VZ
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INCEvidence as of 2026-09-11The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC
Verizon Communications Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides communications, technology, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities worldwide. It operates in two segments, Verizon Consumer Group (Consumer) and Verizon Business Group (Business). The Consumer segment provides wireless services across the wireless networks in the United States under the Ve…
Management team
- Ms. Samantha Hammock · Executive VP & Chief Human Resources OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Mary-Lee Stillwell · Senior VP of Accounting & External Reporting and ControllerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Sowmyanarayan Sampath · Executive VP & CEO of Verizon Consumer GroupFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Kyle Malady · Executive VP & CEO of Verizon Business GroupFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it, not a rating or a recommendation.
−0.4 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled. The rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Cautious ( -0.4 of a possible +2; was -0.4 before debate) · confidence high. Revenues have been roughly stable across the reported quarters, about $33,485,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-03-31), $34,504,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-06-30), $33,821,000,000 in fiscal Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-09-30), $34,440,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-03-31) and $34,253,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-06-30).
Operating income shows compression in the most recent quarters, falling to $7,179,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 from $8,172,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2025 and $8,105,000,000 in fiscal Q3 2025, and net income declined to $3,835,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 after $5,045,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026. Diluted EPS fell to 0.92 in fiscal Q2 2026 from 1.20 in fiscal Q1 2026 and about the 1.15–1.18 range in fiscal Q1–Q3 2025. Cash and cash equivalents show large intra‑year movements, down to $1,752,000,000 as of 2026-06-30 from $19,048,000,000 as of 2025-12-31.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else (no outside knowledge, no browsing), so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC (revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter) and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenues were roughly stable over the reported quarters: 33,485,000,000 for the fiscal Q1 2025 (2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31, 3mo), 34,504,000,000 for the fiscal Q2 2025 (2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30, 3mo), 33,821,000,000 for the fiscal Q3 2025 (2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 3mo), 34,440,000,000 for the fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo), and 34,253,000,000 for the fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000732712-25-000024Operating income shows compression in the most recent quarter: 7,978,000,000 for the fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) versus 8,172,000,000 for the fiscal Q2 2025 (2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30, 3mo) and 8,105,000,000 for the fiscal Q3 2025 (2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 3mo); operating income in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo) was 7,179,000,000.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000732712-26-000023Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full: its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet; its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
The 10-K filed 17 February 2026 states that in January 2026 the company announced it believed its strategic plans would provide capacity to return approximately $55 billion to shareholders through the end of 2028, and that the Board authorized a share repurchase program of up to $25 billion and said it expected to repurchase at least $3 billion of common stock during 2026.
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0000732712-26-000007 vs 0000732712-25-000006The 10-K filed 17 February 2026 adds or materially rewords risks describing expanded use of AI across operations and notes "technological, regulatory, ethical and other risks" in deploying AI, particularly generative models, which could expose the company to liability or harm its reputation.
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0000732712-26-000007 vs 0000732712-25-000006Reads the signal panel above (momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta) and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
As of 2026-09-10, Verizon's trailing twelve-month dividend yield is +5.59% and ranks at the 95th percentile of the 554-stock research universe.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-10Price is above both short- and long-term moving averages on 2026-09-10: price vs 50-day SMA is +6.9% and price vs 200-day SMA is +10.1%, and a golden cross is present.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-10Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
13F-reported institutional holdings totaled $139.38B as of the quarter ended 2026-03-31, with BlackRock, Inc. reporting $18.47B and VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC reported at $13.06B.
13F holdings · 3249 filers · as of 2026-03-31As of the early-September 2026 snapshots, VZ appears in major ETFs including SCHD at 4.09% of that fund, VYM at 1.0%, and VTV at 0.7% (timestamps around 2026-09-02 and one IVV entry at 2026-09-10).
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Multiple outlets report a multi-year Verizon fiber agreement tied to AI and broadband expansion, including coverage noting the deal runs through 2027–2032 and involves large volumes of optical fiber.
News · marketbeat.com · 2026-09-10Coverage links Verizon's fiber deal to broader market moves and to Verizon trading near multi-year highs amid dividend-rotation commentary.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-09-10Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Malady Kyle sold 1,100 shares on 2026-08-18 for "$54k" under a stated 10b5-1 plan.
Form 4 · Malady Kyle (EVP and Group CEO-VZ Business) · $54k sold · 2026-08-18Malady Kyle sold 1,100 shares on 2026-08-25 for "$55k" under a stated 10b5-1 plan.
Form 4 · Malady Kyle (EVP and Group CEO-VZ Business) · $55k sold · 2026-08-25Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
As of price date 2026-09-10 the share price used is $49.97.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeThe model reports an implied free cash flow (FCF) growth rate that today's price would justify of -0.0085 (about -0.85%).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score. The argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The evidence shows several company- and market-level data points that together support a favorable read: revenues have been roughly stable quarter-to-quarter while trailing twelve-month free cash flow is sizable ($15.9B) and valuation multiples (P/FCF ~13.1, EV/EBITDA ~5.9) look compression-friendly relative to many peers. Share-count reduction is documented, and a board-authorized repurchase program (part of a stated plan to return ~ $55B through 2028) plus high institutional ownership and ETF inclusion indicate structural shareholder-return and demand dynamics. Market signals — a high dividend yield (95th percentile) and price above both the 50- and 200-day SMAs with a golden cross — reinforce a constructive technical backdrop, and multiple news items point to fiber/AI contract exposure that can drive strategic revenue avenues. These points address concerns about recent operating-income and EPS softness by highlighting persistent cash generation, active capital return programs, and valuation / ownership attributes that mitigate an exclusively negative interpretation of the recent profitability dips.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
diversified0.28
36 surviving claims rest on 20 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 17% of them, and 97% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving read is moderately robust: claims draw on a diverse set of filings, market signals and news items so the synthesis is not hinging on a single document, but there is some concentration in analyst contribution and a noticeable portion of the desk's points persisted through internal challenge. That persistence raises confidence in the internal vetting process, while the analyst/source concentration and a high survival rate imply the read can carry weight for general informational purposes but remains sensitive to correlated source errors or a single influential analyst viewpoint.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 2nd of 6 in Telecom Services (as of 2026-09-10).
6-month relative strength ranks 2nd of 6 in Telecom Services (as of 2026-09-10).
90-day volatility ranks 6th of 6 in Telecom Services (as of 2026-09-10).
dividend yield ranks 3rd of 6 in Telecom Services (as of 2026-09-10).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment. When the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here (no outside knowledge, no browsing), and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.
15 filings· 3 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data, not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer−0.3 to the score
12 documents· 1 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes−0.8 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.2 to the score
3 holdings records· 2 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.7 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
4 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state, with stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.3 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only; it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal; the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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