VRSN - VeriSign Inc Stock Price, Fair Value and News

185.68USD+2.72 (+1.49%)Delayed as of 19 Apr 2024, 11:00 am ET

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USD185.68+2.72

Delayedas of 19 Apr 2024, 11:00 am

1.49%

VRSN Alerts

1 major insider sales recently.

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VRSN Valuation

Market Cap

18.5B

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

22.59

Price/Sales (Trailing)

12.37

EV/EBITDA

16.63

Price/Free Cashflow

22.86

VRSN Price/Sales (Trailing)

VRSN Profitability

Operating Margin

86.79%

EBT Margin

65.40%

Return on Equity

6.09%

Return on Assets

46.75%

Free Cashflow Yield

4.37%

VRSN Fundamentals

VRSN Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

1.5B

Rev. Growth (Yr)

3.03%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

1.09%

VRSN Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

817.6M

Earnings Growth (Yr)

47.47%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

40.42%

Breaking Down VRSN Revenue

52 Week Range

183.32229.72

(Low)(High)

Last 7 days

-3.5%

Last 30 days

-4.8%

Last 90 days

-10.9%

Trailing 12 Months

-15.1%

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VRSN Financial Health

Current Ratio

0.83

VRSN Investor Care

Buy Backs (1Y)

3.79%

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2023	1.4B	1.5B	1.5B	1.5B
2022	1.4B	1.4B	1.4B	1.4B
2021	1.3B	1.3B	1.3B	1.3B
2020	1.2B	1.2B	1.3B	1.3B
2019	1.2B	1.2B	1.2B	1.2B
2018	1.2B	1.2B	1.2B	1.2B
2017	1.1B	1.2B	1.2B	1.2B
2016	1.1B	1.1B	1.1B	1.1B
2015	1.0B	1.0B	1.0B	1.1B
2014	977.4M	988.5M	999.8M	1.0B
2013	904.3M	929.5M	949.7M	965.1M
2012	796.2M	820.5M	847.0M	873.6M
2011	700.5M	722.5M	747.2M	772.0M
2010	575.9M	589.5M	604.9M	680.6M
2009	586.1M	613.4M	640.6M	667.9M
2008	0	753.3M	656.1M	558.9M
2007	0	0	0	850.5M

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of VeriSign Inc

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
Apr 15, 2024	mcpherson danny r	sold (taxes)	-4,763	183	-26.00	evp- engineering, ops. & cso
Apr 11, 2024	indelicarto thomas c	sold	-116,660	190	-614	evp, gen counsel & secretary
Apr 02, 2024	indelicarto thomas c	sold	-116,660	190	-614	evp, gen counsel & secretary
Mar 12, 2024	indelicarto thomas c	sold	-117,923	192	-613	evp, gen counsel & secretary
Mar 05, 2024	indelicarto thomas c	sold	-117,727	192	-613	evp, gen counsel & secretary
Mar 01, 2024	mcpherson danny r	sold	-558,288	194	-2,875	evp- engineering, ops. & cso
Feb 20, 2024	strubbe todd b	sold	-1,820,580	193	-9,423	president & coo
Feb 15, 2024	bidzos d james	sold (taxes)	-1,746,550	197	-8,829	exec. chairman & ceo
Feb 15, 2024	mcpherson danny r	acquired	-	-	3,000	evp- engineering, ops. & cso
Feb 15, 2024	kilguss george e iii	acquired	-	-	4,299	evp and cfo

Which funds bought or sold VRSN recently?

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
Apr 17, 2024	HARTFORD INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CO	reduced	-5.53	-161,263	1,072,440	0.04%
Apr 17, 2024	NEW MEXICO EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT BOARD	added	19.02	278,000	1,253,000	0.05%
Apr 17, 2024	Evergreen Private Wealth LLC	added	32.09	26,269	148,197	0.07%
Apr 17, 2024	Family CFO Inc	unchanged	-	-822	9,476	0.01%
Apr 17, 2024	Clarius Group, LLC	reduced	-7.04	-42,730	252,617	0.02%
Apr 16, 2024	FLAGSHIP HARBOR ADVISORS, LLC	reduced	-4.22	-28,952	214,905	0.01%
Apr 16, 2024	Financial Management Professionals, Inc.	reduced	-53.00	-12,000	9,000	-%
Apr 16, 2024	Transform Wealth, LLC	sold off	-100	-445,066	-	-%
Apr 16, 2024	Thrive Wealth Management, LLC	new	-	275,169	275,169	0.06%
Apr 16, 2024	Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo, LLC	unchanged	-	-1,580	18,193	-%

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VRSN Alerts

1 major insider sales recently.

