $35.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $3.3 million or 9.5%. Our recent acquisition accounted for an increase of $2.5 million primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining increase in SGA of $0.8 million or 2.4% was primarily due to increases professional consulting costs of $0.7 million, information technology expenses of $0.3 million, and travel expenses of $0.2 million. These increases were partially offset by decreases in salaries and employee benefits of $0.1 million and other operating costs of $0.3 million.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment were $113.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $106.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $6.2 million or 5.7%. Our recent acquisition accounted for an increase of $3.1 million primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining increase in SGA of $3.1 million or 2.8% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $2.0 million, professional consulting costs of $1.6 million, and information technology expenses of $0.5 million. These increases were partially offset by decreases in travel expenses of $0.8 million and other operating costs of $0.2 million.
Investment Income (Loss) and Others, net
Investment income (loss) and others, net was a gain of $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a loss of $0.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to a gain on foreign currencies.
Investment loss and others, net was $0.0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a loss of $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to the impact of foreign currencies.
EBITDA Margin
EBITDA for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment was $171.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $163.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The EBITDA margin for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment was 35.5% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020.
Financial Services
Revenues
Revenues for our Financial Services segment were $35.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $40.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, a decrease of $5.1 million or 12.7%. The decrease in Financial Services revenue was primarily due to projects that did not reoccur and the continued economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in lower consulting revenue, and lower bankruptcy revenue because of government support and forbearance program.
Revenues for our Financial Services segment were $104.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $118.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, a decrease of $13.9 million or 11.8%. Our recent disposition of the data warehouse business contributed a net decrease in revenues of $1.3 million. The remaining decrease in Financial Services revenue of $12.6 million or 10.7% was primarily due to projects that did not reoccur and the continued economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in lower consulting revenue, and lower bankruptcy revenue because of government support and forbearance program.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues for our Financial Services segment was $21.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $24.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, a decrease of $3.4 million or 13.7%. The decrease in the cost of revenues was primarily due to decreases in salaries and employee benefits of $1.5 million, data costs of $1.0 million, information technology expenses of $0.3 million, professional consulting costs of $0.3 million, travel expenses of $0.1 million, and other operating costs of $0.2 million.
Cost of revenues for our Financial Services segment was $70.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $70.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, a decrease of $0.6 million or 0.8%. Our recent disposition within the Financial Services segment represented a net decrease of $0.7 million in cost of revenues. The remaining cost of revenues increased $0.1 million or 0.1% primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $0.3 million, information technology expenses of $0.2 million, and other operating costs of $1.9 million. These increases were partially offset by decreases in professional consulting costs of $0.9 million, travel expenses of $0.8 million, and data costs of $0.6 million.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Financial Services segment were $7.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $4.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $3.0 million or 67.9%. The increase in SGA was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $1.3 million, professional consulting costs of $1.0 million, information technology expenses of $0.2 million, and other operating costs of $0.5 million.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Financial Services segment were $22.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $13.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $8.9 million or 66.1%. The increase in SGA was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $4.5 million, professional consulting costs of $3.4 million, information technology expenses of $0.4 million, and other operating costs of $0.7 million. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of $0.1 million.
Other Operating Income
Other operating income was $0.0 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $3.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The variance was primarily due to the gain generated from the sale of our data warehouse business that was recorded in 2020.
Investment Income (Loss) and Others, net
Investment income and others, net was $0.0 for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a gain of $0.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to the impact of foreign currencies.
Investment loss and others, net was a loss of $0.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to a loss of $0.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. This was primarily due to the impact of foreign currencies.
EBITDA Margin
EBITDA for our Financial Services segment was $12.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $37.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The EBITDA margin for our Financial Services segment was 11.4% for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 31.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The decrease in EBITDA margin was primarily related to the decrease in revenue as stated above and the gain generated from the sale of our data warehouse business that was recorded in 2020.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had cash and cash equivalents and available-for-sale securities of $306.7 million and $222.9 million, respectively. Subscriptions for our solutions are billed and generally paid in advance of rendering services either quarterly or in full upon commencement of the subscription period, which is usually for one year. Subscriptions are automatically renewed at the beginning of each calendar year. We have historically generated significant cash flows from operations. As a result of this factor, as well as the availability of funds under our Credit Facility, we expect that we will have sufficient cash to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs and to fuel our future growth plans.
We have historically managed the business with a working capital deficit due to the fact that, as described above, we offer our solutions and services primarily through annual subscriptions or long-term contracts, which are generally prepaid quarterly or annually in advance of the services being rendered. When cash is received for prepayment of invoices, we record an asset (cash and cash equivalents) on our balance sheet with the offset recorded as a current liability (deferred revenues). This current liability is deferred revenue that does not require a direct cash outflow since our customers have prepaid and are obligated to purchase the services. In most businesses, growth in revenue typically leads to an increase in the accounts receivable balance causing a use of cash as a company grows. Unlike these businesses, our cash position is favorably affected by revenue growth, which results in a source of cash due to our customers prepaying for most of our services.
