Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO) Stock Has Consensus Price Target of $1,210.38 According to Brokerages

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO) has been given an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by the sixteen analysts that are covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, four have assigned a hold recommendation and ten have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $1,143.50.

FICO has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Credit Suisse Group set a $1,150.00 target price on shares of Fair Isaac in a research note on Wednesday, September 30th. Needham & Company LLC reduced their price objective on shares of Fair Isaac from $1,650.00 to $1,100.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of Fair Isaac in a research report on Tuesday, September 29th. Barclays decreased their target price on Fair Isaac from $935.00 to $875.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, October 2nd. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group set a $1,322.00 target price on shares of Fair Isaac in a research note on Tuesday, September 29th.

Insider Activity

In other Fair Isaac news, Director Eva Manolis sold 967 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $1,400.00, for a total value of $1,353,800.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 498 shares in the company, valued at $697,200. The trade was a 66.01% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 3.02% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Trading of Fair Isaac

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of FICO. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board bought a new position in Fair Isaac during the 2nd quarter valued at about $1,737,000. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its stake in shares of Fair Isaac by 5.7% during the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 133,448 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $142,461,000 after acquiring an additional 7,154 shares during the last quarter. Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. Ltd. bought a new stake in Fair Isaac during the second quarter valued at about $67,760,000. Altrafin AG bought a new position in shares of Fair Isaac during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $2,117,000. Finally, Quantinno Capital Management LP boosted its position in shares of Fair Isaac by 44.9% in the first quarter. Quantinno Capital Management LP now owns 15,582 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $16,635,000 after purchasing an additional 4,830 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 85.75% of the company’s stock.

Fair Isaac Stock Performance

FICO stock opened at $721.39 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $15.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.84, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.84 and a beta of 1.35. Fair Isaac has a 52-week low of $586.05 and a 52-week high of $1,858.91. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $953.54 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $1,080.74.

Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 29th. The technology company reported $12.18 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $11.76 by $0.42. The firm had revenue of $674.19 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $679.17 million. Fair Isaac had a negative return on equity of 32.51% and a net margin of 34.05%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 25.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $8.57 EPS. Fair Isaac has set its FY 2026 guidance at 42.430-42.430 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Fair Isaac will post 36.92 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Fair Isaac Company Profile

Fair Isaac Corporation, known as FICO, develops analytics and software used by businesses to make decisions about credit, risk, fraud, customer engagement and other operational activities. The company is best known for the FICO Score, a credit-risk scoring system used by lenders to help evaluate consumer creditworthiness.

FICO’s offerings include credit scoring solutions, decision-management software, fraud detection and identity verification tools, and analytics platforms. Its products are used by financial institutions, insurers, retailers, telecommunications companies and other organizations to automate decisions, manage risk and improve customer relationships.