Verisk Analytics

2021 Annual Report

About Verisk

Verisk provides data-driven analytic insights and solutions for the insurance  
and energy industries. Through advanced data analytics, software, and deep 
industry knowledge, Verisk empowers customers to make informed decisions; 
strengthen operating efficiency; improve underwriting and claims outcomes; 
combat fraud; and tackle significant global issues, including extreme events, 
natural resources, geopolitical risks, and ESG matters. With offices in more  
than 30 countries, Verisk consistently earns certification by Great Place to 
Work® and fosters a diverse culture where all team members feel they belong. 

Verisk is traded on the Nasdaq exchange and is a part of the S&P 500 Index  
and the Nasdaq-100 Index.

For more information, please visit www.verisk.com.

To Our Shareholders,  
Customers, and Employees

The year 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of the compa-
ny’s founding. As we commemorated 50 years of moving 
the world forward, our customers and Verisk teammates 
celebrated our journey. It’s been a remarkable one. We’ve 
seen more change in the last decade than in our first four 
decades of business combined. We’ve deepened our 
vertical reach, gained market share globally, and acquired 
new companies within our existing verticals. And we’ve 
introduced a vast array of innovative solutions and grown 
our data sets, delivered through advanced software- 
intensive platforms integrated into customer workflows.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t fade to the 
background as we hoped, that didn’t hamper our relentless 
focus on our customers and the resolve of Verisk’s 9,000 
teammates to achieve excellence on all fronts. We contin-
ued to operate successfully and productively in a remote 
work environment as needed—not for a moment compro-
mising the quality and delivery of our service and solutions. 

This was a year of profitable growth, and our holistic purpose 
has never been clearer. As we provide critical business 
insights to tackle today’s most significant global issues and 
drive positive and profitable outcomes for our customers 
and shareholders, our focus on delivering value for share-
holders and other stakeholders extends beyond profit. 

We made significant progress in our journey to become 
best-in-class for B2B customer experience and continued to 
embed a CX mindset in our culture. Among this year’s many 
accomplishments, 2,500 of our Verisk teammates attended 
the 2021 Discover CX Summit, and we maintained a very 
high NPS of 49 in a year of continuing pandemic-related 
challenges. As we head into 2022, we’ll put an even more 
renewed focus on creating customer value and leveraging 
data, tools, and people to move our customer-first vision 
forward.

We continued our transformation to migrate our busi-
nesses, applications, and data to the cloud. For the first 
time in more than 30 years, Verisk no longer owns a 
mainframe server, and we’ve outsourced our small remain-
ing mainframe footprint with plans to complete the final 
migration in 2022. We supported this milestone by invest-
ing in training programs, with thousands of our teammates 
completing cloud certifications, on-demand courses, 

instructor-led events, and more. Moving closer to our goal 
to be entirely cloud-based helps us deliver innovative 
solutions and move into new geographies faster—in a 
secure and flexible environment.

As you review our accomplishments for 2021, you’ll find 
example after example of how we delivered analytic 
insights for better tomorrows. And you’ll also see our new 
visual identity, still reflecting our global focus and analytic 
mindset but with a modern and refreshed twist. I like to 
think about this not just as a change of sign but also as a 
sign of change. We remain steadfast in our commitments 
to our customers and what we promise them. You’ll find 
these commitments on page 4 in this letter and as you read 
through our accomplishments on the following pages. 

2021 Review

Overall, 2021 was another strong year of financial perfor-
mance, as we again achieved peer-leading levels of profit-
ability. We maintained our disciplined capital management 
strategy supported by our strong cash flow and invested in 
growing our business organically and through acquisitions 
while also returning capital to shareholders. 

Our 2021 revenues increased 7.7 percent over 2020, to $3.0 
billion, driven by broad-based strength across our Insurance 
vertical. Total revenues increased from 2017 to 2021 at a 
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.7 percent. 

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Organic constant currency revenue—which we believe is 
the best measure of the vitality of our business—grew 5.0 
percent, reflecting strong core growth offset by certain 
lingering impacts from COVID-19. The Insurance market led 
this growth. Organic constant currency Insurance revenue 
grew 6.9 percent, driven by healthy growth in industry- 
standard insurance programs, repair cost estimating 
solutions, and catastrophe modeling. Organic constant 
currency Energy and Specialized Markets revenue 
increased 2.4 percent, reflecting growing momentum due in 
large part to improved subscription pricing resulting from 
our investment in the Lens platform and recovery in our 
consulting businesses. Last, organic constant currency 
Financial Services revenue declined 8.7 percent, negatively 
impacted by contract transitions and COVID-related 
weakness in our bankruptcy solutions.  

Organic constant currency revenue grew 5.6 percent in the 
85 percent of revenues identified as non-COVID sensitive, 
led by our Insurance segment, which delivered 7.1 percent 
growth. Our Energy segment recorded increases of 1.7 
percent, while Financial Services registered 1.2 percent 
declines. Our COVID-sensitive revenues increased 1.1 
percent on an organic constant currency basis, comprised 
of a 5.1 percent increase in insurance and a 6.9 percent 
increase in energy offset by 18.1 percent declines in 
Financial Services.

For 2021, the company achieved $1.47 billion of adjusted 
EBITDA, an increase of 6.8 percent versus the prior year. 
Adjusted EBITDA margin was 49.0 percent, reflecting 
leverage on the strong growth in our core business, offset 
in part by expense normalization, and investments for 
future growth and the impact of acquisitions. On an organic 
constant currency basis, adjusted EBITDA grew 4.7 percent, 
demonstrating healthy margin expansion. 

On a GAAP basis, the company recorded $666.2 million of 
net income attributable to Verisk, while diluted earnings per 
share were $4.08. Adjusted net income increased 4.1 
percent from the prior year to $868.1 million, and diluted 
adjusted earnings per share increased 5.4 percent to $5.31, 
reflecting organic growth in the business, contributions 
from acquisitions, and a lower average share count. These 
increases were offset in part by a higher effective tax rate 
and higher depreciation and amortization expense.

Verisk continued to diversify our revenue streams in 2021. 
Approximately 24 percent of revenues—the highest 
percentage in our history—came from outside the United 
States as we continue to become a more global enterprise. 

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Revenues

Adjusted EBITDA

2021 Revenue Types

Transactional: 19%

Subscriptions 
and Long-Term 
Contracts: 81%

2021 Revenues by Vertical Market

Insurance: 73%

Financial Services: 5%

Energy and Specialized Markets: 22%

Our “must-have” data and content produced recurring, 
subscription-driven revenue that helped our customers 
make more informed decisions. 

In 2021, we introduced or expanded a wide variety of 
customer-driven solutions to our markets, including:
•  platformed analytic environments for life insurance, 
claims management, extreme event modeling, and  
energy analytics

•  intelligent solutions and contributory databases to 

address property, auto, and cyber risks

•  a growing ecosystem of insurance solutions to drive 

improved business performance and customer 
experience  

•  AI-based solutions and predictive models for underwriting 

and rating, claims, and the supply chain

•  marketing analytics and behavioral data and intelligence 

for the consumer buying journey

•  tools, analytics, and insights to build resilience for 

properties and communities, tackle climate change, and 
manage the energy transition

We remain focused on the important environmental, social, 
and governance considerations driving long-term sustain-
ability. For the fourth consecutive year, we invested in 
renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets and 
implemented various energy-saving initiatives to balance 
100 percent of our reported greenhouse gas emissions.  
We also committed to reducing our absolute emissions  
by 21 percent by 2024.

We welcomed a leader of Diversity and Inclusion to ensure 
we maintain our focus and foster an inclusive culture. And 
we’re again reporting our diversity metrics in accordance 
with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) 
template for our industry sector.

For the sixth consecutive year, we achieved U.S. certifica-
tion from Great Place to Work and second-time certification 
in the UK, Spain, and India. We continued to support our 
teammates with initiatives that attracted top-tier talent, 
focused on development and training, and increased 
engagement.

We also completed a formal stakeholder materiality 
engagement exercise, identifying six priorities that will  
form the basis of a multiyear sustainability strategy.  
Once operationalized, we expect to report annually on  
our progress. 

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Growing the Verisk Family

Long-Term Value Creation 

Verisk acquisitions, combined with a focus on innovation 
powering our businesses, are essential to our strategy for 
growth. We made several tuck-in acquisitions to augment 
our offerings internationally and expand Verisk’s leading 
data analytics and insurance ecosystem. 

With a focus on accelerating digital transformation in the 
global specialty market, we acquired Whitespace and Ignite 
and integrated them into Verisk Specialty Business Solutions 
(formerly Sequel). Whitespace is a leading provider of 
digital placing technology to the reinsurance market, and 
Ignite is an insurance policy administration systems 
provider to brokers, MGAs, and insurers. 

We also acquired ACTINEO and Contact State, expanding 
our claims management solutions and marketing and 
compliance solutions respectively into Europe. And our 
acquisition of Roskill, a leader in metals and materials 
supply chain intelligence, supported our continued commit-
ment to the energy transition. 

Refreshed Verisk Identity

In 2021, our 50-year journey reached an apex with the 
significant updating of our visual identity and the set of 
guiding principles for how we approach our work, our 
customers, and each other. The updates reflect both our 
continued belief that the world needs a trusted standard 
setter of the highest integrity and competence and our 
vision to empower a better, more resilient, and sustainable 
tomorrow for customers and societies. 

Our refreshed principles—to be remarkable, add value, and 
innovate—set the stage for how our employees should act 
toward our customers and one another. Being remarkable 
inspires us to go above and beyond and bring our best 
energy to everything we do. Adding value emphasizes our 
unwavering commitment to deliver immediate and sus-
tained results that drive positive outcomes for all our 
stakeholders. And innovating is the core of who we are and 
what we do—staying one step ahead, redefining what’s 
possible, and pushing boundaries.

Our strategy for long-term value creation guides all our 
actions. In a global environment of growing demand, we 
produce solutions that combine data, analytic methods for 
finding meaning in the data, and software for delivering 
data and analysis to customers’ workflows. Customers use 
our solutions to make better decisions about risk, invest-
ments, and operations with greater precision, efficiency, and 
discipline. 

We help customers across the globe protect and increase 
the value of people, property, and financial assets. And we 
create shareholder value by pursuing opportunities to grow 
our operating cash flow and generating attractive returns 
on capital through thoughtful investment and execution 
against our operating priorities.

Business Model
Much of what we do frequently demonstrates two qualities:
•  Our solutions often become the standard for all 

participants in a vertical market to perform their data and 
analytic work.

•  Most of our solutions are “ready to use” and don’t require 

significant servicing or implementation support.

As a result, our business is often characterized by high 
incremental and total margins and relatively low capital 
intensity. Moreover, we enjoy strong relationships with 
most, if not all, participants in the vertical markets we 
serve. Given those qualities, the key to long-term value 
creation for Verisk is organic revenue growth leading  
to scaled margins and better returns on invested capital.  

We’re in an excellent position to continue to deliver organic 
growth consistent with our historical performance. In turn, 
organic growth depends on:
•  deepening the reach and quality of our analytics so  
our existing solutions yield more insight and value  
for customers

•  creating a steady stream of new solutions that meet 

customers’ emerging needs

•  reaching new customers through geographic expansion

Verisk Commitments
The company’s ability to deepen our analytics and create 
new solutions in ways that differentiate us from our 
competition is contingent on our commitments—what we 
promise our customers:
•  unparalleled proprietary platformed analytics that drive 

actionable insights

•  the partner of choice when certainty matters
•  proven innovations that solve real-world problems
•  seamless integrations that deliver greater speed, 

precision, and scale

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Much of our thinking and work goes into protecting and 
extending these commitments, which extend across our 
specific verticals, supporting Verisk’s organization in the 
core markets of insurance and energy.

Core Capabilities
To amplify the commitments that come with being the 
leading provider of data and analytics to specific vertical 
markets, we invest in our people and infrastructure to 
become increasingly accomplished in four core 
capabilities:

Large-scale data integration: Advanced capabilities to 
manage and integrate structured and unstructured data 
sets from all relevant sources

Advanced analytics and interpretation of remote sensed 
data: Technologies and advanced methods to capture and 
interpret imagery, telemetry data, sensory data, and other 
emergent data sets in real time and at scale 

Visualization of data and analytics: Superior methods to 
use data, visualize it, and make it meaningful—with a focus 
on geolocation

Predictive analytics: Advanced methods and machine 
learning methods leading to prediction in complex environ-
ments, such as natural catastrophes, insurance mitigation 
and loss, fraud detection, and consumer behavior

In turn, our approach to long-term value creation centers  
on enhancing these commitments leading to differentia-
tion, investing in our core capabilities, and deeply commit-
ting to specific vertical markets to provide scalable data 
and analytic solutions. 

We’ve added one more theme to this approach: the 
globalization of our business. Our insurance vertical has 
been historically focused in the United States, yet our 
methods are applicable worldwide. We’re thoughtfully and 
steadily positioning people and operations in overseas 
markets to create local data sets and leverage our 
preexisting analytic methods. 

Current Trends and Their Relationship  
to Long-Term Value Creation
The regulatory environment remains generally stable while 
at the same time responding to data analytic developments. 
In a world of emerging technologies such as artificial intell- 
igence and machine learning, regulations need to adapt 
and keep up. Verisk supports smart regulation and works 
closely with regulatory bodies to understand how that 
landscape will affect our data collection and aggregation 
methods, consumer-facing analytics, and the ESG consid- 
erations facing the energy markets. While we always 
remain focused on achieving long-term value for our share- 
holders, we do this within the context of understanding 
and collaborating with regulators—a set of key stakeholders.

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Another trend impacting our productivity is automation.  
The industries we operate in need to automate to remain 
competitive and be profitable. Factors such as evolving 
demographics of the ultimate buyers of our solutions and 
nontraditional entrants in some of our markets can be 
opportunities to help our customers automate. We’re 
capitalizing on machine learning, artificial intelligence, 
natural language processing, and computer vision to 
improve productivity and efficiencies and enhance the 
customer experience. Such technologies benefit our 
customers and increase the precision of our analyses  
and the productivity of our analysts. These methods will 
become increasingly expressed in our operations over the 
next five years, contributing greater value to our solutions 
and customers. 

Particular attention must be paid to ethical AI so that 
AI-based decisions are free from bias, and proper safe-
guards are in place. To reap the full benefits of this technol-
ogy and ensure accurate and bias-free results, AI methods 
should ensure that biases aren’t hidden in the data, the data 
is complete and fully representative of the population and 
demographic, and business experts are integrally involved 
in the model-building process.  

Decarbonization is one of the most pressing trends 
impacting how we do business and significantly affecting 
our customers and the solutions we offer—and a key 

consideration for companies, investors, and governments. 
Companies and the consumers they serve are demanding 
green products. Investors price climate risks into their 
valuations. And regulators are starting to require greater 
disclosures. Our Verisk Maplecroft experts have stated that 
Scope 3 emissions reporting (emissions from non-owned 
company sources, such as business air travel), mandatory 
climate disclosures, and clean energy standards will 
become part of business as usual over the next year or two. 
It’s incumbent upon companies to embed net zero  
as a core aspiration that can drive operational efficiency, 
capital investment, and ultimately the bottom-line growth  
of their businesses. 

Investing for Growth with Discipline
Because of the profitability and scalability of our solutions, 
we’re highly capital generative. We manage that capital 
carefully by identifying and prioritizing investments that will 
generate growth while also returning capital to our share-
holders. Our strategy for value creation includes reinvest-
ment in our business, both for building new solutions 
ourselves and acquiring solution sets meaningful to our 
customers that help accelerate us to market. 

We’re active managers of our portfolio and are always alert 
to accelerating investment where growth is imminent while 
withdrawing or terminating investment when ideas don’t 
prove out. As we headed into 2022, we announced agree-
ments to sell two Verisk businesses: our 3E environmental 
health and safety business to New Mountain Capital  
and our Verisk Financial business to TransUnion. These 

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On a Personal Note

It’s hard to believe I’ll be retiring from Verisk in May. As I 
pass the baton to Lee Shavel, our current CFO, who has been 
named our next CEO, and current COO Mark Anquillare, 
named as our next president, I’m confident that under their 
steady leadership, Verisk will continue to thrive and grow. 
The company is well-positioned for long-term success. I 
couldn’t be more certain that Lee and Mark, our exceptional 
executive and leadership teams, and all our Verisk team-
mates will continue to empower a better, more resilient, and 
sustainable tomorrow for customers and societies.

My 21 years at Verisk have been a blessing. It’s a special 
place—a community filled with highly intelligent, dedicated 
people and incredible opportunities to do career-defining 
work. We genuinely listened to one another with respect 
and dignified each member of the team. As a result, great 
ideas emerged from colleagues across the organization, 
embedding a culture of innovation in our work every day.

I’m proud that we led with values and the highest ethical 
standards, keeping the best interests of our customers in 
mind while remaining committed to our teammates’ growth, 
professional satisfaction, and overall well-being.

Thank you to our shareholders for your dedication and 
support during my time as CEO. And thank you to all our 
employees for bringing your best selves to work every day. 
I’m honored that I had the opportunity to lead Verisk into 
this next chapter of innovation and growth and proud of 
what we’ve been able to accomplish together.

Sincerely,

Scott G. Stephenson
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer

divestitures are an important step in Verisk’s ongoing 
portfolio-shaping strategy to sharpen the focus on its core 
businesses and drive enhanced value creation for share-
holders, ensuring we generate strong returns on invested 
capital. 3E closed in the first quarter of 2022, and Verisk 
Financial is expected to close in the second quarter of 
2022, subject to customary closing conditions, including 
regulatory approvals. 

Verisk invests internally, with CapEx as a percent of revenue 
at 9.0 percent in 2021, resulting from internal development 
of software and new solutions. We’re also at record levels 
of investment in our people through enhanced training and 
development offerings and virtual programs for all levels, 
including leadership, data science, and Lean Six Sigma 
certifications. The Verisk team increased productivity and 
boosted connection and collaboration, despite the remote 
work environment. 

Our emphasis on attracting and retaining the best talent 
has also intensified and will continue to drive innovation 
and play a significant role in delivering consistent and solid 
financial results. We refined our talent acquisition operating 
model globally and successfully hired and onboarded 
remotely across the enterprise. All of these investments— 
in solutions, people, and methods—support our sustained 
performance into the foreseeable future.

We continue to pursue a program of open-market share 
repurchases. In 2021, we repurchased approximately  
2.55 million Verisk shares for a total cost of $475 million  
at a weighted-average price of $186.63. In total, we 
returned more than $660 million in cash through share 
repurchases and dividends, reflecting our commitment to 
returning capital to shareholders. On February 16, 2022,  
we announced a 7 percent  increase in our cash dividend 
and an incremental $1.0 billion in our share repurchase 
authorization. 

As we enter 2022, we find the structure of the markets  
we serve and their regulatory environments to be fairly 
stable. Inside our well-optimized business model, we’re 
extending into new adjacencies within our markets and 
moving into new geographies doing purposeful work.  
We’re transforming our operations to accelerate value 
creation for customers and shareholders. Verisk is at an 
exciting juncture in our company’s history, as our invest-
ments in innovation, technological transformation, and 
international expansion are delivering results. We expect to 
continue to see progress in recovery, as we move past the 
impacts of the pandemic and return to fulfilling our long- 
term growth objectives. 

We feel our future is in our own hands and rests upon our 
creativity and initiative. 

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Scott Stephenson’s  
Leadership

In the first quarter of 2022, Verisk Chairman, President, and CEO Scott Stephenson 
announced he’ll be retiring following the company’s May 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting. 
Scott joined Verisk in 2001, was named COO in 2008, president in 2011, and CEO in 2013. 
From 2013 to 2021, the company nearly doubled its annual revenue, more than quadrupled 
its market capitalization, modernized its technical environment, grew to more than 9,000 
employees, and expanded its global presence to 30 countries.

Scott’s Tenure as CEO Was 
Distinguished by Numerous 
Recognitions 

Named by Forbes as one of America’s Most 
Innovative Leaders

Named by Forbes as one of the Top 25 Most 
Innovative Leaders worldwide

Became part of the S&P 500 Index

Named to the S&P Global 500 ESG  
and the FTSE4Good Index Series

Ranked by Forbes for three consecutive 
years among the world’s most innovative 
companies

A Great Place to Work for six  
consecutive years

One of America’s Most Just Companies™

One of America’s Best Managed 
Companies™

Scott Has Transformed Verisk to Be More:

Data Analytic and Software Intensive
•  Pursued the integration of advanced technologies in our 

models and solutions

•  Supported an aggressive program of acquisitions and 

organic growth to deepen and broaden data sets in key 
vertical markets

•  Championed platformed analytic environments that offer 

customers business intelligence to make decisions

•  Led our transformation to be almost entirely cloud-based

Customer-Centric and Global
•  Nearly tripled the countries in which we operate
•  Developed a best-in-class customer experience program 

and invested in CX platforms and solutions

•  Introduced innovations worldwide and moved into new 

markets

Sustainable and Responsible
•  Created a strong corporate social responsibility program
•  Committed to the highest standards of data security 

through investment, awareness, and training

•  Reduced our carbon footprint and balanced 100 percent 

of our reported emissions

Diverse and Inclusive
•  Introduced The Verisk Way™, our guiding principles  
for how we approach our work, our customers, and  
each other

•  Launched Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and 

Diversity, a 14-point program of action  

•  Oversaw the launch of eight Employee Networks and the 

creation of our Diversity and Inclusion Council

•  Brought a new head of Diversity and Inclusion on board, 
increased women’s representation on our Executive 
Team, and diversified our Board

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A Welcome from  
Incoming CEO  
Lee Shavel

I‘m humbled to be named Verisk’s next CEO and excited 
about the opportunities to build upon our strong track 
record of success and further strengthen the company  
as we move forward to the next chapter of our journey.  

On behalf of the entire Verisk team, I want to thank Scott 
for his leadership and dedication to Verisk. Scott has  
driven much success at Verisk, broadened the company’s 
horizons to become more data analytic, and extended our 
capabilities into new geographies—all while providing a  
rare balance of leadership and humanity. It’s been a great 
privilege to work with Scott and learn from him over the 
past five years, and I’m fortunate that I’ll have his support 
and counsel through this transition.  

Verisk is truly a dynamic business with two uniquely 
powerful engines—our growing and proprietary data sets  
that have relevance to our customers and industries and 
the increasing appetite and capacity for our customers to 
ingest and use this data to improve their outcomes. Our 
9,000+ Verisk teammates who work each day to harness 
the power of these two engines and innovate solutions for 
our customers to help them make better decisions about 
risk, investments, and operations. And we do this work on 
behalf of the industries we serve more efficiently than they 
could individually, driving value creation for our customers, 
shareholders, and markets. 

As I prepare to step into the role of CEO, I look forward to 
advancing the transformational work of our incredible team 
and naturally extending the capital discipline philosophy I 
communicated over the last five years—internally and 
externally—to our operating focus. 

I’m energized about our mission and activating the com- 
pany’s business and financial performance to align with our 
strategic priorities. I’m eager to partner with our teams and 
lead this great company to the next phase of growth and 
innovation for all our stakeholders.

Sincerely,

Lee M. Shavel
Chief Financial Officer and Group President

Current Responsibilities
•  Verisk’s Chief Financial Officer and Group 

President

•  Drives the company’s financial strategy and 

capital management philosophy

•  Focuses on creating long-term value and 

investing in the highest-return opportunities
•  Provides operational oversight for Verisk’s 

energy and specialized markets and financial 
services groups

Accomplishments
•  Modernized Verisk’s corporate financial 
operations, including treasury, investor 
relations, and procurement

•  Successfully integrated our energy 

businesses for improved strategic and 
operating coordination

•  Developed strategic plans, acquisition 

strategies, financial performance objectives, 
and transparent financial reporting

•  Implemented an enhanced capital discipline 

process focused on both internal and 
external capital deployment

•  Grew the company’s relationships with debt 

and equity investment communities

Education
•  BS in economics from the Wharton School
•  BA in English from the University of 

Pennsylvania

Board Affiliations
•  Board of Directors of FactSet Research 

Systems; Audit Chair

•  Board of Trustees of SEEDS, an educational 

nonprofit

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Working with Purpose  
for Better Tomorrows

During 2021, we worked to advance meaningful corporate social responsibility priorities.

Our Sustainability Strategy

We began the process of developing a formal Sustainability 
Strategy by inviting a broad range of internal and external 
stakeholders to help identify and prioritize relevant existing 
and emerging issues of mutual importance. 

Five sustainability priorities will comprise the foundation for 
a multiyear sustainability strategy focused on maximizing 
stakeholder value:
•  Deliver services that empower business and society
•  Be the world’s most responsible data analytics company
•  Be a great place to work
•  Promote a diverse and inclusive culture
•  Help stakeholders address the impacts of climate and 

energy challenges

Our charitable partnerships use Verisk’s analytics, tools, and 

professional and financial expertise to make a difference.

To learn more about these initiatives and many others,  
visit www.verisk.com/csr and download the 2021 Verisk 
Corporate Social Responsibility Report.

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Furthering Our Commitment to  
Environmental Responsibility  

For the fourth consecutive year, we balanced 100 percent of 
our CDP-reported global Scope 1, 2, and 3 (business air 
travel) greenhouse gas emissions through purposeful 
energy reduction initiatives and investments in renewable 
energy certificates and carbon offsets.

We also announced our commitment to a 21 percent 
reduction in absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2024, 
compared to a 2019 baseline. 

Strengthening Our Employees and Culture 

We continued the important work of developing our long- 
and short-term diversity and inclusion strategy. And for the 
second year, we continued to report diversity metrics in 
accordance with the Sustainability Accounting Standards 
Board (SASB) standard for professional and commercial 
services companies.

For the sixth consecutive year, Verisk received Great Place 
to Work certification in the United States, and in the UK, 
Spain, and India for the second consecutive year. To 
achieve our certification, we surveyed our teammates on 
employee engagement and met Great Place to Work’s 
research-backed benchmark—with employees reporting a 
great workplace experience, based on factors such as 
innovation, inclusivity, company values, and the effective-
ness of our leaders.

Promoting Sound Governance 

We reconstituted the Board’s Nominating and Corporate 
Governance Committee as the Governance, Corporate 
Sustainability and Nominating Committee, reflecting our 
increased focus and oversight on sustainability and ESG 
matters. The committee will also evaluate the company’s 
ESG risks and opportunities. 

We also hosted “Commitments Week,” a mandatory, 
company-wide training initiative, increasing employee 
awareness of key risks and policies for the business  
and workplace.

Analytic Insights  
for Better Tomorrows

2021 brought us to an exciting place in our 50-year journey of moving 
the world forward. Integrating advanced technology, data, platformed 
analytics, and expert interpretation, we helped businesses across the 
globe see new possibilities, prepare for what’s next, and inspire change 
through the power of analytic insight. 

On these next few pages, learn about our commitments to our  
stakeholders—customers, shareholders, and employees—and how our  
innovations and the work we do every day drives positive and profitable 
outcomes that help business, people, and societies become stronger, 
more resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk’s highly recurrent data analytic solutions represent 81 
percent of the company’s revenue. These subscription-based 
solutions are our economic engine and confirm the value 
of our offerings and the success of the customer experi-
ence. Look for the 
throughout this report.

 symbol to learn about these solutions 

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Unparalleled Proprietary 
Platformed Analytics That  
Drive Actionable Insights

Our platformed analytics are decision support platforms with massive data sets and  
analytics that span multiple industries and functions. They integrate easily into our  
customers’ workflows and provide critical insights to tackle some of today’s most  
significant global issues. Through these platforms, we deliver immediate and  
sustained value to our customers and, through them, to the individuals and societies  
they serve.

Claims Management Solutions
The claims landscape is rapidly changing, and digital 

acceleration is increasing pressure to adopt greater 
workflow automation. To help customers meet these 
challenges, we reimagined ClaimSearch® to provide a new, 
all-in-one claims management solution to make faster, 
better-informed decisions. Claim Essentials is the future of 
ClaimSearch, beginning with its rollout to third-party 
administrators (TPAs) and self-insureds in 2021. Claim 
Essentials helps streamline claims—leveraging data, 
analytics, and automation technology to provide insights on 
claims fraud, entity resolution and investigation, and more. 
It features flexible integration based on the size and scale 
of a customer’s operations, enhanced customer experience, 
automated claims compliance reporting, and better 
workflow efficiency. 

We also introduced Digital Media Forensics to the platform 
to provide access to millions of prior-loss images to the 191 
insurers now participating. The 97 percent participation 
growth rate lays the foundation for expanding into new 
image forensics solutions in 2022. 

Accelerating Decision-Making  
for Underwriting and Claims

Life Insurance Solutions 
Verisk supports life and annuity insurers with flexible 
technology that applies advanced analytics, automation, 
machine learning, and deep domain expertise to unique data 
assets drawn from existing and emerging sources. These 
individual-, group-, and portfolio-level solutions can help 
accelerate current workflows and boost efficiency in life 
underwriting, life and pension analytics, claims, compliance 
and fraud detection, and actuarial and portfolio modeling.

Verisk also continued the growth of its:
•  EHR Triage Engine, which helps drive straight-through 

processing and streamlined customer experiences with 
electronic health records

•  Tobacco Usage Propensity Model, which uses artificial 

intelligence to analyze audio interviews with life 
insurance applicants and flag probable tobacco users
•  FAST platform, recognized for the fourth year in a row 

as a Leader for the insurance and annuity industry in the 
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ report

•  Presence in group life and institutional annuities by 

acquiring 4C Solutions, a software advisory firm with 
proprietary data architecture to help insurers meet rapidly 
changing coverage needs

•  Life Risk Navigator, which simulates stochastic scenarios 

to build robust risk metrics, capture uncertainty, and 
study policy and portfolio correlations

•  Claims solutions, which integrate fraud detection and 

compliance with claims automation

12 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

Enterprise Risk Modeling Platform 

With the Touchstone® platform, Verisk Extreme Event 
Solutions (formerly AIR) continued to help insurers and 
other organizations better manage catastrophe risk, 
providing analytical solutions and property extreme event 
models. The models cover perils in more than 110 coun-
tries by capturing catastrophe events responsible for more 
than 90 percent of reported worldwide insured losses for 
the 20-year period from 2000 through 2020. The team is 
also the modeling agent for approximately 70 percent of 
2021 property-catastrophe bond issuances.

As part of Touchstone 9.0, we released technical previews 
to customers of seven extreme event models—inland flood, 
hurricane, earthquake, and winter storm for the United 
States and earthquake, extratropical cyclone, and severe 
thunderstorm for Europe. The preview provides an opportu-
nity to examine the risk of underwriting more complex 
reinsurance policies and align our customers’ risk appetite 
in a new financial module. 

We also made significant updates to these models to help 
insurers, communities, and government entities estimate 
the effects of catastrophes and prepare for and mitigate 
losses: 
•  Earthquake and typhoon models for Japan, including 
building, contents, and business interruption damage 
exposures and vulnerability

•  Terrorism model for the United States, to more 

comprehensively model damage from conventional bomb 
blast attacks

The company was also selected as Modeler of Choice for 
Catastrophe Risk Management by a group of international 
insurance and reinsurance companies. 

Energy Data Analytics Platform 

Verisk’s Wood Mackenzie Lens energy analytics platform, 
underpinned by hundreds of analysts, trusted data, and 
models, provides insights and valuation expertise for 
natural resources decision makers. This year, we saw 
significant growth with our customers’ annual contract 
value for Lens and non-Lens solutions. Growth was driven 
by key enhancements to Lens Upstream, such as bench-
marking global carbon emissions levels of a company or 
asset and analyzing the environmental impact of an entire 
portfolio. Users can also benchmark and value natural gas 
projects and conduct multi-company valuations, a critical 
workflow for our banking customers. 

We also launched Lens Power, bringing the energy transi-
tion to Lens through the addition of power and renewable 
energy data, analysis, and insights. 

Unparalleled Proprietary Platformed Analytics / 13

The Partner of Choice  
When Certainty Matters

We partner with customers and organizations of all sizes to replace uncertainty with  
precision—unlocking opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable societal  
impact and profitable outcomes. We help others see new possibilities and empower  
certainty into big decisions that impact businesses, people, and societies. 

Addressing Property, Auto, and Cyber Risks

Core Lines Services
Verisk’s core line of services, more than 50 years 
strong, continues to thrive with growing subscription-based 
revenues. Our standardized insurance policy programs help 
insurers meet coverage expectations, simplify claims 
settlements, and reduce costly litigation—always respond-
ing to the changing needs of the market. 

We’re on a journey to reimagine core lines over the next 
several years to be more flexible and customer-centric. In 
2021, we made significant updates to the ISO Homeowners 
program. Marijuana, e-bikes/e-scooters, and digital 
currencies are just a few of the new homeowners expo-
sures that have emerged in recent years. To address these 
risks, we filed one of the most significant updates to the 
ISO Homeowners program in a decade. It’s a sweeping 
update, addressing a range of new exposures, enhancing 
language around existing homeowners risks, and introduc-
ing new optional endorsements, new rules, and loss costs. 
The program also includes a new form to help address 
coverage needs of millennial renters.

The ISO Statistical Database, which contains aggregated 
data from across the industry, also saw significant growth. 
A record number of insurers gained access to analytics 
critical to their operations by joining the growing and 
increasingly diverse roster of insurers contributing premium 
and loss records to Verisk. A total of 47 insurers began 
contributing to the database in 2021—the highest number 
of new participants in a single year over the last 10 years. 
Contributory data insights and analytics give more certainty 
and predictability to insurers. 

“Weallbenefitasanindustrywhenwe
collectivelycontributedatatoVerisk.
Losscostsandbenchmarksderived
fromadiverseandrobustdatasetgive
usmorecertaintyandpredictability.The
additionalinsightsandanalyticsallowus
todifferentiateourselvesandmaintainour
competitiveedge.”
—
Shane Paltzer, Vice President of Marketing and 
Personal Lines, Acuity Insurance (one of the new 
contributing companies)

Personal Property Solutions 
Verisk expanded its property intelligence solutions into 
Canada, introducing critical information derived from 
previously untapped building permit data to help insurers 
track changes to homes and commercial properties and 
ensure that their customers have the coverage they need. 
The database of more than 1 billion data points provides 
information on remodeling, renovation and maintenance 
activity, major system updates, solar installations, pool 
construction, and other critical property characteristics. 

To make informed underwriting decisions on a wide range 
of homes, insurers need to know the reliability of the data 
they’re using upfront. We added confidence scores to 
SmartSource®, Verisk’s personal property prefill solution, to 
provide insight into the accuracy of key property character-
istics. SmartSource uses AI to analyze data reliability and 
build confidence scores for eight key property characteris-
tics, including year built, living area, number of stories, 
foundation, exterior wall construction/finish, garage/
carport, and fireplace.

14 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

Telematics
Verisk launched the DrivingDNA® Score, the next generation 
of its advanced telematics scoring model. With an associ-
ated rating rule and expansive state rollout plan, the updated 
and enhanced score can make usage-based insurance 
(UBI) market entry and expansion easier with straightfor-
ward implementation and a single API. The DrivingDNA 
Score gives insurers the ability to calculate precise, 
percentile-based risk scores using as few as 10 weeks of 
driving data. The score can also improve insurers’ risk 
segmentation 5.5 times above traditional rating variables.

Cyber Risk
With data support from partners worldwide, the Verisk 
Claims Solutions PCS team developed PCS Cyber RLM to 
help the cyber re/insurance sector better understand the 
rapidly growing and siloed market for large programs. 
Representing almost $200 billion in estimated protection, 
PCS Cyber RLM is a database of large affirmative cyber 
single-risk programs, representing nearly 100 percent of the 
market with at least $200 million in coverage and 25 
percent of the market with $100–199 million, along with 
historical exposures. PCS Cyber RLM has empowered 
underwriters and actuaries to understand the market’s risk 
and their own risk and improve capital management for this 
new and emerging class of business. 

Improving Claims Outcomes 

Contributory Databases
In 2021, we expanded our data use rights for proprietary 
claims and policyholder information—with nearly 800 
carriers contributing. We also expanded Policy Insights 
Report usage for claims processing, including subrogation 
pursuit. The contributory database that provides tools to 
help streamline claim processing now has 1.2 million 
unique VINs, helping customers obtain policy insights. 

Compliance System
Our CP Link® solution—an integrated Medicare Secondary 
Payer compliance system—saved customers more than 
$12 million in 2021 and improved certainty by automatically 
identifying claims for compliance. We enhanced the service 
with a new Provide Accurate Information Directly (PAID) Act 
add-on component that allows insurers to have a program-
matic approach to Medicare Advantage Plus (MAP) and 
Part D compliance. Built on our reliable approach to tradi- 
tional Medicare recovery claims, the CP Link add-on 
leverages both Section 111 reporting data and PAID Act 
data to ensure that any recovery claims alleged by MAPs or 
Part D plans are addressed. 

Bringing Certainty to Global Markets

London Market Partnerships
Verisk Specialty Business Solutions (formerly Sequel) 
entered into a joint initiative with ACORD— the global 
insurance standards-setting body—to create expanded  
data standards to benefit the London Market and the global 
insurance ecosystem. These standards will enable business 
activities, including placing, underwriting, and distribution, 
based on assets donated by Specialty Business Solutions 
to the industry through ACORD.

A group of market-leading underwriters known as “the 
Sequel6” (Markel, Beazley, Hiscox, Chaucer, Brit, and Liberty 
Specialty Markets) partnered with Specialty Business 
Solutions to help develop a more efficient way of doing 
business in the London Market. Specialty Business 
Solutions and the Sequel6 engaged with brokers, ACORD, 
and other solution providers to identify a strong need within 
the market for interoperability between proprietary and 
market systems.

Strategic Energy Partnership
We combined Wood Mackenzie and PowerAdvocate, 
building on the best of both organizations. The partnership 
brought PowerAdvocate solutions to more global custom-
ers and expanded Wood Mackenzie’s supply chain and cost 
management datasets. It also accelerated bringing our solu- 
tions to market to serve more customers in more industries 
to make critical decisions in the energy transition.