Unveiling VeriSign Inc's Major ShareHolders

Date Filed	Name of Filer	Percent of Class	No. of Shares	Form Type
Feb 13, 2024	ninety one uk ltd	5.13%	5,234,855	SC 13G
Feb 13, 2024	vanguard group inc	10.11%	10,322,372	SC 13G/A
Jan 24, 2024	blackrock inc.	10.6%	10,818,159	SC 13G/A
Dec 06, 2023	blackrock inc.	10.5%	10,756,143	SC 13G/A
Jun 09, 2023	vanguard group inc	10.18%	10,598,451	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2023	vanguard group inc	9.80%	10,391,118	SC 13G/A
Feb 03, 2023	blackrock inc.	8.1%	8,564,188	SC 13G/A
Feb 11, 2022	renaissance technologies llc	3.74%	4,149,890	SC 13G/A
Feb 01, 2022	blackrock inc.	9.1%	10,102,520	SC 13G/A
Feb 16, 2021	berkshire hathaway inc	11.2%	12,815,613	SC 13G/A

Recent SEC filings of VeriSign Inc

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
Apr 16, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Apr 12, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Apr 11, 2024	144	Notice of Insider Sale Intent
Apr 10, 2024	ARS	ARS
Apr 10, 2024	DEF 14A	DEF 14A
Apr 10, 2024	DEFA14A	DEFA14A
Apr 03, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Apr 02, 2024	144	Notice of Insider Sale Intent
Mar 13, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 12, 2024	144	Notice of Insider Sale Intent

Peers (Alternatives to VeriSign Inc)

Name	Mkt Capsorted ascending	Revenue	Price %, 1M	Returns, 1Y	P/E	P/S	Rev 1-Yr	Inc 1-Yr
LARGE-CAP
MSFT	3.0T	227.6B	-4.10%	40.11%	36.38	13.2	11.51%	22.38%
ADBE	211.9B	19.9B	-9.26%	24.41%	44.13	10.63	10.76%	1.35%
CRWD	70.2B	3.1B	-8.38%	121.31%	785.34	22.96	36.33%	148.75%
SQ	43.9B	21.9B	-9.15%	14.62%	6.4K	2	25.01%	101.26%
AKAM	15.3B	3.8B	-6.58%	22.51%	27.86	4	5.40%	4.57%
FFIV	10.6B	2.8B	-5.04%	30.96%	22.9	3.76	3.55%	53.13%
MID-CAP
ALTR	6.5B	612.7M	0.17%	15.37%	-729.3	10.62	7.07%	79.45%
HCP	4.6B	583.1M	-15.85%	-18.07%	-24.02	7.85	22.54%	30.49%
ACIW	3.4B	1.5B	-1.28%	21.93%	27.6	2.31	2.16%	-14.54%
APPN	2.5B	545.4M	-4.57%	-13.82%	-22.87	4.67	16.53%	26.16%
SMALL-CAP
CSGS	1.4B	1.2B	-5.17%	-8.38%	20.8	1.22	7.30%	93.18%
ATEN	957.3M	251.7M	-3.09%	-10.01%	23.95	3.8	-10.22%	-14.79%
BAND	449.5M	601.1M	-6.64%	27.67%	-27.5	0.75	4.88%	-183.51%
DTSS	19.1M	7.0M	-8.53%	-58.10%	-2.22	2.91	-55.73%	-45.27%
BLIN	12.8M	15.6M	24.24%	33.70%	-1.28	0.82	-6.37%	-5256.07%

