The trading price of Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) floating higher at last check on current market day and closing at $39.99, 0.10% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $39.8244 and $40.055. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 9.66, while its 5Y monthly beta was 0.418. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $45.36 and a 52-week low of $37.58. Over the past month, the stock has gained 5.77% in value.
Verizon Communications Inc, whose market valuation is $168.34 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in March. The dividend yield on the company stock is 6.71%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 2.69. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest VZ has a 50% Sell on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 50% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned VZ a recommendation rating is 18. Out of them, 6 rate it a Hold, while 12 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 2.65, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that VZ’s price is currently 1.22% off the SMA20 and -1.01% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 52.18, and weekly volatility stands at 1.14%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 1.63%. Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.41, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.65. With analysts defining $44-$52 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $47 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -10.03% off the estimated low and -30.03% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if VZ’s share price rises to $47, which is the median consensus price. At that level, VZ’s share price would be -17.53% below current price.
To see how Verizon Communications Inc stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: VZ stock’s performance was 0.10% at last check in today’s session, and 0.20% in the past year. Verizon Communications Inc has a P/E ratio of 9.66.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) indicates that the 3-month average is 20.41 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 23.02.
Currently, records show that 4.21 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.69% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 65.50%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-12-31, stood at 57.2 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.22 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 136.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in December were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 64.41 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 0.00% year-to-date.