The Partner of Choice / 15

Proven Innovations That  
Solve Real-World Problems

Our innovations embolden our customers to meet extraordinary obstacles head-on, enable 
recovery, and address challenges that affect lives and livelihoods—helping to protect people 
and make society stronger. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our 
customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Using AI and Advanced Technologies  
to Help People and Society

Commercial Property Intelligence

We expanded ProMetrix®—Verisk’s commercial 
property platform—with an innovative advanced 

analytical model that provides information on 8.1 million 
commercial properties for five core property attributes: 
building use, ISO construction class, year built, number of 
stories, and square footage. The foundation for this 
initiative was four million-plus properties, with data gath- 
ered in the field by Verisk field representatives. With these 
verified on-site reports, the ProMetrix database now 
provides insurers with actionable information on more than 
15.4 million commercial properties. By giving insurers a 
complete picture for commercial property, they can better 
assess risks and help protect people and property. 

On-site inspections were still critical for evaluating some 
commercial property risks. Rather than relying on just 
video-call technology, Verisk combined virtual field inspec-
tions with data generated by aerial imagery and artificial 
intelligence to provide both interior and exterior views of 
commercial properties. With a focus on actionable data, 
Verisk more than doubled the number of reports they could 
generate for customers. These innovations helped insurers 
underwrite new risks and confirm renewal information 
gathered in previous on-site inspections.

Legal Analytics
Court decisions can profoundly impact insurance compa-
nies, affecting everything from the types of exposures 
carriers are willing to insure to reserve allocation and claim 
management strategies. The verdicts associated with these 
court decisions can vary significantly by jurisdiction, 
insurance topic, and amount; they can also be challenging 
to access and time-consuming and costly to research. To 

help insurers address these challenges, Verisk enhanced its 
insurance-specific legal dashboard, CourtSide™, with a 
Verdict Database. The new Verdict Database provides 
aggregate verdict information by jurisdiction and insurance 
topic to support insurers’ daily decision-making and 
strategic planning.  

Unstructured data, such as emails and medical records, has 
typically made legal analysis challenging. With cutting-edge 
technology, we developed Legal Case Management that 
digests free-form data to produce meaningful case insights 
to help support better claims outcomes. The solution also 
provides insurers with performance data for defense 
counsel and integrates with other Verisk settlement and 
efficiency tools. 

Claims Intelligence
Applying the same innovation to the medical field, we 
released Discovery Navigator, an innovative solution that 
uses AI to pull data from unstructured medical records and 
provides customers with the information in a format that 
can be easily reviewed and uploaded into their claims 
management system. Users can select key medical terms 
and concepts and have them highlighted and/or extracted, 
and medical information can be automatically extracted 
from patient files. This new technology benefits both the 
insurer and policyholder—with improved consumer satisfac-
tion, lower costs, and expedited settlements. 

We also expanded XactAnalysis Insights, a powerful, 
intuitive reporting solution that uses AI and machine 

learning to help customers analyze their claims database to 
locate and discover the crucial intelligence they need. Such 
information is critical in identifying inefficiencies, risks, and 
underperforming processes.

16 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

Also, in 2021, we provided several valuable tools at 
no cost to subscriber customers of our estimating 

solution for insurance repair, Xactimate® Professional. Tools 
included XactScope, which drastically speeds up water miti- 
gation and roof and exterior estimates; Sketch AR, which 
uses augmented reality to let users measure a structure by 
pointing their phone around the space and tapping to take 
measurements; and Multi-Object Recognition, which uses AI to 
automatically recognize and tag objects, allowing estima-
tors to build contents inventories more quickly.

Energy and Supply Chain Insights
PowerAdvocate launched its Risk Intelligence suite, an analyt- 
ical platform that analyses the threats in a customer’s supply 
chain, from business continuity risks, like supplier insol-
vency or extreme weather events, to ESG-related concerns.

PowerAdvocate’s Market Intelligence® suite provides energy 
and natural resources customers with insight on categories 
meaningful to their businesses. This year, we introduced a 
unit price benchmarking analytic object in Market Intelli-
gence that allows customers to understand the competi-
tiveness of their prices rapidly, at scale.

Diversifying Platforms into New Markets

We continued to focus on extending our solutions to new 
markets. An area of focus this year was diversifying our 
estimating and building cost data for the remodeling, real 
estate, and property preservation industries. Verisk property 
data can help guide investment decisions for large, sophis- 
ticated investors (such as REITs) with contextual data, 
property history, and economic insights that work together 
to provide a picture of a property’s potential. The data and 
insights also power important homeownership decisions. 
Property data includes more than 230 data points, including 
aerial imagery, material and labor pricing, and permit 
information to help in decision-making and risk analysis.

Proven Innovations / 17

Seamless Integrations That Deliver 
Greater Speed, Precision, and Scale

We seamlessly integrate our solutions into our customers’ processes, helping  
them make crucial decisions with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re  
customer-centric in our day-to-day activities and operations, relentlessly focusing  
on our customers’ success.

Delivering Data and Insights with Speed and Focus

Automated Rating and Underwriting
Verisk enhanced its LightSpeed® Small Commercial platform for automated 
“no-touch” underwriting, using artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured 
data in certain online reviews, including images that might indicate how busi- 
nesses have evolved. Insurers can use these insights to inform discussions 
about coverage with potential customers, see how employees are mitigating 
risks, and make underwriting decisions with greater speed and precision.

We also enhanced LightSpeed Auto, our prefill auto insurance solution, with 
information on the driving behavior patterns of consenting consumers in the 
Verisk Data Exchange—improving speed to bind, conversion rates, and the 
customer experience. Insurers also receive Verisk’s DrivingDNA Score, which 
enables them to calculate personalized discounts for consenting drivers at 
point of sale, without the need for lengthy driving observation periods. And 
we added Index of Activity, enabling insurers to avoid the cost of ordering 
motor vehicle reports for drivers without violations.

Responding to a deep industry need for speed and efficiency, we launched a 
new cloud-based version of our ISO Electronic Rating Content™ (ERC™) 
solution to dramatically reduce the time and effort that commercial lines 
insurers spend updating rating content. The next generation of ERC is 
cloud-based, accessible via smart APIs, and significantly easier for insurers 
to use, integrate, and test. ERC is powered by Verisk’s Rulebook, an 
award-winning pricing, underwriting, and distribution platform.

Among those who began offering ISO ERC is WTW (formerly Willis Towers 
Watson), who added it to Radar, their pricing and decision support solution.  

“OurcollaborationwithVerisk
offerscommercialinsurers
ahighlyinnovativevalue
propositionthatdelivers
increasedproductivity,pace,
andagilitytogenerateever
moresophisticatedpricing.
Inadditiontocontinually
addingfunctionalityand
performanceimprovements
toRadar,thisrelationship
withVeriskdemonstrates
ourongoingcommitment
tobuildinganecosystemof
leadinginsurancesolution
partnerstoimprovethe
valueofouroverallsoftware
proposition.”
—
Alex Van Gorden, Senior Director  
at WTW

18 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

“Veriskwasabletoofferus
comprehensivedatatohelpus
improvenotonlyoureaseofdoing
businessbutalsoourunderwriting
results.Notonlywasthisdata
comprehensive,theaccuracyand
matchresultsconsistently
outperformedthemarket.”
—
John Eckmair, Vice President  
and Chief Underwriting Officer,  
Utica National

Marketing Analytics
Jornaya (now part of Verisk Marketing Solutions), a leader 
in behavioral data and intelligence for the consumer buying 
journey, went to market in 2021 with a new customer user 
interface, myJornaya, which significantly improves the 
customer experience. The interface includes Activate, 
which monitors customer/prospect shopping behavior, and 
TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act) Guardian, a 
solution that helps companies demonstrate consent and 
compliance. With myJornaya, customers receive same-day 
access to compliance reports and an easier, faster, and 
more efficient process. As Jornaya integrates its other 
marketing analytics solutions, myJornaya will deliver a 
simple, unified, and intuitive user experience that seeks to 
delight customers. 

Supporting the Insurance Ecosystem
We continued to grow our auto insurance ecosystem with 
the acquisition of Data Driven Safety, a leading public 
record aggregation firm specializing in driver risk assess-
ment in the United States. The acquisition will expand 
Verisk’s auto insurance analytics, providing insurers with 
information to further refine underwriting, improve the 
customer experience, and promote public safety by helping 
a wide range of customers identify safer risks through 
informed decision-making.

We expanded our property estimating solutions 
ecosystem integrations with Matterport, Duck Creek, 

Phoenix Restoration, and others to dramatically expand 
connections for our customers so they can use their 
existing tools with our solutions. The Matterport integration 
accelerates the sketching process for insurance claims. 
The Duck Creek integration simplifies and streamlines 
claims workflows. The Phoenix Restoration integration 
streamlines and enhances restoration job management and 
reporting for water, mold, and fire restoration professionals. 

Verisk Specialty Business Solutions launched Sequel Hub,  
a solution that simplifies the distribution of standalone 
products and delegated authority business. Sequel Hub is 
hosted in the cloud, with more than 10 carriers and two of 
the top three brokers. The solution orchestrates seamless 
messaging between brokers, carriers, delegated authorities, 
and market systems, enabling intermediaries to place 
submissions, receive quotes, and access capacity from 
multiple carriers through a single system. As part of the 
larger insurance ecosystem, Sequel Hub brings great 
efficiencies, increased speed of doing business, and 
improved data quality to specialty distribution workflows. 

Seamless Integrations / 19

Empowering a More Resilient  
and Sustainable Tomorrow  
for Customers and Societies 

Our analytic insights transform industries, including insurance, energy, and govern-
ments, on some of the world’s most critical areas—natural catastrophes, climate 
change, ESG risks, and geopolitical issues. They rely on Verisk to make the world 
more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

20 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

Building Resilience for  
Properties and Communities

Understanding Exposures for  
ESG and Political Risk

Political Violence
Exacerbated by the pandemic, political violence with its 
current scale has become a new and surprising problem for 
our customers and one of the most challenging emerging 
risks in the global market. Three events in three years have 
resulted in more than $8 billion in industry-wide insured 
losses, more than the industry sustained over the prior 50 
years. The Verisk Claims Solutions PCS team helped the 
global re/insurance industry navigate the recent and fast 
escalation of the global political violence risk environment 
with new loss reporting capabilities for non-terror political 
violence to help customers with pricing, reserving, and 
risk-transfer requirements. 

Verisk Maplecroft, in collaboration with Lloyd’s Lab innova-
tion accelerator program, released a new predictive model 
for civil unrest to help insurers understand the costs of civil 
unrest and how to price it at the city level—an entirely novel 
approach. Using the model, we accurately forecast the costs 
of events in Chile and Minneapolis using retrospective data.

ESG Risks
Verisk Maplecroft launched a new Commodity Risk Service 
to help investors and companies quickly understand, adapt to, 
and report on 20 commodity-specific environmental, social, 
and governance risks built into supply chains, investments, 
and transactions at the farm or mine level. The service has 
the world’s only comprehensive, comparable dataset on the 
sustainability, ESG, and climate risks of global agriculture, 
aquaculture, metals, and natural resource commodities.

Wildfire Mitigation 
To help promote the importance of building resilient 
communities to property insurers and their customers, the 
National Fire Protection Association began providing Verisk 
with robust data on communities engaging in wildfire 
mitigation efforts. Verisk is leveraging the data from the NFPA 
Firewise USA® recognition program to develop property- 
level analytics insurers can use to refine their underwriting. 
This collaboration will promote the value of community- 
wide wildfire risk reduction activities to a broader public.

Advanced Analytics for Fire Departments
Also, this year, Verisk introduced ISO Mitigate, a new, 
interactive web platform with advanced analytic and 
visualization tools to support strategic planning, offered 
free of charge to fire departments. The Mitigate platform 
allows fire chiefs and local officials to benchmark their 
community’s Public Protection Classification (PPC®) score, 
visualize their performance, and make data-driven deci-
sions about investing in fire safety and preparedness. The 
PPC program, used by most insurers for property insurance 
rating, measures the fire prevention and suppression 
systems of nearly 40,000 communities in the United States.

Hurricane Ida Impacts
When Hurricane Ida hit, we used geospatial data and 
analytics to help insurers assess probable damage to known 
structures, triage incoming claims, and deploy necessary 
resources. In coordination with Verisk Extreme Event 
Solutions, the Verisk 3D visual intelligence team discovered 
the total estimated cost of losses from Hurricane Ida. Losses 
occurred mainly in Louisiana and surrounding states 
between August 26 and September 4, 2021—and ranged 
between $17 billion and $25 billion, including physical 
property damage and an increased demand for materials 
and repairs. We also determined that 164,472 buildings 
sustained winds of 80 mph, while more than 794,300 
structures were hit with maximum gusts of above 80 mph. 

Through our partnership with the Geospatial Insurance 
Consortium, we collected pre- and post-event high-resolution 
aerial imagery of impacted areas, providing insurers with 
valuable insights on catastrophe damage.

Empowering a More Resilient and Sustainable Tomorrow / 21

Tackling Climate Change in  
a Changing World

Climate Change Analysis and Insights
Our climate change insights continue to help business, 
people, and societies. To help our customers understand 
the potential impacts of climate change on U.S. hurricanes 
looking ahead to the year 2050, Verisk’s Climate Change 
Practice, led by our extreme event solutions team, devel-
oped the Miami Hurricane Climate Change Event Set. The 
set contains 81 potential scenarios with a hurricane similar 
to Hurricane Andrew in ways consistent with the effects of 
a changing climate. 

Also, in collaboration with experts from the Brookings 
Institution and AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, the extreme 
event solutions team released a report that explores how 
climate change may affect hurricane risk in the United 
States by 2050, specifically related to financial losses to 
residential and commercial properties. 

Another such collaboration explored how climate change 
may affect agricultural risk in the United States, specifically 
looking at the impact on corn yield. With 13 states respon-
sible for 90 percent of the corn grain and produce in the 
United States and 30 percent globally, the resulting analysis 
that climate change could cut corn belt yields by up to 40 
percent by mid-century has significant ramifications for the 
global food supply. 

Verisk Maplecroft launched a portfolio of 12 subnational 
indices assessing flood hazards and water stress under 
different climate scenarios. The indices measure risk down 
to 5 km2 globally, enabling companies and investors to 
understand the vulnerabilities of their assets in different 
temperature scenarios up to mid-century and build resil-
ience strategies. The company also released a Climate 
Litigation Index assessing the risks of climate-related 
lawsuits globally. The index helps organizations understand 
the developing legal landscape of climate-driven legal 
cases brought against multinationals and governments and 
where these are most likely to occur.

The Energy Transition
Wood Mackenzie further cemented its role as a leader in 
green power and renewables data, analytics, and insights 
while helping commodity sectors navigate the energy and 
materials transition. In 2021, new product development in 
the energy transition space enabled the business to 
diversify revenue risk. The company also played an active 
role in COP26—the UN Climate Change Conference of the 
Parties—held in November 2021 in Glasgow, UK, by 
providing insights to customers on transitioning to a 
low-carbon future and showcasing how our data and 
solutions can address the energy transition.

22 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

The company established consulting practices for emis-
sions, hydrogen, and Carbon Capture, Usage, and Storage, 
publishing more than 30 research reports, providing more 
energy transition solution support to customers. 

Scientific Research
Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research (formerly 
AER) published a landmark study linking climate change to 
severe winter weather in the United States. Featured in the 
top-tier scientific journal Science, the study, coauthored 
with University Massachusetts Lowell and Hebrew  
University, was based on research supported by the 
National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration.

As a lead member of a group collaborating with Exxon 
Mobil to design a new satellite constellation for monitoring 
greenhouse gas emissions, the team conducted modeling 
and remote sensing studies for climate tech firm Scepter, 
Inc. The alliance will allow Scepter to quickly boost its 
atmospheric data collection for both industry and govern-
ment, critical to deploying a global methane-detection 
information system to meet the operational needs of the 
energy industry. 

The company also supports the US Air Force’s worldwide 
operational cloud analysis and forecast system and 
continues to optimize the design and development of the 
next-generation Environmental Weather Satellite System 
with state-of-the-art modeling and technologies.

Our Global Presence

In 2021, our customers included all the top 100 U.S. P&C insurers for the lines of services  
we offer, insurers in international markets, and nine of the top 10 global energy producers. 

As part of our strategy for growth, Verisk expanded 
internationally through new acquisitions, extending our 
solutions to new regions and growing our customer base. 
International expansion helps us develop a more diverse 
workforce that attracts high-quality talent and increases 
innovation—ultimately increasing revenue and driving future 
growth. We also grew our teams in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 
bringing global perspectives and expertise in local markets 
to our customers and operations.  

Strengthening European and  
UK Insurance Markets

We acquired Contact State—the lead generation certification 
technology platform—to offer customers expanded insights 
into buyer journeys in the UK and European Union. Contact 
State pioneered and introduced data lead certification in the 
UK. The company’s integration with Jornaya, a leader in con- 
sumer compliance, behavioral data, and marketing intelli-
gence, helps accelerate trust, transparency, efficiency, and 
performance in the marketing ecosystem for consumers 
and customers. 

We also acquired ACTINEO, a rapidly expanding service 
provider specializing in the digitalization and medical 
assessment of bodily injury claims, positioning Verisk as 
the pan-European leader in the bodily injury and medical  
malpractice sectors. Adding ACTINEO’s claims manage-
ment solutions to our leading data analytics and insurance 
ecosystem provided customers with digitalization and 
medical expertise solutions for the entire claims process.

Creating Efficient Digital Ecosystems

To accelerate digital transformation in the global specialty 
market, Verisk acquired Whitespace and integrated its 
platform into our Verisk Specialty Business Solutions 
platforms. Whitespace, a leading provider of digital placing 
technology to the (re)insurance market, leverages its 
platform to allow thousands of users to create and process 
placement contracts made of data rather than Word docu- 
ments or PDFs. This approach leads to optimal efficiency 
and security. 

We further accelerated digital efficiency by acquiring Ignite, 
an insurance policy administration systems provider to 
brokers, managing general agents (MGAs), and insurers. 
Ignite’s cloud-based platform gives insurance businesses a 
complete back- and front-office system built for automation 
and e-commerce.

Verisk also strategically invested in Hug Hub, a London- 
based InsurTech firm, providing its customers access to 
our analytics. The investment enables Hug Hub to expand 
its digital platform for insurers, MGAs, and brokers and 
Verisk to play a significant role in accelerating the intelligent 
use of data and analytics across the insurance value chain. 

Providing Energy Transition Expertise

Verisk acquired Roskill, a leader in metals and materials 
supply chain intelligence, to augment our metals and 
mining business, especially for battery raw materials used 
in electric vehicles—an integral component of the energy 
transition. Integrating Roskill with Wood Mackenzie’s 
industry-leading research and analysis services produced a 
product suite with unmatched expertise in lithium, cobalt, 
graphite, nickel sulfate, rare earths, and battery technology.

Growing Teams around the Globe

Our insurance vertical continued to grow talent teams in the 
UK, Spain, and Poland. We also augmented our China team 
to support Verisk’s Risk Rating solutions, which assess the 
medical risk presented by preexisting conditions and inform 
underwriting decisions. 

Also, this year, our insurance, energy, and specialty markets 
teams, across a wide variety of functions, relocated to a 
state-of-the-art facility in the second-tallest building in the 
heart of historic London. Our teammates can collaborate 
more effectively to better serve our customers with one 
integrated location.

Global Presence / 23

Corporate Leadership 2021

Scott G. Stephenson
Chairman, President,  
and Chief Executive Officer

Mark V. Anquillare
Chief Operating Officer  
and Group President

Kathlyn Card Beckles
Chief Legal Officer 

Melissa Hendricks
Chief Marketing Officer

Sunita Holzer
Chief Human Relations Officer

Patrick McLaughlin
Chief Sustainability Officer

Yang Chen
Head of Corporate Development  
and Strategy 

Lee M. Shavel
Chief Financial Officer  
and Group President

Nicholas Daffan
Chief Information Officer

Board of Directors 2021

Scott G. Stephenson
Chairman of the Board
Executive Committee (Chair)

Annell R. Bay
Marathon Oil Corporation (retired)
Compensation Committee (Chair); 
Executive Committee; Governance, 
Corporate Sustainability and  
Nominating Committee

Vincent Brooks
WestExec Advisors
Governance, Corporate Sustainability 
and Nominating Committee

Christopher M. Foskett
Fiserv
Executive Committee (Lead Director); 
Finance and Investment Committee

24 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

Bruce Hansen
ID Analytics (retired)
Audit Committee (Chair);  
Compensation Committee; Executive 
Committee

Samuel G. Liss
WhiteGate Partners, LLC
Audit Committee; Executive  
Committee; Finance and Investment 
Committee (Chair)

Kathleen A. Hogenson
Zone Oil & Gas, LLC
Finance and Investment Committee; 
Governance, Corporate Sustainability 
and Nominating Committee

Constantine P. Iordanou
Arch Capital Group Limited (retired)
Compensation Committee;
Governance, Corporate Sustainability 
and Nominating Committee

Therese M. Vaughan
Drake University
Compensation Committee; Executive 
Committee; Governance, Corporate 
Sustainability and Nominating  
Committee (Chair)

David B. Wright
Innovative Capital Ventures, Inc.
Audit Committee; Compensation 
Committee

Laura K. Ipsen
Ellucian
Audit Committee; Finance and  
Investment Committee

Selected Financial Data

Statement of operations

Revenues:

Insurancerevenues

EnergyandSpecializedMarketsrevenues

FinancialServicesrevenues

Revenues

Totalexpenses

Operatingincome

NetincomeattributabletoVerisk

Adjustednetincome

Adjusteddilutedearningspershare

AdjustedEBITDA:

Insurance

EnergyandSpecializedMarkets

FinancialServices

TotaladjustedEBITDA

AdjustedEBITDAmargin

Balance sheet data

Cashandcashequivalents

Totalassets

Totaldebt

Veriskstockholders’equity

Other data

Consolidatedcashfromoperations

Consolidatedcapitalexpenditures

2021

Years Ended December 31,
2020

2019

(in millions, except for per share data)

$





$

$

$

$

$

$

$





$



$

$

$

$

$

$

2,206.9

648.9

142.8

2,998.6

1,998.1

1,000.5

666.2

868.1

5.31

1,215.8

231.3

23.0

1,470.1

49.0%

280.3

7,808.1

3,314.1

2,816.5

1,155.7

268.4

$





$

$

$

$

$

$

$



$



$

$

$

$

$

$

2,008.7

619.2

156.7

2,784.6

1,746.5

1,038.1

712.7

833.9

5.04

1,117.2

215.1

44.2

1,376.5

49.4%

218.8

7,561.8

3,213.9

2,698.2

1,068.2

246.8

$





$

$

$

$

$

$

$



$



$

$

$

$

$

$

1,885.4

543.7

178.0

2,607.1

1,910.2

696.9

449.9

729.1

4.38

981.2

182.3

60.6

1,224.1

47.0%

184.6

7,055.2

3,151.0

2,260.8

956.3

216.8

EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA Expenses: EBITDA represents GAAP net income adjusted for (i) depreciation and amortization  
of fixed assets; (ii) amortization of intangible assets; (iii) interest expense; and (iv) provision for income taxes. Adjusted EBITDA represents 
EBITDA adjusted for acquisition-related costs (earn-outs), gain/loss from dispositions (which includes businesses held for sale), and nonrecur-
ring gain/loss. Adjusted EBITDA expenses represent adjusted EBITDA net of revenues. We believe these measures are useful and meaningful 
because they help us allocate resources, make business decisions, allow for greater transparency regarding our operating performance, and  
facilitate period-to-pe riod comparison. 

Adjusted Net Income and Diluted Adjusted EPS: Adjusted net income represents GAAP net income adjusted for (i) amortization of intangible 
assets, net of tax; (ii) acquisition-related costs (earn-outs), net of tax; (iii) gain/loss from dispositions (which includes businesses held for sale), 
net of tax; and (iv) nonrecurring gain/loss, net of tax. Diluted adjusted EPS rep resents adjusted net income divided by weighted-average diluted 
shares. We believe these measures are useful and meaningful because they allow evaluation of the after-tax profitability of our results, excluding 
the after-tax effect of acquisition-related costs and nonrecurring items.

EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted EBITDA expenses are non-GAAP financial measures. Margin is calculated as a percentage of revenues.

Prior periods have been recalculated to conform with the current definitions noted above.

We define “capital expenditures” as purchases of fixed assets and software development.

Financial Data / 25

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Selected Financial Data

The following is a reconciliation of net income to adjusted net income:

2021  

2020  

2019

Netincome

Amortizationofintangibles

Incometaxeffectonamortizationofintangibles

Litigationreserve

Incometaxeffectonlitigationreserve

Acquisition-relatedcostsandinterestexpense(earn-outs)

Incometaxeffectonacquisition-relatedcostsandinterestexpense(earn-outs)

Impairmentloss

Incometaxeffectonimpairmentloss

(Gain)lossfromdispositions

Incometaxeffectongain(loss)fromdispositions

Adjusted net income

The following is a reconciliation of net income to adjusted EBITDA:

Netincome

Depreciationandamortization

Interestexpense

Provisionforincometaxes

Impairmentloss

Litigationreserve

Acquisition-relatedcosts(earn-outs)

(Gain)lossfromdispositions

Adjusted EBITDA

(in millions)

$

712.7 $

$









666.3

176.7

(38.8)

(50.0)

12.6

0.1

—

134.0

(32.8)

— 

—

$

868.1













$

165.9



(36.5) 

—

—

2.1







(0.5) 

 —

(19.4) 

9.6 

449.9

138.0

(29.0)

125.0

(29.9)

75.1

(4.7)

—

—

6.2

(1.5)

833.9 $

729.1

$

666.3

$

712.7 $













383.6

127.0

209.1

134.0

(50.0)

0.1

— 











358.1

138.2

184.8

—

—

2.1











(19.4) 

449.9

323.7

126.8

118.5

—

125.0

74.0

6.2

$

1,470.1

$

1,376.5 $

1,224.1

Note regarding the use of non-GAAP financial measures
We have provided certain non-GAAP financial information as supplemental information regarding our operating results. Prior periods have been 
recalculated to conform with the current definitions on page 25. These measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative for, U.S. GAAP and 
may be different from non-GAAP measures reported by other companies. We believe that our presentation of non-GAAP measures, such as 
EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA expenses, adjusted net income, diluted adjusted EPS, and organic constant currency, provides useful 
information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to our financial condition and results of opera-
tions. In addition, our management uses these measures for reviewing the financial results, for budgeting and planning purposes, and for evaluat-
ing the performance of senior management.

For definitions and descriptions of our non-GAAP measures, including organic constant currency (OCC), please refer to the notes section of our 
quarterly press releases as filed on Form 8K with the SEC.

26 / Verisk 2021 Annual Report 

 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

Í ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

FORM 10-K

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021

or

‘ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from

to

Commission file number 001-34480

VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

545 Washington Boulevard Jersey City NJ
(Address of principal executive offices)

26-2994223
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

07310-1686
(Zip Code)

(201) 469-3000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading Symbol

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock $.001 par value

VRSK

NASDAQ Global Select Market

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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been
subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to
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Large accelerated filer Í
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Í Yes ‘ No

Í Yes ‘ No

Í Yes ‘ No
‘ Yes Í No

‘
Accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company ‘
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As of June 30, 2021, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the
registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $27,228,949,452 based on the closing price reported on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market on such date.
As of February 18, 2022, there were 161,282,942 shares outstanding of the registrant’s Common Stock, par value $.001.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Certain information required by Part III of this annual report on Form 10-K is incorporated by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for
our 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after
December 31, 2021.

INDEX

PART I

Item 1. Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 1A. Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 2.
Item 3.
Legal Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases

of Equity Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 6.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[Reserved]
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations . . .
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Balance Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure . . .
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 9B. Other Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 9C Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 11. Executive Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder

Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Item 16. Form 10-K Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EXHIBIT INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SIGNATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Exhibit 21.1
Exhibit 23.1
Exhibit 31.1
Exhibit 31.2
Exhibit 32.1

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Unless the context otherwise indicates or requires, as used in this annual report on Form 10-K, references to
“we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” refer to Verisk Analytics, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

In this annual report on Form 10-K, all dollar amounts are expressed in millions, unless indicated otherwise.

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Verisk Analytics, Inc. (“Verisk”) has made statements under the captions “Business,” “Risk Factors,”

“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and in other
sections of this annual report on Form 10-K that are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify
these statements by forward-looking words such as “may,” “might,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,”
“anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue,” the negative of these terms and
other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks, uncertainties and
assumptions about us, may include projections of our future financial performance, our anticipated growth
strategies, and anticipated trends in our business. These statements are only predictions based on our current
expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results,
level of activity, performance, or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity,
performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including those factors
discussed under the caption entitled “Risk Factors.” You should specifically consider the numerous risks outlined
under “Risk Factors.”

Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we
cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance, or achievements. Moreover, neither we nor any
other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any of these forward-looking
statements. We are under no duty to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this annual
report on Form 10-K to conform our prior statements to actual results or revised expectations.

Item 1.

Business

Our Company

PART I

Verisk is 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, 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 a comprehensive package.
These solutions take various forms, including proprietary data assets, expert industry insight, statistical
models, tailored analytic object, and robust software platforms all designed to allow our customers to make more
informed risk decisions. We believe our solutions for analyzing risk have a positive impact on our customers’
revenues and help them better manage their costs. In 2021, our customers included all of the top 100 property and
casualty (“P&C”) insurance providers in the U.S. for the lines of P&C services we offer and the top 30 credit
card issuers in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia as well as nine of the top ten global energy
producers around the world. We also work with a wide range of companies, governments, and institutions across
the energy and metals and mining value chains. We believe that our commitment to our customers and the
embedded nature of our solutions serve to strengthen and extend our relationships.

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We believe that Verisk is uniquely positioned because of the set of Distinctives or competitive advantages

we cultivate and continue to expand, as indicated below. Our existing businesses, in addition to new product
innovations, integrate the following four singular qualities into the foundation of our strategy.

Our Distinctives

• Unique Data Assets — Data is at the core of what we do. We use our proprietary data assets to develop

predictive analytics and transformative models for our customers.

• Deep Domain Expertise — We have specialized and in-depth knowledge in a number of defined

vertical markets, including insurance, energy, financial services, and risk management. We understand
that different verticals require different approaches, and our deep domain expertise adds value to our
analytics in the markets we serve.

•

Steady Stream of First-to-Market Innovations — We move quickly to be the first to market with new
solutions. Typically, the marketplace assumes that those who are first to market are superior to the
competition and better positioned to succeed.

• Deep Integration into Customer Workflows — By embedding our solutions into customer workflows,
we help our customers better manage risk and optimize their bottom line. We achieve this goal by
remaining closely connected to our customers at all times and serving their distinct needs.

We offer our solutions and services primarily through annual subscriptions or long-term agreements,

which are typically prepaid and represented over 81% of our revenues in 2021. For the year ended December 31,
2021, we had revenues of $2,998.6 million and net income of $666.3 million. For the five-year period ended
December 31, 2021, our consolidated revenues grew at a compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) of 8.7% and
our net income grew at 4.7%.

Our History

We trace our history to 1971, when Insurance Services Office, Inc. (“ISO”) started operations as a
not-for-profit advisory and rating organization providing services to the U.S. P&C insurance industry. ISO was
formed as an association of insurance companies to gather statistical data and other information from insurers
and report to regulators, as required by law. ISO’s original functions also included developing programs to help
insurers define and manage insurance products and providing information to help insurers determine their own
independent premium rates. Insurers used and continue to use our offerings primarily in their product
development, underwriting, and rating functions.

On May 23, 2008, in contemplation of our initial public offering (“IPO”), ISO formed Verisk Analytics,
Inc. (“Verisk”), a Delaware corporation, to be the holding company for our business. Verisk was initially formed
as a wholly owned subsidiary of ISO. On October 6, 2009, in connection with our IPO, we effected a
reorganization whereby ISO became a wholly owned subsidiary of Verisk. Verisk common stock began trading
on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on October 7, 2009, under the ticker symbol “VRSK.”

Over the past two decades, we have transformed our business beyond its original functions by deepening

and broadening our data assets, developing a set of integrated risk management solutions and services, and
addressing new markets. Our expansion into analytics began when we acquired the American Insurance Services
Group (“AISG”) and certain operations and assets of the National Insurance Crime Bureau in 1997 and 1998,
respectively. Those organizations brought to the company large databases of insurance claims as well as
expertise in detecting and preventing claims fraud. To further expand our business, in 2002, we acquired AIR
Worldwide (“AIR”), the technological leader in catastrophe modeling. In 2006, to bolster our position in the
insurance claims field, we acquired Xactware Solutions Inc., a leading supplier of estimation software for
professionals involved in building repair and reconstruction. In 2012, we acquired Argus Information &

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Advisory Services, LLC (“Argus”) to expand our global presence providing information, competitive
benchmarking, analytics, and customized services to financial institutions in the payments space. In 2015, we
acquired Wood Mackenzie Limited (“Wood Mackenzie”) to advance our strategy to expand internationally and
position us in the global energy market. In 2017, we acquired G2 Web Services, LLC (“G2”); Sequel Business
Solutions Ltd. (“Sequel”); Lundquist Consulting, Inc. (“LCI”); and PowerAdvocate, Inc. (“PowerAdvocate”) to
further strengthen our position in their respective segments. G2 provides merchant risk intelligence solutions for
acquirers, commercial banks, and other payment system providers. Sequel is a leading insurance and reinsurance
software specialist based in London. LCI offers risk insight, prediction, and management solutions for banks and
creditors. PowerAdvocate is a leading data analytics provider with a one-of-a-kind spend and cost data curated
from millions of transactions across thousands of services, materials, and equipment categories in the energy
industry. In 2018, we acquired Rulebook Limited (“Rulebook”) to further our international insurance presence in
the overseas market. In 2019, we acquired Genscape, Inc. (“Genscape”) and Flexible Architecture and Simplified
Technology, LLC (“FAST”) to enhance our solutions within the Energy and Specialized Markets segment and
Insurance segment, respectively. In 2020, we acquired Franco Signor, LLC to further our offerings in the
Medicare space and Lead Intelligence, Inc. (“Jornaya”) to grow our set of marketing solutions for the insurance
and financial services markets. In 2021, we acquired Whitespace Software Limited (“Whitespace”), Ignite
Software Systems Limited (“Ignite”), and Data Driven Safety, LLC (“Data Driven Safety”) to enhance our
solutions within the underwriting & rating category of our Insurance segment. We also acquired Roskill Holdings
Limited (“Roskill”) to reinforce our ability to provide comprehensive analysis across the energy and metals and
mining value chain and ACTINEO GmbH to support the entire bodily injury settlement process.

Those acquisitions have added scale, geographic reach, highly skilled workforces, and a wide array of

new capabilities to support our customers. They have helped make us a leading provider of information and
decision analytics for customers involved in the business of risk in the U.S. and selectively around the world.

Segments

We organize our business in three segments: Insurance, Energy and Specialized Markets, and Financial

Services. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in
Part II of this annual report for additional information regarding our segments. See Note 19. of our consolidated
financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K for further information.

Insurance Segment

Our Insurance segment primarily serves our P&C insurance customers and focuses on the prediction of

loss, the selection and pricing of risk, and compliance with their reporting requirements in each U.S. state in
which they operate. We also develop and utilize machine learned and artificially intelligent models to forecast
scenarios and produce both standard and customized analytics that help our customers better manage their
businesses, including detecting fraud before and after a loss event and quantifying losses. Our customers include
most of the P&C insurance providers in the U.S. In recent years, we have expanded our offerings to also serve
certain non-U.S. markets. Finally, we have also expanded into the life and annuity sectors through the acquisition
of FAST in December 2019, as well as internal solutions development, to enable the transformation of the
industry across the policy lifecycle through no-code technology, data analytics, and modeling.

Underwriting & rating

We are the recognized leader in the U.S. for industry-standard insurance programs that help P&C insurers
define coverages and issue policies. We provide policy language, prospective loss costs, policy writing rules, and
a variety of underwriting solutions for risk selection and segmentation, pricing, and workflow optimization
across 30 lines of insurance. Our policy language, prospective loss cost information and policy writing rules can
serve as integrated turnkey insurance programs for our customers. Insurance companies need to ensure that their
policy language, rules, and rates comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements. They must also

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make sure their policies remain competitive by promptly changing coverages in response to changes in statutes,
case law, or regulatory requirements. To meet our insurers’ needs, we process approximately 2,300 regulatory
filings and interface with state regulators in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and
the Virgin Islands each year to ensure smooth implementation of our rules and forms. When insurers choose to
develop their own alternative programs, our industry-standard insurance programs also help regulators ensure
that such insurers’ policies meet basic coverage requirements.

Standardized coverage language, which has been tested in litigation and tailored to reflect judicial

interpretation, helps ensure consistent treatment of claimants. As a result, our industry-standard language also
simplifies claim settlements and can reduce the occurrence of costly litigation because our language causes the
meaning of coverage terminology to become established and known. Our policy language includes standard
coverage language, endorsements, and policy writing support language that assist our customers in understanding
the risks they assume and the coverages they offer. With these policy programs, insurers also benefit from
economies of scale. We have more than 195 specialized lawyers and insurance experts reviewing changes in each
state’s insurance rules and regulations, including an average of approximately 13,200 legislative
actions, 8,500 regulatory actions, and 2,000 court decisions per year, to make any required changes to our policy
language and rating information.

To cover the wide variety of risks in the marketplace, we offer a broad range of policy programs. For

example, in the homeowners line of insurance, we maintain policy language and rules for 6 basic coverages, 282
national endorsements, and 620 state-specific endorsements.

The P&C insurance industry is heavily regulated in the U.S.: P&C insurers are required to collect
statistical data about their premiums and losses and to report that data to regulators in every state in which they
operate. Our statistical agent services have enabled P&C insurers to meet those regulatory requirements for more
than 50 years. We aggregate the data, and as a licensed or appointed “statistical agent” in all 50 states, Puerto
Rico, and the District of Columbia, we report those statistics to insurance regulators. We are able to capture
significant economies of scale given the level of penetration of this service within the U.S. P&C insurance
industry.

To provide our customers and the regulators the information they require, we maintain one of the largest

private databases in the world. Over the past five decades, we have developed core expertise in acquiring,
processing, managing, protecting, and operating large and comprehensive databases that are the foundation of our
insurance offerings. We use our proprietary technology to assemble, organize, and update vast amounts of
detailed information submitted by our customers. We supplement this data with publicly available information.

