Get fintech exposure with much less risk

In our view, the recent bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange operator FTX Trading highlights the dangers of investing in potentially disruptive fintech (the combination of financial services and technology services). We prefer these three well-established fintechs, which have innovative products and a long history of rising… Read More

FICO ready to add more value

FAIR ISAAC CORP. $448 is a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors. The company (New York symbol FICO; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 25.3 million; Market cap: $11.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 8.3; Dividend suspended June 2017; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.fico.com) is best known… Read More

Fair Isaac has lots of room for further growth

Demand for Fair Isaac’s credit scoring solutions from U.S. mortgage lenders may weaken for due to rising interest rates, but demand from automotive and personal lending clients should hold up. Meantime, it’s developing new scoring products for use in several countries, and there is plenty… Read More

Earnings jumped 17.1% at Fair Isaac Corp.

Earnings jumped 17.1% at Fair Isaac Corp.

Rising interest rates and recession fears have hit technology stocks particularly hard in 2022, as investors worry a slowdown will prompt their business clients to spend less on their products.

However, those kinds of cuts would be shortsighted as the products they buy from this company… Read More