Verizon Communications
$45.94Change from previous close: +0.16%Absolute change: +$0.08
Valuation
Data as of October 1, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $191B
- Enterprise value
- $383.71B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 12.0
- Forward P/E
- 8.68
- PEG
- 0.82
- Price/book
- 1.84
- Price/sales
- 1.38
- EV/EBITDA
- 7.51
- EV/revenue
- 2.76
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 59.5%
- Operating margin
- 23.0%
- Net margin
- 11.6%
- ROE
- 15.8%
- ROA
- 5.0%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- -0.7%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- -22.0%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $1.8B
- Total debt
- $193.65B
- Debt/equity
- 1.84
- Current ratio
- 0.60
- Quick ratio
- 0.46
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $2.83
- Dividend yield
- 6.2%
- Payout ratio
- 72.8%
- Ex-dividend date
- October 9, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $51.56
- Median price target
- $51.00
- High price target
- $71.00
- Low price target
- $44.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 23
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $5.30
- EPS estimate, current year
- $5.02
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.24
- Average volume
- 23.37M
- Shares outstanding
- 4.15B
- Float
- 4.15B
- Institutional ownership
- 71.2%
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 2.0%
- Short ratio (days)
- 4.77