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

VZ POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where VZ ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.62% of US stocks.
• VZ's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving down over the last 178 days.
• VZ ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 32nd percentile.

VZ Stock Summary

• VZ has a market capitalization of $154,513,693,252 -- more than approximately 98.88% of US stocks.
• VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 93.42% of US equities in our set.
• VZ's current price/earnings ratio is 7.27, which is higher than only 21% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC, a group of peers worth examining would be UPS, WFC, CMCSA, DIS, and UNP.
• VZ's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC's official web site, go to www.verizon.com.

VZ Valuation Summary

• VZ's price/sales ratio is 1.2; this is 7.69% lower than that of the median Communication Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, VZ's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 16.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VZ.

VZ Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 120.82%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -14.35%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 23.87%.

Over the past 34 months, VZ's revenue has gone up $5,485,000,000.

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
2022-12-31	136,835	37,141	21,256
2022-09-30	135,651	36,576	19,292
2022-06-30	134,325	36,766	20,799
2022-03-31	134,300	36,666	21,400
2021-12-31	133,613	39,539	22,065
2021-09-30	134,238	40,458	22,040

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.