According to the Q1 earnings report, 70% of Verizon’s revenue came from wireless business.
Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE: VZ) stock tweaked a bit during Wednesday’s pre-market but traded around yesterday’s close, $58.39. At the time of writing, at the trading session, VZ is 0.41% down, at $58.15. Although not a significant tweak, the spike in volatility coincided with the quarterly earnings results. Verizon reported its Q1 earnings per share at $1.31, up 3.97% over the past year.
Notably, the company recorded a revenue of $32.867 billion, 3.98% higher than last year’s. As a result, Verizon’s Q1 revenue beat analysts’ estimates of $32.46 billion.
According to the Q1 earnings report, 70% of Verizon’s revenue came from wireless business. The company reported that it is a wireless service provider to approximately 91 million postpaid and 4 million prepaid phone Americans. Thereby making it the largest United States wireless carrier, whereby it also connects over 25 million data devices.
Verizon Stock and Its Performance in Q1
Although Verizon is a major technology-oriented company, its stock market had not benefited significantly from the covid crisis. According to market data provided by MarketWatch, VZ stocks added approximately 0.69% last year. Notably, they are down around 0.61% since the beginning of the year.
The company has a reported market valuation of approximately $241.73 billion with around 4.14 billion outstanding shares. In the past 52 weeks, Verizon stock traded between $52.85 and $61.95. Having been rated 28 times, Verizon stocks received an average rating of Over.
In a bid to diversify its revenue collection avenues, Verizon has been expanding its wireless network to different places amid various acquisitions. The firm has agreed to acquire Tracfone, a wireless reseller that serves about 20 million prepaid customers in the US.
Notably, the firm has been losing postpaid wireless customers, whereby it recorded a loss of 178,000 postpaid wireless phone subscribers vs. analyst estimates for a 198,000 loss in the first quarter.
The business unit recorded a revenue of $7.8 billion, up 1.3% on a yearly basis. On the other hand, Verizon Media revenues came in at $1.9 billion, up approximately 10.4%.
From a technical point of view, Verizon stocks have been trapped in a horizontal consolidation for the past two and a half years. Furthermore, they have not fully recovered from last year’s stock market crash. Short-term stock traders are waiting for the next breakout to enter into the VZ market, whilst long-term traders hold as the general direction is an upward trend.
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