In 2021 alone, P&C insurers sent us approximately 2.6 billion detailed individual records of insurance

transactions, such as insurance premiums collected or losses incurred. We maintain a database of more than
29.7 billion statistical records, including approximately 8.2 billion commercial lines records and approximately
21.5 billion personal lines records. We collect unit transaction detail of each premium and loss record, which
enhances the validity, reliability, and accuracy of our data sets and our actuarial analyses. Our proprietary quality
process includes more than 2,900 separate checks to ensure that the data meets our high standards of quality.

We provide actuarial services to help our customers analyze and price their risks. Using our large
database of premium and loss data, our actuaries are able to perform sophisticated analyses using our predictive
models and analytic methods to help our P&C insurance customers with pricing, loss reserving, and marketing.
We distribute a number of actuarial solutions and offer flexible services to meet our customers’ needs. In
addition, our actuarial consultants provide customized services for our customers that include assisting them with
the development of independent insurance programs, analysis of their own underwriting experience, development
of classification systems and rating plans, and a wide variety of other business decisions. We also supply
information to various customers in other markets, including reinsurance and government agencies.

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We project customers’ future losses and loss expenses using a broad set of data. Those projections tend to

be more reliable than if our customers used their own data exclusively. We make a number of actuarial
adjustments before the data is used to estimate future costs. Our customers can use our estimates of future costs
in making independent decisions about the prices charged for their policies. For most P&C insurers in most lines
of business, we believe that our estimates of future costs are an essential input to rating decisions. Our actuarial
products and services are also used to create the analytics underlying our industry-standard insurance programs
described above.

We gather information on individual properties and communities so that insurers can use our information
to evaluate and price personal and commercial property insurance, as well as commercial liability insurance. Our
property-specific rating and underwriting information allows our customers to understand, quantify, underwrite,
mitigate, and avoid potential loss for residential and commercial properties. Our database contains data and
analytics on approximately 15.4 million commercial properties in the U.S. We have a staff of approximately
520 field representatives strategically located around the U.S. who observe and report on conditions at
commercial and residential properties, evaluate community fire-protection capabilities and assess the
effectiveness of municipal building-code enforcement. Each year, our field staff visits more than
368,000 commercial properties to collect information on new buildings and verify building attributes.

We are a leading provider of innovative solutions for the personal underwriting markets, including
homeowners and auto lines. Drawing on an array of resources from proprietary and third-party data to geospatial
imagery, we build and maintain widely used industry-standard tools that assist insurers in underwriting and
rating — that is, measuring and selecting risks and pricing coverage appropriately to help ensure fairness to the
consumer and a reasonable return for the insurer. Our solutions apply advanced predictive analytics to our deep
reservoir of data and information to gauge the degree and cost of risk quickly and precisely, and our workflow
tools help insurers increase speed and cost-efficiency while delivering superior customer experiences. These
premier solutions span a range of applications — from using precise home reconstruction costs to ensure
policyholders have the right amount of coverage, to providing auto insurers with data to bind policies in minutes
with once-and-done quoting.

Our solutions span a wide range of P&C insurance, encompassing personal and commercial lines of

coverage that protect private residences, private and commercial vehicles, and businesses.

We also provide proprietary analytic measures of the ability of individual communities to mitigate losses

from important perils. Nearly every property insurer in the U.S. uses our evaluations of community firefighting
capabilities to help determine premiums for fire insurance throughout the country. We provide field-verified and
validated data on the fire protection services for approximately 40,000 fire response jurisdictions. We also offer
services to evaluate the effectiveness of community enforcement of building codes and the efforts of
communities to mitigate damage from flooding. Further, we provide information on the insurance rating
territories, premium taxes, crime risk, and hazards of windstorm, earthquake, wildfire, and other perils. To
supplement our data on specific commercial properties and individual communities, we have assembled, from a
variety of internal and third-party sources, information on hazards related to geographic locations representing
every postal address in the U.S. Insurers use this information not only for policy quoting but also for analyzing
risk concentration in geographical areas. We also make our data and analytics available to commercial real estate
lenders to allow them to better understand risks associated with people they lend against.

We are a leader in and pioneered the field of probabilistic catastrophe modeling used by insurers,
reinsurers, financial institutions, and government to manage their risk from extreme events. Our models, which
form the basis of our solutions, enable companies to identify, quantify, and plan for the financial consequences of
catastrophes. We have developed models for hurricanes, earthquakes, winter storms, tornadoes, hailstorms, and
floods in more than 110 countries as well as pandemics worldwide. We have developed a probabilistic terrorism
model capable of quantifying the risk in the U.S. from this evolving threat, which supports pricing and
underwriting decisions down to the level of an individual policy, as well as models for estimating losses to crop

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insurance programs in the U.S., Canada, and China. Our newest models offer risk management solutions for the
cyber and casualty lines of business.

We help businesses and governments better anticipate and monitor risks in Earth’s natural environment.

We prepare certain agencies and companies to anticipate, manage, react to, and profit from climate- and weather-
related risk. We serve our customers by providing state-of-the-art research, development, and analysis delivered
in reports, data streams, and software solutions. We are dedicated to the advancement of the atmospheric and
remote sensing science disciplines and directly addressing problems regarding weather, climate, and air quality
as well as oceanography and the planetary sciences. Through research conducted by our in-house scientific staff,
and often in collaboration with world-renowned scientists at academic and other research institutions, we have
developed analytical tools to help measure and observe environmental properties and translate those
measurements into actionable information.

We have begun to expand our footprint of data and solutions to include both U.S. and international

markets. Our international insurance markets grew through acquisitions, and today serves a large proportion of
those insurers operating in both the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) and Irish property and casualty markets.
Additionally, our international market provides services to much of the Lloyd’s and London market, whilst also
serving customers in Canada, Continental Europe, Singapore, China, Australia, and New Zealand. The
international enhanced commercial and residential property models and enriched data sets help insurers with
triage, reconstruction value, risk selection, pricing, benchmarking, and portfolio management across multiple
insured segments, with an emphasis on residential and commercial property. Insurers also use our solutions to
finetune the accuracy of their rating models, to drive underwriting results through a set of analytical products that
predict the relative risk and variation of major insurance perils including theft, flood, storm, fire, freeze, etc. Our
international small and medium size commercial lines casualty solutions help customers digitally transform,
enabling straight through processing and underwriting. In addition to property data and solutions, customers
benefit from decision and benchmarking analytics using firmographic, technographic, and business intelligence,
and proprietary management competency scores.

Claims

Our claims insurance solutions provide our customers analytics in fraud detection, compliance reporting,

subrogation, liability assessment, litigation, and repair cost estimation, including emerging areas of interest
within these categories.

We are a leading provider of fraud-detection tools for the P&C insurance industry. Our anti-fraud

solutions improve our customers’ profitability by predicting the likelihood that fraud may be occurring and
detecting suspicious activity after it has occurred. When a claim is submitted, our system searches our all-claims
database and returns information about other claims filed by the same individuals or businesses (either as
claimants or insureds) that helps our customers determine if fraud may be occurring. The system searches for
matches in identifying information fields, such as name, address, Social Security number, vehicle identification
number, driver’s license number, tax identification number, or other parties to the loss. Our system also includes
advanced name and address searching to perform intelligent searches and improve the overall quality of the
matches. Information from match reports speeds payment of meritorious claims while providing a defense
against fraud and can lead to denial of a claim, negotiation of a reduced award, or further investigation by the
insurer or law enforcement. We also have a suite of advanced fraud analytics solutions: a solution that uses
predictive models to accurately score claims based on fraud indicators; an injury claims solution that uses
predictive analytics to detect medical provider fraud, waste, and abuse; and a network analytics solution that
helps detect patterns indicative of organized fraud. We also have a comprehensive case management system
claims adjusters and investigation professionals use to manage claim investigations.

Our claims database is one of the key tools in the fight against insurance fraud. The benefits of a single

all-claims database include improved efficiency in reporting data and searching for information, enhanced

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capabilities for detecting suspicious claims, and superior information for investigating fraudulent claims,
suspicious individuals, and possible fraud rings. Our database also helps insurers fulfill their regulatory
compliance reporting requirements at both the state and federal levels for delinquent child support liens and other
required checks. The database contains information for more than 1.5 billion claims and is the world’s largest
database of P&C claims information used for claims processing and investigations. Insurers and other
participants submit more than 175,000 new claims a day on average across all U.S. P&C insurance industry
categories.

We also offer solutions to help the P&C industry comply with the federal Medicare Secondary Payer
(“MSP”) Statute, mandating claims data reporting, conditional payments liabilities repayment, and ongoing
protection of the Medicare Trust Fund. Our solutions include highly accurate Medicare reporting customized to
the way insurers, self-insured employers, and third-party administrators (“TPAs”) do business. We also
provide integrated conditional payment processing and a full range of Medicare Set-Aside (“MSA”) services. We
have services that automatically extract unstructured medical records and demand packages for easy, efficient
review and analysis. In addition to full compliance support-including First Report of Injury (“FROI”)/Subsequent
Report of Injury (“SROI”) and other Electronic Data Interchange (“EDI”) reporting-claims professionals can also
access robust analytic solutions for workers’ compensation and liability claims and leverage litigation analytics
for improved claim results.

We also provide data, analytics, and networking products for professionals involved in estimating all

phases of building repair and reconstruction. We provide solutions for every phase of a building’s life, including:

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quantifying the ultimate cost of repair or reconstruction of damaged or destroyed buildings,

aiding in the settlement of insurance claims; and

tracking the process of repair or reconstruction and facilitating communication among insurers,
adjusters, contractors, and policyholders.

To help our customers estimate repair costs, we provide a solution that assists contractors and insurance

adjusters in estimating repairs using a patented plan-sketching program. The program allows our customers to
manually sketch floor, roof, and wall framing plans based upon their own measurements and automatically
calculates material and labor quantities for all desired construction or repairs to the structure.

We also provide our customers access to price lists, which include structural repair and restoration pricing

for 468 separate economic areas in North America. We revise this information monthly, and as often as weekly
in the aftermath of major disasters, to reflect rapid price changes. Our structural repair and cleaning database
contains approximately 21,000 unit-cost line items. For each line item, we report time and material pricing,
and improve our reported pricing data by several methods, including direct market surveys and an analysis of the
actual claim experiences of our customers. We estimate that more than 80% of insurance repair contractors and
service providers in the U.S. and Canada with computerized estimating systems use our building and repair
pricing data. This large percentage leads to accurate reporting of pricing information, which we believe is
unmatched in the industry.

Our virtual claims adjusting tools help improve policyholder satisfaction and save on loss adjustment

expense. These tools simplify collaboration among claims professionals, contractors, and policyholders as they
work together remotely and efficiently. Real-time video collaboration, remote measuring tools, AI-powered
damage assessment, and image analytics fraud warnings are just a few of the advantages we deliver through these
solutions.

Customers access our claims ecosystem to enhance their business and operations. For example, they can

tap into our weather API for near-real-time updates and valuable insights for responding to weather perils that
can impact their policyholders and their business. Plus, they can use our data insights to analyze and benchmark
their performance against peers in the industry and manage claims assignments.

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We continually pursue new solutions that help our customers keep abreast of changing markets and
technology. For example, we developed a digital media database that allows customers to view prior-loss images
on claim matches so they can detect pre-existing damage on new claims. Our cutting-edge image forensics can
detect suspicious claim-related photos and our customers can flag stolen and synthetic identities in the database
to help subscribers deter that type of fraud.

Energy and Specialized Markets Segment

We are a leading provider of data analytics across the natural resources value chain including the global

energy, chemicals, metals and mining, and power and renewables sectors. We deliver analysis and advice on
assets, companies, governments, and markets based on proprietary near real time data as well as historic
information. This enables us to offer a comprehensive and integrated analysis of relevant commodities to our
customers. We provide research and consulting services focusing on supporting customer capital allocation
decisions, asset valuation and benchmarking, commodity markets, and corporate analysis. We offer consultancy
in the areas of business environment, business improvement, business strategies, commercial advisory, and
transaction support.

We differentiate our solutions in the market by continuously gathering and managing proprietary

information, insight, and analysis on thousands of oil and gas assets, wind turbines and solar assets, mines,
refineries, and other assets, as well as detailed assessments of the market fundamentals across each value chain.
These market insights help our customers achieve operational excellence, increase profitability and optimize
business performance. And our experts apply the data and work directly with customers to address their business
challenges.

We also offer a comprehensive suite of data and information services that enable improved compliance

with global environmental health and safety (“EH&S”) requirements related to the safe manufacturing,
distribution, transportation, usage, and disposal of chemicals and products. From the supply chain or solutions
life cycle, we deliver a program specific to the EH&S compliance information and management needs of our
customers. Our full-solutions life cycle and cross-supply chain approach provides a single, integrated solution for
managing customers’ EH&S capabilities, which results in improved processes and reduced cost, risk, and
liability.

Financial Services Segment

We maintain the largest bank account consortia to provide competitive benchmarking, decisioning

algorithms, business intelligence, and customized analytic services to financial institutions, payment networks
and processors, alternative lenders, regulators, and merchants enabling better strategy, marketing, and risk
decisions. Our teams are located across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Arab
Emirates, Mexico, and India, delivering unique products and services to an expanding customer base that values
the comprehensiveness of our data and solutions as well as our full wallet-spend view of a consumer.
Complementing this, we leverage our partnerships with processors and credit bureaus not only to augment the
richness of our data but also to provide expanded solutions across the broad span of consumer banking and retail
products. Meanwhile, we offer services and a suite of solutions to satisfy growing customer needs for better
forecasting and expense tools and regulatory-focused solutions. In addition, we provide solutions in the media
effectiveness space given the unique nature and strength of our partnerships and through our developing Verisk
Financial Marketview brand.

Our professionals have substantive industry knowledge about providing solutions to the financial services

sector. We are known for our unique ability to blend the highly technical, data-centered aspects of our projects
with expert communication and business knowledge. Our solutions enhance our customers’ ability to manage
their businesses profitably and position them better to handle present-day challenges (competitive, regulatory,
and economic). Specifically, we use comprehensive transaction, risk, behavioral, and bureau-sourced account

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data to assist customers in making better business decisions through analysis and analytical solutions. We
maintain a comprehensive and granular direct-observation financial services industry database for credit card,
debit card, and deposit transactions as well as merchant and collections transactions.

Our Growth Strategy

Over the past five years, we have grown our revenues at a CAGR of 8.7% through the successful
execution of our business plan. Those results reflect strong organic revenue growth, new product development,
and acquisitions. We have made, and continue to make, investments in people, data sets, analytic solutions,
technology, and complementary businesses. The key components of our strategy include the following:

Increase Solution Penetration with Customers. We expect to expand the application of our solutions in
customers’ internal processes. Building on our deep knowledge of and embedded position in, various
industries, we expect to sell more solutions to existing customers tailored to individual market segments. By
increasing the breadth and relevance of our offerings, we believe that we can strengthen our relationships
with customers and increase our value to their decision making in critical ways. We have opportunities to
expand solution penetration to our insurance, energy, and financial services customers.

Develop New Proprietary Data Sets and Predictive Analytics. We work with our customers to understand
their evolving needs. We plan to create new solutions by enriching our mix of proprietary data sets, analytic
solutions, and effective decision support across the markets we serve. We constantly seek to add new data
sets that can further leverage our analytic methods, technology platforms, and intellectual capital.

Leverage Our Intellectual Capital to Expand into Adjacent Markets and New Customer Sectors. Our
organization is built on more than five decades of intellectual property in risk management. We believe we
can continue to expand the use of our intellectual capital profitably and apply our analytic methods in new
markets where significant opportunities for long-term growth exist. We also continue to pursue growth
through targeted international expansion. We have already demonstrated the effectiveness of this strategy
with our expansion into non-insurance financial services.

Pursue Strategic Acquisitions That Complement Our Leadership Positions. We will continue to expand
our data and analytics capabilities across industries. While we expect this will occur primarily through
organic growth, we have acquired and will continue to acquire assets and businesses that strengthen our
value proposition to customers. We have developed an internal capability to source, evaluate, and integrate
acquisitions that have created value for shareholders.

Our Customers

The customers in our Insurance segment for the lines of P&C services we offer include the top 100 P&C
insurance providers in the U.S. as well as domestic InsurTech companies and insurers in international markets. A
substantial majority of P&C insurance providers in the U.S. use our statistical agent services to report to
regulators, and the majority of insurers and reinsurers in the U.S. use our actuarial services and industry-standard
insurance programs. In addition, certain agencies of the federal government as well as county and state
governmental agencies and organizations use our solutions to help satisfy government needs for risk assessment
and emergency response information. For life and annuity insurers, we offer digital solutions including electronic
applications and policy administration systems to enable automated/accelerated triage, underwriting, fraud
detection, and modeling. Our claims database serves thousands of customers, representing approximately 90% of
the P&C insurance industry by premium volume, more than 500 self-insurers, approximately 400 third party
administrators, several state fraud bureaus, and many law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation and
prosecution of insurance fraud. We estimate that more than 80% of insurance repair contractors and service
providers in the U.S. and Canada with computerized estimating systems use our building and repair cost
estimation pricing data.

Our customers within the Energy and Specialized Markets segment include nine of the top ten global

energy producers around the world. Our customer base includes international and national energy companies as

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well as renewables companies, power utilities, metals and mining, and chemicals companies; financial
institutions; and governments, among others. Within these organizations, we work with a range of diverse teams.
These include strategists and policy makers, business developers, market analysts, commodity traders, corporate
finance, risk teams, and investors. Alongside large corporate and government clients, we also work with many
small and medium-size enterprises, offering services tailored to each customer’s needs.

Within the Financial Services segment, our customers 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.

Our Competitors

We believe that no single competitor currently offers the same scope of services and market coverage we

provide. The breadth of markets we serve exposes us to a broad range of competitors as described below.
Businesses that we acquire may introduce us to additional competitors.

Our Insurance segment operates primarily in the U.S. P&C insurance industry, where we enjoy a leading
market presence. We have a number of competitors in specific lines or services. We encounter competition from
a number of sources, including insurers that develop internal technology and actuarial methods for proprietary
insurance programs. Competitors also include other statistical agents, such as the National Independent Statistical
Service, the Independent Statistical Service, Inc., and other advisory organizations, that provide underwriting
rules, prospective loss costs, and coverage language, including the American Association of Insurance Services,
Inc. and Mutual Services Organization. However, we believe that none of our competitors have the breadth or
depth of data we have. Competitors for our property-specific rating and underwriting information are primarily
limited to a number of regional providers of commercial property inspections and surveys, including Overland
Solutions, Inc., and Regional Reporting, Inc., and emerging providers in the InsurTech space. We also compete
with a variety of organizations that offer consulting services, primarily specialty technology and consulting firms.
In addition, a customer may use its own internal resources rather than engage an outside firm for these services.
Finally, our underwriting products compete with Lexis Nexis and Core Logic in the marketplace. Our
competitors also include information technology product and services vendors; management and strategy
consulting firms; and smaller specialized information technology and analytical services firms, including
Pinnacle Consulting and EMB, a unit of Willis Towers Watson. Finally, in the life insurance sector, our solutions
compete against vendors such as Accenture, Oracle, DXC, Majesco and iPipeline, as well as the in-house
technology departments of Life Insurers. In the P&C insurance claims and catastrophe modeling markets, certain
products are offered by a number of companies, including Risk Management Solutions (catastrophe modeling),
CoreLogic (repair cost estimating), LexisNexis® Risk Solutions (claims investigative reports), SAS (claims fraud
analytics), and Enlyte (injury claims analytics). We believe that our P&C insurance industry expertise, and our
ability to offer multiple applications, services, and integrated solutions to individual customers are competitive
strengths.

In the Energy and Specialized Markets segment, certain products are offered by a number of companies,

including IHS Markit (natural resources), Rystad Energy (upstream), Enverus (upstream), Energy Aspects
(commodities), CRU Group (metals), and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (power and renewables). We believe
that our global integrated value chain knowledge and insight, bottom-up proprietary data, and long-term trusted
relationships enhance our competitive position in relation to those companies.

Within the Financial Services segment, our unique datasets and wallet solutions mean that we have no

direct competitors, and we work closely to create partnerships for mutual clients with organizations such as the
card networks and credit bureaus to deepen ongoing relationships and create new value solutions. Our key
competitors for our major brands are EverCompliant, WebShield, Trustwave, LegitScript, Lexis Nexis, American
Infosource, and Phin Solutions.

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Development of New Solutions

We take a market-focused team approach to developing our solutions. Our operating units are responsible

for developing, reviewing, and enhancing our various products and services. Our data management and
production team designs and manages our processes and systems for market data procurement, proprietary data
production, and quality control. Our Joint Development Environment (“JDE”) and Enterprise Data Management
(“EDM”) teams support our efforts to create new information and products from available data and explore new
methods of collecting data. EDM is focused on understanding and documenting business unit and corporate data
assets and data issues, sharing and combining data assets across the enterprise, creating an enterprise data
strategy, facilitating research and product development, and promoting cross-enterprise communication. Our
Verisk Innovative Analytics (“VIA”) team is a corporate center of excellence for analytical methods in applying
modeling techniques to predict risk outcomes.

Our software development teams build the technology used in many of our solutions. As part of our

product development process, we continually solicit feedback from our customers on the value of our products
and services and the market’s needs. We have established an extensive system of customer advisory panels that
meet regularly throughout the year to help us respond effectively to the needs of our markets. In addition, we use
frequent sales calls, executive visits, user group meetings, and other industry forums to gather information to
align our product development efforts with the needs of the market. We also use a variety of market research
techniques to enhance our understanding of our customers and the markets in which they operate.

We add to our offerings through an active acquisition program. Since 2017, we have acquired

32 businesses, which have allowed us to enter new markets, offer new solutions, and enhance the value of
existing services with additional proprietary sources of data.

When we find it advantageous, we augment our proprietary data sources and systems by forming

alliances with other leading information providers and technology companies and integrating their product
offerings into our offerings. This approach gives our customers the opportunity to obtain the information they
need from a single source and more easily integrate the information into their workflows.

Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support

We sell our solutions and services primarily through direct interaction with our customers. We employ a
three-tier sales structure that includes salespeople, technical consultants, and sales support. Within our company,
several areas have sales teams that specialize in specific products and services. Those specialized sales teams sell
specific, highly technical solution sets to targeted markets in coordination with account management.

To provide account management to our largest customers in the insurance, energy, and financial markets,

we divide our customers into three groups. Tier One (“Global/National Accounts”) comprises our largest
customers. Tier Two (“Strategic Accounts”) represents both large and middle-market customer groups. Tier
Three is composed of small and specialized companies that may represent one line of business, may be regionally
focused, or are recent new entrants into the marketplace. In Tier One and Tier Two segments, we have sales
teams organized by the following specialties: personal or commercial lines underwriting and pricing, claims,
catastrophe risk, and energy. In the Tier Three segment, we assign a sales generalist with overall account
management responsibility. Our tiered approach has proven to be a successful sales model and approach to
building customer relationships. Our senior executives regularly engage with the senior management of our
customers to ensure customer satisfaction and strategic alignment and to support mutual partnership innovation
opportunities.

Salespeople participate in both sales and customer service activities. They provide direct support,
interacting frequently with assigned customers to ensure a satisfactory experience using our services. Salespeople
primarily seek out new sales opportunities and work with the various product teams to coordinate sales activities

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and ensure our solutions fit the customer’s needs. We believe our salespeople’s product knowledge, skills to
develop relationships of trust, and local presence differentiate us from our competition. Technical consultants are
subject matter experts and work with salespeople on specific opportunities for their assigned products and
segments. Salespeople manage the overall sales process and technical consultants manage the rigorous
integration and functional fit discussions to ensure mutual success and satisfaction. Both salespeople and
technical consultants have responsibility for identifying new sales opportunities. A team approach and a common
customer relationship management system allow for effective coordination among the groups.

Sources of Our Data

The data we use to perform our analytics and power our solutions is sourced through seven different kinds
of data arrangements. First, we gather data from our customers within agreements that also permit our customers
to use the solutions created from their data. Those agreements remain in effect unless the data contributor
chooses to opt out. It is very rare that contributors elect not to continue providing us data. Second, we have
agreements with data contributors in which we specify the particular uses of their data and provide their required
levels of privacy, protection of data, and where necessary, de-identification of data. The agreements represent no
cost to us, generally feature a specified period of time for the data contributions, and require renewal. Third, we
“mine” data found inside the transactions supported by our solutions; as an example, we use the claims
settlement data generated inside our repair cost estimating solution to improve the cost factors used in our
models. Again, those arrangements represent no cost to us, and we obtain the consent of our customers to make
use of their data in this way. Fourth, we source data generally at no cost from public sources, including federal,
state, and local governments. Fifth, we gather data about the physical characteristics of commercial properties
through the direct observation of our field staff members, who also perform property surveys at the request of,
and facilitated by, property insurers. Sixth, we collect data, or license or purchase from third parties, on
geographic and spatially referenced information relating to residential and commercial structures by using the
latest remote sensing and machine learning technologies. Lastly, we purchase data from data aggregators under
contracts that reflect prevailing market pricing for the data elements purchased, including county tax assessor
records, descriptions of hazards such as flood plains, and professional licenses. We are the owners of the
derivative solutions we create using the data we collect.

Information Technology

Technology

Our information technology systems and the more recent adoption of cloud computing are fundamental to

our success. They are used for the storage, processing, access, and delivery of the data that forms the foundation
of our business and the development and delivery of the solutions we provide to our customers. We generally
own, or have secured ongoing rights to use for the purposes of our business, all the customer-facing applications
that are material to our operations. We support and implement a mix of technologies and focus on implementing
the most efficient technology for any given business requirement or task.

Data Centers

We have two primary data centers in Somerset, New Jersey, and Lehi, Utah, creating redundancy and

back up capabilities. In addition, we have data centers located in other states dedicated to certain business units.

Disaster Recovery

We are committed to a framework for business continuity management and carry out annual reviews of

the state of preparedness of each business unit. We also have documented disaster recovery plans in place for
each of our major data centers and each of our solutions. The data center in Somerset, New Jersey is the recovery
site for the Lehi, Utah, data center and vice versa. Business continuity planning is in place for all of our critical

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business processes to provide for the prompt and effective continuation of critical services in the event of a
business disruption. Our business continuity program adheres to ISO 22301:2019, which is an international
standard for business continuity. All business impact analysis and business continuity plans are reviewed and
updated, at a minimum, annually or when significant business changes occur.

Security

We have adopted a wide range of measures to secure our IT infrastructure and data. Security measures

generally cover the following key areas: security policies and governance committees, physical security, logical
security of the perimeter, network security such as firewalls, logical access to applications and operating systems,
deployment of endpoint anti-malware software, email security, and appropriate procedures relating to removable
media such as laptops. Laptops are encrypted, and media leaving our premises and sent to third-party storage
facilities are also encrypted. Our commitment to security has earned ISO 27001:2013 Certification for our core
data centers, which is an international standard for best practices associated with our Information Security
Management System.

Intellectual Property

We own a significant number of intellectual property rights, including copyrights, trademarks, trade

secrets, and patents. Specifically, our policy language, insurance manuals, software, and databases are protected
by both registered and common law copyrights; and the licensing of those materials to our customers for their use
represents a large portion of our revenue. We also own in excess of 500 trademarks in the U.S. and foreign
countries, including the names of our products and services and our logos and tag lines, many of which are
registered. We believe many of our trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos to be of material
importance to our business, as they assist our customers in identifying our products and services and the quality
that stands behind them. We consider our intellectual property to be proprietary, and we rely on a combination of
statutory (for example, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and patent) and contractual safeguards in a
comprehensive intellectual property enforcement program to protect it wherever it is used.

We also own several patents and have several pending patent applications in the U.S. that complement
our products. We believe the protection of our proprietary technology is important to our success, and we will
continue to seek to protect those intellectual property assets for which we have expended substantial research and
development capital and that are material to our business.

To maintain control of our intellectual property, we enter into contractual agreements with our customers,

granting each customer permission to use our products and services, including our software and databases. This
helps maintain the integrity of our proprietary intellectual property and to protect the embedded information and
technology contained in our solutions. As a general practice, employees, contractors, and other parties with
access to our proprietary information sign agreements that prohibit the unauthorized use or disclosure of our
proprietary rights, information, and technology.

Human Capital

Our global workforce is united by our mission to serve, add value, and innovate for our customers. We

continue to invest in our people worldwide by encouraging all employees to reach their full potential through our
focus on learning in the flow of work, competitive compensation and benefits, and our culture anchored on
innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity.

As a knowledge-based business, we carefully integrate the skills and talents of 9,367 employees
worldwide as of December 31, 2021. Most of our highly credentialed team holds advanced degrees and
professional certifications specializing in actuarial science, chemistry and physics, commercial banking and
finance, commodity analytics, data science and artificial intelligence, economics, engineering, GIS mapping,
meteorology, natural resources, predictive analytics, supply chain, and other fields.

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Approximately 64% of our employees are based in the United States, 15% in the United Kingdom, 7% in

India, with the remainder serving in 35 other countries across the globe.

None of our employees are represented by unions or subject to collective bargaining agreements, other

than a small number of employees in Germany who are represented by a works council. We consider our
relationship with our employees to be good and have not experienced interruptions of operations due to labor
disagreements.

We support and work to inspire our people with a collaborative and engaging culture, and career
development opportunities at all levels, competitive compensation and benefits, an ongoing focus on well-being,
and responsive leadership. Starting in 2021, we have introduced a common global wellbeing day across the
enterprise to recognize the importance of the total wellbeing of our workforce. In addition, in 2022, we have
introduced Juneteenth, as a U.S. holiday to recognize this significant milestone in U.S. history.

We have a culture of continuous learning and improvement. To help our employees grow in their careers,

we curate self-paced learning resources, and create real-time opportunities for employees to connect and learn
from each other. All employees have access to our world-class virtual learning platform, which features
thousands of courses taught by industry experts, ranging from public speaking, to balancing work and personal
life, to data science fundamentals. We also encourage our managers to provide guidance, support, and clarity for
our employees – through group town halls, engagement events, and on-going one-on-one discussions about
goals, progress, and development.

Our Leadership Institute also conducts leadership development programs tailored to leaders from first-
time managers to senior executives. In 2021, 477 participants committed more than 10,000 total learning hours
to gaining practical tools to lead themselves, others, and the business.

We offer competitive salaries, annual merit salary reviews, and the opportunity for advancement. In

addition, our program includes an incentive compensation component for eligible job categories, paid time off
(“PTO”), flextime and telecommuting options, and a 401(k) program with a 100% company cash match (up to
6%). We also offer health insurance plans, no-cost life insurance equivalent to annual salary (with the option to
purchase more), a discounted stock purchase program, a variety of physical, mental, and financial well-being
offerings and resources, and more. Terms vary by business unit and country.

Employees can also take advantage of our employee networks, grassroots groups that help support
diversity-related programs and events and promote an inclusive community. As of 2021, there were eight
networks: the Verisk Women’s Network, the Verisk Pride Network, the Verisk Veterans and Military Service
Members Network, the Verisk REACH Network (dedicated to empowering Black employees), the Verisk Parents
Network, the Verisk Unidos Network (promoting awareness of Hispanic and Latinx culture), the Verisk Asian
Network, and the Verisk Accessibility Network.

The enterprise sponsored over ten special events in 2021 through our various employee network groups

focused on helping our employees find ways to continue conversations that center around equality and the
employee experience. Included in these events were webcasts, author led book reviews, fundraisers and open
discussions with topics ranging from “Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection” to the reflections of minority team
members to how our Verisk Veterans have leveraged their skills in civilian life.

To support our goal to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we operate in, our
Board of Directors adopted our Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity in 2020. Its purpose is to confront and
overcome barriers to individual achievement based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, identity, and
beliefs.

We continually strive to encourage collaboration throughout the organization, involve and empower all of

our employees, and develop a diverse workforce. Surveys conducted by outside organizations and our annual

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employee engagement survey measure our progress against these critical metrics. Starting in 2022, we will
evaluate our senior leaders against an enterprise goal to attract and retain diverse talent across the globe. The
performance goal is linked to leaders’ annual compensation and leaders’ performance will be assessed by the
senior operating committee and the Board of Directors.

The health and safety of our people working around the globe is a top priority, and our facilities
worldwide follow rigorous, internally and externally audited, occupational health and safety policies. We also
recognize that protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees is crucial to our ability to continue to
address the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The majority of our people continued to work remotely in 2021. We continue to evolve our preparedness

strategy for office reopenings to integrate key learnings, safety measures and employee feedback to rethink the
future of work.

Our employee engagement score for 2021 is at 76%. Verisk continues to be recognized for our
outstanding workplace culture by Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the United Kingdom, India, and Spain. The
Great Place to Work Institute is a global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplaces.

Regulation

Because our business involves the distribution of certain personal, public, and nonpublic data to
businesses and governmental entities that make eligibility, service, and marketing decisions based on such data,
certain of our solutions and services are subject to regulation under federal, state, and local laws in the U.S. and,
to a lesser extent, in foreign countries. Examples of such regulation include the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which
regulates the use of consumer credit report information; the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which regulates the use of
nonpublic personal financial information held by financial institutions and applies indirectly to companies that
provide services to financial institutions; the Drivers Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits the public
disclosure, use, or resale by any state’s department of motor vehicles of personal information about an individual
that was obtained by the department in connection with a motor vehicle record, except for a “permissible
purpose”; and various other federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

Those laws generally restrict the use and disclosure of personal information and provide consumers
certain rights to know the manner in which their personal information is being used, to challenge the accuracy of
such information, and/or to prevent the use and disclosure of such information. In certain instances, the laws also
impose requirements for safeguarding personal information through the issuance of data security standards or
guidelines. Certain state laws impose similar privacy obligations as well as obligations to provide notification of
security breaches in certain circumstances.

We are also licensed as a rating, rate service, advisory, or statistical organization under state insurance

codes in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. As such an
advisory organization, we provide statistical, actuarial, policy language development, and related products and
services to P&C insurers, including advisory prospective loss costs, other prospective cost information, manual
rules, and policy language. We also serve as an officially designated statistical agent of state insurance regulators
to collect policy writing and loss statistics of individual insurers and compile that information into reports used
by the regulators.

Many of our products, services, and operations as well as insurers’ use of our services are subject to state

rather than federal regulation by virtue of the McCarran-Ferguson Act. As a result, many of our operations and
products are subject to review and/or approval by state regulators. Further, our operations involving licensed
advisory organization activities are subject to periodic examinations conducted by state regulators; and our
operations and products are subject to state antitrust and trade practice statutes within or outside state insurance
codes, which are typically enforced by state attorneys general and/or insurance regulators.

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Available Information

We maintain an Investor Relations website on the Internet at investor.verisk.com. We make available free

of charge on or through this website, our annual, quarterly, and current reports and any amendments to those
reports as soon as reasonably practicable following the time they are electronically filed with or furnished to the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). For access to the filings, click the “SEC Filings” link on the
“Financial Information” tab on our Investor Relations homepage. The contents of our website are not
incorporated into this filing. Verisk trades on the NASDAQ Global Market in the Nasdaq Global Select Market
segment under the ticker symbol “VRSK.” Our stock was first publicly traded on October 7, 2009.

The public may read any materials filed by Verisk with the SEC on the SEC’s Internet site
(www.sec.gov), which contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding
issuers that file electronically with the SEC.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

You should carefully consider the following risks and all of the other information set forth in this annual

report on Form 10-K before deciding to invest in any of our securities. If any of the following risks actually
occurs, our business, financial condition or results of operations would likely suffer. In such case, the trading
price of our securities, including our common stock, could decline due to any of these risks, and you may lose all
or part of your investment. In addition to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global disruptions
on our business and operations discussed in Item 7 of Part II, “Management’s Discussion Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations,” and in the risk factors below, additional or unforeseen effects from the
COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic climate may give rise to or amplify many of the risks discussed
below.

Risks Related to Our Business

We could lose our access to data from external sources, which could prevent us from providing our
solutions.

We depend upon data from external sources, including data received from customers and various

government and public record services, for information used in our databases. In general, we do not own the
information in these databases, and the participating organizations could discontinue contributing information to
the databases. Our data sources could withdraw or increase the price for their data for a variety of reasons, and
we could also become subject to legislative, judicial, or contractual restrictions on the use of such data, in
particular if such data is not collected by the third parties in a way that allows us to legally use and/or process the
data. In addition, some of our customers have been, and in the future may continue to be, stockholders of our
company. If our customers’ percentage of ownership of our common stock decreases, or they cease to be
stockholders of our company, there can be no assurance that our customers will continue to provide data to the
same extent or on the same terms. If a substantial number of data sources, or certain key sources, were to
withdraw or be unable to provide their data, or if we were to lose access to data due to government regulation or
if the collection of data became uneconomical, our ability to provide solutions to our customers could be
impacted, which could materially adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, operating results,
and cash flows.

Agreements with our data suppliers are short-term agreements. Some suppliers are also competitors,
which may make us vulnerable to unpredictable price increases and may cause some suppliers not to renew
certain agreements. Our competitors could also enter into exclusive contracts with our data sources. If our
competitors enter into such exclusive contracts, we may be precluded from receiving certain data from these
suppliers or restricted in our use of such data, which would give our competitors an advantage. Such a
termination or exclusive contracts could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, and
operating results if we were unable to arrange for substitute data sources.

We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from U.S. P&C primary insurers. If there is a downturn in
the U.S. insurance industry or that industry does not continue to accept our solutions, our revenues will
decline.

Revenues derived from solutions we provide to U.S. P&C primary insurers account for a substantial
portion of our total revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2021, approximately 52% of our revenue was
derived from solutions provided to U.S. P&C primary insurers. Also, our invoices for certain of our solutions
are linked in part to premiums in the U.S. P&C insurance market, which may rise or fall in any given year due to
loss experience and capital capacity and other factors in the insurance industry that are beyond our control. In
addition, our revenues will decline if the insurance industry does not continue to accept our solutions.

Factors that might affect the acceptance of these solutions by P&C primary insurers include the

following:

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changes in technology,

our inability to obtain or use state fee schedule or claims data in our insurance solutions,

saturation of market demand,

loss of key customers,

industry consolidation, and

failure to execute our customer-focused selling approach.

