VeriSign Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of VRSN?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	78,744	0.0819%
Individual Insiders	864,385	0.899%
General Public	1,765,959	1.84%
Public Companies	13,049,925	13.6%
Institutions	80,340,987	83.6%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 67.25% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
13.6%	Berkshire Hathaway Inc.	13,049,925	AR$2.7t	1.83%	no data
10.9%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	10,513,177	AR$2.1t	-0.24%	0.03%
8.88%	BlackRock, Inc.	8,529,533	AR$1.7t	-5.45%	0.03%
4.35%	Ninety One UK Limited	4,175,826	AR$851.7b	-4.41%	1.19%
3.98%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	3,829,236	AR$781.0b	-0.9%	0.03%
3.3%	Renaissance Technologies LLC	3,175,990	AR$647.7b	4.9%	0.9%
2.36%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	2,270,483	AR$463.1b	-8.86%	0.03%
1.95%	Eaton Vance Management	1,876,238	AR$382.7b	-8.08%	0.08%
1.56%	Invesco Capital Management LLC	1,497,069	AR$305.3b	2.05%	0.11%
1.42%	D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.	1,366,959	AR$278.8b	-7.19%	0.37%
1.41%	Fidelity International Ltd	1,358,102	AR$277.0b	-0.19%	0.11%
1.27%	Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust	1,219,376	AR$248.7b	-14.2%	0.28%
1.22%	Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership	1,167,926	AR$238.2b	47.3%	0.18%
1.12%	Principal Global Investors, LLC	1,076,875	AR$219.6b	-49.4%	0.1%
1.11%	Norges Bank Investment Management	1,066,284	AR$217.5b	0%	0.02%
1.1%	AQR Capital Management, LLC	1,053,242	AR$214.8b	38.5%	0.28%
0.98%	UBS Asset Management AG	941,111	AR$191.9b	-3.23%	0.02%
0.96%	Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	922,392	AR$188.1b	0%	0.14%
0.92%	Liontrust Asset Management PLC	881,366	AR$179.8b	0%	0.72%
0.91%	Northern Trust Global Investments	875,632	AR$178.6b	-4.87%	0.03%
0.84%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	809,136	AR$165.0b	2.13%	0.03%
0.81%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	779,386	AR$159.0b	-29.1%	0.04%
0.78%	BLS Capital Fondsmaeglerselskab A/S	753,605	AR$153.7b	195%	2.77%
0.78%	TD Asset Management, Inc.	746,436	AR$152.2b	13.1%	0.11%
0.72%	Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc	693,369	AR$141.4b	7.34%	0.51%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/23 18:07
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/23 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

VeriSign, Inc. is covered by 26 analysts. 4 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
James Cordwell	Atlantic Equities LLP
Robert Oliver	Baird
Ishan Majumdar	Baptista Research