Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ): Price and Financial Metrics

VZ POWR Grades

• VZ scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 80.8% of US stocks.
• VZ's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• VZ's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 34.06% of US stocks).

VZ Stock Summary

• VZ has a market capitalization of $215,138,462,678 -- more than approximately 99.03% of US stocks.
• Verizon Communications Inc's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, VZ is more volatile than only 1.82% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to VZ, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are CMCSA, UPS, PEP, UNP, and T.
• Visit VZ's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.verizon.com.

VZ Valuation Summary

• VZ's price/earnings ratio is 11.5; this is 24.34% lower than that of the median Communication Services stock.
• VZ's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.4 over the prior 243 months.
• VZ's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.4 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VZ.

VZ Growth Metrics

Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -60.28%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 2.72%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -1.37%.

Over the past 15 months, VZ's revenue has gone up $5,238,000,000.

The table below shows VZ's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	133,613	39,539	22,065
2021-09-30	134,238	40,458	22,040
2021-06-30	132,866	38,654	19,990
2021-03-31	129,549	42,638	18,890
2020-12-31	128,292	41,768	17,801
2020-09-30	128,375	41,470	18,308

VZ's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• VZ has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 64.13% of graded US stocks.
• VZ's asset turnover comes in at 0.393 -- ranking 35th of 64 Communication stocks.
• CXDO, TDS, and USM are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with VZ.

The table below shows VZ's key quality metrics over time.