We have also historically used a portion of our cash for repurchases of our common stock from our stockholders. During the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, we repurchased $400.0 million and $298.8 million, respectively, of our common stock. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, we also paid dividends of $141.0 million and $131.8 million, respectively.
Despite current market conditions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have not observed a loss of any significant customers, a significant deterioration in the collectability of receivables, a significant reduction in our liquidity, nor a significant decline in subscription renewal rates. We continue to maintain sufficient financial resources to meet our debt and operating obligations, an investment-grade credit rating, staggered debt maturities with no debt maturity until September 2022, and ongoing access to our Credit Facility and the investment grade debt markets.
Financing and Financing Capacity
We had total debt, excluding finance lease liabilities, unamortized discounts and premium, and debt issuance costs of $3,105.0 million and $3,200.0 million at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, and we were in compliance with our financial and other debt covenants.
As of September 30, 2021, we had a $1,000.0 million committed senior unsecured Credit Facility with Bank of America N.A., HSBC Bank USA, N.A., JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Citibank, N.A., Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A., First Commercial Bank, Ltd., Los Angeles Branch, TD Bank, N.A., and the Northern Trust Company. The Credit Facility may be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital needs and capital expenditures, acquisitions, dividends and the Repurchase Program. As of September 30, 2021, we were in compliance with all financial and other debt covenants under the Credit Facility.
We are considering the implications of the transition of LIBOR to alternative reference rate measures that will likely become effective post December 2021. We believe that there is still some uncertainty over what these rates will be but one possibility for U.S. dollar LIBOR would be the Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR"). As this decision has not been finalized at the time of amending our Credit Facility agreement, there is no definitive alternative rate proposed in the current contract. We are, however, reviewing the potential impact on the application of this rate on our interest expense once it becomes applicable. As our only current contract extending beyond 2021 that is subject to the LIBOR rate is the Credit Facility, the impact will be dependent on what the outstanding borrowing amount is on the Credit Facility and the relevant interest rate that will be contractually applicable. Should we amend our Credit Facility to reflect SOFR, based on recent borrowings and applicable SOFR, we do not anticipate such an amendment to have a material impact on the business.
As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the available capacity under the Credit Facility was $589.9 million and $944.6 million, net of the letters of credit of $5.1 million and $5.4 million, respectively. We had $405.0 million and $50.0 million in borrowings outstanding under the Credit Facility as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. Subsequent to September 30, 2021, we made repayments of $20.0 million under the Credit Facility.
Cash Flow
The following table summarizes our cash flow data:
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| Net cash provided by operating activities |
$ | 285.2 | $ | 207.1 | 37.7 | % | $ | 967.1 | $ | 819.2 | 18.1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities |
$ | (87.7 | ) | $ | (219.0 | ) | (60.0 | )% | $ | (261.2 | ) | $ | (364.7 | ) | (28.4 | )% | ||||||||
| Net cash used in financing activities |
$ | (169.2 | ) | $ | (76.5 | ) | 121.2 | % | $ | (617.1 | ) | $ | (418.9 | ) | 47.3 | % | ||||||||
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities was $285.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $207.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase in net cash provided by operating activities for the three months ended September 30, 2021 was primarily due to the prior year deferral of federal income tax payments from the second quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2020 resulting from the CARES Act and an increase in operating profit and customer collections during the three months ended September 30, 2021, partially offset by the prior year deferral of certain employer payroll taxes resulting from the CARES Act.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $967.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $819.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020. The increase in net cash provided by operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was due to an increase in operating profit and customer collections during the nine months ended September 30, 2021, as well as earnout payments of $65.1 million made in the second quarter of 2020, partially offset by the prior year deferral of certain employer payroll taxes resulting from the CARES Act.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities of $87.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 was primarily related to capital expenditures of $61.4 million, acquisitions and purchase of controlling interest, including escrow funding associated with the acquisitions, of $20.3 million, and investments in nonpublic companies of $6.0 million. Net cash used in investing activities of $219.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020 was primarily related to acquisitions, including associated escrow funding, of $159.9 million and capital expenditures of $64.8 million.
Net cash used in investing activities of $261.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was primarily related to capital expenditures of $183.1 million, acquisitions and purchase of controlling interest, including escrow funding associated with the acquisitions, of $56.6 million, and investments in nonpublic companies of $21.1 million. Net cash used in investing activities of $364.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was primarily related to capital expenditures of $174.4 million, acquisitions, including associated escrow funding, of $159.9 million, and the disposed business and cash of $63.8 million in exchange for a non-controlling 35.0% ownership interest in Vexcel, a nonpublic company, partially offset by proceeds of $23.1 million from the sale of our compliance background screening business.
Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities of $169.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021 was primarily driven by repurchases of common stock of $150.0 million and dividend payments of $46.8 million, partially offset by proceeds from stock options exercised of $23.9 million and proceeds, net of repayments, of debt under our Credit Facility of $15.0 million. Net cash used in financing activities of $76.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020 was primarily driven by repurchases of common stock of $50.0 million and dividend payments of $43.9 million, partially offset by proceeds from stock options exercised of $26.0 million.
