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Petra Vacval, CFA
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Verizon Back to Adding Postpaid Phone Subscribers; Maintaining Our $48 FVE

Verizon reported second-quarter results that were reasonably in line with our expectations, and we are maintaining our $48 fair value estimate and narrow moat rating. After the stock’s 6% jump on solid earnings, we believe the shares are fairly valued. Reported revenue was roughly flat year over year. On an organic basis, excluding the impact from the XO Communications and Yahoo acquisitions and the data center divestiture to Equinix, revenue fell 2% year over year, primarily due to the steep de...
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Verizon Communications Inc.

Verizon Communications is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides communications, information and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses and governmental agencies. The company has two reportable segments, Verizon Consumer Group (Consumer) and Verizon Business Group (Business). The company's Consumer segment provides consumer-focused wireless and wireline communications services and products under the Verizon brand and through wholesale and other arrangements. The company's Business segment provides, among others, wireless and wireline communications services and products, video and data services, corporate networking solutions, security and managed network services.

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Morningstar
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Petra Vacval, CFA

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