A downturn in the insurance industry, pricing pressure or lower acceptance of our solutions by the
insurance industry could result in a decline in revenues from that industry and have a material adverse effect on
our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Acquisitions, other strategic relationships and dispositions of our business, and related integration and
separation risks, could result in operating difficulties and other harmful consequences, and we may not be
successful in achieving the anticipated benefits of such transactions.

Our long-term business strategy includes growth through acquisitions and other strategic relationships.

Future acquisitions may not be completed on acceptable terms and acquired assets, data or businesses may not be
successfully integrated into our operations, and we may ultimately divest unsuccessful acquisitions or
investments. Moreover, from time to time we may also undertake dispositions of certain businesses or
assets. Any acquisitions, investments and dispositions will be accompanied by the risks commonly encountered
in such transactions. Such risks include, among other things:

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failing to implement or remediate controls, procedures and policies appropriate for a larger public
company at acquired companies that prior to the acquisition lacked such controls, procedures and
policies,

paying more than fair market value for an acquired company or assets, or receiving less than fair
market value for disposed businesses or assets,

failing to integrate or separate the operations and personnel of the acquired or disposed businesses in an
efficient, timely manner,

assuming potential liabilities of an acquired company,

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distracting management focus from our core businesses,

failing to retain management at the acquired company,

difficulty in acquiring suitable businesses, including challenges in predicting the value an acquisition
will ultimately contribute to our business,

possibility of overpaying for acquisitions, particularly those with significant intangible assets that
derive value using novel tools and/or are involved in niche markets,

impairing relationships with employees, customers, and strategic partners,

incurring expenses associated with the amortization of intangible assets particularly for intellectual
property and other intangible assets,

incurring expenses associated with an impairment of all or a portion of goodwill and other intangible
assets due to changes in market conditions, weak economies in certain competitive markets, or the
failure of certain acquisitions to realize expected benefits, and

diluting the share value and voting power of existing stockholders.

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The anticipated benefits of many of our acquisitions may not materialize. Future acquisitions or

dispositions could result in the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities or amortization expenses, or write-offs of
goodwill and other intangible assets, any of which could harm our financial condition.

We typically fund our acquisitions through our debt facilities. Although we have capacity under
committed facilities, those may not be sufficient. Therefore, future acquisitions may require us to obtain
additional financing through debt or equity, which may not be available on favorable terms or at all and could
result in dilution. In addition, to the extent we cannot identify or consummate, on terms acceptable to us,
acquisitions that are complementary or otherwise attractive to our business, we may experience difficulty in
achieving future growth.

There may be consolidation in our end customer market, which could reduce the use of our services.

Mergers or consolidations among our customers could reduce the number of our customers and potential
customers. This could adversely affect our revenues even if these events do not reduce the aggregate number of
customers or the activities of the consolidated entities. If our customers merge with or are acquired by other
entities that are not our customers, or that use fewer of our services, they may discontinue or reduce their use of
our services. The adverse effects of consolidation will be greater in sectors that we are particularly dependent
upon, for example, in the P&C insurance sector. Any of these developments could materially adversely affect our
business, financial condition, operating results, and cash flows.

If we are unable to develop successful new solutions or if we experience defects, failures and delays
associated with the introduction of new solutions, our business could suffer serious harm.

Our growth and success depend upon our ability to develop and sell new solutions. If we are unable to

develop new solutions, or if we are not successful in introducing and/or obtaining regulatory approval or
acceptance for new solutions, or products we develop face sufficient pricing pressure to make them unattractive
to pursue, we may not be able to grow our business, or growth may occur more slowly than we anticipate. In
addition, significant undetected errors or delays in new solutions may affect market acceptance of our solutions
and could harm our business, financial condition or results of operations. In the past, we have experienced delays
while developing and introducing new solutions, primarily due to difficulties in developing models, acquiring
data and adapting to particular operating environments. Errors or defects in our solutions that are significant, or
are perceived to be significant, could result in rejection of our solutions, damage to our reputation, loss of
revenues, diversion of development resources, an increase in product liability claims, and increases in service and
support costs and warranty claims.

We typically face a long selling cycle to secure new contracts that require significant resource
commitments, which result in a long lead time before we receive revenues from new relationships.

We typically face a long selling cycle to secure a new contract and there is generally a long preparation

period in order to commence providing the services. We typically incur significant business development
expenses during the selling cycle and we may not succeed in winning a new customer’s business, in which case
we receive no revenues and may receive no reimbursement for such expenses. Even if we succeed in developing
a relationship with a potential new customer, we may not be successful in obtaining contractual commitments
after the selling cycle or in maintaining contractual commitments after the implementation cycle, which may
have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

To the extent the availability of free or relatively inexpensive information increases, the demand for some of
our solutions may decrease.

Public sources of free or relatively inexpensive information have become increasingly available recently,
particularly through the Internet, and this trend is expected to continue. Governmental agencies in particular have

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increased the amount of information to which they provide free public access. Public sources of free or relatively
inexpensive information may reduce the demand for our solutions. To the extent that customers choose not to
obtain solutions from us and instead rely on information obtained at little or no cost from these public sources,
our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.

Our senior leadership team is critical to our continued success and the loss of such personnel could harm
our business.

Our future success substantially depends on the continued service and performance of the members of our

senior leadership team. These personnel possess business and technical capabilities that are difficult to replace.

However, as a general practice we do not enter into employee contracts with the members of our senior

management operating team, except for certain limited situations. If we lose key members of our senior
management operating team, we may not be able to effectively manage our current operations or meet ongoing
and future business challenges, and this may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations
and financial condition.

We may fail to attract and retain enough qualified employees to support our operations, which could have
an adverse effect on our ability to expand our business and service our customers.

Our business relies on large numbers of skilled employees and our success depends on our ability to

attract, train and retain a sufficient number of qualified employees. If our attrition rate increases, our operating
efficiency and productivity may decrease. We compete for employees not only with other companies in our
industry, but also with companies in other industries, such as software services, engineering services and
financial services companies, and there is a limited pool of employees who have the skills and training needed to
do our work.

If our business continues to grow, the number of people we will need to hire will increase. We will also

need to increase our hiring if we are not able to maintain our attrition rate through our current recruiting and
retention policies. Increased competition for employees could have an adverse effect on our ability to expand our
business and service our customers, as well as cause us to incur greater personnel expenses and training costs.

General economic, political and market forces and dislocations beyond our control could reduce demand
for our solutions and harm our business.

The demand for our solutions may be impacted by domestic and international factors that are beyond our

control, including macroeconomic, political and market conditions, the energy transition driven by climate
change and decarbonization, the availability of short-term and long-term funding and capital, the level and
volatility of interest rates, currency exchange rates, and inflation. Any one or more of these factors may
contribute to reduced activity and prices in the securities markets generally and could result in a reduction in
demand for our solutions, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
A significant additional decline in the value of assets for which risk is transferred in market transactions could
have an adverse impact on the demand for our solutions.

We may incur substantial additional indebtedness in connection with future acquisitions.

In order to finance acquisitions, which are an important part of our long-term growth strategy, we may

incur substantial additional indebtedness and such increased leverage could adversely affect our business. In
particular, the increased leverage could increase our vulnerability to sustained, adverse macroeconomic
weakness, limit our ability to obtain further financing and limit our ability to pursue other operational and
strategic opportunities. The increased leverage, potential lack of access to financing and increased expenses
could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

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General economic uncertainties, including downward trends in the energy industry, could reduce demand
by Wood Mackenzie’s customers for its products and services.

Demand for Wood Mackenzie’s products and services may be negatively influenced by general economic
uncertainties, particularly any downward trends in the energy industry and the energy transition driven by climate
change and decarbonization. Many factors could negatively affect the revenues, profits and discretionary
spending of Wood Mackenzie’s customers. Such factors include commodity prices (in particular, oil and coal),
the state of the local economy, interest rates, currency exchange rates, political uncertainty or restrictions and
regulations, the availability of industry resources, and other matters. A downturn or perceived downturn in the
economy, particularly the energy industry, could add pricing pressure, delay subscription renewals or lead to
more challenging or protracted fee negotiations or generally lower acceptance of our solutions by Wood
Mackenzie’s customers, which could cause a decline in our revenues and have a material adverse effect on our
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity

Fraudulent or unpermitted data access and other cyber-security or privacy breaches may negatively impact
our business and harm our reputation.

Security breaches in our facilities, computer networks, and databases may cause harm to our business and

reputation and result in a loss of customers. Many of our solutions involve the storage and transmission of
proprietary information and sensitive or confidential data. As with other global companies, our systems are
regularly subject to cyber-attacks, cyber-threats, attempts at fraudulent access, physical break-ins, computer
viruses, attacks by hackers and similar disruptive problems. As cyber-threats continue to evolve, we are required
to expend significant additional resources to continue to modify and enhance our protective measures and to
investigate and remediate any information security vulnerabilities and incidents. Despite efforts to ensure the
integrity of our systems and implement controls, processes, policies and other protective measures, we may not
be able to anticipate or detect all security breaches, nor may we be able to implement guaranteed preventive
measures against such security breaches. Cyber-threats are rapidly evolving and we may not be able to anticipate,
prevent or detect all such attacks and could be held liable for any security breach or loss.

Third-party contractors, including cloud-based service providers, also may experience security breaches

involving the storage and transmission of proprietary information. If users gain improper access to our databases,
they may be able to steal, publish, delete or modify confidential third-party information that is stored or
transmitted on our networks. Our business relies on the secure processing, transmission, storage and retrieval of
confidential, proprietary and other information in our computer and data management systems and networks, and
in the computer and data management systems and networks of third parties. In addition, to access our network,
products and services, our customers and other third parties may use personal mobile devices or computing
devices that are outside of our network environment and are subject to their own cybersecurity risks.

In addition, customers’, employees’ or other’s misuse of and/or gaining fraudulent or unpermitted access
to or failure to properly secure our information or services could cause harm to our business and reputation and
result in loss of customers. Any such misappropriation and/or misuse of or failure to properly secure our
information could result in us, among other things, being in breach of certain data protection and related
legislation.

A security or privacy breach may affect us in the following ways:

deterring customers from using our solutions;

deterring data suppliers from supplying data to us;

harming our reputation;

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increasing operating expenses to correct problems caused by the breach;

affecting our ability to meet customers’ expectations; and/or

causing inquiry from governmental authorities.

Incidents in which consumer data has been fraudulently or improperly acquired or viewed, or any other

security or privacy breaches, have in the past occurred, and may in the future occur and could go undetected. The
number of potentially affected consumers identified by any future incidents is inherently uncertain. Any such
incident could materially adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, operating results and cash
flows. In addition, media or other reports of perceived security vulnerabilities to our systems or those of our
third-party suppliers, even if no breach has been attempted or occurred, could also adversely impact our
reputation and materially impact our business.

We could face claims for intellectual property infringement, which if successful could restrict us from using
and providing our technologies and solutions to our customers.

There has been substantial litigation and other proceedings, particularly in the U.S., regarding patent and
other intellectual property rights in the information technology industry. There is a risk that we are infringing, or
may in the future infringe, the intellectual property rights of third parties. We have, from time-to-time, been
subject to litigation alleging intellectual property infringement. We monitor third-party patents and patent
applications that may be relevant to our technologies and solutions and we carry out freedom to operate analysis
where we deem appropriate. However, such monitoring and analysis has not been, and is unlikely in the future to
be, comprehensive, and it may not be possible to detect all potentially relevant patents and patent applications.
Since the patent application process can take several years to complete, there may be currently pending
applications, unknown to us, that may later result in issued patents that cover our products and technologies. As a
result, we may infringe existing and future third-party patents of which we are not aware. As we expand our
operations there is a higher risk that such activity could infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties.

Third-party intellectual property infringement claims and any resultant litigation against us or our
technology partners or providers, could subject us to liability for damages, restrict us from using and providing
our technologies and solutions or operating our business generally, or require changes to be made to our
technologies and solutions. Even if we prevail, litigation is time consuming and expensive to defend and would
result in the diversion of management’s time and attention.

If a successful claim of infringement is brought against us and we fail to develop non-infringing

technologies and solutions or to obtain licenses on a timely and cost-effective basis, this could materially
adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, operating results, and cash flows.

We may lose key business assets, through the loss of data center capacity or the interruption of
telecommunications links, the internet, or power sources, which could significantly impede our ability to do
business.

Our operations depend on our ability, as well as that of third-party service providers to whom we have
outsourced several critical functions, to protect data centers, whether in cloud or dedicated environments, and
related technology against damage from hardware failure, fire, flood, power loss, telecommunications failure,
impacts of terrorism, breaches in security (such as the actions of computer hackers), natural disasters, or other
disasters. Certain of our facilities are located in areas that could be impacted by coastal flooding, earthquakes or
other disasters. The online services we provide are dependent on links to telecommunications providers. In
addition, we generate a significant amount of our revenues through telesales centers and websites that we utilize
in the acquisition of new customers, fulfillment of solutions and services and responding to customer inquiries.
We may not have sufficient redundant operations to cover a loss or failure in all of these areas in a timely
manner. Certain of our customer contracts provide that our online servers may not be unavailable for specified

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periods of time. Any damage to our or our third-party service provider’s data centers, failure of our
telecommunications links or inability to access these telesales centers or websites could cause interruptions in
operations that materially adversely affect our ability to meet customers’ requirements, resulting in decreased
revenue, operating income and earnings per share.

Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Matters

We will continue to rely upon proprietary technology rights, and if we are unable to protect them, our
business could be harmed.

Our success depends, in part, upon our intellectual property rights. To date, we have relied primarily on a

combination of copyright, patent, trade secret, and trademark laws and nondisclosure and other contractual
restrictions on copying and distribution to protect our proprietary technology. This protection of our proprietary
technology is limited, and our proprietary technology could be used by others without our consent. In addition,
patents may not be issued with respect to our pending or future patent applications, and our patents may not be
upheld as valid or may not prevent the development of competitive products. Businesses we acquire also often
involve intellectual property portfolios, which increase the challenges we face in protecting our strategic
advantage. Any disclosure, loss, invalidity of, or failure to protect our intellectual property could negatively
impact our competitive position, and ultimately, our business. Our protection of our intellectual property rights in
the U.S. or abroad may not be adequate and others, including our competitors, may use our proprietary
technology without our consent. Furthermore, litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property
rights, to protect our trade secrets, or to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Such
litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could harm our business, financial
condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

Regulatory developments could negatively impact our business.

Because personal, public and non-public information is stored in some of our databases, we are
vulnerable to government regulation and adverse publicity concerning the use of our data. We provide many
types of data and services that already are subject to regulation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-
Leach-Bliley Act, Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation,
the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and to a lesser extent, various other federal,
state, and local laws and regulations. These laws and regulations are designed to protect the privacy of the public
and to prevent the misuse of personal information in the marketplace. However, many consumer advocates,
privacy advocates, and government regulators believe that the existing laws and regulations do not adequately
protect privacy. They have become increasingly concerned with the use of personal information, particularly
social security numbers, department of motor vehicle data and dates of birth. As a result, they are lobbying for
further restrictions on the dissemination or commercial use of personal information to the public and private
sectors. Similar initiatives are under way in other countries in which we do business or from which we source
data. We have implemented various measures to comply with the data privacy and protection principles of the
European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, however, there can be no assurances that such methods
will be deemed fully compliant. If we are unable to comply with the data privacy and protection principles
adopted pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation, it will impede our ability to conduct business
between the U.S. and the E.U. which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position,
results of operations or cash flows.

The following legal and regulatory developments also could have a material adverse effect on our

business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows:

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amendment, enactment, or interpretation of laws and regulations which restrict the access and use of
personal information and reduce the supply of data available to customers;

changes in cultural and consumer attitudes to favor further restrictions on information collection and
sharing, which may lead to regulations that prevent full utilization of our solutions;

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failure of our solutions to comply with current and future laws and regulations; and

failure of our solutions to adapt to changes in the regulatory environment in an efficient, cost-effective
manner.

Our financial position may be impacted by audit examinations or changes in tax laws or tax rulings.

Our existing corporate structure and tax positions have been implemented in a manner in which we
believe is compliant with current prevailing tax laws. However, changes in existing tax laws or rulings, including
Federal, State and International, could have a significant impact on our effective tax rate, cash tax positions and
deferred tax assets and liabilities. Tax audit examinations with an adverse outcome could have a negative effect
in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Furthermore, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) released its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) action plans which may also lead to
future tax reform that could affect our results. In addition, our tax positions are impacted by fluctuations in our
earnings and financial results in the various countries in which we do business.

We are subject to antitrust, consumer protection, intellectual property and other litigation, as well as
governmental investigations, and may in the future become further subject to such litigation and
investigations; an adverse outcome in such litigation or investigations could have a material adverse effect
on our financial condition, revenues and profitability.

We participate in businesses (particularly insurance-related businesses and services) that are subject to

substantial litigation, including antitrust, consumer protection and intellectual property litigation. In addition, our
insurance specialists are in the business of providing advice on standard contract terms, which if challenged
could expose us to substantial reputational harm and possible liability. We are subject to the provisions of a 1995
settlement agreement in an antitrust lawsuit brought by various state Attorneys General and private plaintiffs,
which imposes certain constraints with respect to insurer involvement in our governance and business.

Our failure to successfully defend or settle any litigation or resolve any governmental investigation could

result in liability that, to the extent not covered by our insurance, could have a material adverse effect on our
financial condition, revenues and profitability. Given the nature of our business, we may be subject to litigation
or investigation in the future. Even if the direct financial impact of such litigation or investigations is not
material, settlements or judgments arising out of such litigation or investigations could include further
restrictions on our ability to conduct business, including potentially the elimination of entire lines of business,
which could increase our cost of doing business and limit our prospects for future growth.

Risks Related to International Operations

We are subject to competition in many of the markets in which we operate and we may not be able to
compete effectively.

Some markets in which we operate or which we believe may provide growth opportunities for us are
highly competitive, and are expected to remain highly competitive. We compete on the basis of quality, customer
service, product and service selection, and pricing. Our competitive position in various market segments depends
upon the relative strength of competitors in the segment and the resources devoted to competing in that segment.
Due to their size, certain competitors may be able to allocate greater resources to a particular market segment
than we can. As a result, these competitors may be in a better position to anticipate and respond to changing
customer preferences, emerging technologies and market trends. In addition, new competitors and alliances may
emerge to take market share away, and as we enter into new lines of business, due to acquisition or otherwise, we
face competition from new players with different competitive dynamics. We may be unable to maintain our
competitive position in our market segments, especially against larger competitors. We may also invest further to
upgrade our systems in order to compete. If we fail to successfully compete, our business, financial position and
results of operations may be adversely affected.

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Our operations are subject to additional risks inherent in international operations.

Wood Mackenzie is based in the United Kingdom and conducts its principal operations outside the

U.S. Conducting extensive international operations subjects us to risks that are inherent in international
operations, including challenges posed by different pricing environments and different forms of competition; lack
of familiarity and burdens of complying with foreign laws, legal standards, regulatory requirements, tariffs and
other barriers; unexpected changes in regulatory requirements, taxes, trade laws, tariffs, export quotas, custom
duties, or other trade restrictions; differing technology standards; difficulties in collecting accounts receivable;
difficulties in managing and staffing international operations; varying expectations as to employee standards;
potentially adverse tax consequences, including possible restrictions on the repatriation of earnings; and reduced
or varied protection for intellectual property rights in some countries. In addition, our international operations
subject us to obligations associated with anti-corruption laws and regulations, such as the U.K. Bribery Act 2010,
the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and regulations established by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Government agencies and authorities have a broad range of civil and criminal penalties they may seek to impose
against companies for violations of export controls, anti-corruption laws or regulations, and other laws, rules,
sanctions, embargoes, and regulations.

Moreover, international operations could be interrupted and negatively affected by economic changes,
geopolitical regional conflicts, terrorist activity, political unrest, civil strife, acts of war, and other economic or
political uncertainties. All of these risks could result in increased costs or decreased revenues, either of which
could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We are subject to the increased risk of exchange rate fluctuations.

As a result of our acquisition of Wood Mackenzie and other recent acquisitions outside of the U.S., we

face greater exposure to movements in currency exchange rates, which may cause our revenue and operating
results to differ materially from expectations. Our operating results could be negatively affected depending on the
amount of revenue and expense denominated in foreign currencies. As exchange rates vary, revenue, cost of
revenue, operating expenses, and other operating results, when remeasured in U.S. dollars, may differ materially
from expectations. Although we may apply certain strategies to mitigate foreign currency risk, these strategies
may not eliminate our exposure to foreign exchange rate fluctuations and would involve costs and risks of their
own, such as ongoing management time and expertise, external costs to implement the strategies and potential
accounting implications.

Risks Related to Our Common Stock

If there are substantial sales of our common stock, our stock price could decline.

The market price of our common stock could decline as a result of sales of a large number of shares of

our common stock in the market, or the perception that these sales could occur. These sales, or the possibility that
these sales may occur, also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and
at a price that we deem attractive. As of December 31, 2021, our ten largest shareholders owned 36.1% of our
common stock, including 2.6% of our common stock owned by our Employee Stock Ownership Plan or ESOP.
Such stockholders are able to sell their common stock in the public market from time to time without registration,
and subject to limitations on the timing, amount and method of those sales imposed by securities laws. If any of
these stockholders were to sell a large number of their common stock, the market price of our common stock
could decline significantly. In addition, the perception in the public markets that sales by them might occur could
also adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

Pursuant to our equity incentive plans, options to purchase approximately 5,608,239 shares of common

stock were outstanding as of February 18, 2022. We filed a registration statement under the Securities Act, which
covers the shares available for issuance under our equity incentive plans (including for such outstanding options)
as well as shares held for resale by our existing stockholders that were previously issued under our equity

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incentive plans. Such further issuance and resale of our common stock could cause the price of our common
stock to decline.

Also, in the future, we may issue our securities in connection with investments and acquisitions. The

amount of our common stock issued in connection with an investment or acquisition could constitute a material
portion of our then outstanding common stock.

Our capital structure, level of indebtedness and the terms of anti-takeover provisions under Delaware law
and in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws could diminish the value of our
common stock and could make a merger, tender offer or proxy contest difficult or could impede an attempt
to replace or remove our directors.

We are a Delaware corporation and the anti-takeover provisions of the Delaware General Corporation

Law may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control by prohibiting us from engaging in a business
combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years after the person becomes an interested
stockholder, even if a change of control would be beneficial to our existing stockholders. In addition, our
certificate of incorporation and bylaws may discourage, delay or prevent a change in our management or control
over us that stockholders may consider favorable or make it more difficult for stockholders to replace directors
even if stockholders consider it beneficial to do so. Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws:

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authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that could be issued by our Board of Directors
to increase the number of outstanding shares to thwart a takeover attempt,

prohibit cumulative voting in the election of directors, which would otherwise allow holders of less
than a majority of the stock to elect some directors,

require that vacancies on the Board of Directors, including newly created directorships, be filled only
by a majority vote of directors then in office,

limit who may call special meetings of stockholders,

prohibit stockholder action by written consent, requiring all stockholder actions to be taken at a
meeting of the stockholders, and

establish advance notice requirements for nominating candidates for election to the Board of Directors
or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at stockholder meetings.

In addition, Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law may inhibit potential acquisition bids
for us. As a public company, we are subject to Section 203, which regulates corporate acquisitions and limits the
ability of a holder of 15.0% or more of our stock from acquiring the rest of our stock. Under Delaware law, a
corporation may opt out of the anti-takeover provisions, but we do not intend to do so.

These provisions may prevent a stockholder from receiving the benefit from any premium over the
market price of our common stock offered by a bidder in a potential takeover. Even in the absence of an attempt
to effect a change in management or a takeover attempt, these provisions may adversely affect the prevailing
market price of our common stock if they are viewed as discouraging takeover attempts in the future.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

Not Applicable.

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Item 2.

Properties

Our headquarters are in Jersey City, New Jersey. As of December 31, 2021, our principal offices

consisted of the following properties:

Location

Square Feet

Lease Expiration Date

Jersey City, New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lehi, Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Boston, Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
White Plains, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Houston, Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

January 31, 2024

352,765 December 31, 2033
200,000
115,271 November 30, 2030
June 29, 2025
66,303
56,584 April 30, 2023

We also lease offices in 21 states in the U.S., and offices outside the U.S. to support our international

operations in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany,
India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland,
Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and the U.K.

We believe that our properties are in good operating condition and adequately serve our current business

operations. We also anticipate that suitable additional or alternative space, including those under lease options,
will be available at commercially reasonable terms for future expansion.

Item 3.

Legal Proceedings

See Note 21, Commitments and Contingencies, to the consolidated financial statements included in Item

8 Part II of this 10-K for information regarding certain legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not Applicable.

PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of

Equity Securities

Market Information

Verisk trades under the ticker symbol “VRSK” on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. As of
February 18, 2022, there were approximately 66 stockholders of record. We believe the number of beneficial
owners is substantially greater than the number of record holders because a large portion of common stock is
held in “street name” by brokers.

On February 17, 2021, April 28, 2021, July 28, 2021, and October 27, 2021, our Board approved a cash

dividend of $0.29 per share of common stock issued and outstanding to the holders of record as of March 15,
2021, June 15, 2021, September 15, 2021, and December 15, 2021, respectively. Cash dividends of
$188.2 million and $175.8 million were paid during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 and recorded
as a reduction to retained earnings, respectively. We have a publicly announced share repurchase plan and
repurchased a total of 64,753,581 shares since our IPO through December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021,
we had 382,351,399 shares of treasury stock.

Performance Graph

The graph below compares the cumulative total stockholder return on $100 invested in our common
stock, with the cumulative total return on $100 invested in the S&P 500 index and an aggregate of peer issuers in

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our industry. The peer issuers used for this graph are Black Knight, Inc., CoreLogic Inc. (as of June 3, 2021,
CoreLogic was no longer a publicly-traded company), CoStar Group Inc., Equifax Inc., Fair Isaac Corp., Gartner,
Inc., Global Payments, Inc., IHS Markit, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Jack Henry & Associates Inc., Moody’s
Corporation, MSCI Inc., S&P Global, and TransUnion. The graph assumes that the value of investment in our
common stock and each index was $100 at December 31, 2016 and that all cash dividends were reinvested.

COMPARISON OF CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN
Assumes $100 Invested on December 31, 2016
Assumes Dividend Reinvested
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2021

370

350

330

310

290

270

250

230

210

190

170

150

130

110

90
Dec - 16

Dec - 17

Dec - 18

Dec - 19

Dec - 20

Dec - 21

Verisk Analytics, Inc.

S&P 500 Index

Peer Group

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

We had no unregistered sales of equity securities during 2021.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Our Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program (“Repurchase Program”), of up to
$4.6 billion, inclusive of the $500.0 million authorization approved by the board on August 17, 2021. As of
December 31, 2021, $603.8 million remains available for share repurchases. In December 2020, March 2021,
June 2021, and September 2021, we entered into four Accelerated Share Repurchase (“ASR”) agreements to
repurchase shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $400.0 million. These ASRs were
settled in February 2021, May 2021, September 2021, and December 2021. In December 2021, we entered into
an additional ASR agreement to repurchase shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of
$100.0 million. This ASR was settled in February 2022. Please refer to Note 22. Subsequent Events, for more
information. 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 aggregated value of $3,996.2 million. On February 16, 2022, our Board of Directors approved an

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additional share repurchase authorization of $1.0 billion. Our share repurchases for the quarter ended
December 31, 2021 are set forth below:

Period

Total Number
of Shares
Purchased

Average
Price Paid
per Share

Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs

Approximate Dollar
Value of Shares that
May Yet Be
Purchased Under the
Plans or Programs

October 1, 2021 through October 31, 2021 . . . . .
November 1, 2021 through November 30,

299,596(1)

$200.27(1)

299,596

2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

— $ —

—

December 1, 2021 through December 31,

2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

52,815(1)

$212.82(1)

52,815

352,411(1)

$212.82(1)

352,411

(in millions)
$603.8

$603.8

$603.8

(1)

In September 2021, we entered into an ASR agreement to repurchase shares of our common stock for an
aggregate purchase price of $75.0 million with Wells Fargo Bank. 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 $75.0 million on October 1, 2021, we received 299,596 shares of
our common stock at a price of $200.27 per share. Upon final settlement in December 2021, we received an
additional 52,815 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
352,411 and a final average price paid of $212.82 per share.

Item 6.

[Reserved]

Item 7. 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 elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus
(“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.”

This discussion includes a comparison of our results of operations, liquidity and capital resources,

financing and financing capacity and cash flow for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. A discussion
of changes in our results of operations and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 can be
found in “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
within the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 filed on February 23, 2021.

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 U.S., and around the world, we help customers
protect people, property, and financial assets. Refer to Item 1. Business for further discussion.

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

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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.

Our Insurance segment provides underwriting and ratings, 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
years ended December 31, 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
years ended December 31, 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 years ended December 31, 2021 and
2020, respectively.

COVID-19

Since January 2020, an outbreak of 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 the subscription renewal rates.

We have analyzed our solutions and services to assess the impact of COVID-19 on our revenue
streams. We have not identified any material impact stemming from COVID-19 on approximately 85% of our
revenues at this point, as much of these revenues are subscription in nature and subject to long-term contracts.
These revenues grew approximately 6% for the year ended December 31, 2021.

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 1% for the year ended
December 31, 2021 as compared to the same period in 2020. As the global outbreak of COVID-19 continues to
evolve, management continues to closely monitor its impact on our business.

Recent Developments

As of December 31, 2021, we reassessed the recoverability of the long-lived assets for our Financial
Services reporting unit based upon the weaker than expected operating performance as a result of changing
market conditions. These conditions constituted a triggering event, which resulted in a
$134.0 million impairment to the long-lived assets for our Financial Services reporting unit including
$88.2 million to intangible assets and $45.8 million to fixed assets. We based our analysis of the fair value of our
long-lived assets on the indication of fair value provided by the offer to purchase such reporting unit, which was
approved by our Board of Directors on February 16, 2022. This impairment is included within “Other operating
loss (income)” in our accompanying consolidated statement of operations.

On January 12, 2022, our Board of Directors approved the action to make our environmental health and
safety business within the Energy & Specialized Markets segment available for immediate sale at its current fair

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value. On January 21, 2022, we entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) to sell 3E
Company Environmental, Ecological and Engineering (“3E”) to Tamarack Buyer, L.L.C. (“Buyer”) in exchange
for a potential aggregate cash consideration of up to $950.0 million. Buyer is an entity that was formed on behalf
of, and is controlled by, certain investment funds affiliated with New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. (“New
Mountain”).

The purchase price consists of $630.0 million of cash consideration to be paid at the closing of the
transaction (subject to customary purchase price adjustments for, among other things, the cash, working capital
and indebtedness of 3E as of the closing), up to $50.0 million of earnout payments based on 3E’s financial
performance in 2023 and 2024, and up to $270.0 million of additional deferred payments based on New
Mountain’s future return on its investment in 3E.

Buyer has secured financing, consisting of equity financing to be provided by certain investment funds
affiliated with New Mountain and committed debt financing, to consummate the transaction. The closing of the
transaction is not subject to a financing condition, but is subject to other customary conditions, including the
expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. There can be no
assurance that these closing conditions will be satisfied.

The Purchase Agreement contains representations, warranties and covenants of the parties that are

customary for transactions of this type and that are subject, in some cases, to specified exceptions and
qualifications. Until the consummation of the transaction, we have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, to,
conduct 3E’s business in the ordinary course consistent with past practice. The parties are required to use their
respective commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions necessary, proper or
advisable under applicable laws to consummate the transaction. We will enter into a transition services
agreement with Buyer at the closing of the transaction to ensure an orderly transition.

On February 11, 2022, we acquired 100 percent of the membership interest of Infutor Data Solutions,
LLC (“Infutor”), for an aggregate net cash consideration of $223.5 million, of which $1.5 million represents a
working capital escrow, plus a contingent earn-out payment of up to $25.0 million subject to the achievement of
certain revenue and other performance targets. Infutor, a leading provider of identity resolution and consumer
intelligence data, has become a part of the underwriting & rating category within our Insurance segment. We
believe this acquisition further enhances Verisk’s marketing solutions offerings to companies across several
industries including the insurance industry.

On February 16, 2022, our Board of Directors approved the action to make our financial services business

within the Financial Services segment available for immediate sale at its current fair value. On February 21,
2022, we entered into a stock purchase agreement to sell our financial services business to TransUnion, a global
information and insights company, for $515.0 million in cash consideration paid at closing. This transaction is
subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and working capital adjustments.

Executive Summary

Key Performance Metrics

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.

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

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measures. EBITDA is defined as net income before interest expense, provision for income taxes, and
depreciation and amortization of fixed and intangible assets. We calculate EBITDA margin as EBITDA divided
by revenues. The respective nearest applicable GAAP financial measures are net income and net income margin.
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 flow from
operating activities reported under GAAP. Management uses EBITDA and EBITDA margin in conjunction with
traditional GAAP operating performance measures as part of its overall assessment company performance. We
believe these measures are useful and meaningful because they help us allocate resources, make business
decisions, allow for greater transparency regarding our operating performance, and facilitate period-to-period
comparisons. Some of these limitations involved in the use of EBITDA are:

• EBITDA does not reflect our cash expenditures, or future requirements for capital expenditures or

contractual commitments.

• EBITDA does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs.

• Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash 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.

• Other companies in our industry may calculate EBITDA differently than we do, limiting its usefulness

as a comparative measure.

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 performance measure to assess segment performance and

scalability of our business. We assess EBITDA margin based on our ability to increase revenues while
controlling expense growth.

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 years ended December 31,

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 years
ended December 31, 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 around
the world. Approximately 83% and 77% of the revenues in our Financial Services segment for the years ended
December 31, 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.

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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 years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020,
approximately 19% and 18%, respectively, of our consolidated revenues were derived from providing
transactional and advisory/consulting solutions.

Principal Operating Costs and Expenses

Personnel expenses are a major component of both our cost of revenues and selling, general and

administrative expenses. Personnel expenses, which represented approximately 55% and 59% of our total
operating expenses for each of the years ended December 31, 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 costs, 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, are either captured within cost of revenues or selling, general and administrative expense 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 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 Expense. Our selling, general and administrative expense also

consists primarily of personnel costs. A portion of the other operating costs such as facilities, insurance, and
communications are allocated to selling, general and administrative costs based on the nature of the work being
performed by the employee. Our selling, general and administrative expenses excludes depreciation and
amortization.

Trends Affecting Our Business

We serve customers in three primary vertical markets: P&C insurance, energy and specialized markets,

and financial services. The industry trends in each of those markets can affect our business.

A significant change in P&C insurers’ profitability could affect the demand for our solutions. For
insurers, the keys to profitability include increasing investment income, premium growth and disciplined
underwriting of risks. Investment income remains under pressure as a result of low interest rates. Growth in P&C
insurers’ direct written premiums is cyclical, with total industry premium growth receding from a peak of 14.8%
in 2002 to a trough of negative 3.1% in 2009 and subsequently recovering to 4.4% in 2012, slowing down to

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3.7% in 2015 and 2016, accelerating to 4.7% in 2017 and 5.5% in 2018, then again slowing down to 5.1% in
2019. In recent years, we have signed multi-year contracts with certain customers, and pricing is fixed at the
beginning of each multi-year period; pricing for other customers is still linked to prior years’ premiums. Direct
premium growth slowed to 2.3% in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, and premiums for personal automobile
insurance actually declined. Based on the most recent results available, direct premium growth recovered in
2021, despite continuing disruptions and uncertainties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 and
2021, insurers were also challenged by heightened catastrophic losses associated with a record number of events
ISO’s Property Claims Service classified as catastrophes in each of the years. The catastrophes of 2020 included
the hurricane Laura and the Midwest derecho, both in August 2020, and multiple wildfires in the Western states,
while the most notable events of 2021 included the winter storm in February that left much of Texas without
power and hurricane Ida in August. Both Ida and Laura are among the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall
in the United States. These events illustrate the need for broader coverages, such as flood to meet the changing
needs of communities. We continue to provide the necessary resources to meet insurer needs. In the life
insurance market, carriers are looking to modernize and digitize their core platforms, as well as offer streamlined
underwriting decision-making process to expand the number of policies which can be offered more rapidly, and
without cumbersome medical tests. Our no-code modular technology stack and advanced analytics (such as using
electronic health records to model mortality and detecting of tobacco use through voice analysis) enable the
digital transformation of our customers’ core infrastructure and automate their decision-making processes across
the policy lifecycle.

Trends in catastrophe and non-catastrophe losses (such as from weather, climate, cyber, casualty,

terrorism, pandemics, and tsunamis) can have an effect on our customers’ profitability, and therefore on their
appetite for buying analytics to help them manage their risks. Any increase or decrease in frequency or severity
of these events over time could lead to an increased or decreased demand for our catastrophe modeling,
catastrophe loss information, and repair cost solutions. Likewise, any structural changes in the reinsurance and
related brokerage industry from alternative capital or newer technologies could affect demand for our products.
We also have a portion of our revenue related to the number of claims processed due to losses, which can be
impacted by seasonal storm activity. The need by our customers to fight insurance fraud — both in claims and at
policy inception — could lead to increased demand for our underwriting and claims solutions.

Trends in the energy, chemicals, metals and mining sectors, and activity in financial markets can
influence our revenues. In 2021, global economic growth, commodity flows and prices recovered strongly after
being impacted negatively by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Commodity markets performed impressively,
with Brent oil averaging $71 dollars per barrel in 2021, compared to an average of $42 dollars per barrel in 2020.
Gas prices also increased from their 2020 levels, as global energy demand recovered. Investment in the natural
resources increased in 2021, following a sharp decline in 2020. We expect investment to continue to increase this
year as natural resources companies reinvest the higher cashflows generated from their operations as a result of
the significantly higher commodity prices seen in 2021. However, natural resources companies are also expected
to demonstrate capital discipline, using higher commodity prices as an opportunity to build stronger balance
sheets and to return capital to shareholders. The energy transition continues to gather pace. Governments and
companies in all areas of our customer base globally are setting targets for the reduction in CO2 emissions and
are adjusting their investment plans to take into account expected changes in energy demand, regulation and
consumer behavior. The transition presents both a threat and an opportunity for the sector and our revenues.
Fossil fuels will meet much of global demand for some decades, but investments in zero carbon energy
(renewables and emerging technologies such as electric vehicles and energy storage) and the associated
infrastructure will grow in importance. Electrification of economies will drive demand for base metals, some
bulk commodities and battery raw materials. Climate change and decarbonization are rising up the agenda, and
policy on environmental and social governance is intensifying. Attracting the capital needed to meet future
energy demand is one of the industry’s challenges and data, analysis and insight will help our customers achieve
this.

