Topic: Value Stocks

Stock Pickers Digest Hotline – Friday, June 17, 2016

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FAIR ISAAC CORP., $109.37, symbol FICO on New York, is best known for its FICO Scores software, which lets lenders make better decisions about customer creditworthiness. It also makes programs that help credit card issuers reduce fraud and analyze the spending patterns of cardholders. The company has recently applied its expertise to other businesses, especially cybersecurity. This week, Fair Isaac bought QuadMetrics, a firm that uses predictive analytics to rate the cybersecurity risk of any organization. The company hasn’t disclosed the purchase price. The rating system—which QuadMetrics believes is 90% accurate—helps a company’s chief information officer gauge the possibility of a cyberattack. Part of that is determining the level of risk a company is exposed to by giving vendors and suppliers access to its computer networks. Just as important, QuadMetrics can also help insurers underwrite cyberattack policies for companies. The rating system collects more than 250 data points from an organization’s information technology network. Those include its spam traffic and the configuration of its…