A new trading day began on Friday, with Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE: VZ) stock price up 4.14% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $44.23. VZ’s price has ranged from $37.58 to $45.36 over the past 52 weeks.
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Communication Services Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 0.47% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 1.88%. With a float of $4.21 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $4.21 billion.
The firm has a total of 99600 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 59.87%, operating margin of 21.28%, and the pretax margin is 17.05%.
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Telecom Services Industry. The insider ownership of Verizon Communications Inc is 0.04%, while institutional ownership is 65.42%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 25 ’25, was worth 437,939. In this transaction EVP-PubPol&ChiefLegalOfficer of this company sold 10,000 shares at a rate of $43.79, taking the stock ownership to the 14,459 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 25 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 10,000 for $43.79, making the entire transaction worth $437,938.
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.19 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.88% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 3.65% during the next five years compared to -2.29% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE: VZ) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Verizon Communications Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.55. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.44. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 9.78.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.15, a number that is poised to hit 1.15 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.86 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Verizon Communications Inc (VZ)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Verizon Communications Inc, VZ], we can find that recorded value of 28.17 million was better than the volume posted last year of 23.67 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 71.14%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.95.
During the past 100 days, Verizon Communications Inc’s (VZ) raw stochastic average was set at 98.37%, which indicates a significant increase from 97.50% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 24.65% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.56% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $40.62, while its 200-day Moving Average is $41.47. Now, the first resistance to watch is $46.74. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $47.42. The third major resistance level sits at $48.64. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $44.84, it is likely to go to the next support level at $43.62. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $42.94.
Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE: VZ) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 193.90 billion, the company has a total of 4,209,704K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 134,788 M while annual income is 17,506 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 35,681 M while its latest quarter income was 5,005 M.
