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Fair Isaac (FICO) stock fell 27% in the past month with no company news to explain it. Equifax and TransUnion fell more than 20% too. If you hold the shares, you may wonder what a full market shock would do to them. Fair Isaac's record in past shocks can size the next fall, but only if the company that fell then is yours. So is today's Fair Isaac the same company that fell in past shocks.

Fair Isaac (FICO), the maker of the FICO Score, beats Equifax, TransUnion and three other peers on revenue growth and operating margin. Yet its stock lost 59.3% over the past twelve months, the worst return in the group. So after that fall, is Fair Isaac stock worth more than its competitors.

PTC (PTC) and Fair Isaac are both owned for software that customers find hard to replace. PTC sells more to manufacturers it already serves, while Fair Isaac has raised the price of its mortgage credit score. Fair Isaac stock has lost 46% in a month, while PTC stock has lost 12.5%. Which of the two is gaining the firmer grip on its customers.

Equifax is expected to release its third-quarter earnings soon, and analysts expect a single-digit percentage rise in its bottom line.

Shares of credit reporting giant Equifax (NYSE:EFX) fell 4.1% in the pre-market session after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte announced a unified mortgage pricing grid, escalating a regulatory campaign against credit bureau fees that was amplified by a competitor’s price war.

Fair Isaac stock falls after Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, says the mortgage pricing grid is being simplified and that VantageScore is being incorporated.

Fair Isaac stock fell around 30% on Tuesday. The drop came after the government announced it would start to use a competitor to the FICO score to determine mortgage prices.

Stock in Fair Isaac Corp. fell sharply on Tuesday after the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced a change in mortgage pricing, introducing competition to FICO Score's long hold on mortgage lending.

Investing.com -- Fair Isaac (NYSE: FICO) dropped 20% in premarket trading on Tuesday after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will adopt a single loan-level pricing adjustment grid covering both FICO and VantageScore, eliminating the pricing differential that had long protected FICO’s dominance in mortgage originations. The move rattled the broader credit-scoring sector, with TransUnion falling 4%, Equifax dropping 6.7%, and London-listed

The U.S. government is moving to bring competition to credit scoring for mortgages. That’s not good news for Fair Isaac shareholders.

RALEIGH, N.C., September 29, 2026--Asset Management Software by Siemens, formerly Brightly Software, today announced the appointments of Mark Horne as Chief Revenue Officer and Nicolas Huguet as Vice President, Head of EMEA. These appointments strengthen the company’s global commercial leadership within Siemens’ asset management portfolio.

Auto, mortgage and telecommunications application fraud decline- Equifax Canada Market Pulse Fraud Trends and Insights - TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Credit card application fraud climbed eight per cent year-over-year in Q2 2026, bucking the trend of declines across auto, mortgage and telecommunications applications, according to Equifax Canada’s latest Market Pulse Fraud Trends and Insights. The overall credit card application fraud rate, defined as the proportion of fraudulent c

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Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) today released its second quarter 2026 Market Pulse Index, a measure of U.S. consumer financial health derived from anonymized credit, debt, income, and asset data along with VantageScore credit score insights. The Market Pulse Index rose slightly from 60.9 to 61.3, showing marginal improvement from the previous quarter, though the national average still sits just below where it stood a year ago.