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Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)

NYSE / Communication Services / Telecommunications Services

Share price

44.40 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

184.50B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 17, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
11, FY2015 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

8.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

10.94x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Dividend yield

6.3% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 125.98B USDFY2016 Net income: 13.13B USDFY2017 Revenue: 126.03B USDFY2017 Net income: 30.10B USDFY2018 Revenue: 130.86B USDFY2018 Net income: 15.53B USDFY2019 Revenue: 131.87B USDFY2019 Net income: 19.27B USDFY2020 Revenue: 128.29B USDFY2020 Net income: 17.80B USDFY2021 Revenue: 133.61B USDFY2021 Net income: 22.07B USDFY2022 Revenue: 136.84B USDFY2022 Net income: 21.26B USDFY2023 Revenue: 133.97B USDFY2023 Net income: 11.61B USDFY2024 Revenue: 134.79B USDFY2024 Net income: 17.51B USDFY2025 Revenue: 138.19B USDFY2025 Net income: 17.17B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 10.94x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 10.00x and 15.00x.

Today, against the Telecommunications Services industry (31 companies), 10.94x sits at the 40th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 8.97x to 23.29x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 8.4% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (85 companies), 8.4% sits at the 72nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -2.0% to 8.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 4.37x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Verizon Communications Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Communication Services sector, year by year. (FY2018 to FY2025, 8 fiscal years of Verizon Communications Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Verizon Communications Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Verizon Communications Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Verizon Communications Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines Verizon Communications Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Verizon Communications Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Verizon Communications Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Verizon Communications Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (11 of sixteen figures read for Verizon Communications Inc.)

These are VZ’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, accession 0000732712-26-000007.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Verizon Communications Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax8.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Return on equity16.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Return on capital employed, pre-tax8.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Return on assets4.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Operating margin21.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Net margin12.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
VZ 12.4%
TMUS 12.4%CMCSA 16.2%T 17.5%CHT 16.2%AMX 2.6%
2.6%17.5%
Net margin: VZ against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Verizon Communications Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity1.76 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Current ratio0.91 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Quick ratio0.87 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Interest coverage4.37x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Altman Z-score1.27 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Net debt165.11B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Total assets 404.26BTotal liabilities 298.52BShareholders' equity 104.46BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Verizon Communications Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007).

Verizon Communications Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets404.26B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Total liabilities298.52B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Shareholders' equity104.46B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Cash19.05B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Total debt184.15B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Net debt165.11B
Current ratio0.91
Debt to equity1.76

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Verizon Communications Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings10.94x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
P/E on trailing twelve months11.11x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.80x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Price to sales1.36x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Enterprise value to EBIT12.06x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Enterprise value to EBITDA7.41x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Diluted earnings per share4.06 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Graham number47.49 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value VZ on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Verizon Communications Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Verizon Communications Inc: valuation
Share price44.40 USD
Market capitalisation184.50B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA7.41x
Graham number47.49 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20254.06 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 3, 2017: low 6.08x, median 11.34x, high 19.21x, latest 11.11x. 2,310 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Verizon Communications Inc

  1. T-Mobile US, Inc. (TMUS)Market cap 168.40B USD
  2. Comcast Corporation (CMCSA)Market cap 77.05B USD
  3. AT&T Inc. (T)Market cap 161.00B USD
  4. Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (CHT)Market cap 36.97B USD
  5. América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (AMX)Market cap 66.99B USD

Same industry (Telecommunications Services) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Verizon Communications Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Free cash flow
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no free cash flow we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Free cash flow margin
Why n/a

No free cash flow, and no operating cash flow and capital expenditure pair, is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Dividend yield6.3% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Payout ratio66.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
FY2016 Free cash flow: 4.63B USDFY2016 Net income: 13.13B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 7.07B USDFY2017 Net income: 30.10B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 17.68B USDFY2018 Net income: 15.53B USDFY2019 Net income: 19.27B USDFY2020 Net income: 17.80B USDFY2021 Net income: 22.07B USDFY2022 Net income: 21.26B USDFY2023 Net income: 11.61B USDFY2024 Net income: 17.51B USDFY2025 Net income: 17.17B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Verizon Communications Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
10.94xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.80xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
12.06xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports neither free cash flow nor the operating cash flow and capital spending it is built from.
8.4%FY2025Feb 17, 2026
6.3%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.76FY2025Feb 17, 2026
0.91FY2025Feb 17, 2026
1.36xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
1.27FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.64FY2025Feb 17, 2026
4/9FY2025Feb 17, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 11 filed fiscal years on record, FY2015 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Verizon Communications Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Verizon Communications Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2025138.19B29.26B17.17B4.06n/a21.2%16.4%10-K, Feb 17, 20260000732712-26-000007
FY2024134.79B28.69B17.51B4.14n/a21.3%17.6%10-K, Feb 12, 20250000732712-25-000006
FY2023133.97B22.88B11.61B2.75n/a17.1%12.6%10-K, Feb 9, 20240000732712-24-000010
FY2022136.84B30.47B21.26B5.06n/a22.3%23.3%10-K, Feb 10, 20230000732712-23-000012
FY2021133.61B32.45B22.07B5.32n/a24.3%27.0%10-K, Feb 11, 20220000732712-22-000008
FY2020128.29B28.80B17.80B4.30n/a22.4%26.2%10-K, Feb 25, 20210000732712-21-000012
FY2019131.87B30.38B19.27B4.65n/a23.0%31.4%10-K, Feb 21, 20200000732712-20-000014
FY2018130.86B22.28B15.53B3.7617.68B17.0%29.2%10-K, Feb 15, 20190000732712-19-000012
FY2017126.03B27.43B30.10B7.367.07B21.8%69.8%10-K, Feb 23, 20180000732712-18-000009
FY2016125.98B29.25B13.13B3.214.63B23.2%58.3%10-K, Feb 21, 20170001193125-17-050292
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 1.0%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 3.0%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 2.6%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2018: 95.4%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Verizon Communications Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.64 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000732712-26-000007
Named tests met4 of 30 Computed
Beta0.09 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 4 met, 25 not met, 1 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Owner earnings yield; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Cash-covered dividend. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(5)
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • Free Cash Flow Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Capex To Ocf: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 5 figures could not be read on this company, among them PEG Ratio, Gross Margin, Free Cash Flow Yield. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 1 named test comes back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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