Fair Isaac has lots of room for further growth

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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 of room for Fair Isaac’s international business to expand. The stock is a Power Buy. FAIR ISAAC CORP., $449.70, is a buy. The company (New York symbol FICO; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.fairisaac.com; Shares outstanding: 25.3 million; Market cap: $11.4 billion; No dividends paid) is best known for its FICO Scores software. It lets lenders make better decisions about customer creditworthiness. Through your shares, you also invest in a company that makes programs to help credit-card issuers reduce fraud and to analyze the spending of their cardholders. For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, revenue rose 3.2%, to $349.0 million from $338.2 million a year earlier. Software revenues, which include the company’s analytics and digital decision-making technology, were up 2.2%. That’s despite the sale…