FICO ready to add more value

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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 for its FICO Scores software. It lets lenders make better decisions about customer creditworthiness. The company also makes programs to help credit-card issuers reduce fraud. The company now plans to buy back up to $500 million of its outstanding common stock. There are no time limits for those purchases. This buyback program follows more-aggressive share buybacks by the company: in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2021, it bought back $874.2 million of its shares; that was followed by $1.05 billion in buybacks for the nine months ended June 30, 2022. Fair Isaac is a buy. buy…