Verizon Communications (VZ)

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Verizon Communications' filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Verizon Communications' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $126 billion in fiscal 2016 to $138 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Verizon Communications' diluted share count grew about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 30% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 19 sales (14 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Verizon Communications earned about 16 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 74 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Verizon Communications' standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $138 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 12.4% ranks in the top 34%; revenue growth of 0.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 24% (its annual reports).

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Verizon Communications' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Schulman, Daniel H (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-10-21, 1.1 years (bottom 25% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.4 years (bottom 32%); 17 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (bottom 29%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Verizon Communications' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $19 billion against debt of $140 billion leaves -29.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 33% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 26.9% of revenue (top 13%) (its annual report).

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Verizon Communications' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.3% a year over the last three filed years against 1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 45% of its family); the newest year grew 2.5% (bottom 39%); capital spending grew -2.1% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Verizon Communications reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Service and Other at $113 billion (82%), Product at $25 billion (18%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Verizon Communications' newest year against its own record: revenue of $138 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.3% above the $134 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 26% of its family); net income of $17 billion against a prior three-year average of $17 billion (bottom 38%); a net margin of 12.4% against 12.4% before (bottom 26%) (its annual reports).