Net cash used in financing activities of $617.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was primarily driven by repayment of our $450.0 million 5.800% senior notes on May 3, 2021, repurchases of common stock of $400.0 million, and dividend payments of $141.0 million, partially offset by proceeds, net of repayments, from our Credit Facility of $355.0 million and proceeds from stock options exercised of $44.9 million. Net cash used in financing activities of $418.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was primarily driven by net debt repayments on our Credit Facility of $495.0 million, repurchases of common stock of $298.8 million, dividend payments of $131.8 million, and payment of contingent liabilities related to acquisitions of $34.2 million, partially offset by net proceeds from issuance of the senior notes of $494.8 million and proceeds from stock options exercised of $68.3 million.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We have no off-balance sheet arrangements.
Contractual Obligations
There have been no material changes to our contractual obligations outside the ordinary course of our business from those reported in our annual report on Form 10-K and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2021.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations are based on our condensed consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. The preparation of these financial statements require management to make estimates and judgments that affect reported amounts of assets and liabilities and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the dates of the financial statements and revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. These estimates are based on historical experience and on other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates, including those related to acquisition purchase price allocations, revenue recognition, goodwill and intangible assets, pension and other postretirement benefits, stock based compensation, income taxes, and allowance for doubtful accounts. Actual results may differ from these assumptions or conditions. Some of the judgments that management makes in applying its accounting estimates in these areas are discussed under the heading "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our annual report on Form 10-K dated and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2021. Since the date of our annual report on Form 10-K, there have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates other than the items noted below.
| Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk |
Market risks at September 30, 2021 have not materially changed from those discussed under Item 7A in our annual report on Form 10-K dated and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2021.
| Controls and Procedures |
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We are required to maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as that term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act")) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives at the reasonable assurance level.
Our management, with the participation of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Based upon the foregoing assessments, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of September 30, 2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
During the three months ended September 30, 2021, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
| Legal Proceedings |
We are party to legal proceedings with respect to a variety of matters in the ordinary course of business. See Part I Item 1. Note 16 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 for a description of our significant current legal proceedings, which is incorporated by reference herein.
| Risk Factors |
For a discussion of the risk factors affecting us, see "Risk Factors" in Part 1, Item 1A of our annual report on Form 10-K dated and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2021.
| Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds |
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
We did not have any unregistered sales of equity securities during the period covered by this report.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Our board of directors has authorized the Repurchase Program since May 2010, of up to $4.6 billion, inclusive of the $500.0 million authorization approved by the board on August 17, 2021. As of September 30, 2021, we had $678.8 million available to repurchase shares. Under the Repurchase Program, we may repurchase stock in the market or as otherwise determined by us. These authorizations have no expiration dates and may be suspended or terminated at any time. Since the introduction of share repurchase as a feature of our capital management strategies in 2010, we have repurchased shares with an aggregate value of $3,921.2 million. Our share repurchases for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 are set forth below:
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Total Number of Shares Purchased |
Average Price Paid per Share |
Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs |
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| July 1, 2021 through July 31, 2021 |
686,813 | (1) |
$ | 174.72 | (1) |
686,813 | $ | 178.8 | ||||||||||
| August 1, 2021 through August 31, 2021 |
— | $ | — | — | $ | 678.8 | ||||||||||||
| September 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 |
111,429 | (1) |
$ | 187.91 | (1) |
111,429 | $ | 678.8 | ||||||||||
| 798,242 | (1) |
$ | 187.91 | (1) |
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(1) In June 2021, we entered into an ASR agreement to repurchase shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $150.0 million with HSBC Bank, USA, N.A. The ASR agreement is accounted for as a treasury stock transaction and a forward stock purchase agreement indexed to our common stock. Upon the payment of the aggregate purchase price of $150.0 million in July 2021, we received 686,813 shares of our common stock at a price of $174.72 per share. Upon the final settlement in September 2021, we received an additional 111,429 shares as determined by the daily volume weighted average share price of our common stock during the term of the ASR agreement, bringing the total shares received under this ASR agreement to 798,242 and a final average price paid of $187.91 per share.
| Defaults Upon Senior Securities |
None.
| Mine Safety Disclosures |
None.
| Other Information |
None.
| Exhibits |
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATION
I, Scott G. Stephenson, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Verisk Analytics, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
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Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATION
I, Lee M. Shavel, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Verisk Analytics, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
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Exhibit 32.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
The certification set forth below is being submitted in connection with the quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Verisk Analytics, Inc. for the period ended September 30, 2021, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Report”), for the purpose of complying with Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) and Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
Scott G. Stephenson, our Chief Executive Officer, and Lee M. Shavel, our Chief Financial Officer, each certifies that to the best of his knowledge:
1. the Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; and
2. the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of our operations.
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Date: November 2, 2021