⚡ This company reported new earnings on 2026-10-26 (8-K release). The official 10-Q is pending — financials below may still reflect the prior quarter.

VZ VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 92343V104 · Sector: Media & Telecom

Funds left

Funds are exiting, but the price is holding

Funds that own it

3,144

Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC

Net decrease in holders

110

Last quarter 3,254 → now 3,144

How unusual is that

Bottom 20%

Among the weakest buying in the market

What the filings say, in one paragraph

3,144 funds held VZ at the end of 2026Q2, down 110 from the quarter before. Buying has faded, though the price is holding up. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $138.9B(YoY +1.4%), the P/E is 11.2x, return on equity is 15.4%. VZ has had 26 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +0.5% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Media & Telecom sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

What happened after each past buying rush 26 times in its history

Quarter of the rush	How unusual then	Price, next 3 months	Price, next 6 months
2026Q1	Top 1% in the market	-10.0%	+10.0%
2025Q4	Top 10%	-0.0%	-0.2%
2024Q4	Top 5%	+9.1%	+9.0%
2024Q3	Top 20%	-6.2%	+3.0%
2024Q2	Top 20%	+10.9%	+2.2%
2024Q1	Top 10%	+3.0%	+3.4%
2023Q4	Top 1% in the market	+4.8%	+0.5%
2022Q4	Top 5%	-0.5%	-7.8%
2021Q4	Top 1% in the market	-1.8%	-7.3%
2020Q4	Top 1% in the market	+3.7%	+1.0%
2020Q2	Top 5%	+1.1%	+5.0%
2019Q4	Top 1% in the market	-9.6%	-5.5%
2019Q3	Top 10%	+1.4%	-1.3%
2019Q1	Top 10%	+0.1%	-1.5%
2018Q4	Top 1% in the market	+6.1%	+6.4%
2018Q3	Top 5%	-6.4%	-5.8%
2018Q2	Top 20%	-0.8%	+9.8%
2017Q4	Top 1% in the market	-4.4%	-3.6%
2016Q4	Top 5%	+1.5%	-5.9%
2016Q2	Top 20%	-2.2%	-9.9%
2016Q1	Top 5%	+11.6%	+6.6%
2015Q4	Top 5%	+6.8%	-0.0%
2015Q2	Top 10%	-8.4%	-5.7%
2014Q4	Top 1% in the market	+0.7%	+2.7%
2014Q1	Top 1% in the market	+1.1%	+0.3%
2013Q4	Top 5%	+2.8%	+6.7%

Show all 26 events

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾

Of them, large funds

387

Change in large funds

+38

Total value they hold

$122.8B

Funds buying for the first time

175

Funds that sold out entirely

285

Price change that quarter

+4.5%

Funds holding puts (bearish)

Funds holding calls (bullish)

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)

11.2

EPS (TTM)

$3.85

EPS YoY

-10.3%

Revenue (TTM)

$138.9B

Revenue YoY

+1.4%

Net margin

11.6%

ROE

15.4%

Debt ratio

74.4%

FCF (TTM)

—

Dividend (TTM)

$2.79

Quarterly Revenue & EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow

Latest quarter $6.5B (2019-09-30)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

What happened after each past buying rush 26 times in its history

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