Verizon Communications 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 VZ?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	5,145	0.000122%
Public Companies	173,750	0.00413%
Individual Insiders	1,035,669	0.0246%
State or Government	4,470,714	0.106%
General Public	1,479,846,723	35.2%
Institutions	2,724,094,269	64.7%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 39.27% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
8.51%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	358,127,188	AR$14.6t	1.15%	0.21%
8.12%	BlackRock, Inc.	341,912,810	AR$14.0t	-1.99%	0.22%
4.38%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	184,519,493	AR$7.5t	-0.45%	0.27%
2.41%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	101,289,704	AR$4.1t	6.22%	0.67%
2.28%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	95,824,245	AR$3.9t	2.22%	0.27%
1.38%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	58,144,674	AR$2.4t	2.89%	0.27%
1.32%	Norges Bank Investment Management	55,461,310	AR$2.3t	0%	0.18%
1.29%	UBS Asset Management AG	54,460,977	AR$2.2t	4.26%	0.21%
0.95%	Northern Trust Global Investments	40,091,577	AR$1.6t	-4.26%	0.24%
0.87%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	36,762,073	AR$1.5t	-4.16%	0.26%
0.85%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	35,860,417	AR$1.5t	0.84%	0.22%
0.85%	Capital Research and Management Company	35,839,391	AR$1.5t	-14.5%	0.07%
0.64%	BNY Asset Management	26,831,677	AR$1.1t	-2.6%	0.21%
0.59%	GQG Partners LLC	24,735,386	AR$1.0t	0%	0.82%
0.54%	Aristotle Capital Management, LLC	22,788,342	AR$930.1b	298,000%	1.75%
0.49%	Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership	20,743,059	AR$846.7b	-13.9%	0.66%
0.47%	FMR LLC	19,945,144	AR$814.1b	1.18%	0.05%
0.47%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	19,612,662	AR$800.5b	-24.3%	0.16%
0.46%	Raymond James Financial Inc., Asset Management Arm	19,234,328	AR$785.1b	16.9%	0.47%
0.45%	Eaton Vance Management	19,046,924	AR$777.4b	3.01%	0.17%
0.43%	Parnassus Investments, LLC	18,161,563	AR$741.3b	2.85%	1.55%
0.39%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	16,566,052	AR$676.2b	2.64%	0.15%
0.39%	JP Morgan Asset Management	16,523,793	AR$674.4b	1.96%	0.07%
0.37%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	15,513,032	AR$633.2b	9.74%	0.18%
0.36%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	15,121,430	AR$617.2b	-0.4%	0.15%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/22 13:22
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 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

Verizon Communications Inc. is covered by 76 analysts. 23 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
Andrew Charles Beale	Arete Research Services LLP
Joseph Bonner	Argus Research Company
Christopher Watts	Atlantic Equities LLP