---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-062281"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VRSK"
cik: "0001442145"
company_name: "Verisk Analytics, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T09:35:33.585857+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Verisk enters $2.5B accelerated share repurchase; initial delivery of ~10.7M shares

## Summary
- Initial aggregate purchase price of $2.5B from Citibank and Goldman Sachs under ASR agreements.
- Initial delivery of approximately 10.7M shares; total shares based on VWAP less discount.
- Funded by proceeds from Energy business divestiture (closed Feb 1, 2023) and $575M 5.750% senior notes due 2033.
- After ASR, $941.3M remains available under the existing share repurchase program.
- Final settlement expected in Q4 2023; may deliver additional shares or cash.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-062281
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VRSK
- cik: 0001442145
- company_name: Verisk Analytics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442145/000119312523062281/0001193125-23-062281-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442145/000119312523062281/d481773d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-062281.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Verisk Analytics, Inc. entered into ASR Agreements with Citibank, N.A. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC valued at $2.5 billion (effective 2023-03-06).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: equity purchase
  - Counterparty: Citibank, N.A. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
  - Value: $2.5 billion
  - Effective: 2023-03-06
  source text: On March 6, 2023, as part of Verisk Analytics, Inc.’s (the “Company”) existing stock repurchase program, the Company entered into accelerated share repurchase agreements (each, an “ASR Agreement” and together, the “ASR Agreements”) with each of Citibank, N.A. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (each, an “ASR Counterparty” and together, the “ASR Counterparties”) to repurchase an aggregate of $2.5 billion of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442145/000119312523062281/0001193125-23-062281-index.htm

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