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Trends in the banking and retail sectors, as well as material external factors can influence revenues in our
Financial Services segment in many ways. COVID-19 has had a significant impact on our one-time consultative
revenue streams over the past year as our clients sought to temporarily reduce external expenditure while they
focused on critical customer needs. Additionally, governmental intervention and actions to support indebted
consumers by extending credit terms has created a lag in bankruptcy and similar filings which have adversely
impacted our credit analytics business, but we do believe this is a temporary impact which will reverse over
time. As retailers saw reduced consumer spend due to COVID-19 however, this created an opportunity for our
spend analytics businesses to work more closely with retailers to help them understand and target emerging
spend as the economies in our markets re-emerged. Our sector specific trends have remained broadly consistent
with fraud and similar financial crimes continuing to impact our customers in ways ranging from regulatory risk
and credit loss for financial institutions, to counterfeit loss and inventory shrinkage for merchants, with risks
being elevated at times of financial stress. This can strengthen demand for our credit risk and fraud solutions
ranging from enhanced brand protection solutions for retailers, through to enhanced artificial-intelligence led
models to identify cross bank and cross-border fraudulent transactions. We continue to see increasing
competition for traditional retail banks and consumer lenders from financial technology companies and other
on-line lending new entrants, which provides opportunities for us to support many existing and potential clients,
with our enhanced digital solutions and analytical tools providing new ways for us to communicate and engage
with our clients today in our remote environment, and in the future.

Description of Acquisitions

We acquired sixteen businesses since January 1, 2019. These acquisitions affect the comparability of our

consolidated results of operations between periods. See a description of our 2021 acquisitions below and
Note 10. Acquisitions to our consolidated financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K for
further discussions.

2021 Acquisitions

On December 23, 2021, we acquired approximately 96.7 percent of the stock of ACTINEO GmbH

(“ACTINEO”) with an option to acquire the remaining shares at a future date, for a net cash purchase price of
$148.9 million. ACTINEO offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, technology and data solutions to support
the entire bodily injury settlement process. With this acquisition, we add ACTINEO’s established claims
management solutions to our leading data analytics and insurance ecosystem, providing customers with
digitalization and medical expertise solutions throughout the entire claims process. ACTINEO is part of the
claims vertical within our Insurance segment.

On November 2, 2021, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Data Driven Safety, LLC (“Data Driven

Safety”) for a net cash purchase price of $93.5 million, of which $2.0 million represents indemnity escrows. Data
Driven Safety, a leading public record data aggregation firm that specializes in driver risk assessment in the U.S.,
has become a part of the underwriting & rating category within our Insurance segment. We believe that Data
Driven Safety will expand our robust auto insurance analytics, providing insurers with information to further
refine underwriting, improve the customer experience and promote public safety.

On September 1, 2021, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Ignite Software Systems Limited

(“Ignite”) for a net cash purchase price of $13.8 million. Ignite, a provider of insurance policy administration
systems to brokers, managing general agents, and insurers, has become a part of the underwriting & rating
category within our Insurance segment. We believe that Ignite’s client focus and deep domain knowledge will
fit into our business model providing new and existing clients with access to a broader expert advice and service.

On June 17, 2021, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Roskill Holdings Limited (“Roskill”) for a net
cash purchase price of $22.1 million, of which $4.8 million represents indemnity escrows. Roskill, a provider of
metals and materials supply chain intelligence, has become part of our Energy and Specialized Markets segment.

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Roskill’s capabilities reinforce our ability to provide comprehensive analysis across the energy, and metals and
mining value chain while adding analysis, data, and insight on battery raw materials metals.

On March 2, 2021, we acquired a 51.0 percent ownership in Whitespace Software

Limited (“Whitespace”) for a net cash purchase price of $16.8 million. The remaining 49.0 percent ownership
interest in Whitespace will be acquired by us, in three equal proportions over the next three years, at a purchase
price determined based upon a fixed revenue multiple and adjusted for any free cash flow shortfall. Whitespace,
a provider of digital placing technology to the (re)insurance market, has become part of the underwriting &
rating category within our Insurance segment. We expect our investment in Whitespace to enable a seamless
real-time quote-to-bind electronic placing and global distribution solution, with straight-through submissions for
our customers.

Year Ended December 31, 2021 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2020

Consolidated Results of Continuing Operations

Revenues

Revenues were $2,998.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $2,784.6 million for

the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $214.0 million or 7.7%. Our recent acquisitions (Franco
Signor, Jornaya, Whitespace, Ignite Software Systems, Data Driven Safety within the underwriting & rating
category of the Insurance segment, ACTINEO within the claims category of 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 $53.7 million. The
remaining growth in consolidated revenues of $160.3 million or 5.8% is related to the following: revenues within
our Insurance segment increased $146.0 million or 7.3%; revenues within our Energy and Specialized Markets
segment increased $26.8 million or 4.3%; offset by revenues within our Financial Services segment which
decreased $12.5 million or 8.1%. Refer to the Results of Operations by Segment within this section for more
information regarding our revenues.

2021

2020

Percentage change

(in millions)

Percentage change
excluding recent
acquisitions, businesses
held for sale and
disposition

Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Energy and Specialized Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Financial Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,206.9
648.9
142.8

$2,008.7
619.2
156.7

Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,998.6

$2,784.6

9.9%
4.8%
(8.9)%

7.7%

7.3%
4.3%
(8.1)%

5.8%

Cost of Revenues

Cost of revenues was $1,057.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $993.9 million

for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $63.9 million or 6.4%. Our recent acquisitions and
dispositions accounted for a net increase of $14.9 million in cost of revenues, which was primarily related to
salaries and employee benefits. The remaining increase in cost of revenues of $49.0 million or 4.9% was
primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $24.3 million, information technology expenses of
$18.9 million, professional consulting costs of $8.3 million, and other operating costs of $0.7 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 decreases in travel expenses of $3.1 million and data costs of
$0.1 million. The decrease in travel expense primarily resulted from travel restrictions in connection with the
COVID-19 pandemic.

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Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses (“SGA”) were $422.7 million for the year ended
December 31, 2021 compared to $413.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of
$8.8 million or 2.1%. Our recent acquisitions and dispositions accounted for an increase of $18.2 million in SGA
primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. Our acquisition-related costs (earn-outs) accounted for a
decrease of $2.0 million (See Note 10. Acquisitions to our consolidated financial statements included in this
annual report on Form 10-K). The remaining SGA decrease of $7.4 million or 1.8% was primarily due
to decreases in professional consulting costs of $36.4 million and travel expenses of $2.0 million. The decrease in
professional consulting costs is primarily due to the release of the previously established Xactware Solutions
Patent Litigation’s (“EVT Litigation Reserve”) reserve once the final payment was made in the fourth quarter of
2021 (the original accrual for this matter was recorded as part of SGA). See Note 21. Commitments and
Contingencies. The decrease in travel expense primarily resulted from travel restrictions in connection with the
COVID-19 pandemic. These decreases were partially offset by increases of salaries and employee benefits of
$27.3 million, information technology expenses of $3.3 million, and other operating costs of $0.4 million. The
increase in salaries and employee benefits was primarily due to a pause in our employee hiring activities in the
first half of the prior year 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 $206.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021

compared to $192.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $14.7 million or 7.6%. The
increase was primarily driven by assets placed in service of $14.3 million to support data capacity expansion and
revenue growth and due to recent acquisitions of $0.5 million. These increases were partially offset by our recent
dispositions of $0.1 million.

Amortization of Intangible Assets

Amortization of intangible assets was $176.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared

to $165.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $10.8 million or 6.5%. This was
primarily driven by the additional amortization of intangible assets incurred in connection with our recent
acquisitions.

Other Operating (Loss) Income

Other operating (loss) income was a loss of $134.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021
compared to a gain of $19.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. This decrease of $153.4 million was
primarily related to the long-lived asset impairment loss associated with our Financial Services segment recorded
in the current period and 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 $1.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021

compared to a loss of $2.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase was primarily due to a
gain on foreign currencies.

Interest Expense

Interest expense was $127.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $138.2 million
for the year ended December 31, 2020, a decrease of $11.2 million or 8.2%. We repaid our 5.800% senior notes
in May 2021, which contributed to a lower interest expense.

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Provision for Income Taxes

The provision for income taxes was $209.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to
$184.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $24.3 million or 13.2%. The effective tax
rate was 23.9% for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to 20.6% for the year ended December 31,
2020. The increase in the effective tax rate in 2021 compared to 2020 was primarily due to the deferred tax
impact of the tax rate increase in the United Kingdom that was enacted and recorded in 2021, the impact of the
current year Global Intangible Low-taxed income inclusion (“GILTI”), and the impact of higher tax benefits
from equity compensation in the prior period versus the current period.

Net Income Margin

The net income margin for our consolidated results was 22.2% for the year ended December 31,
2021 compared to 25.6% for each of the year ended December 31, 2020. The decrease in net income margin was
primarily related to the long-lived asset impairment loss associated with our Financial Services segment.

EBITDA Margin

The EBITDA margin for our consolidated results was 46.2% for the year ended December 31, 2021
compared to 50.1% for the year ended December 31, 2020. The decrease in EBITDA margin was primarily
related to the long-lived asset impairment loss associated with our Financial Services segment, partially offset by
the release of the previously established EVT Litigation Reserve once the final payment was made in the fourth
quarter of 2021.

Results of Continuing Operations by Segment

Insurance

Revenues

Revenues were $2,206.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $2,008.7 million for

the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $198.2 million or 9.9%. Our underwriting & rating revenues
increased $142.1 million or 10.1%. Our claims revenues increased $56.1 million or 9.4%.

2021

2020

Percentage change

(in millions)

Percentage change
excluding recent
acquisitions, businesses
held for sale and
disposition

Underwriting & rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,555.1
651.8

$1,413.0
595.7

Total Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,206.9

$2,008.7

10.1%
9.4%

9.9%

7.2%
7.5%

7.3%

Our recent acquisitions (Franco Signor, Jornaya, Whitespace, Ignite Software Systems, and Data Driven

Safety within the underwriting & rating category and ACTINEO within the claims category) and dispositions
(the aerial imagery sourcing group and the compliance background screening business within the claims
category) contributed net revenues of $52.2 million and the remaining Insurance revenues increased
$146.0 million or 7.3%. Our underwriting & rating revenues increased $101.7 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 within
commercial and personal lines. In addition, catastrophe modeling services contributed to the growth. Our claims
revenues increased $44.3 million or 7.5%, primarily due to growth in our repair cost estimating solutions revenue
and claims analytics revenue related to annual price as well as volume increases.

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Cost of Revenues

Cost of revenues for our Insurance segment was $704.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021
compared to $644.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $60.1 million or 9.3%. Our
recent acquisitions and dispositions represented a net increase of $14.7 million in cost of revenues, which was
primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining increase in cost of revenues of $45.4 million
or 7.1% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $24.3 million, information
technology expenses of $16.4 million, professional consulting costs of $2.9 million, data costs of
$2.0 million, and other operating costs of $0.9 million. The increase in salaries and employee benefits was
primarily due to more robust employee hiring activities as stated above. These increases were partially offset by a
decrease in travel expenses of $1.1 million. The decrease in travel expenses primarily resulted from travel
restrictions in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Insurance segment were $239.1 million for the year

ended December 31, 2021 compared to $248.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, a decrease
of $9.0 million or 3.6%. Our recent acquisitions and dispositions accounted for an increase of $15.2 million
primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. Our acquisition-related costs (earn-outs) accounted for
a decrease of $2.0 million. The remaining decrease in SGA of $22.2 million or 9.1% was primarily due to
decreases in professional consulting costs of $42.3 million, travel expenses of $1.3 million, and other operating
costs of $0.7 million. The decrease in professional consulting fees was primarily due to the release of the
previously established EVT Litigation Reserve once the final payment was made in the fourth quarter of
2021 (the original accrual for this matter was recorded as part of SGA). These decreases were partially offset
by increases in salaries and employee benefits of $19.5 million and information technology expenses of
$2.6 million.

Other Operating Income

Other operating income was $0.0 for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $15.9 million for

the year ended December 31, 2020. This decrease 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 income (loss) and others, net was a gain of $2.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021

compared to a loss of $1.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. This change was primarily due to a
gain on foreign currencies.

EBITDA Margin

EBITDA for our Insurance segment was $1,265.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021

compared to $1,131.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The EBITDA margin for our Insurance
segment was 57.4% for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to 56.3% for the year ended December 31,
2020. The increase in EBITDA margin was primarily due to the release of the previously established EVT
Litigation Reserve once the final payment was made in the fourth quarter of 2021, a reduction in travel expenses
as a result of COVID-19, and cost discipline.

Energy and Specialized Markets

Revenues

Revenues for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment were $648.9 million for the year ended

December 31, 2021 compared to $619.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase

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of $29.7 million or 4.8%. Our recent acquisition within this segment, Roskill, contributed revenues of
$2.9 million. The remaining increase in revenue of $26.8 million or 4.3% was primarily due to increases in our
core research subscription solutions, and environmental health and safety service subscription revenues.

Cost of Revenues

Cost of revenues for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment was $263.0 million for the year ended

December 31, 2021 compared to $256.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase
of $6.2 million or 2.4%. Our recent acquisition accounted for an increase of $0.9 million in cost of revenues,
which was primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining cost of revenues increase
of $5.3 million or 2.1% was primarily due to increases in professional consulting fees of $6.5 million,
information technology expenses of $2.3 million, and salaries and employee benefits of $0.7 million. These
increases were partially offset by decreases in travel expenses of $1.3 million, and data costs of $0.6 million, and
other operating costs of $2.3 million. The decrease in travel expenses primarily resulted from travel restrictions
in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment

were $154.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $146.1 million for the year ended
December 31, 2020, an increase of $8.3 million or 5.6%. Our recent acquisition accounted for an increase of
$3.7 million, primarily related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining SGA increase of $4.6 million or
3.1% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of $2.6 million, professional consulting
costs of $2.1 million, information technology expenses of $0.2 million, and other operating costs of
0.3 million. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of $0.6 million. The decrease
in travel expenses primarily resulted from travel restrictions in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Investment Loss and Others, Net

Investment loss and others, net was a loss of $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021

compared to a loss of $1.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.

EBITDA Margin

EBITDA for our Energy and Specialized Markets segment was $231.3 million for the year ended
December 31, 2021 compared to $215.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The EBITDA margin for
our Energy and Specialized Markets segment was 35.6% for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to
34.7% for the year ended December 31, 2020. The increase in EBITDA margin was primarily related to cost-
discipline, a reduction in travel expenses as a result of COVID-19, and a decrease in acquisition-related costs
(earn-outs).

Financial Services

Revenues

Revenues for our Financial Services segment were $142.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021

compared to $156.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, a decrease of $13.9 million or 8.9%. Our
recent disposition of the data warehouse business contributed a decrease in revenues of $1.4 million. The
remaining decrease in revenue of $12.5 million or 8.1% was related to projects that did not reoccur and decrease
in revenue in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in lower consulting revenue, and lower
transactional bankruptcy revenue because of government support and forbearance programs.

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Cost of Revenues

Cost of revenues for our Financial Services segment was $90.4 million for the year ended December 31,
2021 compared to $92.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, a decrease of $2.4 million or 2.6%. Our
recent disposition of the data warehouse business represented a decrease of $0.7 million, which was primarily
related to salaries and employee benefits. The remaining cost of revenues decrease of $1.7 million or 1.9% was
primarily due to decreases in data costs of $1.5 million, professional consulting costs of $1.1 million, salaries and
employee benefits of $0.7 million, and travel expenses of $0.7 million. The decrease in travel expenses primarily
resulted from travel restrictions in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. These decreases were partially
offset by increases in information technology expenses of $0.2 million, and other operating costs of 2.1 million.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses for our Financial Services segment were $29.2 million for

the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $19.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase
of $9.5 million or 48.6%. Our recent disposition represented a net decrease of $0.7 million. The remaining
increase in SGA of $10.2 million or 53.9% was primarily due to increases in salaries and employee benefits of
$5.2 million, professional consulting costs of $3.8 million, information technology expenses of $0.5 million, and
other operating costs of 0.8 million. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in travel expenses of
$0.1 million.

Other Operating (Loss) Income

Other operating (loss) income was a loss of $134.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021
compared to a gain of $3.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The decrease of $137.5 million was
primarily due a long-lived asset impairment loss that was recorded in the current period and a gain generated
from the sale of our data warehouse business that was recorded in 2020.

Investment Loss and Others, Net

Investment loss and others, net was a loss of $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021
compared to $0.0 for the year ended December 31, 2020. The variance was primarily due to a loss on foreign
currencies.

EBITDA Margin

EBITDA for our Financial Services segment was a loss of $111.0 million for the year ended

December 31, 2021 compared to $47.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The EBITDA margin for
our Financial Services segment was -77.7% for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to 30.4% for the
year ended December 31, 2020. The decrease in EBITDA margin is primarily related to the long-lived
asset impairment loss, decrease in revenue, and the gain generated from the sale of our data warehouse business
that was recorded in 2020.

See Note 19. of our consolidated financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had cash and cash equivalents and available-for-sale securities of

$285.3 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 syndicated revolving credit facility, we believe we will have sufficient cash to meet our
working capital, human capital and capital expenditure needs, and to fuel our future growth plans.

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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.

Our consolidated capital expenditures as a percentage of consolidated revenues for the years ended
December 31, 2021 and 2020, were 9.0% and 8.9%, respectively. Expenditures related to developing and
enhancing our solutions are predominately related to internal-use software and are capitalized in accordance with
ASC 350-40, “Accounting for Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use.” We also
capitalize amounts in accordance with ASC 985-20, “Software to be Sold, Leased or Otherwise Marketed.”

We have historically used a portion of our cash for repurchases of our common stock from our
stockholders. For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, we repurchased $475.0 million,
$348.8 million and $300.0 million, respectively, of our common stock. For the years ended December 31, 2021,
2020, and 2019, we also paid dividends of $188.2 million, $175.8 million, and $163.5 million, respectively.

Financing and Financing Capacity

We had total debt, excluding finance lease obligations, unamortized discounts and premium, and debt

issuance costs of $3,310.0 million and $3,200.0 million at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The debt
at December 31, 2021 primarily consists of senior notes issued in 2020, 2019, 2015, 2012 and 2011 and
borrowings outstanding under our committed senior unsecured Syndicated Revolving Credit Facility (“Credit
Facility”), described below. Interest on the senior notes is payable semi-annually each year. The unamortized
discount and debt issuance costs were recorded as “Long-term debt” in the accompanying consolidated balance
sheets, and will be amortized to “Interest expense” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations
within this Form 10-K over the life of the respective senior note. The indenture governing the senior notes
restricts our ability to, among other things, create certain liens, enter into sale/leaseback transactions and
consolidate with, sell, lease, convey, or otherwise transfer all or substantially all of our assets, or merge with or
into, any other person or entity. As of December 31, 2021, we had senior notes with an aggregate principal
amount of $2,700.0 million outstanding, and we were in compliance with our financial and non-financial debt
covenants.

We have a Credit Facility with a borrowing capacity of $1,000.0 million 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. Interest on borrowings under the Credit
Facility is payable at an interest rate of LIBOR plus 1.0% to 1.625%, depending upon the public debt rating. A
commitment fee on any unused balance is payable periodically and may range from 8.0 to 20.0 basis points based
upon the public debt rating. The Credit Facility also contains certain financial and other covenants that, among
other things, impose certain restrictions on indebtedness, liens, investments, and capital expenditures. These
covenants place restrictions on mergers, asset sales, sale/leaseback transactions, and certain transactions with
affiliates. The financial covenants require that, at the end of any fiscal quarter, we have a consolidated funded
debt leverage ratio of less than 3.5 to 1.0. At our election, the maximum consolidated funded debt leverage ratio
could be permitted to increase one time each to 4.0 to 1.0 and 4.25 to 1.0. The Credit Facility may be used for
general corporate purposes, including working capital needs and capital expenditures, acquisitions, dividends and
the share repurchase program (the “Repurchase Program”). As of December 31, 2021, we were in compliance
with all financial and other debt covenants under the Credit Facility. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the

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available capacity under the Credit Facility was $384.9 million and $944.6 million, net of the letters of credit of
$5.1 million and $5.4 million, respectively. Subsequent to December 31, 2021 we have made repayments of
$130.0 million under the Credit Facility resulting in $480.0 million in borrowings under the Revolving Credit
Facility.

Cash Flow

The following table summarizes our cash flow data for the years ended December 31:

Net cash provided by operating activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Net cash used in investing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Net cash used in financing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,155.7
$1,068.2
$ (592.0) $ (595.8)
$ (498.9) $ (445.2)

2021

2020

(in millions)

Operating Activities

Net cash provided by operating activities was $1,155.7 million for the year ended December 31,
2021 compared to $1,068.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $87.5 million or 8.2%.
The increase was primarily due to an increase in customer collections, partially offset by the prior year deferral
of certain employer payroll taxes resulting from the CARES Act and a payment to settle the EVT litigation.

Net cash provided by operating activities was $1,068.2 million for the year ended December 31,
2020 compared to $956.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, an increase of $111.9 million or 11.7%.
The increase was primarily due to an increase in collections, the deferral of certain employer payroll taxes
resulting from the CARES Act and a reduction in travel payments as a result of COVID-19.

Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities of $592.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 was

primarily related to acquisitions of $299.0 million including escrow funding, capital expenditures of
$268.4 million, and investments in nonpublic companies of $23.6 million.

Net cash used in investing activities of $595.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 was
primarily related to acquisitions of $285.1 million including escrow funding and capital expenditures of
$246.8 million.

Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities of $498.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 was driven

by repurchases of common stock of $475.0 million, repayment of our $450.0 million 5.800% senior notes on
May 3, 2021, and dividend payments of $188.2 million, partially offset by proceeds, net of repayments, from our
Credit Facility of $560.0 million and proceeds from stock options exercised of $84.3 million.

Net cash used in financing activities of $445.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 was driven
by net debt repayments on our Credit Facility of $445.0 million, repurchases of common stock of $348.8 million,
and dividend payments of $175.8 million, partially offset by proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt,
inclusive of original issue premium and net of original discount, of $494.8 million, and proceeds from stock
options exercised of $88.0 million.

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Contractual Obligations

The following table summarizes our contractual obligations at December 31, 2021 and the future periods

in which such obligations are expected to be settled in cash:

Payments Due by Period

Total

Less than
1 year

2-3 years

4-5 years

(in millions)

More than
5 years

Contractual obligations
Long-term debt, current portion of long-term debt and

interest

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pension and postretirement plans(1)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finance lease obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$4,591.6
351.9
14.5
14.8

$1,068.9
51.5
2.3
13.0

$196.3
88.9
3.3
1.7

$1,040.7
65.7
2.8
0.1

$2,285.7
145.8
6.1
—

Total(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$4,972.8

$1,135.7

$290.2

$1,109.3

$2,437.6

(1) Our funding policy is to contribute at least equal to the minimum legal funding requirement.

(2) Unrecognized tax benefits of approximately $3.4 million have been recorded as liabilities in accordance
with ASC 740, which have been omitted from the table above, and we are uncertain as to if or when such
amounts may be settled, with the exception of those amounts subject to a statute of limitation. Related to the
unrecognized tax benefits, we also have recorded a liability for potential penalties and interest of
$0.5 million.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have no off-balance sheet arrangements.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations are based on

our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States. 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 revenue recognition, goodwill and intangible assets, pension and other postretirement benefits,
stock-based compensation, and income taxes. Actual results may differ from these assumptions or conditions.

Revenue Recognition

We recognize revenue based on the transfer of promised goods or services to customers for the amount

that reflects the consideration to which we expect to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Revenue
is recognized in a five-step model: 1) identify the contract with a customer; 2) identify the performance
obligations in the contract; 3) determine the transaction price; 4) allocate the transaction price to the performance
obligations in the contract; and 5) recognize revenue when or as the company satisfies a performance obligation.
Revenues for hosted subscription services are recognized ratably over the subscription term. Revenues from
certain discrete project based advisory/consulting services are recognized over time by measuring the progress
toward complete satisfaction of the performance obligation, based on the input method of consulting hours
worked; this aligns with the results achieved and value transferred to the customer. Revenues from transactional
solutions are recognized as the solutions are delivered or services performed at point in time.

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We invoice our customers in annual, quarterly, or monthly installments. Amounts billed and collected in
advance are recorded as deferred revenues on the balance sheet and are recognized as the services are performed
and revenue recognition criteria are met.

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation cost, including stock options, restricted stock, and performance share units

(“PSUs”), is measured at the grant date, based on the fair value of the awards granted, and is recognized as
expense over the requisite service period. The fair value of stock options is measured using a Black-Scholes
option-pricing model, which requires the use of several estimates, including expected term, expected risk-free
interest rate, expected volatility, and expected dividend yield. The fair value of the restricted stock is determined
using the closing price of our common stock on the grant date. The fair value of PSUs is determined on the grant
date using the Monte Carlo Simulation model.

Option grants and restricted stock awards are generally expensed ratably over the four-year vesting
period. PSUs are generally expensed ratably over the three-year vesting period. We follow the substantive
vesting period approach for awards granted after January 1, 2005, which requires that stock-based compensation
expense be recognized over the period from the date of grant to the date when the award is no longer contingent
on the employee providing additional service.

We estimate expected forfeitures of equity awards at the date of grant and recognize compensation

expense only for those awards expected to vest. The forfeiture assumption is ultimately adjusted to the actual
forfeiture rate.

Goodwill and Intangibles

Goodwill represents the excess of acquisition costs over the fair value of tangible net assets and
identifiable intangible assets of the businesses acquired. Goodwill and intangible assets deemed to have
indefinite lives are not amortized. Intangible assets determined to have definite lives are amortized over their
useful lives. 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, using the guidance and criteria described in the accounting standard for Goodwill and Other
Intangible Assets. This testing compares carrying values to fair values and, when appropriate, the carrying value
of these assets is reduced to fair value.

As of December 31, 2021, we had goodwill of $4,331.2 million, which represents 55.5% of our total
assets. During 2021, we performed an impairment test as of June 30, 2021 and confirmed that no impairment
charge was necessary as the fair value of each reporting unit exceeded its carrying value. There are many
assumptions and estimates used that directly impact the results of impairment testing, including an estimate of
future expected revenues, EBITDA, EBITDA margins and cash flows, useful lives and discount rates, and an
estimate of value using multiples derived from the stock prices of publicly traded guideline companies applied to
such expected cash flows and market approaches in order to estimate fair value. We have the ability to influence
the outcome and ultimate results based on the assumptions and estimates we choose for determining the fair
value of our reporting units. To mitigate undue influence, we set criteria and benchmarks that are reviewed and
approved by various levels of management and reviewed by other independent parties. The determination of
whether or not goodwill or indefinite-lived acquired intangible assets have become impaired involves a
significant level of judgment in the assumptions and estimates underlying the approach used to determine the
value of our reporting units. Changes in our strategy or market conditions could significantly impact these
judgments and require an impairment to be recorded to intangible assets and goodwill. As of December 31, 2021,
we reassessed the recoverability of long-lived assets for our Financial Services reporting unit based upon the
weaker than expected operating performance as a result of changing market conditions. These conditions
constituted a triggering event, which resulted in a $134.0 million impairment to the long-lived assets in our

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Financial Services operating segment including $88.2 million to intangible assets and $45.8 million to fixed
assets. We based our analysis of the fair value of our long-lived assets on the indication of fair value provided by
the offer to purchase such reporting unit, which was approved by our Board of Directors on February 16, 2022.
This impairment is included within “Other operating loss (income)” in our accompanying consolidated statement
of operations. Please refer to Note 9. Fixed Assets and Note 12. Goodwill and Intangible assets for more
information.

We allocate the fair value of the purchase consideration to the tangible assets acquired, liabilities assumed

and intangible assets acquired based on their estimated fair values. The excess of the fair value of the purchase
consideration over the fair values of these identifiable assets and liabilities is recorded as goodwill. Such
valuations require management to make significant estimates and assumptions, especially with respect to
intangible assets. The estimates used in valuing the intangible assets are determined with the assistance of third-
party specialists, a discounted cash flow analysis and estimates made by management. Management’s estimates
of fair value are based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable, but which are inherently uncertain and
unpredictable and, as a result, actual results may differ from estimates. During the measurement period, which is
not to exceed one year from the acquisition date, we may record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities
assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period, any
subsequent adjustments are recorded to earnings.

Income Taxes

In projecting future taxable income, we develop assumptions including the amount of future state, federal

and foreign pretax operating income, the reversal of temporary differences, and the implementation of feasible
and prudent tax planning strategies. These assumptions require significant judgment about the forecasts of future
taxable income and are consistent with the plans and estimates we use to manage the underlying businesses. The
calculation of our tax liabilities also involves dealing with uncertainties in the application and evolution of
complex tax laws and regulations in other jurisdictions.

We account for uncertain tax positions in accordance with Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes —

an interpretation of ASC 740, which addresses the determination of whether tax benefits claimed or expected to
be claimed on a tax return should be recorded in the financial statements. Under this interpretation, we may
recognize the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will
be sustained upon examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position.

We recognize and adjust our liabilities when our judgment changes as a result of the evaluation of new

information not previously available. Due to the complexity of some of these uncertainties, the ultimate
resolution may result in a payment that is materially different from our current estimate of the tax liabilities.
These differences will be reflected as increases or decreases to income tax expense in the period in which they
are determined.

We estimate unrecognized tax positions of $0.6 million that may be recognized by December 31, 2022,

due to expiration of statutes of limitations and resolution of audits with taxing authorities, net of additional
uncertain tax positions.

As of December 31, 2021, we have gross federal, state, and foreign income tax net operating loss
carryforwards of $154.6 million, which will expire at various dates from 2022 through 2041. Such net operating
loss carryforwards expire as follows:

Years Ending
2022 - 2029 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2030 - 2034 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2035 - 2041 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(In millions)
$ 21.9
20.5
112.2

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$154.6

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The net deferred income tax liability of $463.9 million consists primarily of timing differences

involving amortization.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

For a discussion of recent accounting pronouncements, refer to Note 2(s) to the audited consolidated

financial statements included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Interest Rate Risk

We are exposed to market risk from fluctuations in interest rates. At December 31, 2021, we had
borrowings outstanding under our credit facility of $610.0 million. A total of $130.0 million of this outstanding
balance has been paid in the first three weeks post year end. The borrowings bear interest at variable rates based
on LIBOR plus 1.0% to 1.625% depending on the public debt rating defined in the credit agreement. The current
margin is 1.25% as a result of the current public debt rating. A change in interest rates on variable rate debt
impacts our pre-tax income and cash flows, but does not impact the fair value of the instruments. Based on our
overall interest rate exposure at December 31, 2021, a one percent change in interest rate would result in a
change in annual pre-tax interest expense of approximately $6.1 million based on our current borrowing levels.

We have started to consider 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 to have a material impact on the business.

Foreign Currency Risk

Our foreign-based businesses and results of operations are exposed to movements in the U.S. dollar to
British pounds and other foreign currency exchange rates. A portion of our revenue is denominated in British
pounds and other foreign currencies. If the U.S. dollar strengthens against British pounds and other foreign
currencies, our revenues reported in U.S. dollars would decline. With regard to operating expense, our primary
exposure to foreign currency exchange risk relates to operating expense incurred in British pounds and other
foreign currencies. If British pounds and other foreign currencies strengthen, costs reported in U.S. dollars will
increase. Movements in the U.S. dollar to British pounds and other foreign currency exchange rates did not have
a material effect on our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021. A hypothetical ten percent change in
average exchange rates versus the U.S. dollar would not have resulted in a material change to our earnings.

Item 8.

Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

The information required by this Item is set forth on pages 51 through 96 of this annual report on

Form 10-K.

Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None.

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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of 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 annual report on Form 10-K for our
company and subsidiaries other than our recent acquisitions in 2021 (See Note 10. of our consolidated financial
statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K). Management excluded from its assessment the internal
control over financial reporting of these acquisitions and collectively represents less than 0.5% of total assets
(excluding goodwill and intangible assets which were integrated into our systems and control environment) and
less than 0.5% of revenues as of and for the year ended December 31, 2021. Based upon the foregoing
assessments, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of December 31,
2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

The information required by this Item is set forth on page 47 of this annual report on Form 10-K.

Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm

The information required by this Item is set forth on page 48 of this annual report on Form 10-K.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We are in the process of integrating our recent acquisitions in 2021 into our overall internal control over

financial reporting process. Other than this ongoing integration, there have been no changes in our internal
control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation of such internal control that occurred
during the fourth quarter of 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our
internal control over financial reporting.

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MANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial

reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Our internal control over financial
reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and
the preparation of the financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles. Because of its inherent limitations, a system of internal control over financial reporting
can provide only reasonable assurance and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any
evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that internal control may become inadequate
because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may
deteriorate.

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive

officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control
over financial reporting based on the framework set forth in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by
the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013.

Based on this assessment, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was

effective at December 31, 2021.

Management excluded from its assessment the internal control over financial reporting for our
acquisitions in 2021 (See Note 10. of our consolidated financial statements included in this annual report on
Form 10-K). The excluded financial statements of these acquisitions constitute approximately 0.5% of total
assets (excluding goodwill and intangible assets which were integrated into our systems and control
environment) and 0.5% of revenues collectively included within our consolidated financial statements as of and
for the year ended December 31, 2021. Due to the timing of the acquisitions, management did not assess the
effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting for these acquisitions.

Deloitte & Touche LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that audited the consolidated

financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K has also audited the effectiveness of our internal
control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021, as stated in their report which is included herein.

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Verisk Analytics, Inc.

Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Verisk Analytics, Inc. and subsidiaries

(the “Company”) as of December 31, 2021, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated
Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial
reporting as of December 31, 2021, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework
(2013) issued by COSO.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight

Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31,
2021, of the Company and our report dated February 22, 2022, expressed an unqualified opinion on those
consolidated financial statements.

As described in Management’s Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting, management
excluded from its assessment the internal control over financial reporting at Whitespace Software Limited which
was acquired on March 2, 2021, Roskill Holdings Limited on June 17, 2021, Ignite Software Systems Limited on
September 1, 2021, Data Driven Safety, LLC on November 2, 2021, and ACTINEO GmbH on December 23,
2021 (collectively the “2021 Acquisitions”). The financial statements of the 2021 Acquisitions constitute less
than 0.5% of total assets (excluding goodwill and intangible assets which were integrated into the Company’s
systems and control environment) and 0.5% of revenues collectively of the consolidated financial statement
amounts as of and for the year ended December 31, 2021. Accordingly, our audit did not include the internal
control over financial reporting at the 2021 Acquisitions.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial

reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the
accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a
public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the
Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we
plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial
reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal
control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the
design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other
procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable
basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed 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. A company’s internal control over
financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in

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reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial
statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the
company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company;
and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use,
or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect

misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that
controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the
policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Parsippany, New Jersey
February 22, 2022

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Item 9B. Other Information

None.

Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections

Not applicable.

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

The information required to be furnished by this Item 10 is incorporated herein by reference to our Notice

of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement to be filed within 120 days of December 31, 2021 (the
“Proxy Statement”).

Our Board of Directors has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applicable to all officers,

directors and employees, which is available on our website (investor.verisk.com) under “Corporate Governance”.
We intend to satisfy the disclosure requirement under Item 5.05 of Form 8-K regarding any amendment to, or
waiver from, a provision of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics by posting such information on the website
address and location specified above.

Item 11. Executive Compensation

The information required to be furnished by this Item 11 is incorporated herein by reference to our Proxy

Statement.

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder

Matters

The information required to be furnished by this Item 12 is incorporated herein by reference to our Proxy

Statement.

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence

The information required to be furnished by this Item 13 is incorporated herein by reference to our Proxy

Statement.

Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services

The information required to be furnished by this Item 14 is incorporated herein by reference to our Proxy

Statement.

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedule

(a) The following documents are filed as part of this report.

PART IV

(1) Financial Statements. See Index to Financial Statements and Schedules in Part II, Item 8 on this

Form 10-K.

(2) Financial Statement Schedule. See Schedule II. Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves.

(3) Exhibits. See Index to Exhibits in this annual report on Form 10-K.

Item 16. Form 10-K Summary

None.

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Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements and Schedule

Verisk Analytics, Inc. Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 and for

the Years Ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID No. 34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Balance Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Financial Statements Schedule
Schedule II, Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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61
62
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Verisk Analytics, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Verisk Analytics, Inc. and subsidiaries

(the “Company”) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the related consolidated statements of operations,
comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended
December 31, 2021, and the related notes and the schedule listed in the Index at Item 15 (collectively referred to
as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the results of its operations and its
cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2021, in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31,
2021, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee
of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 22, 2022, expressed an
unqualified opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm
registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with
the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that
we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of
material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the
risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing
procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of
the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current-period audit of the financial

statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relates to
accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging,
subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion
on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below,
providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Goodwill—Energy and Specialized Markets and Financial Services Reportable Segments—Refer to
Notes 2 and 12 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company’s evaluation of goodwill for impairment involves the comparison of the fair value of each

reporting unit to its carrying value. The Company determines the fair value of its reporting units using the discounted

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cash flow model and the market approach. The determination of fair value using the discounted cash flow model
requires management to make significant estimates and assumptions related to forecasts of future revenues, EBITDA
margins, and the discount rate. The determination of fair value using the market approach requires management to
make significant estimates and assumptions related to the selection of revenue and EBITDA multiples. Changes in
these assumptions could have a significant impact on either the fair value, the amount of any goodwill impairment
charge, or both. The goodwill balance was $4,331.2 million as of December 31, 2021 of which $2,283.6 million was
attributable to a reporting unit within the Energy and Specialized Markets reportable segment and $475.4 million was
attributable to the Financial Services reportable segment.

