Is there any synergy at all in this $ECL deal or is this just straight buying into data center growth?
Didn’t they push into upstream energy a year before the shale revolution imploded?
$FICO thought exercise: Assume they 'didn't get greedy' and straight-line HSD scores revenue growth since 2018. You have way lower (50% ) profits and a lot more coming from software which we all know is worthless these days. Where's the stock price in that scenario?
Easy to dunk on them after the last 10 months, I get it. But for better or worse they have a view on what their IP is worth / their importance to the ecosystem, and the actions they are taking suggest the business will endure and thrive.
$FICO whacked yesterday & down today as $TRU CEO said yesterday that one of the GSEs was 'experimenting' with VS4.0, accepting loans and securitizing those loans based on VS.
Would love context here as securitizations are public record yet no one seems aware of this.
My understanding is the GSEs and the securitization market can't accept VS4.0 loans until pricing is established.
I also would have expected this news to be trumpeted from everywhere by the bureaus/VantageScore instead of briefly mentioned during hour 4 of an investor day.
FICO also soft on $TRU/$EFX taking VS pricing from ~$4 to $1 per score. My gut is this takes VS4.0 mortgage revenue at the Credit Bureaus from ~$0 before this cut to ~$0 afterwards because they are already giving away VS4.0 for free for anyone that buys FICO. Good PR though
$FIX highlighting increased tech weighting in their work b/c of superior margins. Can non-data center or power construction grow when the majority of $s and workers are getting reallocated to AI-related infrastructure? What gets left in the dust?