VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC (VZ) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
• Verizon is a cash machine priced like a melting one: it earns about 21% operating margins on roughly $139 billion of revenue and generates around $37 billion of operating free cash flow, yet trades at about nine times operating income. • The defining risk is competition, which the 10-K expects ⟦"to remain intense as traditional and non-traditional participants"⟧ chase the same wireless and broadband customers, pressuring pricing and net additions. • What to watch is subscriber momentum: Verizo
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3,181 institutional managers reported holding VZ in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 65% of the company; the top 10 hold 35%. 278 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 89.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (3.9 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.
VZ's share count grew 1.5% over the past five years even with $2.50B spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 11 years straight; the current rate is $2.73 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $31.18B in dividends and $2.50B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at VZ over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 8 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.
VZ's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-29 | +1.1% | -4.8% |
| 2023-10-27 | +7.3% | +12.7% |
| 2024-02-10 | -0.8% | 0.0% |
| 2024-04-26 | -1.9% | +3.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
VZ's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-29 (items 7.01); 2026-06-17 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-02 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-28 (items 5.02, 5.07); 2026-05-14 (items 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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