Given the significant judgments made by management to estimate the fair value of the reporting unit

within the Energy and Specialized Markets reportable segment and the Financial Services reportable
segment, including management’s judgments in selecting significant assumptions to forecast future revenues,
EBITDA margins, and the discount rate, as well as the selection of revenue and EBITDA multiples, performing
audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimates and assumptions for the reporting
unit within the Energy and Specialized Markets reportable segment and the Financial Services reportable
segment required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the need to
involve our fair value specialists.

How the Critical Audit Matter was addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to forecasts of future revenue and EBITDA margin, selection of the discount rate
used within the income approach and selection of the Revenue and EBITDA multiples used in the market
approach for a reporting unit within the Energy and Specialized Markets reportable segment and the Financial
Services reportable segment included the following, among others:

• We tested the effectiveness of controls over management’s goodwill impairment evaluation, including
those over the determination of the fair value of the reporting unit within the Energy and Specialized
Markets reportable segment and the Financial Services reportable segment such as controls related to
management’s selection of the discount rate, forecasts of future revenue and Revenue and EBITDA
multiples.

• We evaluated management’s ability to accurately forecast future revenues and EBITDA margins by

comparing actual results to management’s historical forecasts.

• We evaluated the reasonableness of management’s revenue and EBITDA margin forecasts by

comparing the forecasts to:

• Historical revenues and EBITDA margins.

•

•

Internal communications to management and the Board of Directors.

Forecasted information included in Company press releases, as well as in analyst and industry
reports for the Company and certain peer companies.

• With the assistance of our fair value specialists, we evaluated the reasonableness of the (1) valuation

methodologies (2) Revenue and EBITDA multiples and (3) the discount rate by:

• Testing the source information underlying the determination of the discount rate, the selection of

the Revenue and EBITDA multiples and the mathematical accuracy of the calculations.

• Developing a range of independent estimates and comparing those to the discount rate selected by

management.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Parsippany, New Jersey
February 22, 2022

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2001.

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VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
As of December 31, 2021 and 2020

2021

2020

(in millions, except par value
and number of shares)

Current assets:

ASSETS:

Cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accounts receivable, net
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Prepaid expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Income taxes receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

Total current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Noncurrent assets:

Fixed assets, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Intangible assets, net
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Goodwill
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred income tax assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other noncurrent assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

280.3
446.3
102.6
36.7
36.7

902.6

658.2
253.1
1,225.9
4,331.2
6.6
430.5

$

218.8
432.4
81.2
25.4
36.4

794.2

632.3
267.6
1,384.8
4,108.1
9.1
365.7

Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 7,808.1

$ 7,561.8

Current liabilities:

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY:

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Income taxes payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

320.7
971.3
501.0
41.2
9.0

$

407.3
514.3
466.7
38.7
3.8

Total current liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,843.2

1,430.8

Noncurrent liabilities:
Long-term debt
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred income tax liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other noncurrent liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,342.8
470.5
254.7
54.4

4,965.6

2,699.6
396.9
271.6
64.7

4,863.6

Commitments and contingencies (Note 21)
Stockholders’ equity:

Common stock, $.001 par value; 2,000,000,000 shares authorized; 544,003,038

shares issued; 161,651,639 and 162,817,526 shares outstanding, respectively . . . .
Additional paid-in capital
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Treasury stock, at cost, 382,351,399 and 381,185,512 shares, respectively . . . . . . . . .
Retained earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accumulated other comprehensive losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

0.1
2,608.7
(4,638.1)
5,240.4
(394.6)

0.1
2,490.9
(4,179.3)
4,762.2
(375.7)

Total Verisk stockholders’ equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,816.5

2,698.2

Noncontrolling interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

26.0

—

Total stockholders’ equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,842.5

2,698.2

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 7,808.1

$ 7,561.8

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For The Years Ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019

2021

2020

2019

(in millions, except per share amounts and number of shares)
2,607.1
$

2,784.6

2,998.6

$

$

Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Operating expenses:

Cost of revenues (exclusive of items shown separately

below) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Selling, general and administrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets . . . . . . . . . .
Amortization of intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other operating loss (income) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Operating income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other income (expense):

Investment income (loss) and others, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Interest expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total other expense, net

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Income before income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Provision for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling

interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,057.8
422.7
206.9
176.7
134.0

1,998.1

1,000.5

1.9
(127.0)

(125.1)

875.4
(209.1)

666.3

(0.1)

666.2

4.12

993.9
413.9
192.2
165.9
(19.4)

1,746.5

1,038.1

(2.4)
(138.2)

(140.6)

897.5
(184.8)

712.7

—

712.7

4.38

4.31

$

$

$

976.8
603.5
185.7
138.0
6.2

1,910.2

696.9

(1.7)
(126.8)

(128.5)

568.4
(118.5)

449.9

—

449.9

2.75

2.70

$

$

$

Net income attributable to Verisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Basic net income per share attributable to Verisk . . .

$

$

Diluted net income per share attributable to

Verisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

4.08

Weighted average shares outstanding:

Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

161,841,441

162,610,586

163,535,438

Diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

163,338,909

165,320,709

166,560,115

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
For The Years Ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019

2021

2020

2019

Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$666.3

(in millions)
$712.7

$449.9

Other comprehensive (loss) income, net of tax:

Foreign currency translation adjustment
Pension and postretirement liability adjustment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(46.3)
26.9

107.9
3.3

Total other comprehensive (loss) income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(19.4)

111.2

Comprehensive income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less: Comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

646.9
0.4

823.9
—

88.4
16.6

105.0

554.9
—

Comprehensive income attributable to Verisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$647.3

$823.9

$554.9

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
For The Years Ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019

2021

2020

2019

(In millions)

Cash flows from operating activities:

Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating

$ 666.3

$ 712.7

$ 449.9

activities:
Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Amortization of intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount, net of

original issue premium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Provision for doubtful accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(Gain) loss from sale of assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stock-based compensation expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Realized gain on available-for-sale securities, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Impairment of long-lived assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Loss on disposal of fixed assets, net

Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions:

Accounts receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Prepaid expenses and other assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acquisition-related liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

206.9
176.7

1.4
17.7
—
55.7
—
134.0
49.8
0.4

(29.7)
(33.6)
41.3
(5.7)
—
(80.8)
32.4
(41.3)
(35.8)

192.2
165.9

185.7
138.0

1.8
13.1
(19.4)
47.6
—
—
31.1
0.6

1.8
(66.5)
43.1
(0.5)
(77.0)
24.3
21.2
(29.6)
5.8

3.9
7.2
6.2
42.7
(0.9)
—
(29.3)
0.3

(70.3)
(19.7)
51.3
15.0
70.4
150.9
11.4
(49.5)
(6.9)

Net cash provided by operating activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,155.7

1068.2

956.3

Cash flows from investing activities:

Acquisitions and purchases of controlling interests, net of cash acquired of

$9.3, $11.1, and $10.4, respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from sale of assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Investments in nonpublic companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Escrow funding associated with acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Payment of contingent liability related to acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other investing activities, net

(289.8)
—
(23.6)
(9.2)
(268.4)
(1.2)
0.2

(275.8)
23.1
(94.8)
(9.3)
(246.8)
—
7.8

(699.2)
—
—
(4.5)
(216.8)
—
(7.4)

Net cash used in investing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(592.0)

(595.8)

(927.9)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Continued)
For The Years Ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019

Cash flows from financing activities:

Proceeds from (repayment of) short-term debt, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Repayments of current portion of long-term debt
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, inclusive of original issue premium

560.0
(450.0)

(445.0)

80.0
— (250.0)

and net of original issue discount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

— 494.8

619.7

Proceeds from issuance of short-term debt with original maturities greater than

three months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

—

20.0

—

2021

2020

2019

(In millions)

Repayment of short-term debt with original maturities greater than three

months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Payment of debt issuance costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Repurchases of common stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Net share settlement of taxes from restricted stock and performance share

awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Payment of contingent liability related to acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proceeds from stock options exercised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dividends paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other financing activities, net

—
—
(475.0)

(20.0)
(5.7)
(348.8)

—
(6.3)
(300.0)

(11.8)
—
84.3
(188.2)
(18.2)

(4.1)
(34.2)
88.0
(175.8)
(14.4)

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(498.9)

(445.2)

Effect of exchange rate changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3.3)

6.7

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents, including cash classified within

current assets held for sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Increase (decrease) in cash classified within current assets held for sale . . . . . . .

Increase in cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

61.5
—

61.5
218.8

33.9
0.3

34.2
184.6

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 280.3

$ 218.8

$ 184.6

Supplemental disclosures:

Income taxes paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 175.0

$ 156.5

$ 139.8

Interest paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 129.0

$ 134.3

$ 119.9

Noncash investing and financing activities:

Deferred tax liability established on date of acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 21.0

$ 13.0

$ 43.4

Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities . . . .

$ — $ — $ 247.6

Finance lease additions, net of disposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

7.0

$ 30.9

$ 20.2

Operating lease additions, net of terminations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 22.4

$ 87.8

$ 13.7

Tenant improvements included in Operating lease right-of-use assets, net . . . . . .

$ — $ — $

Fixed assets included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

5.3

$

0.8

$

1.7

1.6

Noncash contribution of assets for a nonpublic company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ — $ 65.9

$ —

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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(5.5)
—
52.4
(163.5)
(15.9)

10.9

6.1

45.4
(0.3)

45.1
139.5

VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Amounts in millions, except for share and per share data, unless otherwise stated)

1. Organization:

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 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 consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the basis of accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“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, liabilities, 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 equity awards granted, and assets and liabilities for pension and postretirement benefits. Actual
results may ultimately differ from those estimates. Certain reclassifications, including combining acquisition-
related liabilities into the “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” line in 2021 (they used to be shown as a
separate line item) and moving Atmospheric and Environmental Research (“AER”), an immaterial component,
from the Energy and Specialized Markets segment to the underwriting and rating category within the Insurance
segment, have been made within our consolidated balance sheets, consolidated statements of operations,
consolidated statements of cash flows, and in our notes to conform to our respective 2021 presentation.

Significant accounting policies include the following:

(a)

Intercompany Accounts and Transactions

The consolidated financial statements include all of our accounts. All intercompany accounts and

transactions have been eliminated.

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(b) Revenue Recognition

The following describes our primary types of revenues and the applicable revenue recognition
policies. We recognize revenues through recurring and non-recurring long-term agreements (generally
one to five years) for hosted subscriptions, advisory/consulting services, and for transactional solutions.
Each of our reportable segments, Insurance, Energy and Specialized Markets, and Financial Services, has
a portion of its revenue from more than one of these revenue types. Our revenues are primarily derived
from the sale of services where revenue is recognized when control of the promised services is transferred
to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration that we expect to be entitled to in exchange for
those services. Fees for services provided by us are non-refundable. Revenue is recognized net of
applicable sales tax withholdings.

Hosted Subscriptions

We offer two forms of hosted subscriptions. The first and most prevalent form of hosted

subscription is where customers access content only through our online portal (the “Hosted
Subscription”). We grant a license to our customer to enter our online portal. The license is a contractual
mechanism that allows our customer to access our online portal for a defined period of time. As the
license alone does not provide utility to our customer, our customer has no contractual right to take
possession of our online portal at any time, and our customer cannot engage another party to host our
online portal and related content, it is not considered a functional license under Topic 606. Our promise to
our customer is to provide continuous access to our online portal and to update the content throughout the
subscription period. Hosted Subscription is a single performance obligation that represents a series of
distinct services (daily access to our online portal and related content) that are substantially the same and
that have the same pattern of transfer to our customer. We recognize revenue for Hosted Subscriptions
ratably over the subscription period on a straight-line basis as services are performed and continuous
access to information in our online portal is provided over the entire term of the agreements.

The second form of hosted subscription is where customers have access to our online portals
combined with software content that is delivered via disk drive/download to our customer (“Hosted
Subscription with Disk Drive/Download”) and is offered only on a limited basis. For this form of hosted
subscription, we also grant our customer a license to enter our online portal as well as access the software
content as needed and act as the same contractual mechanism as described for Hosted Subscriptions. The
Hosted Subscription with Disk Drive/Download works in such a manner that our customer gains
significant benefit, functionality, and overall utility only when the online portal and the software content
are used together. The disk drive/download contains the models while the online portal contains the latest
data and research which is updated throughout the subscription period. The models within the disk drive/
download depend on the data and research contained within our online portal. The data and research
within our online portal is only useful when our customer can utilize it within the models (e.g., queries,
projections, etc.) so that they may use the most current information and alerts to forecast potential future
losses. The software content is only sold together with our online portal to provide a highly
interdependent and interrelated promise and therefore represents a single performance obligation. As our
customer has no contractual right to take possession of our online portal at any time, and our customer
cannot engage another party to host our online portal and related software content, it is not considered a
functional license under Topic 606. Our promise to our customer is to deliver the disk drive/download, to
provide continuous access to our online portal, and to update the software content throughout the
subscription period. We recognize revenue for Hosted Subscriptions with Disk Drive/Download ratably
over the subscription period on a straight-line basis as services are performed and continuous access to
information is provided over the entire term of the agreements.

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Subscriptions are generally paid in advance of rendering services either quarterly or annually upon

commencement of the subscription period, which is usually for one year and in most instances
automatically renewed each year.

Advisory/Consulting Services

We provide certain discrete project based advisory/consulting services, which are recognized over
time by measuring the progress toward complete satisfaction of the performance obligation, based on the
input method of consulting hours worked; this aligns with the results achieved and value transferred to
our customer. The hours consumed are most reflective of the measure of progress towards satisfying the
performance obligation, as the resources hours worked directly tie to the progress of the services to be
provided. In general, they are billed over the course of the project.

Transactional Solutions

Certain solutions are also paid for by customers on a transactional basis. We recognize these
revenues as the solutions are delivered or services performed at a point in time. In general, our customers
are billed monthly at the end of each month.

(c) Deferred Revenues

We invoice our customers in annual, quarterly, monthly, or milestone installments. Amounts

billed and/or collected in advance of services being provided are recorded as “Deferred revenues” and
“Other noncurrent liabilities” in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets and are recognized as the
services are performed, control is transferred to customers, and the applicable revenue recognition criteria
is met.

(d) Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Accounts receivable are generally recorded at the invoiced amount. Unbilled receivables are short-
term in nature and expected to be billed within one year. The allowance for doubtful accounts or expected
credit losses is estimated based on an analysis of the aging of the accounts receivable, historical write-
offs, customer payment patterns, individual customer credit worthiness, current economic trends,
reasonable and supportable forecasts of future economic conditions, and/or establishment of specific
reserves for customers in adverse financial condition. We assess the adequacy of the allowance for
doubtful accounts on a quarterly basis.

(e) Deferred Commissions

We recognize an asset for the incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer if

we expect the benefit of those costs to be longer than one year. We have determined that certain sales
incentive programs meet the requirements to be capitalized. The incremental costs of obtaining a contract
with a customer, which primarily consist of sales commissions, are deferred and amortized over a useful
life of five years that is consistent with the transfer to our customer the services to which the asset
relates. We classify deferred commissions as current or noncurrent based on the timing of expense
recognition. The current and noncurrent portions of deferred commissions are included in “Prepaid
expenses” and “Other noncurrent assets”, respectively, in our consolidated balance sheets as of
December 31, 2021. Amortization expense related to deferred commissions is computed on a straight-line
basis over its estimated useful lives and included in “Selling, general and administrative” within our
accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

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(f) Fixed Assets and Finite-lived Intangible Assets

Fixed assets and finite-lived intangibles are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and

amortization, which are computed on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives. Leasehold
improvements are amortized over the shorter of the useful life of the asset or the lease term.

Our internal software development costs primarily relate to internal-use software. Such costs are
capitalized in the application development stage in accordance with ASC 350-40, Internal-use Software
(“ASC 350-40”). We also capitalize software development costs upon the establishment of technological
feasibility for a product in accordance with ASC 985-20, Software to be Sold, Leased, or Marketed
(“ASC 985-20”). Software development costs are amortized on a straight-line basis.

In accordance with ASC 360, Property, Plant & Equipment, whenever events or changes in
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of long-lived assets and finite-lived intangible assets may
not be recoverable, we review our long-lived assets and finite-lived intangible assets for impairment by
first comparing the carrying value of our assets to the sum of the undiscounted cash flows expected to
result from the use and eventual disposition of our assets. If the carrying value exceeds the sum of our
assets’ undiscounted cash flows, we estimate and recognize an impairment loss by taking the difference
between the carrying value and fair value of our assets.

As of December 31, 2021, we reassessed the recoverability of long-lived assets for our Financial

Services reporting unit based upon the weaker than expected operating performance as a result of
changing market conditions. These conditions constituted a triggering event, which resulted in a long-
lived asset impairment for our Financial Services operating segment. Please refer to Note 9. Fixed Assets
and Note 12. Goodwill and Intangible Assets for more information.

(g) Leases

We have operating and finance leases for corporate offices, data centers, and certain equipment
that are accounted for under ASC 842. The lease term for our corporate headquarters ends in 2033 and
includes the options to extend for one 10-year renewal period and two 5-year renewal periods. The lease
of our Hyderabad, India office may be terminated in six months without penalty. Extension and
termination options are considered in our calculation of the right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease
liabilities when we determine it is reasonably certain that we will exercise those options.

We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. We consider any contract where there is an

identified asset and that it has the right to control the use of such asset in determining whether the
contract contains a lease. A ROU asset represents our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term
and the lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating
lease ROU assets and lease liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of
lease payments over the lease term. As our operating leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use an
incremental borrowing rate based on the information available on the adoption date in determining the
present value of lease payments. The incremental borrowing rate was calculated by using our credit rating
on our publicly-traded U.S. unsecured bonds and estimating an appropriate credit rating for similar
secured debt instruments. Our calculated credit rating on secured debt instruments determined the yield
curve used. We calculated an implied spread and applied the spreads to the risk-free interest rates based
on the yield of the U.S. Treasury zero coupon securities with a maturity equal to the remaining lease term
in determining the borrowing rates for all operating leases. Our operating lease ROU assets include any
lease payments made prior to the rent commencement date and exclude lease incentives. Lease expense
for lease payments are recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Operating lease transactions
are included in “Operating lease right-of-use assets, net”, and “Operating lease liabilities”, current and

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noncurrent, within our accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Finance leases are included in property
and equipment under “Fixed assets, net”, “Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt”, and
“Long-term debt” within our accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

(h) Fair Value of Financial and Non-financial Instruments

We follow the provisions of ASC 820-10, Fair Value Measurements (“ASC 820-10”), which

defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value under U.S. GAAP and expands fair
value measurement disclosures. We follow the provisions of ASC 820-10 for our financial assets and
liabilities recognized or disclosed at fair value on a recurring basis. We follow the provisions of ASC
820-10 for our non-financial assets and liabilities recognized or disclosed at fair value.

(i) Foreign Currency

We have determined local currencies are the functional currencies of our foreign operations. The

assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries are translated at the period-end rate of exchange and statement
of operations items are translated at the average rates prevailing during the year. The resulting translation
adjustment is recorded as a component of “Accumulated other comprehensive losses” in our
accompanying consolidated statements of changes in stockholders’ equity.

(j)

Stock-Based Compensation

We follow ASC 718, Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”). Under ASC 718, stock-based
compensation cost is measured at the grant date, based on the fair value of the awards granted, and is
recognized as expense over the requisite service period.

Our nonqualified stock options have an exercise price equal to the closing price of our common

stock on the grant date, with a ten-year contractual term. The expected term for our stock options granted
for a majority of the awards 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 our 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.

The fair value of our restricted stock is determined using the closing price of our common stock

on the grant date. Our restricted stock is not assignable or transferable until it becomes vested. Restricted
stock generally has a service vesting period of four years and we recognize the expense ratably over this
service vesting period.

Performance share units (“PSU”) vest at the end of a three-year performance period, subject to the

recipient’s continued service. Each PSU represents the right to receive one share of our common stock
and the ultimate realization is based on our achievement of certain market performance criteria. We
determined the grant date fair value of PSUs with the assistance of a third-party valuation specialist and
based on estimates provided by us. The valuation of our PSUs employed the Monte Carlo simulation
model, which includes certain key assumptions that were applied to us and our peer group. Those key
assumptions included valuation date stock price, expected volatility, correlation coefficients, risk-free rate
of return, and expected dividend yield. The valuation date stock price is based on the dividend-adjusted
closing price on the grant date. Expected volatility is calculated using historical daily closing prices over

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a period that is commensurate with the length of the performance period. The correlation coefficients are
based on the price data used to calculate the historical volatilities. The risk-free rate of return is based on
the yield of U.S. Treasury zero coupon securities with a maturity equal to the length of the performance
period. The expected dividend yield was based on our and our peer group’s expected dividend rate over
the performance period. PSUs are tied to the achievement of certain market performance conditions,
namely relative total shareholder return as compared to the S&P 500 index (“TSR-based PSUs”).

We estimate expected forfeitures of equity awards at the date of grant and recognize compensation

expense only for those awards expected to vest. The forfeiture assumption is ultimately adjusted to the
actual forfeiture rate. Estimated forfeiture is ultimately adjusted to actual forfeiture. Changes in the
forfeiture assumptions may impact the total amount of expense ultimately recognized, as well as the
timing of expense recognized over the requisite service period.

Excess tax benefit from exercised stock options, lapsing of restricted stock and PSUs is recorded
as an income tax benefit in our accompanying consolidated statements of operations. This tax benefit is
calculated as the excess of the intrinsic value of options exercised and of the market value of restricted
stock lapsed over the compensation recognized for financial reporting purposes.

(k) Research and Development Costs

Research and development costs, which are primarily related to personnel and related overhead

costs incurred in developing new services for customers, are expensed as incurred. Such costs were
$49.2 million, $48.9 million, and $60.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and
2019, respectively, and were included in our accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

(l) Advertising Costs

Advertising costs, which are primarily associated with promoting our brand, names and solutions
provided, are expensed as incurred. Such costs were $12.0 million, $8.5 million, and $10.7 million for the
years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.

(m)

Income Taxes

We account for income taxes under the asset and liability method under ASC 740, Income Taxes
(“ASC 740”), which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future
tax consequences of events that have been included in the financial statements. Under this method,
deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the differences between the financial statements
and tax basis of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences
are expected to reverse. The effect of a change in tax rates on deferred tax assets and liabilities is
recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date.

Deferred tax assets are recorded to the extent these assets are more likely than not to be realized.
In making such determination, we consider all available positive and negative evidence, including future
reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, tax planning
strategies, and recent financial operations. Valuation allowances are recognized to reduce deferred tax
assets if it is determined to be more likely than not that all or some of the potential deferred tax assets will
not be realized.

We follow ASC 740-10, Income Taxes (“ASC 740-10”), which clarifies the accounting for
uncertainty in income taxes recognized in the financial statements. ASC 740-10 provides that a tax

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benefit from an uncertain tax position may be recognized based on the technical merits when it is more
likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination, including resolutions of any related
appeals or litigation processes. Income tax positions must meet a more likely than not recognition
threshold in accordance with ASC 740-10. This standard also provides guidance on measurement,
derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and
transition.

We recognize interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits within the income tax

expense line in our accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Accrued interest and penalties
are included within “Other liabilities” on our accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

(n) Earnings Per Share

Basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) are determined in accordance with ASC 260,
Earnings per Share, which specifies the computation, presentation and disclosure requirements for EPS.
Basic EPS excludes all dilutive common stock equivalents. It is based upon the weighted average number
of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted EPS, as calculated using the treasury stock
method, reflects the potential dilution that would occur if our dilutive outstanding stock options and stock
awards were issued.

(o) Pension and Postretirement Benefits

We account for our pension and postretirement benefits under ASC 715, Compensation —
Retirement Benefits (“ASC 715”). ASC 715 requires the recognition of the funded status of a benefit plan
in the balance sheet, the recognition in other comprehensive income (loss) of gains or losses and prior
service costs arising during the period, but which are not included as components of periodic benefit cost
or credit, and the measurement of defined benefit plan assets and obligations as of the balance sheet date.
We utilize a valuation date of December 31.

(p) Product Warranty Obligations

We provide warranty coverage for certain of our solutions. We recognize a product warranty
obligation when claims are probable and can be reasonably estimated. As of December 31, 2021 and
2020, product warranty obligations were not material.

In the ordinary course of business, we enter into numerous agreements that contain standard

indemnities whereby we indemnify another party for breaches of confidentiality, infringement of
intellectual property or gross negligence. Such indemnifications are primarily granted under licensing of
computer software. Most agreements contain provisions to limit the maximum potential amount of future
payments that we could be required to make under these indemnifications; however, we are not able to
develop an estimate of the maximum potential amount of future payments to be made under these
indemnifications as the triggering events are not subject to predictability.

(q) Loss Contingencies

We accrue for costs relating to litigation, claims, and other contingent matters when such
liabilities become probable and reasonably estimable. Such estimates are based on management’s
judgment. Actual amounts paid may differ from amounts estimated, and such differences will be charged
to operations in the period in which the final determination of the liability is made.

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(r) Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of acquisition costs over the fair value of tangible net assets and
identifiable intangible assets of our businesses acquired. Goodwill and intangible assets deemed to have
indefinite lives are not amortized. Intangible assets determined to have finite lives are amortized over
their useful lives. 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. We completed the required annual impairment test as of June 30, 2021,
which resulted in no impairment of goodwill in 2021. This test 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 our 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.

(s) Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Standard

Description

Effective Date

Fiscal years ending after
December 15, 2020 with
early adoption permitted.

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”).

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”)

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”)

Effect on Consolidated
Financial Statements or
Other Significant Matters

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
Consolidated
Financial
Statements.

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

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

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Effect on Consolidated
Financial Statements or
Other Significant Matters

there was no
material impact
on our
Consolidated
Financial
Statements.

Accounting Standard

Description

Effective Date

Income Tax (Topic 740) In
December 2019, FASB
issued ASU
No. 2019-12,
“Simplifying the
Accounting for Income
Taxes” (“ASU
No. 2019-12”)

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.

3. Cash and Cash Equivalents:

Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash in banks, commercial paper, money-market funds, and other

liquid instruments with original maturities of 90 days or less at the time of purchase.

4. Accounts Receivable:

Accounts receivable, net consisted of the following at December 31:

Billed receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Unbilled receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$395.5
72.1

$380.5
69.6

Total receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less allowance for doubtful accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

467.6
(21.3)

450.1
(17.7)

Accounts receivable, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$446.3

$432.4

2021

2020

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5. Concentration of Credit Risk:

Financial instruments that potentially expose us to credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash
equivalents as well as accounts receivable, net which are generally not collateralized. We maintain our cash and
cash equivalents in higher credit quality financial institutions in order to limit the amount of credit exposure. The
total domestic cash balances are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) to a maximum
amount of $250.0 thousand per bank as of December 31, 2021 and 2020. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, we
had cash balances on deposit with fifteen and ten banks that exceeded the balance insured by the FDIC limit by
approximately $40.3 million and $92.8 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, we also had
cash on deposit with foreign banks of approximately $240.4 million and $122.5 million, respectively.

We consider the concentration of credit risk associated with our accounts receivable to be commercially
reasonable and believe that such concentration does not result in the significant risk of near-term severe adverse
impacts. Our top fifty customers represent approximately 32% of revenues for 2021 and 33% for 2020 and 2019,
respectively, with no individual customer accounting for more than approximately 3% of revenues for the years
ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019. No individual customer comprised more than approximately 4% and
2% of accounts receivable as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

6. Revenues:

Disaggregated revenues by type of service and by country are provided below for the years ended
December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019. No individual country outside of the U.S. accounted for more than 10.0% of
our consolidated revenues for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, or 2019.

2021

2020

2019

Insurance:

Underwriting & rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,555.1
651.8

$1,413.0
595.7

$1,274.5
610.9

Total Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Energy and Specialized Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Financial Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,206.9
648.9
142.8

2,008.7
619.2
156.7

1,885.4
543.7
178.0

Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,998.6

$2,784.6

$2,607.1

Revenues:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,285.5
204.4
508.7

$2,133.6
181.6
469.4

$2,005.6
177.3
424.2

Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,998.6

$2,784.6

$2,607.1

2021

2020

2019

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 December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had no contract assets.

Contract liabilities are defined as an entity’s obligation to transfer goods or services to a customer for
which the entity has received consideration (or an amount of consideration is due) from the customer. As of
December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had contract liabilities that primarily related to unsatisfied performance

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obligations to provide customers with the right to use and update the online content over the remaining contract
term of $504.8 million and $468.2 million, respectively. Contract liabilities, which are current and noncurrent,
are included in “Deferred revenues” and “Other noncurrent liabilities” in our consolidated balance sheets,
respectively, as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.

The following is a summary of the change in contract liabilities from December 31, 2019 through

December 31, 2021:

Contract Liabilities at December 31, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Contract Liabilities at December 31, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$
443.2
(2,784.6)
2,809.6

468.2
(2,998.6)
3,035.2

Contract Liabilities at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

504.8

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. Our 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 97% and 99% of the balance as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

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 December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had deferred
commissions of $86.8 million and $73.8 million, respectively, which have been included in “Prepaid expenses”
and “Other noncurrent assets” in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

7. Fair Value Measurements:

Certain assets and liabilities are reported at fair value in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Such assets and liabilities include amounts for both financial and non-financial instruments. To increase
consistency and comparability of assets and liabilities recorded at fair value, 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 and 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 is internally-
developed, and considers risk premiums that a market participant would require.

The fair value 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.

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Our investments in registered investment companies, which are Level 1 assets measured at fair value on a
recurring basis using quoted prices in active markets multiplied by the number of shares owned, were
$5.0 million and $4.1 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Our investments in registered
investment companies have been included in “Other current assets” in our consolidated balance sheets as of
December 31, 2021 and 2020.

We elected not to carry our long-term debt at fair value. The carrying value of our long-term debt

represents the 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 December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively:

2021

2020

Fair Value
Hierarchy

Carrying
Value

Estimated
Fair Value

Carrying
Value

Estimated
Fair Value

Financial instrument not carried at fair value:

Senior Notes (Note 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Level 2

$2,692.0

$3,017.4

$3,140.8

$3,652.2

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 $63.8 million in exchange for a non-controlling 35.0%
ownership interest in a nonpublic company, Vexcel Group, Inc. (“Vexcel”). On May 25, 2021, we made an
additional $15.0 million cash investment in Vexcel for an additional 3.7% ownership. As of December 31, 2021
and 2020, we had an investment of $144.1 million and $129.1 million, respectively, related to such interest. The
value of our investment is based on management’s estimates with the assistance of valuations performed by
third-party specialists. This investment was included in “Other noncurrent assets” in our
accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Refer to Note 11. Dispositions for further discussion.

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had securities without readily determinable market values,

inclusive of Vexcel, of $161.6 million and $143.1 million, respectively, which were accounted for at cost. We
do not have the ability to exercise significant influence over the investees’ operating and financial policies or do
not hold investments in common stock or in-substance common stock in such entities. As of December 31, 2021
and 2020, we also had investments in private companies of $54.6 million and $49.5 million, respectively,
accounted for in accordance with ASC 323-10-25, The Equity Method of Accounting for Investments in Common
Stock (“ASC 323-10-25”) as equity method investments. All such investments were included in “Other
noncurrent assets” in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and
2020, there was no provision for credit losses related to these investments.

8. Leases:

We have operating and finance leases for corporate offices, data centers, and certain equipment that are

accounted for under ASC 842. The lease term for our corporate headquarters ends in 2033 and includes the
options to extend for one 10-year renewal period and two 5-year renewal periods. The lease of our Hyderabad,
India office may be terminated in six months without penalty. 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.

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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 years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:

Lease cost:
Operating lease cost(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sublease income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finance lease cost

2021

2020

$ 52.5
(1.7)

$ 52.2
(0.3)

Depreciation of finance lease assets(2)
Interest on finance lease liabilities(3)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

13.9
0.8

13.4
0.7

Total lease cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 65.5

$ 66.0

Other information:
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities

Operating cash outflows from operating leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating cash outflows from finance leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Financing cash outflows from finance leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$(51.3)
$ (0.8)
$(18.2)

$(52.0)
$ (0.7)
$(14.4)

(1)

(2)

(3)

Included in “Cost of revenues” and “Selling, general and, administrative” expenses in our accompanying
consolidated statements of operations
Included in “Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets” in our accompanying consolidated statements of
operations
Included in “Interest expense” in our accompanying consolidated statements of operations

The following table presents weighted-average remaining lease terms and weighted-average discount

rates for finance and operating leases for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:

Weighted-average remaining lease term — operating leases (in years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Weighted-average remaining lease term — finance leases (in years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Weighted-average discount rate — operating leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Weighted-average discount rate — finance leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2021

2020

9.3
2.2

8.5
1.6
3.8% 3.9%
3.8% 4.1%

Our ROU assets and lease liabilities for finance leases were $19.0 million and $13.5 million, respectively,

as of December 31, 2021. Our ROU assets and lease liabilities for finance leases were $27.1 million and
$24.7 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2020. Our ROU assets for finance leases were included in “Fixed
assets, net” in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Our lease liabilities for finance leases were
included in the “Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt” and “Long-term debt” in our
accompanying consolidated balance sheets (See Note 15. Debt).

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Maturities of lease liabilities for the years through 2027 and thereafter are as follows:

Years Ending

Operating
Leases

Finance
Leases

2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2027 and thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 51.5
48.9
40.0
35.4
30.3
145.8

Total lease payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less: Amount representing interest

351.9
(56.0)

$13.0
1.3
0.4
0.1
—
—

14.8
(1.5)

Present value of total lease payments . . . . . . . . . . .

$295.9

$13.3

9. Fixed Assets

The following is a summary of fixed assets:

Useful Life
(in years)

Cost

Accumulated
Depreciation and
Amortization

December 31, 2021
Furniture and office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Leasehold improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchased software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Software development costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Leased equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Motor vehicles and field equipment . . . . . . . . .

Total fixed assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

December 31, 2020
Furniture and office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Leasehold improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchased software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Software development costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Leased equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Motor vehicles and field equipment . . . . . . . . .

Total fixed assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3-10
Lease term
3
3-7
3-4
2-10

3-10
Lease term
3
3-7
3-4
2-10

$ 259.2
135.7
92.1
1,077.4
60.5
6.2

$1,631.1

$ 273.6
118.3
77.7
924.6
68.3
6.8

$1,469.3

$(219.6)
(54.5)
(71.1)
(584.5)
(41.5)
(1.7)

$(972.9)

$(215.8)
(44.7)
(68.6)
(465.3)
(41.2)
(1.4)

$(837.0)

Net

$ 39.6
81.2
21.0
492.9
19.0
4.5

$658.2

$ 57.8
73.6
9.1
459.3
27.1
5.4

$632.3

Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019

were $206.9 million, $192.2 million, and $185.7 million, of which $137.5 million, $120.6 million, and
$100.2 million related to amortization of internal-use software development costs, respectively. Amortization
expense related to development of software for sale in accordance with ASC 985-20 was $11.7 million,
$11.3 million, and $12.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. We had
unamortized software development costs that had been capitalized in accordance with ASC 350-40 of
$433.5 million and $405.8 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. We had unamortized
software development costs that had been capitalized in accordance with ASC 985-20 of $59.4 million and

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$53.5 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Leased assets include amounts held under
finance leases for automobiles, computer software, and computer equipment.

As of December 31, 2021, we reassessed the recoverability of long-lived assets for our Financial Services

reporting unit based upon the weaker than expected operating performance as a result of changing market
conditions. These conditions constituted a triggering event, which resulted in a $134.0 million impairment to
the long-lived assets in our Financial Services operating segment including $45.8 million to software
development costs in fixed assets. We based our analysis of the fair value of our long-lived assets on the
indication of fair value provided by the offer to purchase such reporting unit, which was approved by our Board
of Directors of February 16, 2022. This impairment is included within “Other operating loss (income)” in our
accompanying consolidated statement of operations.

10. Acquisitions

2021 Acquisitions

On December 23, 2021, we acquired approximately 96.7 percent of the stock of ACTINEO GmbH

(“ACTINEO”) with an option to acquire the remaining shares at a future date, for a net cash purchase price of
$148.9 million. ACTINEO offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, technology and data solutions to support
the entire bodily injury settlement process. With this acquisition, we add ACTINEO’s established claims
management solutions to our leading data analytics and insurance ecosystem, providing customers with
digitalization and medical expertise solutions throughout the entire claims process. ACTINEO is part of the
claims vertical within our Insurance segment.

On November 2, 2021, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Data Driven Safety, LLC (“Data Driven

Safety”) for a net cash purchase price of $93.5 million, of which $2.0 million represents indemnity escrows. Data
Driven Safety, a leading public record data aggregation firm that specializes in driver risk assessment in the U.S.,
has become a part of the underwriting & rating category within our Insurance segment. We believe that Data
Driven Safety will expand our robust auto insurance analytics, providing insurers with information to further
refine underwriting, improve the customer experience and promote public safety.

On September 1, 2021, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Ignite Software Systems Limited

(“Ignite”) for a net cash purchase price of $13.8 million. Ignite, a provider of insurance policy administration
systems to brokers, managing general agents, and insurers, has become a part of the underwriting & rating
category within our Insurance segment. We believe that Ignite’s client focus and deep domain knowledge will
fit into our business model providing new and existing clients with access to a broader expert advice and service.

On June 17, 2021, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Roskill Holdings Limited (“Roskill”) for a net
cash purchase price of $22.1 million, of which $4.8 million represents indemnity escrows. Roskill, a provider of
metals and materials supply chain intelligence, has become part of our Energy and Specialized Markets segment.
Roskill’s capabilities reinforce our ability to provide comprehensive analysis across the energy, and metals and
mining value chain while adding analysis, data, and insight on battery raw materials metals.

On March 2, 2021, we acquired a 51.0 percent ownership in Whitespace Software

Limited (“Whitespace”) for a net cash purchase price of $16.8 million. The remaining 49.0 percent ownership
interest in Whitespace will be acquired by us, in three equal proportions over the next three years, at a purchase
price determined based upon a fixed revenue multiple and adjusted for any free cash flow shortfall. Whitespace,
a provider of digital placing technology to the (re)insurance market, has become part of the underwriting &
rating category within our Insurance segment. We expect our investment in Whitespace to enable a seamless
real-time quote-to-bind electronic placing and global distribution solution, with straight-through submissions for
our customers.

