For the quarter ended March 2025, Verizon Communications (VZ) reported revenue of $33.49 billion, up 1.5% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $1.19, compared to $1.15 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $33.33 billion, representing a surprise of +0.48%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of +3.48%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $1.15.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Verizon performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Consumer - Wireless Retail postpaid connections per account: 3 compared to the 3 average estimate based on four analysts.
- Business - Churn rate - Wireless - Retail postpaid: 1.5% compared to the 1.5% average estimate based on four analysts.
- Consumer - Wireless Retail postpaid ARPA: $146.46 compared to the $143.87 average estimate based on four analysts.
- Consumer - Wireless - Net subscribers additions - Retail postpaid phones: -356 thousand versus -207.89 thousand estimated by four analysts on average.
- Operating revenues- Business: $7.29 billion versus $7.36 billion estimated by six analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -1.2% change.
- Operating revenues- Consumer: $25.62 billion versus the six-analyst average estimate of $25.36 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +2.2%.
- Operating revenues- Business- Business Markets and Other: $3.31 billion versus the five-analyst average estimate of $3.24 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +3.7%.
- Operating revenues- Business- Wholesale: $515 million compared to the $583.97 million average estimate based on five analysts. The reported number represents a change of -13.3% year over year.
- Operating revenues- Business- Enterprise and Public Sector: $3.46 billion versus the five-analyst average estimate of $3.54 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -3.6%.
- Operating revenues- Consumer - Wireless equipment: $4.53 billion compared to the $4.47 billion average estimate based on five analysts. The reported number represents a change of +0.9% year over year.
- Operating revenues- Consumer - Service: $20.07 billion compared to the $19.68 billion average estimate based on five analysts. The reported number represents a change of +5.6% year over year.
- Wireless service revenue- Consumer: $17.20 billion versus the four-analyst average estimate of $16.91 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +6.6%.
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Shares of Verizon have returned -1.5% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -8.9% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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