VZ
Verizon Communications Inc Communication Services Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone) S&P 500Russell 3000
$44.73Close
$192.0BMarket cap
$37.10 – $50.6652-week range
Jan 25, 2027Next report · estimated
Highlights
Strengths
- Tight base near its pivot pullbacks 12% → 11%; 2.5% below its $45.87 pivot
Cautions
- Not in an uptrend 4 of 8 trend conditions
- Lagging the market RS 45 · weaker than 55% of stocks over 12 months
Price
Filing Results Screen pick 52-week high and low Adjusted prices
Key figures
Off 12-month high
12%
1wk
up 0.2%
price change
1mo
down 1.0%
price change
12-month return
up 21%
market up 11% ·
its own up 6%
F-score
—
— Not assessed
Altman Z″
1.53
Moderate risk
P/E
10.9×
price / earnings
PEG
—
P/E / EPS growth
P/B
1.8×
price / book
Earnings yield
up 8.8%
EBIT / enterprise value
Cheaper than
87%
of the market · markedly cheap
Revenue growth
up 3%
year on year
EPS growth
up 7%
latest quarter · +29 pts
Sales growth
up 1%
latest quarter · +2 pts
ROE
up 17%
return on equity
Free cash margin
up 27%
$37.1B FCF
D/E
1.49
long-term debt / equity
Net debt / EBITDA
2.9×
Interest cover
—EBIT / interest
Trade setup
ATR%
2.9%
$1.30 a day · 2×ATR $42.13
RS
45 / 99
vs the universe
Trend
4 / 8
trend template
Relative volume
1.1×
vs 50-day average
Up/down volume
0.80
50 sessions
Implied move
—
no scheduled report
Contractions
2
12% → 11%
Pivot
$45.87
2.5% below
Volume dry-up
1.2×
10 vs 50 sessions
Trend template · 4 of 8
- Price above the 150 and 200-day averages: fails
- 150-day average above the 200-day: passes
- 200-day average rising for a month: passes
- 50-day average above the 150 and 200-day: passes
- Price above the 50-day average: fails
- At least 30% above the 52-week low: fails
- Within 25% of the 52-week high: passes
- RS rank 70 or higher: fails
Screen verdict
Did not qualify for any screen.
Warning signs
- No restatement or impairment
- Equity positive
- Interest covered
- No material dilution
- Profits tracking cash
- Margins and revenue not shrinking
Last reported
Oct 26, 2026
Results reaction
Oct 26, 2026-3% vs market2 sessions after results
Options
$5.5M24.7% IV · activity
Financials
- Net 13%
- Free cash 27%
- Cash
- Long-term debt
| FY2020Dec 31, 2020 | FY2021Dec 31, 2021 | FY2022Dec 31, 2022 | FY2023Dec 31, 2023 | FY2024Dec 31, 2024 | FY2025Dec 31, 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $128.3B | $133.6B | $136.8B | $134.0B | $134.8B | $138.2B |
| Operating income | $28.8B | $32.4B | $30.5B | $22.9B | $28.7B | $29.3B |
| Net income | $17.8B | $22.6B | $21.7B | $12.1B | $17.9B | $17.6B |
| Net margin | 14% | 17% | 16% | 9% | 13% | 13% |
| Earnings per share | $4.30 | $5.45 | $5.17 | $2.87 | $4.25 | $4.16 |
| Free cash flow | $41.8B | $39.5B | $37.1B | $37.5B | $36.9B | $37.1B |
| Free cash margin | 33% | 30% | 27% | 28% | 27% | 27% |
| Cash | $22.2B | $2.9B | $2.6B | $2.1B | $4.2B | $19.0B |
| Long-term debt | $128.7B | $150.9B | $150.5B | $150.7B | $143.9B | $157.7B |
| Shareholders' equity | $69.3B | $83.2B | $92.5B | $93.8B | $100.6B | $105.7B |
| Shares outstanding | 4.29bn | 4.29bn | 4.29bn | 4.29bn | 4.29bn | 4.29bn |
What options price now
- Expected 1-month range The at-the-money straddle for the expiry nearest a month out, as a share of the price: the move, either way, the option market is pricing by then. The range is the price plus and minus that move; the stock ends inside it a little more often than not. Methodology
- $42 – $47 ±5.4% by Nov 27, 2026
- Swings expected vs recent The daily swings the options are priced for (implied volatility) against the swings the stock actually had over the last 20 sessions (realised volatility). Bigger means options charge for more movement than the stock has been delivering; smaller, less. On a contract row, that contract's own implied volatility over the stock's realised. Methodology
- Smaller 24.7% priced · 44.6% recent
- Next month vs later At-the-money implied volatility for 8-45 day expiries over 46-90 day ones: whether options price the coming month as choppier or calmer than the two after it. Ahead of a report it usually reads choppier, and the extra comes out once the report is out. Methodology
- About the same
