In today’s recent session, 1.75 million shares of the Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) have been traded, and its beta is 0.41. Most recently the company’s share price was $40.28, and it changed around -$0.21 or -0.53% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $169.54B. VZ at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $45.36, offering almost -12.61% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $37.58, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 6.7% since then. We note from Verizon Communications Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 22.44 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 20.37 million.
Verizon Communications Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.33. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 25 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 6 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 13 recommended VZ as a Hold, whereas 6 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Verizon Communications Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 1.15 for the current quarter.
Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) trade information
Instantly VZ has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.53% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 40.55 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.67%. The company’s shares are currently up 0.71% year-to-date, but still up 0.36% over the last five days. On the other hand, Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) is 5.65% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 57.2 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.22 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $47, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 14.3% from its current value. Analyst projections state that VZ is forecast to be at a low of $44 and a high of $52.
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) estimates and forecasts
Verizon Communications Inc share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -0.63 percent over the past six months and at a 1.74% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of -4.60%. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 1.61%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 15 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 33.47B in revenue for the current quarter. 14 analysts expect Verizon Communications Inc to make 33.46B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 32.98B and 32.8B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 1.48%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 2.04%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -2.31%. Verizon Communications Inc earnings are expected to increase by 1.88% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 3.64% per year for the next five years.
VZ Dividends
Verizon Communications Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in March. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 6.67 percent and its annual dividend per share was 2.69. It is important to note, however, that the 6.67% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 5.6 per year.
Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.04% of Verizon Communications Inc shares, and 65.65% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 65.68%. Verizon Communications Inc stock is held by 3549.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 8.3995% of the shares, which is about 354.04 million shares worth $14.6 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 8.2769% or 348.87 million shares worth $14.39 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Sep 30, 2024. The former held 120.07 shares worth $4.84 billion, making up 2.85% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 110.25 shares worth around $4.45 billion, which represents about 2.62% of the total shares outstanding.