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The preliminary purchase price allocation of the 2021 acquisitions resulted in the following:

ACTINEO

Data
Driven Safety

Others

Total

Cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accounts receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fixed assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net . . . . . . . . . . . .
Intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Goodwill
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

0.2
1.8
—
1.4
4.2
48.3
121.9
—

$

3.4
1.1
2.0
—
0.4
42.1
73.7
—

$

5.7
2.1
1.2
0.2
0.9
25.3
61.5
4.8

$

9.3
5.0
3.2
1.6
5.5
115.7
257.1
4.8

Total assets acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

177.8

122.7

101.7

402.2

Current liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred income tax, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total liabilities assumed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1
—
4.2
15.8
—

22.1

Net assets acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

155.7

Less: Noncontrolling interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less: Cash acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6.6
0.2

3.3
0.4
0.4
—
21.7

25.8

96.9

—
3.4

4.0
4.7
0.9
5.2
4.8

19.6

82.1

19.8
5.7

9.4
5.1
5.5
21.0
26.5

67.5

334.7

26.4
9.3

Net cash purchase price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$148.9

$ 93.5

$ 56.6

299.0

The preliminary amounts assigned to intangible assets by type for our 2021 acquisitions are summarized

in the table below:

Technology-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marketing-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Customer-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Database-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5
4
13
5

Total intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Weighted Average
Useful Life
(in years)

Total

$ 21.2
1.4
84.7
8.4

$115.7

The preliminary allocations of the purchase price for the 2021 acquisitions 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 consolidated financial
statements. The allocations of the purchase price will be finalized once all the information is obtained, 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,
right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities and residual goodwill. The goodwill associated with our
acquisitions include 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 $257.1 million in goodwill

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associated with our acquisitions, $182.5 million is not deductible for tax purposes. The preliminary amounts
assigned to intangible assets by type for these acquisitions were based upon our valuation model and historical
experiences with entities with similar business characteristics.

For the year ended December 31, 2021, we incurred transaction costs related to acquisitions of
$2.8 million, which are included within “Selling, general and administrative expenses in the accompanying
consolidated statements of operations. Refer to Note 12. Goodwill and Intangible Assets for further discussion.

Our 2021 acquisitions were not significant, both individually and in the aggregate, to our consolidated

financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, and therefore, supplemental
information disclosure on an unaudited pro forma basis is not presented.

2020 Acquisitions

On December 16, 2020, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Lead Intelligence, Inc. (“Jornaya”),
a provider of consumer behavioral data and intelligence, for a net cash purchase price of $124.9 million. The
acquisition added Jornaya’s proprietary view of consumer buying journeys to our growing set of marketing
solutions for the insurance and financial services markets, as well as provide customers with the intelligence and
agility to time and tailor interactions based on actual in-market behaviors. Jornaya has become part of the
underwriting & rating category within our Insurance segment. The final purchase price allocation of the
acquisition is presented in the table below.

On September 9, 2020, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Franco Signor LLC (“Franco Signor”) for

a net cash purchase price of $159.7 million, of which $8.0 million represents indemnity escrows. Franco
Signor is a Medicare Secondary Payer compliance solutions provider to large employers, insurers and third-party
administrators in the U.S. Franco Signor has become part of the claims category within our Insurance segment
and enhanced the solutions we currently offer, as well as added professional administrative services for Medicare
Set Asides to our suite of solutions. The final purchase price allocation of the acquisition is presented in the table
below.

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The final purchase price allocations, inclusive of closing adjustments, of our 2020 acquisitions resulted in

the following:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cash and cash equivalents(1)
Accounts receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fixed assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Goodwill
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lead
Intelligence

$

5.9
2.8
1.4
0.8
1.6
64.3
69.9
0.1

Franco
Signor

$ 10.9
2.2
0.9
0.4
1.5
59.1
101.5
8.0

Total

$ 16.8
5.0
2.3
1.2
3.1
123.4
171.4
8.1

Total assets acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

146.8

184.5

331.3

Current liabilities(1)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Operating lease liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deferred income tax, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total liabilities assumed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Net assets acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Less: Cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Restricted cash(1)

Cash acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1
2.6
1.6
9.7
—

16.0

130.8

5.9
—

5.9

8.3
0.3
1.5
1.5
8.0

19.6

164.9

10.9
(5.7)

5.2

10.4
2.9
3.1
11.2
8.0

35.6

295.7

16.8
(5.7)

11.1

Net cash purchase price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$124.9

$159.7

$284.6

(1) Within cash and cash equivalents, there is $5.7 million of restricted cash related to Franco Signor’s

professional administrative services for Medicare Set Asides, with an offsetting liability of $5.7 million
included within current liabilities.

The final amounts assigned to intangible assets by type for our 2020 acquisitions are summarized in the

table below:

Technology-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marketing-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Customer-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11
5
11

Total intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Weighted Average
Useful Life
(in years)

Total

$ 30.8
2.1
90.5

$123.4

For the year ended December 31, 2021, we finalized the purchase accounting for our 2020 acquisitions

during the measurement periods in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations. The impact of finalization
of the purchase accounting associated with these acquisitions was not material to our accompanying consolidated
statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.

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The goodwill of $90.6 million associated with the purchases of Jornaya and Franco Signor is not

deductible for tax purposes. For the year ended December 31, 2020, we incurred transaction costs related to
acquisitions of $2.2 million, which are included within “Selling, general and administrative” expenses in our
accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Refer to Note 12. Goodwill and Intangible Assets for
further discussion.

Our 2020 acquisitions were not significant, both individually and in the aggregate, to our consolidated

financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, and therefore, supplemental information
disclosure on an unaudited pro forma basis is not presented.

2019 Acquisitions

On December 23, 2019, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Flexible Architecture and Simplified

Technology, LLC (“FAST”), a software company for the life insurance and annuity industry, for a net cash
purchase price of $193.9 million, of which $1.9 million represents indemnity escrows. FAST offers a flexible
policy administration system that helps insurers accelerate underwriting and claims to enhance the customer
experience and support profitable growth. FAST has become part of the underwriting & rating category within
our Insurance segment, and expanded and enhanced the suite of solutions that we are developing across the
enterprise for life insurers looking to transform the customer experience throughout the life of the policy, from
quote to claims. The final purchase price allocation of the acquisition is presented in the table below.

On December 19, 2019, we acquired selected assets of Commerce Signals, Inc. (“Commerce Signals”), a
software company that offers a data sharing platform for retail, restaurant and entertainment marketers, for a net
cash purchase price of $3.9 million, which consists of a holdback of $1.1 million as security for the
indemnification obligations of the seller. Commerce Signals has become part of our Financial Services segment,
and enhanced the existing solutions that we currently offer. The final purchase price allocation of the acquisition
is presented as part of “Others” in the table below.

On November 5, 2019, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Genscape, Inc. (“Genscape”), a global
provider of real-time data and intelligence for commodity and energy markets, for a net cash purchase price of
$351.0 million. Genscape has become part of the Energy and Specialized Markets segment, and enhanced our
existing sector intelligence in energy data and analytics. The final purchase price allocation of the acquisition is
presented in the table below.

On October 10, 2019, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of BuildFax, Inc. (“BuildFax”) for a net cash

purchase price of $40.2 million, which consists a holdback of $1.0 million. BuildFax uses building permit,
contractor, and inspection data to provide information about the condition of properties to insurance and financial
institutions. The data from BuildFax enhances property analytics under the underwriting & rating category within
our Insurance segment while helping underwriters gain insight into changes in the property insured. The final
purchase price allocation of the acquisition is presented in the table below.

On August 28, 2019, we acquired substantially all of the assets of Property Pres Wizard, LLC.
(“PPW”) for a net cash purchase price of $15.0 million, of which $1.5 million represents indemnity escrows.
PPW is a web and mobile application that manages work order details and property status in the field services
industry throughout the supply chain. PPW has become part of the claims category within our Insurance segment,
and added a service order and project management application to our PropTech suite of solutions. The final
purchase price allocation of the acquisition is presented as part of “Others” in the table below.

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On July 31, 2019, we acquired 100 percent of the stock of Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc. (“Keystone”) for

a net cash purchase price of $29.4 million, of which $2.7 million represents indemnity escrows, to expand
our remote imagery business. Keystone sourced imagery by providing customers geospatial solutions and had
become part of the claims category within our Insurance segment. Keystone was a component within the aerial
imagery sourcing group, which was qualified as assets held for sale on December 2, 2019. On February 1, 2020,
the sale of the aerial imagery sourcing group was closed. See Note 11. Dispositions for further discussion. The
final purchase price allocation of the acquisition is presented as part of “Others” in the table below.

On March 29, 2019, we entered into an agreement with an enterprise application software provider to

acquire their Content as a Service (“CaaS”) business, which included the Environmental Health and Safety
Regulatory Content and Environmental Health and Safety Regulatory Documentation teams and data assets, for a
net cash purchase price of $65.2 million. The CaaS business has become part of our Energy and Specialized
Markets segment. This transaction strengthened our environmental health and safety services business and
extended our global customer footprint and European operations. The final purchase price allocation of the
acquisition is presented in the table below.

The final purchase price allocations, inclusive of closing adjustments, of our 2019 acquisitions resulted in

the following:

FAST

Genscape BuildFax

CaaS Others

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

2.9
4.7
0.4
1.8
1.4
69.0
120.7
0.1

201.0

2.4
0.3
1.4
—
—

4.1

$

0.2
13.6
1.4
15.9
7.4
153.2
241.4
—

433.1

17.4
27.3
7.4
29.8
—

81.9

Net assets acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

196.9

351.2

Cash acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3.0)

(0.2)

$ 0.4
1.8
0.1
0.9
0.4
21.9
20.2
—

45.7

0.9
2.4
0.4
0.4
1.0

5.1

40.6

(0.4)

$ 3.7
—
0.7
0.2
—
34.4
41.2
0.1

80.3

1.3
10.1
—
—
—

11.4

68.9

$ 3.1
3.9
0.6
6.3
0.5
14.1
28.2
4.4

$ 10.3
24.0
3.2
25.1
9.7
292.6
451.7
4.6

61.1

821.2

1.3
—
0.5
2.6
5.3

9.7

51.4

23.3
40.1
9.7
32.8
6.3

112.2

709.0

(3.7)

(3.1)

(10.4)

Net cash purchase price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$193.9

$351.0

$40.2

$65.2

$48.3

$698.6

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The final amounts assigned to intangible assets by type for our 2019 acquisitions are summarized in the

table below:

Technology-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marketing-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Customer-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Database-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6
4
12
10

Total intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Weighted Average
Useful Life
(in years)

Total

$ 81.9
3.9
185.5
20.7

$292.0

For the year ended December 31, 2020, we finalized the purchase accounting for our 2019 acquisitions

during the measurement periods in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations. The impact of finalization
of the purchase accounting associated with these acquisitions was not material to our accompanying consolidated
statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.

The goodwill of $307.1 million associated with the purchases of FAST, Commerce Signals, Genscape,

BuildFax, PPW, Keystone, and CaaS is not deductible for tax purposes. For the year ended December 31, 2019,
we incurred transaction costs related to acquisitions of $3.0 million, which are included within “Selling, general
and administrative” expenses in our accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Refer to Note 12.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets for further discussion.

Our 2019 acquisitions were not significant, both individually and in the aggregate, to our consolidated

financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019 and therefore, supplemental information disclosure on
an unaudited pro forma basis is not presented.

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 acquisition dates, as well as a portion of the
contingent payment. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, we released $12.1 million and
$0.8 million of indemnity escrows related to various acquisitions. At December 31, 2021 and 2020, the current
portion of the escrows amounted to $10.6 million and $1.5 million, and the noncurrent portion of the escrows
amounted to $4.7 million and $18.5 million, respectively. The current and noncurrent portions of the escrows
have been included in “Other current assets” and “Other noncurrent assets” in our accompanying consolidated
balance sheets, respectively.

The acquisitions of Arium Limited, Rebmark Legal Solutions Limited, ACTINEO GmbH, and Data

Driven Safety, LLC 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 December 31,
2021 and 2020 reflect the best estimate of acquisition-related contingent payments. The associated current
portion of contingent payments were $0.5 million and $0.6 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020,
respectively. The associated noncurrent portion of contingent payments were $21.7 million and $0.2 million as
of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

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11. Dispositions:

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 $63.8 million, in exchange for a noncontrolling 35.0%
ownership interest in a nonpublic company, Vexcel. We determined the fair value of the securities associated
with the noncontrolling ownership interest in Vexcel with the assistance of valuations performed by third-party
specialists, including the discounted cash flow analysis and estimates made by management. The securities were
concluded not to have a readily determinable fair value and did not qualify for the practical expedient to estimate
fair value. The contributed assets approximated the fair value of the equity securities related to the noncontrolling
ownership interest; therefore, there was no gain or loss recorded in conjunction with this disposition for the year
ended December 31, 2020.

On February 14, 2020, the sale of the compliance background screening business was completed for net
cash proceeds of $23.1 million. A gain of $15.9 million was included in “Other operating loss (income)” within
our accompanying consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020.

On March 1, 2020, the sale of the data warehouse business within the Financial Services segment was
completed. We recorded a gain of $3.5 million in “Other operating loss (income)” within our accompanying
consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020.

12. Goodwill and Intangible Assets:

We completed the required annual impairment test as of June 30, 2021, 2020 and 2019, which resulted in

no impairment of goodwill. Based on the results of our impairment assessment as of June 30, 2021, we
determined that the fair value of each of our reporting units exceeded their respective carrying value. As of
December 31, 2021, we reassessed the recoverability of the long-lived assets for our Financial Services reporting
unit based upon the weaker than expected operating performance as a result of changing market conditions.
These conditions constituted a triggering event, which resulted in a $134.0 million impairment to the long-
lived assets for our Financial Services reporting unit including $88.2 million to intangible assets and
$45.8 million to fixed assets. We based our analysis of the fair value of our long-lived assets on the indication of
fair value provided by the offer to purchase such reporting unit, which was approved by our Board of Directors
on February 16, 2022. This impairment is included within “Other operating loss (income)” in our consolidated
statement of operations.

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The following is a summary of the change in goodwill from December 31, 2019 through December 31,

2021, both in total and as allocated to our operating segments:

Goodwill at December 31, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchase accounting reclassifications . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Current period adjustment
. . . . . . . .
Foreign currency translation adjustment

Insurance

$ 998.8
171.7
2.1
21.4
14.6

Energy and
Specialized
Markets

$2,389.5
—
(6.0)
(19.5)
59.6

Financial
Services

$476.0
—
(0.2)
—
0.1

Total

$3,864.3
171.7
(4.1)
1.9
74.3

Goodwill at December 31, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,208.6

2,423.6

475.9

4,108.1

Acquisitions and purchases of controlling

interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Purchase accounting reclassifications . . . . . . . . . .
Current period adjustment(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
Foreign currency translation adjustment

235.9
(0.3)
15.8
(5.2)

21.2
—
(15.8)
(28.0)

—
—
—
(0.5)

257.1
(0.3)
—
(33.7)

Goodwill at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,454.8

$2,401.0

$475.4

$4,331.2

(1)

This adjustment relates to a segment reclassification; refer to Note 19. Segment Reporting

Our intangible assets and related accumulated amortization consisted of the following:

December 31, 2021
Technology-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marketing-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contract-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Customer-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Database-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . .

December 31, 2020
Technology-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marketing-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contract-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Customer-related . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Database-based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Weighted
Average
Useful Life
(in years)

Cost

Accumulated
Amortization

Net

7
15
6
13
18

7
16
6
13
19

$ 576.4
274.1
5.0
1,015.4
484.2

(403.3)
(129.6)
(5.0)
(426.5)
(164.8)

$ 173.1
$ 144.5
$
—
$ 588.9
$ 319.4

$2,355.1

$(1,129.2)

$1,225.9

$ 559.6
275.2
5.0
1,004.3
501.0

$ (349.5)
(113.4)
(5.0)
(354.2)
(138.2)

$ 210.1
161.8
—
650.1
362.8

Total intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . .

$2,345.1

$ (960.3)

$1,384.8

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Amortization expense related to intangible assets for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and

2019, was $176.7 million, $165.9 million, and $138.0 million, respectively. Estimated amortization expense in
future periods through 2027 and thereafter for intangible assets subject to amortization is as follows:

Years Ending

2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2027 and thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amount

$ 170.6
155.8
133.8
109.3
104.6
551.8

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$1,225.9

13.

Income Taxes:

Domestic and foreign income before income taxes was as follows:

U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$805.3
70.1

$834.0
63.5

$553.9
14.5

Total income before income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$875.4

$897.5

$568.4

2021

2020

2019

The components of the provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31 were as follows:

2021

2020

2019

Current:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Federal
State and local
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$116.8
21.1
21.4

$111.0
23.1
18.9

$109.9
21.4
14.6

Total current provision for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

159.3

153.0

145.9

Deferred:
Federal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
State and local
Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total deferred provision for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

19.8
11.8
18.2

49.8

22.6
7.4
1.8

31.8

(14.3)
(0.2)
(12.9)

(27.4)

Provision for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$209.1

$184.8

$118.5

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The reconciliation between our effective tax rate and the statutory tax rate is as follows for the years

ended December 31:

Federal statutory rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
State and local taxes, net of federal tax benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
U.K. legislative rate change impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Global Intangible Low-taxed Income (GILTI)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stock-based compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Earn-outs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2021

2020

2019

21.0% 21.0% 21.0%
2.8% 2.7% 2.8%
3.8% 1.5% —%
(0.9)% (0.8)% (1.2)%
1.5% —% —%
(3.3)% (3.7)% (3.0)%
—% —% 2.0%
(1.0)% (0.1)% (0.7)%

Effective tax rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

23.9% 20.6% 20.9%

The increase in the effective tax rate in 2021 compared to 2020 was primarily due to the deferred tax

impact of the tax rate increase in the United Kingdom that was enacted and recorded in 2021, the impact of the
current year Global Intangible Low-taxed income inclusion (“GILTI”), and the impact of higher tax benefits
from equity compensation in the prior period versus the current period. The company’s accounting policy for
GILTI is to treat these inclusions in taxable income as a current period expense when incurred.

The tax effects of significant items comprising our deferred tax assets as of December 31 are as follows:

2021

2020

Deferred tax assets:

Employee wages and other benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ASC 842/Deferred rent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Net operating loss carryover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Litigation accrual
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Capital and other unrealized losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Interest expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 49.0
10.5
18.0
—
1.5
58.7
7.4

$ 56.7
10.3
22.7
31.3
1.6
44.1
12.2

Total
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less valuation allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

145.1
(64.1)

178.9
(48.0)

Deferred tax assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

81.0

130.9

Deferred tax liabilities:

Fixed assets and intangible assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Commissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(461.6)
(20.2)
(54.1)
(9.0)

(445.3)
(16.6)
(49.4)
(7.4)

Deferred tax liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(544.9)

(518.7)

Deferred tax liabilities, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$(463.9) $(387.8)

The net deferred tax liabilities of $463.9 million consist primarily of timing differences involving

amortization.

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The ultimate realization of the deferred tax assets depends on our ability to generate sufficient taxable

income in the future. We have provided a valuation allowance against the deferred tax assets associated with the
interest expense deduction limitation in the U.K. We have also provided for a valuation allowance against the
deferred tax assets associated with the net operating losses of certain subsidiaries. Our net operating loss
carryforwards expire as follows:

Years Ending

2022-2029 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2030-2034 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2035-2041 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amount

$ 21.9
20.5
112.2

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$154.6

A valuation allowance has been established based on our evaluation of the likelihood of utilizing these

benefits before they expire. We have determined that the generation of future taxable income from certain
subsidiaries to fully realize the deferred tax assets is uncertain. Other than these items, we have determined,
based on our historical operating performance, that our taxable income will more likely than not be sufficient to
fully realize the deferred tax assets.

As of December 31, 2021, we have not made a provision for U.S. or additional foreign withholdings taxes

for any additional outside basis difference inherent in our foreign subsidiaries, as these amounts continue to be
indefinitely reinvested in foreign operations. Determining the amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability
related to any additional outside basis difference in these entities is not practicable. We do not rely on these
unremitted earnings as a source of funds for our domestic business as we expect to have sufficient cash flow in
the U.S. to fund our U.S. operational and strategic needs.

We follow ASC No. 740-10 which prescribes a comprehensive model for the financial statement
recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken in
income tax returns. For each tax position, we must determine whether it is more likely than not that the position
will be sustained upon examination based on the technical merits of the position, including resolution of any
related appeals or litigation. A tax position that meets the more likely than not recognition threshold is then
measured to determine the amount of benefit to recognize within the financial statements. No benefits may be
recognized for tax positions that do not meet the more likely than not threshold. A reconciliation of the beginning
and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefit is as follows:

2021

2020

2019

Unrecognized tax benefit as of January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gross increase in tax positions in prior period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gross decrease in tax positions in prior period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Settlements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lapse of statute of limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 9.9
1.3
(0.1)
—
(7.7)

$11.5
0.5
(0.2)

$17.4
0.6
(3.3)
— (2.4)
(0.8)

(1.9)

Unrecognized tax benefit as of December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 3.4

$ 9.9

$11.5

Of the total unrecognized tax benefits as of December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, $3.4 million,
$8.1 million, and $8.6 million, respectively, represent the amounts that, if recognized, would have a favorable
effect on our effective tax rate in any future periods.

The total gross amount of accrued interest and penalties for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020,

and 2019 was $0.5 million, $3.9 million, and $4.6 million, respectively. Our practice is to recognize interest and

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penalties associated with income taxes as a component of “Provision for income taxes” in our accompanying
consolidated statements of operations.

We do not expect a significant increase in unrecognized benefits related to federal, state, or foreign tax

exposures within the coming year. In addition, we believe that it is reasonably possible that approximately
$0.6 million of our currently remaining unrecognized tax positions, each of which is individually insignificant,
may be recognized by the end of 2021 as a result of a combination of audit settlements and lapses of statute of
limitations, net of additional uncertain tax positions.

We are subject to tax in the U.S., various state, and foreign jurisdictions. Joined by our domestic
subsidiaries, we file a consolidated income tax return. With a few exceptions, none of which are material to our
consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2021, we are no longer subject to U.S. federal, state and
local, or non-US income tax examinations by tax authorities for tax years before 2017. In New Jersey, we
are being audited for the years ended December 31, 2013 through 2018 with a statute extension until
September 30, 2022. In Pennsylvania, we are being audited for the years ended December 31, 2018 through 2020
with a statute extension until April 30, 2023. We do not expect that the results of these examinations will have a
material effect on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flow.

14. Composition of Certain Financial Statement Caption:

The following table presents the components of “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” as of

December 31:

2021

2020

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities:

Accrued salaries, benefits and other related costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Legal accrual(1)
Escrow liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Accrued interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Trade accounts payable and other accrued expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acquisition-related liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$169.5
6.5
10.6
16.3
117.3
0.5

$158.7
126.5
1.5
20.7
99.3
0.6

Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$320.7

$407.3

(1)

Included a litigation reserve for Xactware Solutions, Inc. Patent Litigation of $125.0 million in 2020

The following table presents the components of “Other noncurrent assets” as of December 31:

Other noncurrent assets:

Pension benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other assets — prepaid expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acquisition related escrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Investments in nonpublic companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deposits and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$130.5
73.0
4.7
216.2
6.1

$ 77.3
70.6
18.5
192.6
6.7

Total other noncurrent assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$430.5

$365.7

2021

2020

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15. Debt:

The following table presents short-term and long-term debt by issuance as of December 31:

Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt:

Syndicated revolving credit facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Senior notes:

4.125% senior notes, less unamortized discount and

Issuance
Date

Maturity
Date

2021

2020

Various

Various

$ 610.0

$

50.0

debt issuance costs of $(0.4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9/12/2012

9/12/2022

349.6

—

5.800% senior notes, less unamortized discount and

debt issuance costs of $0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Finance lease liabilities(1)

4/6/2011
Various

5/1/2021
Various

—
11.7

449.9
14.4

Short-term debt and current portion of long-term

debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

971.3

514.3

Long-term debt:
Senior notes:

3.625% senior notes, less unamortized discount and

debt issuance costs of $(10.3) and $(10.7),
respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4.125% senior notes, inclusive of unamortized

premium, and net of unamortized discount and debt
issuance costs of $10.9 and $12.4, respectively . . . . .

4.000% senior notes, less unamortized discount and

debt issuance costs of $(4.1) and $(5.4),
respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5.500% senior notes, less unamortized discount and

debt issuance costs of $(4.1) and $(4.3),
respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4.125% senior notes, less unamortized discount and

5/13/2020

5/15/2050

489.7

489.3

3/6/2019

3/15/2029

610.9

612.4

5/15/2015

6/15/2025

895.9

894.6

5/15/2015

6/15/2045

345.9

345.7

debt issuance costs of $(1.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finance lease liabilities(1)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Syndicated revolving credit facility debt issuance costs . .

9/12/2012
Various
Various

9/12/2022
Various
Various

—
1.6
(1.2)

348.9
10.3
(1.6)

Long-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total debt

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,342.8

2,699.6

$3,314.1

$3,213.9

(1) Refer to Note 8. Leases

Accrued interest associated with our outstanding debt obligations was $16.3 million and $20.7 million as
of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and included in “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” within
our accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Interest expense associated with our finance lease and
outstanding debt obligations, including amortization of debt issuance costs and original discounts, was
$127.0 million, $138.3 million, and $125.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019,
respectively.

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Senior Notes

As of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, we had senior notes with an aggregate principal amount
of $2,700.0 million and $3,150.0 million outstanding, respectively, and were in compliance with our financial and
other debt covenants. On May 3, 2021, we repaid the 5.800% senior notes in full in the amount of $450.0 million
utilizing a combination of $250.0 million in borrowings from the credit facility and cash from operations.

Syndicated Revolving Credit Facility

We have a Credit Facility with a borrowing capacity of $1,000.0 million 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. Interest on borrowings under the Credit
Facility is payable at an interest rate of the administrative agent’s prime rate plus 1.0% to 1.625%, depending
upon the public debt rating. A commitment fee on any unused balance is payable periodically and may range
from 8.0 to 20.0 basis points based upon the public debt rating. The Credit Facility also contains certain financial
and other covenants that, among other things, impose certain restrictions on indebtedness, liens, investments, and
capital expenditures. These covenants place restrictions on mergers, asset sales, sale/leaseback transactions, and
certain transactions with affiliates. The financial covenants require that, at the end of any fiscal quarter, we
have a consolidated funded debt leverage ratio of less than 3.5 to 1.0. At our election, the maximum consolidated
funded debt leverage ratio could be permitted to increase one time each to 4.0 to 1.0 and 4.25 to 1.0. The Credit
Facility may be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital needs and capital expenditures,
acquisitions, dividends, and the share repurchase program (the “Repurchase Program”). As of December 31,
2021, we were in compliance with all financial and other debt covenants under the Credit Facility. As of
December 31, 2021 and 2020, the available capacity under the Credit Facility was $384.9 million and
$944.6 million, net of the letters of credit of $5.1 million and $5.4 million, respectively. Subsequent to
December 31, 2021 we have made repayments of $130.0 million under the Credit Facility resulting in
$480.0 million in borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility.

Debt Maturities

The following table reflects our debt maturities:

Years Ending

2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2027 and thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amount

$ 971.7
1.3
0.4
900.1
—
1,450.0

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$3,323.5

16. Stockholders’ Equity:

We have 2,000,000,000 shares of authorized common stock as of December 31, 2021 and 2020. The
common shares have rights to any dividend declared by our Board of Directors, subject to any preferential or
other rights of any outstanding preferred stock, and voting rights to elect all eleven members of our Board of
Directors. At December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, the adjusted closing price of our common stock was $228.73,
$206.34, and $147.50 per share, respectively.

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We have 80,000,000 shares of authorized preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share. The preferred
shares have preferential rights over the common shares with respect to dividends and net distribution upon
liquidation. We did not issue any preferred shares as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.

On February 17, 2021, April 28, 2021, July 28, 2021, and October 27, 2021, our board approved a cash

dividend of $0.29 per share of common stock issued and outstanding to the holders of record as of March 15,
2021, June 15, 2021, September 15, 2021, and December 15, 2021, respectively. Cash dividends of $188.2
million and $175.8 million were paid during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 and recorded as a
reduction to retained earnings, respectively.

Share Repurchase Program

We have authorized repurchases of up to $4,600.0 million of our common stock through our Repurchase

Program, inclusive of the $500.0 million authorization approved by our board on August 17, 2021. 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 $3,996.2 million. As of December 31, 2021, we had $603.8 million available to
repurchase shares. We have no obligation to repurchase stock under this program and intend to use this
authorization as a means of offsetting dilution from the issuance of shares under our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the
“2021 Incentive Plan), our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2013 Incentive Plan”), our 2009 Equity Incentive Plan
(the “2009 Incentive Plan”), our sharesave plan (“U.K. Sharesave Plan”), and our employee stock purchase plan
(“ESPP”) while providing flexibility to repurchase additional shares if warranted. This authorization has no
expiration date and may be increased, reduced, suspended, or terminated at any time. Shares that are repurchased
under the Repurchase Program will be recorded as treasury stock and will be available for future issuance.

In December 2020, March 2021, June 2021, and September 2021, we entered into Accelerated Share

Repurchase (“ASR”) agreements to repurchase shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of
$50.0 million, $125.0 million, $150.0 million, and $75.0 million, respectively, with HSBC Bank USA, Citibank,
N.A., and Wells Fargo Bank. The ASR agreements are each accounted for as a treasury stock transaction and a
forward stock purchase agreement indexed to our common stock. The forward stock purchase agreements are each
classified as an equity instrument under ASC 815-40, Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (“ASC 815-40”) and were
deemed to have a fair value of zero at the respective effective date. Upon payments of the aggregate purchase price
on January 4, 2021, April 1, 2021, July 1, 2021, and October 1, 2021, we received an aggregate delivery of 192,687,
565,963, 686,813, and 299,596 shares of our common stock, respectively. Upon the final settlement of the ASR
agreements in February 2021, May 2021, September 2021, and December 2021, we received additional shares of
70,787, 121,965, 111,429, and 52,815 as determined by the volume weighted average share price of our common
stock of $189.77, $181.71, $187.91, and $212.82 during the term of the ASR agreements, respectively. The
aggregate purchase price was recorded as a reduction to stockholders’ equity in our consolidated statements of
changes in stockholders’ equity for the year ended December 31, 2021. These repurchases of 2,102,055 shares for
the year ended December 31, 2021 resulted in a reduction of outstanding shares used to calculate the weighted
average common shares outstanding for basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”).

During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, we repurchased 2,545,191 and 2,155,084 shares of

common stock as part of the Repurchase Program, inclusive of the ASRs, at a weighted average price of
$186.63 and $161.84 per share, respectively. We utilized cash from operations and borrowings from our Credit
Facility to fund these repurchases.

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Treasury Stock

As of December 31, 2021, our treasury stock consisted of 382,351,399 shares of common stock. During
the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, we transferred 1,379,304, 1,811,046, and 1,369,305 shares
of common stock, under the 2021 Incentive Plan, 2013 Incentive Plan, and 2009 Incentive Plan, from the treasury
shares at a weighted average price of $11.78, $10.67, and $9.72 per share, respectively.

Earnings Per Share

The following is a reconciliation of the numerators and denominators of our basic and diluted EPS

computations for the years ended December 31:

2021

2020

2019

(In millions, except for share and per share data)

Numerator used in basic and diluted EPS:

Net income attributable to Verisk . . . . . . . . . .

$

666.2

$

712.7

$

449.9

Denominator:

Weighted average number of common shares

used in basic EPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

161,841,441

162,610,586

163,535,438

Effect of dilutive shares:

Potential common shares issuable from stock

options and stock-based awards . . . . . . . . . . .

1,497,468

2,710,123

3,024,677

Weighted average number of common shares
and dilutive potential common shares used
in diluted EPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

163,338,909

165,320,709

166,560,115

The potential shares of common stock that were excluded from diluted EPS were 620,241, 513,137, and

674,983 at December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively, because the effect of including those potential
shares was anti-dilutive.

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Losses

The following is a summary of accumulated other comprehensive losses as of December 31:

Foreign currency translation adjustment
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pension and postretirement adjustment, net of tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$(338.0)
(56.6)

$(292.2)
(83.5)

Accumulated other comprehensive losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$(394.6)

$(375.7)

2021

2020

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The before tax and after tax amounts of other comprehensive (loss) income for the years ended

December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019 are summarized below:

Before
Tax

Tax
Benefit
(Expense)

After
Tax

December 31, 2021
Foreign currency translation adjustment attributable to Verisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foreign currency translation adjustment attributable to noncontrolling interests . . . .

$ (45.8)
(0.5)

$ — $ (45.8)
(0.5)

—

Foreign currency translation adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(46.3)

Pension and postretirement adjustment before reclassifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

39.8

Amortization of net actuarial loss and prior service benefit reclassified from

accumulated other comprehensive losses(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pension and postretirement adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4.1)

35.7

—

(9.8)

1.0

(8.8)

(46.3)

30.0

(3.1)

26.9

Total other comprehensive loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ (10.6)

$(8.8)

$ (19.4)

December 31, 2020
Foreign currency translation adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$107.9

$ — $107.9

Pension and postretirement adjustment before reclassifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11.1

(2.9)

8.2

Amortization of net actuarial loss and prior service benefit reclassified from

accumulated other comprehensive losses(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pension and postretirement adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6.7)

4.4

1.8

(1.1)

(4.9)

3.3

Total other comprehensive income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$112.3

$(1.1)

$111.2

December 31, 2019
Foreign currency translation adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 88.4

$ — $ 88.4

Pension and postretirement adjustment before reclassifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

26.7

(6.4)

20.3

Amortization of net actuarial loss and prior service benefit reclassified from

accumulated other comprehensive losses(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pension and postretirement adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4.9)

21.8

1.2

(5.2)

(3.7)

16.6

Total other comprehensive income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$110.2

$(5.2)

$105.0

(1)

These accumulated other comprehensive loss components, before tax, are included under “Cost of revenues”
and “Selling, general and administrative” in our accompanying consolidated statements of operations. These
components are also included in the computation of net periodic (benefit) cost (See Note 18. Pension and
Postretirement Benefits for additional details).

17. Compensation Plans:

KSOP

We have established the KSOP for the benefit of eligible employees in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The

KSOP includes both an employee savings component and an employee stock ownership component. The purpose
of the combined plan is to enable our employees to participate in a tax-deferred savings arrangement under
Internal Revenue Service Code Sections 401(a) and 401(k) (the “Code”), and to provide our employees equity
participation through the employee stock ownership plan (“ESOP”) accounts.

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Under the KSOP, eligible employees may make pre-tax and after-tax cash contributions as a percentage
of their compensation, subject to certain limitations under the applicable provisions of the Code. The maximum
pre-tax contribution that can be made to the 401(k) account as determined under the provisions of Code
Section 401(g) is $19.5 thousand for 2021 and 2020 and $19.0 thousand for 2019. Certain eligible participants
(age 50 and older) may contribute an additional $6.5 thousand on a pre-tax basis for 2021 and 2020 and
$6.0 thousand for 2019. After-tax contributions are limited to 10.0% of a participant’s compensation. Effective
January 1, 2019, we increased the matching contributions to 100.0% of the first 6.0% of the participant’s
contribution. The 401(k) matching contributions under the KSOP for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020,
and 2019, were $33.7 million, $31.6 million, and $31.0 million, respectively; which, at our option, were funded
in cash.

In 2005, we established the ISO Profit Sharing Plan (the “Profit Sharing Plan”), a defined contribution

plan, to replace the qualified pension plan for all eligible employees hired on or after March 1, 2005. The Profit
Sharing Plan is a component of the KSOP. Eligible employees participated in the Profit Sharing Plan if they
completed 1,000 hours of service each plan year and were employed on December 31 of that year. We can make
a discretionary contribution to the Profit Sharing Plan based on our annual performance. Participants vest once
they have completed four years and 1,000 hours of service. For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and
2019, there were no profit sharing contributions.

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 16,000,000, reduced by (i) one share for every one share that was subject to an option or stock
appreciation right granted after December 31, 2020 and prior to the Approval Date under the 2013 Incentive
Plan, and (ii) two and one-half shares for every one share that was subject to any award other than an option or
stock appreciation right granted after December 31, 2020 and prior to the Approval Date under the 2013
Incentive Plan. All of our outstanding stock options, restricted stock, and PSUs are covered under our 2021
Incentive Plan, 2013 Incentive Plan, or 2009 Incentive Plan. Awards under our 2021 Incentive Plan may include
one or more of the following types: (i) stock options (both nonqualified and incentive stock options), (ii) stock
appreciation rights, (iii) restricted stock, (iv) restricted stock units, (v) performance awards, (vi) other share-
based awards, and (vii) cash. Employees, directors, and consultants are eligible for awards under our 2021
Incentive Plan. We issued common stock under these plans from our treasury shares. We have granted equity
awards to key employees and directors. The ultimate realization of the PSUs may range from 0% to 200% of the
recipient’s target levels established on the grant date. As of December 31, 2021, there were 14,915,295 shares of
common stock reserved and available for future issuance.

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A summary of the status of the stock options, restricted stock, and PSUs awarded under our 2021

Incentive Plan as of December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019 and changes during the years is presented below.

Stock Option

Restricted Stock

PSU

Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

Number of
Options

Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value

(in millions)

Weighted
Average Grant
Date Fair Value
Per Share

Weighted
Average Grant
Date Fair Value
Per Share

Number of
Shares

Number of
Shares

Outstanding at January 1,

2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,820,046 $ 67.27

$284.9

533,335

$ 88.55

920,398 $135.64
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dividend reinvestment . . .
— $ —
Exercised or lapsed . . . . . . (1,131,970) $ 51.20

$101.0

Canceled, expired or

167,231

$135.82
— $ —
$ 84.60

(242,815)

42,050

51,792
550
—

$140.70

$173.59
N/A
$ —

forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . .

