Reviewing Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) & Next Technology (NASDAQ:NXTT)

Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) and Next Technology (NASDAQ:NXTT) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and earnings.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

90.0% of Verisk Analytics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.7% of Next Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Verisk Analytics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.5% of Next Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Verisk Analytics and Next Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Verisk Analytics	32.65%	274.13%	20.34%
Next Technology	N/A	54.87%	50.18%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Verisk Analytics and Next Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Verisk Analytics	0	6	2	1	2.44
Next Technology	0	0	0	0	0.00

Verisk Analytics currently has a consensus price target of $293.11, suggesting a potential downside of 0.06%. Given Verisk Analytics’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Verisk Analytics is more favorable than Next Technology.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Verisk Analytics and Next Technology”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Verisk Analytics	$2.68 billion	15.45	$614.60 million	$6.41	45.76
Next Technology	$2.63 million	2.89	-$9.92 million	N/A	N/A

Verisk Analytics has higher revenue and earnings than Next Technology.

Volatility & Risk

Verisk Analytics has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Next Technology has a beta of 2.98, indicating that its stock price is 198% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Verisk Analytics beats Next Technology on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Verisk Analytics

Verisk Analytics, Inc. provides data analytics and technology solutions to the insurance markets in the United States and internationally. It offers policy language, prospective loss costs, policy writing and rating rules, and various underwriting solutions for risk selection and segmentation, pricing, and workflow optimization; property- and auto- specific rating and underwriting information solutions that allows clients to understand, quantify, underwrite, mitigate, and avoid potential loss for risks; catastrophe modeling solutions, which enables companies to identify, quantify, and plan for the financial consequences of catastrophes for use by insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, financial institutions, and governments. The company also provides life insurance solutions for transforming current workflows in life insurance underwriting, claim insights, policy administration, unclaimed property/equity, compliance and fraud detection, and actuarial and portfolio modeling; Marketing Solutions, such as compliant, real-time decisioning, profitability, and risk assessment for inbound consumer interactions; and international underwriting and claims solutions. In addition, it offers claims insurance solutions, which provides analytics in fraud detection, compliance reporting, subrogation liability assessment, litigation, and repair cost estimation and valuation solutions; and casualty solutions, such as compliance, casualty claims decision support, and workflow automation solutions. Further, the company supplies software to the specialty insurance market. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About Next Technology

Next Technology Holding Inc. provides technical services and solutions through its social e-commerce platform primarily in Mainland China. It offers YCloud, a micro-business cloud intelligent internationalization system that conducts multi-channel data analysis through the learning of big data and social recommendation relationships, as well as provides users with AI fission and management systems, and supply chain systems. The company’s YCloud system also provides micro-business owners with various payment methods, such as Alipay, WeChat, and UnionPay. In addition, it offers chatGPT technical services; and technical system support, software development, and services. The company serves individual and corporate users in the micro business industry. It also has operations in Hong Kong and Singapore. The company was formerly known as WeTrade Group, Inc. and changed its name to Next Technology Holding Inc in April 2024. Next Technology Holding Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People Republic of China.