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FICO Stock Crashes 27% After Trump’s Housing Chief Roils Credit Reporting Industry
- FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will collapse their dual pricing matrices into a single, unified grid, putting VantageScore 4.0 on equal footing with Classic FICO.
- Fair Isaac's mortgage origination revenue rose 97% in the fiscal third quarter while score volumes grew at a low single digit rate, signaling the pricing lever is breaking.
- Buybacks left Fair Isaac with a $4.1 billion stockholders' deficit and $5.6 billion in total debt against just $305 million in cash; the stock is down 62.4% year to date.
- TransUnion extended its 99-cent VantageScore 4.0 pricing through December 2028, as the unified grid structurally favors the company, which co-owns VantageScore.
- Software revenue grew just 2% and management said AI is "not yet" driving platform retention, while lenders shift toward trended financial behavior that VantageScore 4.0 rewards.
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