(175,660) $ 92.27

(29,022)

$109.72

(432)

$134.24

Outstanding at December 31,

2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,432,814 $ 79.51

$449.2

428,729

$107.96

936,843 $159.28
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dividend reinvestment . . .
— $ —
Exercised or lapsed . . . . . . (1,623,740) $ 56.83

$189.8

Canceled, expired or

163,441

$159.96
— $ —
$102.00

(178,317)

93,960

50,736
913
—

$158.50

$192.93
N/A
$ —

forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . .

(134,140) $125.95

(23,799)

$124.40

—

$ —

Outstanding at December 31,

2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,611,777 $ 98.28

$613.4

390,054

$131.63

145,609

750,822 $189.29
Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dividend reinvestment . . .
— $ —
Exercised or lapsed . . . . . . (1,146,422) $ 73.30

$147.6

Canceled, expired or

162,378

$189.23
— $ —
$120.94

(173,726)

59,144
980
(42,610)

$170.75

$210.07
N/A
$140.70

forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . .

(149,079) $155.40

(27,202)

$157.79

—

$ —

Outstanding at December 31,

2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,067,098 $115.73

$572.6

351,504

$161.33

163,123

$192.99

Exercisable at December 31,

2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,173,592 $ 89.14

$443.0

Exercisable at December 31,

2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,494,164 $ 76.84

$456.9

Nonvested at December 31,

2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,893,506

Expected to vest at

December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . 1,641,393

(1)

Includes estimated performance achievement

351,504

305,607

163,123

181,817(1)

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The fair value of our stock options granted was estimated on the date of grant using a Black-Scholes

option valuation model that uses the weighted-average assumptions noted in the following table during the years
ended December 31:

Expected volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Risk-free interest rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected term in years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dividend yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Weighted average grant date fair value per stock option . . . . . . . . . . . . .

23.66% 18.48% 18.76%
2.25%
1.51%
0.39%
4.3
4.3
4.4
0.80%
0.71%
0.63%

$35.15

$25.87

$24.13

2021

2020

2019

A summary of the status of our nonvested options and changes are presented below:

Weighted
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value
Per Share

Number of
Options

Nonvested balance at January 1, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,459,929

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cancelled or expired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

920,398
(947,708)
(175,660)

Nonvested balance at December 31, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,256,959

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cancelled or expired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

936,843
(942,049)
(134,140)

Nonvested balance at December 31, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,117,613

Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cancelled or expired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

750,822
(825,850)
(149,079)

Nonvested balance at December 31, 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,893,506

$17.41

$24.13
$17.29
$17.77

$20.17

$25.87
$18.30
$22.40

$23.39

$35.15
$21.62
$27.54

$28.49

Intrinsic value for stock options is calculated based on the exercise price of the underlying awards and the

quoted price of our common stock as of the reporting date. Excess tax benefits of $35.9 million, $42.9 million,
and $23.2 million from exercised stock options were recorded as income tax benefit in our accompanying
consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.
Stock-based compensation expense for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019 was $55.7 million,
$47.6 million, and $42.7 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2021, the weighted average remaining
contractual terms were 6.0 years and 4.8 years for outstanding and exercisable stock options, respectively. As of
December 31, 2020, the weighted average remaining contractual terms were 6.0 years and 4.7 years for
outstanding and exercisable stock options, respectively.

As of December 31, 2021, there was $88.0 million of total unrecognized compensation cost, exclusive of

the impact of vesting upon retirement eligibility, related to nonvested share-based compensation arrangements
granted under our 2021 and 2013 Incentive Plans. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-
average period of 2.3 years.

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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 5%, and enter into a savings contract, the proceeds of which are then used to
exercise the options upon the three-year maturity of the savings contract. During the years ended December 31,
2021, 2020, and 2019, we granted 11,254, 8,174, and 18,713 stock options under the U.K. Sharesave Plan at a
discounted exercise price of $166.16, $159.98, and $136.35, respectively. As of December 31, 2021, there were
451,207 shares of common stock reserved and available for future issuance under our U.K. Sharesave Plan.

We also offer eligible employees the opportunity to participate in an ESPP. Under our ESPP, participating

employees may authorize payroll deductions of up to 20.0% of their regular base salary and up to 50.0% of their
short-term incentive compensation, both of which in total may not exceed $25.0 thousand in any calendar year, to
purchase shares of our common stock at a 5.0% discount of its fair market value at the time of purchase. In
accordance with ASC 718, our ESPP is noncompensatory as the purchase discount is 5.0% or less from the fair
market value, substantially all employees that meet limited employment qualifications may participate, and it
incorporates no option features. During the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019, we issued 33,974,
32,502, and 30,705 shares of common stock at a weighted average discounted price of $181.77, $164.44, and
$141.17 respectively. As of December 31, 2021, there were 1,226,292 shares of common stock reserved and
available for future issuance under our ESPP.

18. Pension and Postretirement Benefits:

We have a frozen qualified defined benefit pension plan for certain of our employees through
membership in the Pension Plan for Insurance Organizations (the “Pension Plan”), a multiple-employer trust.
Prior to the freeze, we applied a cash balance formula to determine future benefits. Under the cash balance
formula, each participant has an account, which was credited annually based on salary rates determined by years
of service, as well as the interest earned on the previous year-end cash balance. We also have a non-qualified
frozen supplemental cash balance plan (“SERP”) for certain employees. Our SERP is funded from our general
assets. We contributed $0.7 million to our SERP in 2021 and 2020, respectively, and expect to contribute
$1.4 million in 2022.

Our Pension Plan’s funding policy is to contribute annually at an amount between the minimum funding
requirements set forth in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the maximum amount that
can be deducted for federal income tax purposes. No minimum contribution requirement was and is expected
for 2021 and 2022, respectively.

We also provide certain healthcare and life insurance benefits for both active and retired employees. The

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. We do not expect to
contribute to our Postretirement Plan in 2022.

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The following table sets forth the changes in the benefit obligations and the plan assets, the funded status

of the Pension Plan, SERP, and Postretirement Plan, and the amounts recognized in our consolidated balance
sheets at December 31:

Pension Plan and SERP

Postretirement Plan

2021

2020

2021

2020

Change in benefit obligation:

Benefit obligation at January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Interest cost
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Actuarial (gain) loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Plan participants’ contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Benefits paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 459.9
11.0
(9.0)
—
(30.2)

$443.6
12.6
32.1
—
(28.4)

Benefit obligation at December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 431.7

$459.9

Accumulated benefit obligation at December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 431.7

$459.9

Change in plan assets:

Fair value of plan assets at January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Actual return on plan assets, net of expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Employer contributions, net
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Plan participants’ contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Benefits paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 520.8
54.9
0.7
—
(30.2)

$488.9
59.6
0.7
—
(28.4)

Fair value of plan assets at December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 546.2

$520.8

$ 7.5
0.1
(0.9)
1.5
(2.2)

$ 6.0

$10.5
(0.2)
(0.1)
1.5
(2.2)

$ 9.5

$ 8.2
0.2
(0.2)
1.6
(2.3)

$ 7.5

$10.3
0.3
0.6
1.6
(2.3)

$10.5

Funded status at December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$(114.5)

$ (60.9)

$ (3.5)

$ (3.0)

Amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets consist of:

Pension assets, noncurrent(1)
Pension, SERP and postretirement benefits, current(2)
Pension, SERP and postretirement benefits, noncurrent(3)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . .

$(127.0)
1.4
11.1

$ (74.3)
1.0
12.4

Total Pension, SERP and Postretirement benefits . . . . . . . . . . .

$(114.5)

$ (60.9)

$ (3.5)
—
—

$ (3.5)

$ (3.0)
—
—

$ (3.0)

(1)

(2)

(3)

Included in “Other noncurrent assets” in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets

Included in “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets

Included in “Other noncurrent liabilities” in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets

The pre-tax components included within accumulated other comprehensive losses as of December 31 are

summarized below:

Prior service benefit cost (credit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Actuarial losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$

2.8
98.3

Accumulated other comprehensive losses, pretax . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$101.1

$

3.0
133.2

$136.2

2021

2020

2021

$ —
2.4

$2.4

2020

$(0.1)
3.1

$ 3.0

Pension Plan and SERP

Postretirement Plan

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The pre-tax components of net periodic benefit (credit) cost and the amounts recognized in other

comprehensive loss are summarized below for the years ended December 31:

Interest cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected return on plan assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Amortization of prior service cost (credit) reclassified from

accumulated other comprehensive losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amortization of net actuarial loss reclassified from

accumulated other comprehensive losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pension Plan and SERP

Postretirement Plan

2021

2020

2019

2021

2020

2019

$ 11.0
(32.8)

$ 12.6
(29.9)

$ 15.6
(30.3)

$ 0.1
(0.2)

$ 0.2
(0.2)

$ 0.3
(0.2)

0.2

3.8

0.2

6.3

0.2

(0.1)

(0.1)

(0.1)

4.5

0.2

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.1

—

Net periodic benefit (credit) cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(17.8)

(10.8)

(10.0) — 0.2

Amortization of prior service (cost) credit reclassified from

accumulated other comprehensive losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

0.1

0.1

Amortization of actuarial loss reclassified from accumulated

other comprehensive losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.1) —

—

Net loss recognized reclassified from accumulated other

comprehensive losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Actuarial (gain) loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total recognized in other comprehensive income . . . . . . . . .

Total recognized in net periodic benefit credit and other

(3.6)
(31.1)

(35.1)

(6.1)
2.4

(4.1)

(4.4)
(16.4)

(21.1)

(0.2)
(0.5)

(0.6)

(0.3)
(0.3)

(0.5)

(0.3)
(0.8)

(1.0)

comprehensive (income) loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$(52.9) $(14.9) $(31.1) $(0.6) $(0.3) $(0.7)

The weighted-average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations as of December 31, 2021 and

2020 and net periodic benefit (credit) cost for the years 2021, 2020 and 2019 are provided below:

Weighted-average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations:
Discount rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected return on plan assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cash balance interest credit rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pension Plan and SERP

Postretirement Plan

2021

2020

2021

2020

2.75% 2.49%
6.25% 6.50%
2.57% 2.57%

2.25% 1.50%
1.75% 2.00%

N/A

2021

2020

2019

2021

2020

2019

Weighted-average assumptions used to determine net periodic benefit

(credit) cost:
Discount rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expected return on plan assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cash balance interest credit rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.49% 2.83% 3.82% 1.50% 2.50% 3.75%
6.50% 6.75% 7.00% 2.00% 2.00% 2.00%
2.57% 2.57% 2.57%

N/A

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The following table presents the estimated future benefit payments for the respective plans. The future

benefit payments for the Postretirement Plan are net of the federal Medicare subsidy.

2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2025 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2026 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2027 and thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pension Plan
and SERP

Gross Benefit
Amount

$ 30.5
$ 30.3
$ 30.0
$ 29.0
$ 28.5
$132.5

Postretirement
Plan

Gross Benefit
Amount

Medicare Subsidy
Payments

Net Benefit
Amount

$1.1
$1.0
$0.8
$0.7
$0.6
$2.0

$(0.2)
$(0.2)
$(0.1)
$(0.1)
$ —
$ —

$0.9
$0.8
$0.7
$0.6
$0.6
$2.0

The healthcare cost trend rate for 2021 was 7.75% gradually decreasing to 4.50% in 2035. Assumed

healthcare cost trend rates have a significant effect on the amounts reported for the healthcare plan.

The subsidy benefit from the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
reduced our accumulated postretirement benefit assets by approximately $0.8 million as of December 31, 2021
and 2020. The subsidy cost increased the net periodic benefit cost by approximately $75.8 thousand,
$58.2 thousand, and $48.5 thousand in fiscal 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

The expected return on our Pension Plan assets as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 was 6.25% and 6.50%,

respectively, which was determined by taking into consideration our analysis of our actual historical investment
returns to a broader long-term forecast after adjusting for the target investment allocation and reflecting the
current economic environment. During the first quarter of 2021, we changed the investment guidelines on our
Pension Plan assets to target investment allocation of 50% to equity securities and 50% to debt securities from
our previous target allocation of 55% to equity securities and 45% to debt securities as of December 31, 2020.
Our Pension Plan assets consist primarily of investments in various fixed income and equity funds. Investment
guidelines are established with each investment manager. These guidelines provide the parameters within which
the investment managers agree to operate, including criteria that determine eligible and ineligible securities,
diversification requirements and credit quality standards, where applicable. Investment managers are prohibited
from entering into any speculative hedging transactions. The investment objective is to achieve a maximum total
return with strong emphasis on preservation of capital in real terms.

The asset allocation at December 31, 2021 and 2020, and target allocation by asset category are as

follows:

Asset Category

Target
Allocation

Percentage of
Plan Assets

2021

2020

Equity securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Debt securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

50.0%
50.0%
—%

45.8% 52.5%
47.8% 40.0%
7.5%
6.4%

Total

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

We have used the target investment allocation to derive the expected return as we believe this allocation

will be retained on an ongoing basis that will be commensurate with the projected cash flows of the plan. The
expected return for each investment category within the target investment allocation is developed using average

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historical rates of return for each targeted investment category, considering the projected cash flow of
our Pension Plan. The difference between this expected return and the actual return on plan assets is generally
deferred and recognized over subsequent periods through future net periodic benefit costs. We believe that the
use of the average historical rates of returns is consistent with the timing and amounts of expected contributions
to the plans and benefit payments to plan participants. These considerations provide the basis for reasonable
assumptions with respect to the expected long-term rate of return on plan assets.

We also maintain a voluntary employees beneficiary association plan (the “VEBA Plan”) under
Section 501(c)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code to fund the Postretirement Plan. The asset allocation for
our VEBA Plan at December 31, 2021 and 2020 was 100% in debt securities.

There were no transfers among Levels 1, 2, or 3 for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. Refer

to Note 7. Fair Value Measurements for further discussion with respect to fair value hierarchy. The following
table summarizes the fair value measurements by level of our Pension Plan and Postretirement Plan assets:

Quoted Prices
in Active Markets
for Identical
Assets (Level 1)

Significant Other
Observable
Inputs (Level 2)

Total

December 31, 2021
Equity

Managed equity accounts(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $195.0
54.9
Equity — pooled separate account(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$195.0
—

Debt

Fixed income manager — separately managed account(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fixed income manager — pooled separate account(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fixed income manager — government securities(3)

163.7
97.9
9.5

Others

Cash — pooled separate account(2)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Global real estate account(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(0.1)
34.8

—
—
9.5

—
—

$ —
54.9

163.7
97.9
—

(0.1)
34.8

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $555.7

$204.5

$351.2

December 31, 2020
Equity

Managed equity accounts(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $206.3
67.2
Equity — pooled separate account(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$206.3
—

Debt

Fixed income manager — pooled separate account(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fixed income manager — government securities(3)

208.3
10.5

Others

Cash — pooled separate account(2)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Global real estate account(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1
36.9

—
10.5

—
—

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $531.3

$216.8

$ —
67.2

208.3
—

2.1
36.9

$314.5

(1) Valued at the closing price of shares for domestic stocks within the managed equity accounts, and valued at
the net asset value (“NAV”) of shares for mutual funds at either the closing price reported in the active
market or based on yields currently available on comparable securities of issuers with similar credit ratings
for corporate bonds held by the Pension Plan in these managed accounts.

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(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

The pooled separate accounts invest in domestic and foreign stocks, bonds and mutual funds. The fair values
of these stocks, bonds and mutual funds are publicly quoted and are used in determining the NAV of the
pooled separate account, which is not publicly quoted.

The fund invested in the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities or securities that are rated AAA
by S&P, AAA by Fitch, or Aaa by Moody’s, including but not limited to mortgage securities such as agency
and non-agency collateralized mortgage obligations, and other obligations that are secured by mortgages or
mortgage backed securities, and valued at the closing price reported in the active market.

The funds invested in common stocks and other equity securities issued by domestic and foreign real estate
companies, including real estate investment trusts (“REIT”) and similar REIT-like entities. The fair values
of these stocks, bonds and mutual funds are publicly quoted and are used in determining the NAV of the
funds, which is not publicly quoted.

The separately managed accounts invest in U.S. Treasury Bonds and U.S. Treasury Separate Trading of
Registered Interest and Principal of Securities (“UST STRIPS”). The fair values of these bonds and UST
STRIPS are publicly quoted and are used in determining the NAV of the separately managed account, which
is not publicly quoted.

19. Segment Reporting

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 CEO is identified as the CODM as defined by ASC 280-10.

Each of our 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 the revenue recognition
policy within Note 2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies. 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 incorporates 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 help 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

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identification of suspicious claims in the insurance sector. Our underwriting & rating, insurance anti-fraud
claims, catastrophe modeling, and loss quantification are included in this segment. During the first quarter
of 2021, due to management restructuring, our CODM reorganized 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 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,
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 6. Revenues for
information on disaggregated revenues by type of service and by country.

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The following table provides our revenue and EBITDA by reportable segment for the years ended
December 31, as well as a reconciliation of EBITDA to income before income taxes for all periods presented in
our accompanying consolidated statements of operations:

2021

Energy
and
Specialized
Markets

Financial
Services

Insurance

2020

Energy
and
Specialized
Markets

Financial
Services

2019

Energy
and
Specialized
Markets

Financial
Services

Total

Total

Insurance

Total

Insurance

Revenues . . . . . . . . . $2,206.9

$ 648.9

$ 142.8 $ 2,998.6 $2,008.7

$ 619.2

$156.7 $2,784.6 $1,885.4

$ 543.7

$178.0 $2,607.1

Expenses:

Cost of revenues
(exclusive of
items shown
separately
below)

. . . . . . .

Selling, general

and
administrative . .

Other operating

(loss) income . .
Investment income

(loss) and
others, net . . . . .

(704.4)

(263.0)

(90.4)

(1,057.8)

(644.3)

(256.8)

(92.8)

(993.9)

(654.1)

(225.5)

(97.2)

(976.8)

(239.1)

(154.4)

(29.2)

(422.7)

(248.1)

(146.1)

(19.7)

(413.9)

(407.9)

(175.9)

(19.7)

(603.5)

—

— (134.0)

(134.0)

15.9

—

3.5

19.4

—

—

(6.2)

(6.2)

2.3

(0.2)

(0.2)

1.9

(1.2)

(1.2)

—

(2.4)

0.7

(1.9)

(0.5)

(1.7)

EBITDA . . . . . . $1,265.7

$ 231.3

$(111.0)

1,386.0 $1,131.0

$ 215.1

$ 47.7

1,393.8 $ 824.1

$ 140.4

$ 54.4

1,018.9

Depreciation and
amortization of
fixed assets . . . .

Amortization of
intangible
assets . . . . . . . .

Interest

. . . .

expense . . . . . .

. . . .

Income before

(206.9)

(192.2)

(185.7)

. . . .

. . . .

. . . .

(176.7)

. . . .

. . . .

(127.0)

. . . .

. . . .

. . . .

. . .

. . .

(165.9)

. . . .

(138.2)

. . . .

. . . .

. . . .

. . .

. . .

(138.0)

(126.8)

income taxes . .

. . . .

. . . .

. . . .

$875.4

. . . .

. . . .

. . .

$897.5

. . . .

. . . .

. . .

$568.4

Long-lived assets by country are provided below as of December 31:

Long-lived assets:

U.S.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$3,527.6
2,754.0
623.9

$3,525.0
2,775.8
466.8

Total long-lived assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$6,905.5

$6,767.6

2021

2020

20. Related Parties:

We consider our stockholders that own more than 5% of the outstanding stock within the class to be
related parties as defined within ASC 850, Related Party Disclosures. We had no material transactions with
related parties owning more than 5% of the entire class of stock for the years ended December 31, 2021 and
2020.

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In addition, we had no revenues from related parties for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and

2019.

21. 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 intend to appeal any 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” or “District 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 seven 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 five remaining Patents in Suit to six asserted claims. On September 25, 2019, following a trial, the jury
determined that we had willfully infringed the six asserted claims, and assessed damages in the amount of
$125.0 million. After trial, Eagle View moved for a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) and a permanent
injunction preventing our sales of the Geomni Roof, Geomni Property and Aerial Sketch products in combination
with Xactimate. The Court granted the motion for a TRO on September 26, 2019 and on October 18, 2019,
issued an Order permanently enjoining our sales of the Geomni Roof, Geomni Property and Aerial Sketch
products in combination with Xactimate. On March 2, 2020, the Court signed an Order staying execution of the
$125.0 million judgment pending our appeal, and we subsequently secured a supersedeas bond in the amount of
$137.5 million to satisfy the New Jersey court rule requiring a bond in the amount of 110% of the monetary
judgment. In addition, Eagle View asked the Court to award enhanced damages by trebling the jury’s damages
award, together with attorneys’ fees, costs, and pre- and post-judgment interest. We opposed all of Eagle View’s
requests and asked the Court for judgment as a matter of law and for a new trial. Eagle View opposed our
requests. On September 9, 2020, the Court denied our motion seeking judgment as a matter of law and a new
trial. We timely filed our Amended Notice of Appeal on October 8, 2020. Eagle View filed a motion to dismiss
or deactivate the appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction on November 4, 2020 which was denied by the Federal
Circuit on December 15, 2020. We filed our appellate brief on December 24, 2020. On February 16, 2021, the
Court granted Eagle View’s motion for enhanced damages and attorneys’ fees. The Court trebled the jury’s
award of $125.0 million, awarding enhanced damages for a total of $375.0 million, and also awarded Eagle View

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pre-judgment and post-judgment interest. The Court’s award of Eagle View’s attorneys’ fees was limited to the
period just before the commencement of trial through the trial, and did not include the earlier approximately four-
year period in the case. On March 17, 2021, we filed an unopposed application with the Federal Circuit seeking
consolidation of our appeals addressing the trial Court’s findings on infringement, the denial of our motion for
judgment as a matter of law and a new trial, and the Court’s Order on enhanced damages. As of June 29, 2021,
the appeal was fully briefed. Following the outcome of the trial in 2019, we established a $125.0 million reserve
in connection with this litigation, which was included in selling, general and administrative expenses in our
consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2019. On April 15, 2021, the Court
signed an order continuing the stay of execution of the monetary judgment. In light of the Court’s Order
enhancing damages, we posted an additional bond in the amount of $305.0 million. On July 2, 2021, Eagle View
sent us a cease and desist letter claiming that our Roof Underwriting Report (“RUR”) product infringes its
asserted patents, and therefore, violates the trial court’s permanent injunction. On July 15, we responded with a
letter denying infringement and violation of the injunction, and explaining how our RUR is vastly different from
the asserted patents. On August 9, 2021, Eagle View filed a motion to initiate contempt proceedings against us
for alleged violation of the injunction, seeking a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting us from offering,
marketing or selling our RUR and asking the court to grant discovery to assess our RUR and determine whether
we were complying with the injunction. On October 8, 2021, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral
argument in our appeal. On November 5, 2021, the parties settled the entire litigation, thereby reversing the
excess accrual amount. The Federal Circuit appeal was dismissed on November 9, 2021, and the District Court
subsequently entered an Order dismissing the contempt action, as well as the parties’ underlying claims,
counterclaims and defenses, and dissolving the permanent injunction. Upon a joint motion by both parties, on
January 18, 2022, the Court entered an Order releasing the supersedeas bonds and discharging us and our sureties
from any corresponding obligations.

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.

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

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(“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 $100 a day for each day of violation, or $1,000, whichever is higher, punitive damages, and reasonable
attorney’s fees and other litigation costs. On February 16, 2021, we filed preliminary objections to the plaintiff’s
complaint, the plaintiff opposed, and the Court ultimately denied our preliminary objections. We subsequently
filed a petition to compel arbitration and a motion to stay this action pending the completion of the parties’
arbitration proceedings. On September 30, 2021, the court denied our motions and directed the parties to proceed
with discovery. On October 8, 2021, we filed a Notice of Appeal to seek review of the lower court’s decision
with the Pennsylvania appellate court system. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the liability
related to this matter.

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 took place on 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
was extended to March 11, 2022. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the liability related to this
matter.

Data Privacy Litigation

On December 15, 2021, Plaintiff Jillian Cantinieri brought a putative class action against Verisk

Analytics, Insurance Services Office and ISO Claims Services, Inc. (“we,” “our,” “us”) in the United States

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District Court for the Eastern District of New York, titled Cantinieri v. Verisk Analytics Inc., et al., Civil Action
No. 2:21-cv-6911. The Complaint alleges that we failed to safeguard the personally identifiable information (PII)
of Plaintiff and the members of the proposed classes from a purported breach of our databases by unauthorized
entities. Plaintiff and class members allege actual and imminent injuries, including theft of their PII, fraudulent
activity on their financial accounts, lowered credit scores, and costs associated with detection and prevention of
identity theft and fraud. They seek to recover compensatory, statutory and punitive damages, disgorgement of
earnings and profits, and attorney’s fees and costs. We filed our responsive pleading on February 7, 2022. At this
time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the liability related to this matter.

LCI Litigation

On December 30, 2021, Plaintiff William Norman Brooks filed a consumer class action lawsuit against

Lundquist Consulting, Inc. (“LCI,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) in California Superior Court, San Matteo County, titled
Brooks v. Lundquist Consulting, Inc., Case No. 21-CIV-06824. Plaintiff alleges violations of the Fair Credit
Reporting Act, the California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, and California Unfair Competition Law,
and Defamation. LCI has not yet been served with the Complaint. Plaintiff claims that LCI inaccurately reported
Mr. Brooks as bankrupt, and that this caused emotional harm and harmed his credit standing, credit score and
reputation. Plaintiff alleges that LCI’s statements about his (and other class members’) bankruptcies to third
parties amounted to defamation. It is also alleged that LCI did not provide Plaintiff and others an opportunity to
review and dispute any accuracies in the information sold by LCI about them and did not disclose their consumer
credit files when asked. Plaintiff seeks to certify Nationwide Inaccuracy and Failure to Disclose Classes, as well
as California Inaccuracy and Failure to Disclose Subclasses. He also seeks to recover actual and punitive
damages, restitution of funds suspended and the value of credit privileges revoked or terminated, injunctive relief
ordering LCI to rectify the credit reporting errors and change its procedures for attributing bankruptcy
information, and reasonable attorney’s fees and costs. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably estimate the
liability related to this matter.

22. Subsequent Events:

In December 2021, we entered into an additional ASR agreement with Citibank, N.A. to repurchase

shares of our common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $100.0 million. Upon payment of the aggregate
purchase price on January 4, 2022, we received an initial delivery of 360,913 shares of our common
stock, representing approximately $80.0 million of the aggregate purchase price. Upon the final settlement of the
ASR agreement in February 2022, we received an additional 141,766 shares, as determined by the volume
weighted average share price of our common stock of $198.93 during the term of the ASR agreement. See
Note 16. Stockholders’ Equity for further discussion.

On January 12, 2022, our Board of Directors approved the action to make our environmental health and
safety business within the Energy & Specialized Markets segment available for immediate sale at its current fair
value. On January 21, 2022, we entered into a stock purchase agreement to sell 3E Company Environmental,
Ecological and Engineering (“3E”) in exchange for a potential aggregate cash consideration of up to
$950.0 million. The purchase price consists of up to $630.0 million of cash consideration paid at closing, subject
to customary purchase adjustments, up to $50.0 million of earnout payments based on financial performance in
2023 and 2024, and up to $270.0 million of additional deferred payments based on the buyer’s future return on its
investment.

In January 2022, we granted 608,895 nonqualified stock options, 130,555 shares of restricted stock, and

74,887 PSUs to key employees. The nonqualified stock options and restricted stock have a graded service vesting

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period of four years. The PSUs granted consisted of 49,533 TSR-based PSUs and 25,354 PSUs that are tied to the
achievement of certain financial performance conditions, namely incremental return on invested capital (“ROIC-
based PSUs”). Each of the TSR-based PSUs and ROIC-based PSUs have a three-year performance period,
subject to the recipients’ continued service. The grant date fair value of the ROIC-based PSUs is determined
using the closing price of our common stock on the grant date. The related performance condition is driven by
the incremental return on invested capital based on net operating profit. The ultimate realization of the PSUs may
range from 0% to 200% of the recipient’s target levels established on the grant date. See Note 17. Compensation
Plans for further discussion.

On February 11, 2022, we acquired 100 percent of the membership interest of Infutor Data Solutions,
LLC (“Infutor”), for an aggregate net cash consideration of $223.5 million, of which $1.5 million represents a
working capital escrow, plus a contingent earn-out payment of up to $25.0 million subject to the achievement of
certain revenue and other performance targets. Infutor, a leading provider of identity resolution and consumer
intelligence data, has become a part of the underwriting & rating category within our Insurance segment. We
believe this acquisition further enhances Verisk’s marketing solutions offerings to companies across several
industries including the insurance industry.

On February 16, 2022, our Board of Directors approved a cash dividend of $0.31 per share of common

stock issued and outstanding, payable on March 31, 2022, to holders of record as of March 15, 2022. Our Board
of Directors also approved an additional share repurchase authorization of $1,000.0 million.

On February 16, 2022, our Board of Directors approved the action to make our financial services business

within the Financial Services segment available for immediate sale at its current fair value. On February 21,
2022, we entered into a stock purchase agreement to sell our financial services business to TransUnion, a global
information and insights company, for $515.0 million in cash consideration paid at closing. This transaction is
subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and working capital adjustments.

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Schedule II

Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves
For the Years Ended December 31, 2021, 2020, and 2019
(In millions)

Description

Year ended December 31, 2021

Balance at
Beginning
of Year

Charged to
Costs and
Expenses(1)

Deductions—
Write-offs(2)

Balance at
End of Year

Allowance for doubtful accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$17.7

Valuation allowance for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$48.0

Year ended December 31, 2020

Allowance for doubtful accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$11.7

Valuation allowance for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$46.5

Year ended December 31, 2019

Allowance for doubtful accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 5.7

Valuation allowance for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$34.5

$17.7

$17.4

$13.1

$10.7

$ 7.2

$16.7

$(14.1)

$ (1.3)

$ (7.1)

$ (9.2)

$ (1.2)

$ (4.7)

$21.3

$64.1

$17.7

$48.0

$11.7

$46.5

(1)

(2)

Primarily additional reserves for bad debts

Primarily accounts receivable balances written off, net of recoveries, the expiration of loss carryforwards,
and businesses held for sale

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Exhibit
Number

3.1

3.2

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.8

4.9

10.1

10.2

10.3

10.4

EXHIBIT INDEX

Description

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1
to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated May 29, 2015.

Amended and Restated By-Laws, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s
Current Report on Form 8-K, dated February 15, 2019.

Form of Common Stock Certificate, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Amendment
No. 6 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated September 21, 2009.

Senior Notes Indenture, dated as of April 6, 2011, among Verisk Analytics, Inc., the guarantors
named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated April 6, 2011.

First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 6, 2011, among Verisk Analytics, Inc., the guarantors
named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated April 6, 2011.

Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 12, 2012, among Verisk Analytics, Inc., the
guarantors named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, incorporated
herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated
September 12, 2012.

Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 15, 2015, between Verisk Analytics, Inc. and Wells
Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated May 15, 2015.

Senior Notes Indenture, dated March 6, 2019, among Verisk Analytics, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association, as Trustee, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s
Current Report on Form 8-K, dated March 6, 2019.

First Supplemental Indenture, dated March 6, 2019, between Verisk Analytics, Inc. and Wells Fargo
Bank, National Association, as Trustee, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated March 6, 2019.

Second Supplemental Indenture, dated May 13, 2020, between Verisk Analytics, Inc. and Wells
Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated May 13, 2020.

Description of Verisk Analytics, Inc.’s securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities
Exchange Act, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.8 to the Company’s Annual Report on
Form 10-K, dated February 18, 2020.

401(k) Savings Plan and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated August 12, 2008.

Verisk Analytics, Inc. 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2
to Amendment No. 6 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated September 21,
2009.

Form of Letter Agreement, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Amendment No. 1 to
the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated October 7, 2008.

Form of Master License Agreement and Participation Supplement, incorporated herein by reference
to Exhibit 10.4 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated
October 7, 2008.

113

Exhibit
Number

10.5

10.6

10.7

10.8

10.9

10.10

10.11

10.12

10.13

10.14

10.15

10.16

10.17

10.18

Description

Schedule of Master License Agreements Substantially Identical in All Material Respects to the Form
of Master License Agreement and Participation Supplement, incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit 10.5 to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated
November 20, 2008.

Form of Change of Control Severance Agreement, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.8
to Amendment No. 6 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated September 21,
2009.

Insurance Services Office, Inc. 1996 Incentive Plan and Form of Stock Option Agreement
thereunder, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to Amendment No. 7 to the Company’s
Registration Statement on Form S-1, dated September 29, 2009.

Form of Stock Option Award Agreement under the Verisk Analytics, Inc. 2009 Equity Incentive
Plan, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q, dated November 16, 2009.

Insurance Services Office, Inc. Supplemental Cash Balance Plan dated January 1, 2009 as amended
by the Amendment to the Insurance Services Office, Inc. Supplemental Cash Balance Plan dated
February 10, 2012 incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s annual report on
Form 10-K dated February 25, 2014.

Insurance Services Office, Inc. Supplemental Executive Retirement Savings Plan dated January 1,
2009 incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K dated
February 25, 2014.

Verisk Analytics, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, incorporated herein by reference to Appendix A to
the Company’s Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, dated April 1, 2013.

Form of Stock Option Award Agreement under Verisk Analytics, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan,
incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8
dated May 15, 2013.

Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement under Verisk Analytics, Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive
Plan, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99.3 to Company’s Registration Statement on
Form S-8 dated May 15, 2013.

Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated April 22, 2015 among Verisk Analytics, Inc.,
as borrower, and the lenders and agents party thereto, incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 24, 2015.

First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated July 24, 2015 among
Verisk Analytics, Inc., as borrower, and the lenders and agents party thereto, incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q dated July 28, 2015.

Second Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated May 26, 2016
among Verisk Analytics, Inc., as borrower, and the lenders and agents party thereto, incorporated
herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 26,
2016.

Third Amendment to the Second Amended Restated Credit Agreement dated May 18, 2017 among
Verisk Analytics, Inc., as borrower, and the lenders and agents party thereto, incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 19, 2017.

Fourth Amendment dated August 15, 2019 to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
dated April 22, 2015 among Verisk Analytics, Inc., as borrower, and the lenders and agents party
thereto, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to the Company’s Current Report on
Form 8-K, dated August 16, 2019.

114

Exhibit
Number

10.19

10.20

21.1

23.1

31.1

31.2

32.1

Description

Verisk Analytics, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan incorporated herein by reference to Appendix B
to the Company’s Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A dated April 2, 2021.

Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 21, 2022, by and among Verisk Analytics, Inc.,
Tamarack Buyer, L.L.C. and, solely for the limited purpose set forth therein, 3E Company
Environmental, Ecological and Engineering, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated January 24, 2022.

Subsidiaries of the Registrant.*

Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.*

Certification of the Chief Executive Officer of Verisk Analytics, Inc. pursuant to Rule 13a-14
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.*

Certification of the Chief Financial Officer of Verisk Analytics, Inc. pursuant to Rule 13a-14 under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.*

Certification of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Verisk Analytics, Inc.
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002.*

101.INS

Inline XBRL Instance Document.*

101.SCH

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema.*

101.CAL

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase.*

101.DEF

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase.*

101.LAB

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase.*

101.PRE

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase.*

104

Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).*

* Filed herewith.

115

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) 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, on
February 22, 2022.

VERISK ANALYTICS, INC.
(Registrant)

/S/ Scott G. Stephenson
Scott G. Stephenson
President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below

by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated on February 22, 2022.

Signature

Capacity

/S/ SCOTT G. STEPHENSON
Scott G. Stephenson

President and Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer and director)

/S/ LEE M. SHAVEL
Lee M. Shavel

/S/ DAVID J. GROVER
David J. Grover

Chief Financial Officer and Group President
(principal financial officer)

Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
(principal accounting officer)

/S/ CHRISTOPHER M. FOSKETT
Christopher M. Foskett

Lead Independent Director

/S/ ANNELL BAY
Annell R. Bay

/S/ VINCENT BROOKS
Vincent K. Brooks

/S/ BRUCE E. HANSEN
Bruce E. Hansen

/S/ KATHLEEN HOGENSON
Kathleen A. Hogenson

/S/ CONSTANTINE P. IORDANOU
Constantine P. Iordanou

/S/ LAURA K. IPSEN
Laura K. Ipsen

/S/ SAMUEL G. LISS
Samuel G. Liss

116

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Signature

/S/ THERESE M. VAUGHAN
Therese M. Vaughan

/S/ DAVID B. WRIGHT
David B. Wright

Capacity

Director

Director

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CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement Nos. 333-237408, 333-216966,

333-194874, and 333-173135 on Form S-3 and Registration Statement Nos. 333-256332, 333-188629,
333-183476, and 333-165912 on Form S-8 of our reports dated February 22, 2022 relating to the financial
statements of Verisk Analytics, Inc., and the effectiveness of Verisk Analytics, Inc.’s internal control over
financial reporting, appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Verisk Analytics, Inc. for the year ended
December 31, 2021.

Exhibit 23.1

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Parsippany, New Jersey
February 22, 2022

Exhibit 31.1

I, Scott G. Stephenson, certify that:

CERTIFICATION

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K 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 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.

/s/Scott G. Stephenson

Scott G. Stephenson
President and Chief Executive Officer

Date: February 22, 2022

Exhibit 31.2

I, Lee M. Shavel, certify that:

CERTIFICATION

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K 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 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.

/s/ Lee M. Shavel
Lee M. Shavel
Chief Financial Officer and Group President

Date: February 22, 2022

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 annual report on Form 10-K

of Verisk Analytics, Inc. (the “Company”) for the year ending December 31, 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, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Lee M. Shavel, the Chief

Financial Officer of the Company, each hereby 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 operations of the Company.

/s/ Scott G. Stephenson

Scott G. Stephenson
President and Chief Executive Officer

/s/ Lee M. Shavel

Lee M. Shavel
Chief Financial Officer and Group President

Date: February 22, 2022

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