VERISIGN INC/CA
At today's price, VERISIGN INC/CA (VRSN) is priced for +15.5% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- VeriSign operates the .com and .net domain registries, a government-sanctioned monopoly over a core piece of internet infrastructure. The economics are extraordinary: a 67.9% operating margin, and a record domain base of 176.1 million names in Q1 2026, up 3.7% year over year. - The model has two levers, both favorable right now. Domain growth accelerated enough that management raised full-year base-growth guidance to 3.1% to 4.3%, and the company gave notice of a $0.71 increase in the wholesa
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818 institutional managers reported holding VRSN in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 80% of the company; the top 10 hold 42%. 104 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Berkshire Hathaway, State Street, among others. On the short side, 2.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (3.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
VRSN has cut its share count 18.5% over the past five years, spending $4.64B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 1 year running; the current rate is $2.31 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $289.40M in dividends and $2.78B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at VRSN over the trailing three years: 2024: 38 buys totaling $89.86M; 2025: 6 buys totaling $3.80M; 2026: 3 buys totaling $10k. 14 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
VRSN's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -1.2% | -2.8% |
| 2023-10-27 | -6.7% | +6.9% |
| 2024-02-16 | -0.6% | -5.2% |
| 2024-04-26 | -5.4% | +1.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
VRSN's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-26 (items 1.01, 9.01); 2026-06-26 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-21 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-23 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-05 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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