- Crash protection What options that pay off in a fall cost against options that pay off in a rise (the 25-delta skew), compared with this company's own normal - the median of its stored nightly readings, once there are 20 - and with five sessions ago. Protection costs a little more than upside on most shares. More than usual means readers of the chain are paying up to insure against a drop; it does not say which way the stock will go. Methodology
- past week: no change
Positioning
- Premium traded
- $5.5M calls $4.0M · puts $1.6M · latest session
- 0.40× -0.02 over the week
- Open interest added The change over five sessions in option positions left open overnight, calls and puts. A rise means positions were added. It cannot say whether they were bought or sold, so more calls is not a vote for a rise: a call is as often sold against shares already held. Methodology
- calls -35.22k · puts -37.23k past week
For options traders: ATM IV 24.7% (-3.5% 1w) · 1m ÷ 3m IV 1.02 · 25Δ skew 2.5 pts · Net GEX $19.3M
Most traded contracts 1
| Contract | Next day: opened, closed or mixed A large option trade on its own is ambiguous: it may have opened a position, closed one, or been one leg of a spread. Open interest is published overnight, so the next morning settles it. Opened: open interest rose by a good share of the volume traded, so positions were added. Closed: it fell, so positions were taken off. Mixed: it barely moved, as when one side opens while the other closes. A dash: the next morning's count is not in yet. None of the three says whether the contracts were bought or sold. Methodology | Volume against open interest The day's contracts traded, divided by the positions already standing. Above 1 the day's trading exceeded every position in existence, which cannot happen without something new — though only tomorrow's open interest proves it opened rather than closed. Methodology | Bid-ask spread The gap between the bid and the ask as a share of the midpoint: what a round trip costs before the position has moved at all. Methodology | Priced vs rest of chain The contract's implied volatility less the at-the-money reading for the same company, in points: how this strike is priced against the rest of the chain. Methodology | Move to break even How far the stock must move by expiry for a buyer at the midpoint to get the premium back: strike plus premium for a call, strike less premium for a put. Methodology | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2027 · $46 call +3% from price | — | 0.52 | 3.3% | -0.4% | +6.0% | $223,412 |
Liquid contracts, 3 weeks to 4 months out, soonest expiry first.
Filings
| Filed | Report | Period to | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Sep 30, 2026 | 29d |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Jun 30, 2026 | 31d |
| May 1, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Mar 31, 2026 | 31d |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Annual ↗ | Dec 31, 2025 | 48d |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Sep 30, 2025 | 29d |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Jun 30, 2025 | 25d |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Mar 31, 2025 | 25d |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Annual ↗ | Dec 31, 2024 | 43d |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Sep 30, 2024 | 25d |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Jun 30, 2024 | 25d |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Mar 31, 2024 | 25d |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Annual ↗ | Dec 31, 2023 | 40d |
Current reports
| Filed | Disclosed |
|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Director or officer change ↗ |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Director or officer change ↗ |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Regulation FD ↗ |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Other events ↗ |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Other events ↗ |
| May 28, 2026 | Director or officer change · Shareholder vote ↗ |
| May 14, 2026 | Other events ↗ |
| May 11, 2026 | Other events ↗ |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Regulation FD ↗ |