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Revenue	1.1%	380	376	372	364	369	357	352	347	340	334	329	324	320	318	314	313	311	308	306	306	307
Cost Of Revenue	-0.2%	49.00	49.00	50.00	50.00	51.00	50.00	50.00	51.00	49.00	48.00	48.00	47.00	46.00	45.00	44.00	46.00	46.00	44.00	44.00	46.00	48.00
Costs and Expenses	1.7%	124	122	123	123	124	120	116	122	118	113	116	113	116	111	108	106	112	103	105	106	113
S&GA Expenses	1.9%	53.00	52.00	51.00	49.00	52.00	49.00	46.00	49.00	48.00	46.00	49.00	46.00	162	8.00	9.00	7.00	14.00	10.00	12.00	11.00	17.00
R&D Expenses	5.5%	23.00	22.00	22.00	24.00	22.00	21.00	20.00	23.00	21.00	20.00	20.00	20.00	19.00	20.00	18.00	17.00	15.00	15.00	15.00	16.00	15.00
EBITDA Margin	0.9%	0.73*	0.73*	0.72*	0.71*	0.70*	0.70*	0.69*	0.69*	0.69*	0.69*	0.68*	0.69*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Interest Expenses	0%	19.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00
Income Taxes	-121.8%	-13.10	60.00	57.00	55.00	53.00	53.00	51.00	49.00	-126	46.00	40.00	38.00	26.00	14.00	39.00	-143	37.00	40.00	43.00	27.00	52.00
Earnings Before Taxes	1.2%	252	249	243	234	232	223	219	206	203	203	188	188	183	185	192	191	185	193	190	190	234
EBT Margin	1.3%	0.65*	0.65*	0.64*	0.63*	0.62*	0.61*	0.61*	0.59*	0.59*	0.58*	0.58*	0.59*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Income	40.4%	265	189	186	179	180	170	167	158	330	157	148	150	157	171	152	334	148	154	148	163	182
Net Income Margin	10.8%	0.55*	0.49*	0.49*	0.48*	0.47*	0.59*	0.59*	0.59*	0.59*	0.47*	0.49*	0.49*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Free Cashflow	-8.1%	199	217	139	253	209	255	139	201	193	245	125	192	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Assets	3.1%	1,749	1,696	1,677	1,757	1,733	1,744	1,763	1,973	1,984	1,815	1,741	1,783	1,767	1,764	1,820	1,754	1,854	1,887	1,890	1,920	1,915
Current Assets	-1.9%	988	1,007	997	1,073	1,039	1,049	1,062	1,268	1,269	1,264	1,189	1,236	1,218	1,206	1,250	1,185	1,279	1,298	1,295	1,315	1,317
Cash Equivalents	52.3%	240	158	344	820	374	566	612	764	229	263	225	256	411	155	316	508	518	119	761	789	367
Net PPE	-2.1%	233	238	223	225	232	235	240	245	251	249	248	241	246	249	250	248	250	250	251	252	254
Goodwill	0%	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00	53.00
Liabilities	0.0%	3,330	3,329	3,295	3,351	3,296	3,287	3,218	3,258	3,244	3,232	3,159	3,187	3,157	3,151	3,220	3,163	3,344	3,339	3,315	3,326	3,300
Current Liabilities	1.3%	1,189	1,174	1,142	1,171	1,117	1,095	1,067	1,089	1,074	1,048	998	1,010	989	978	1,018	956	965	961	935	941	948
LT Debt, Current	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Shareholder's Equity	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13,620	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14,990	-	-	-	15,707
Retained Earnings	1.9%	-13,386	-13,651	-13,839	-14,025	-14,204	-14,383	-14,553	-14,720	-14,877	-15,207	-15,364	-15,512	-15,662	-15,819	-15,990	-16,143	-16,477	-16,625	-16,779	-16,927	-17,089
Additional Paid-In Capital	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14,990	15,176	15,357	15,524	15,707
Shares Outstanding	-1.1%	101	102	103	104	105	109	110	110	112	112	112	113	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Float	-	-	-	15,900	-	-	-	12,400	-	-	-	16,500	-	-	-	15,100	-	-	-	16,100	-	-

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Cashflow From Operations	-16.8%	204	245	145	259	217	262	145	207	206	260	143	198	195	140	215	180	194	208	165	187	219
Share Based Compensation	-5.2%	15.00	16.00	16.00	14.00	14.00	16.00	14.00	14.00	12.00	14.00	14.00	13.00	12.00	13.00	12.00	11.00	12.00	13.00	13.00	12.00	11.00
Cashflow From Investing	148.9%	104	-213	-398	410	-190	-33.40	55.00	525	-54.10	-50.20	10.00	-175	234	-131	-253	79.00	405	-655	-12.63	431	86.00
Cashflow From Financing	-3.8%	-226	-218	-222	-222	-214	-273	-351	-196	-185	-172	-183	-177	-173	-169	-154	-267	-199	-194	-180	-196	-178
Buy Backs	1.4%	226	222	223	231	214	278	352	205	186	176	176	185	174	174	154	276	199	199	180	204	178

VRSN Income Statement

2023-12-31

Consolidated Statements Of Comprehensive Income - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Revenues	$ 1,493.1	$ 1,424.9	$ 1,327.6
Costs and expenses:
Cost of revenues	197.3	200.7	191.9
Research and development	91.0	85.7	80.5
Selling, General and Administrative Expense	204.2	195.4	188.4
Total costs and expenses	492.5	481.8	460.8
Operating income	1,000.6	943.1	866.8
Interest expense	(75.3)	(75.3)	(83.3)
Non-operating income, net	51.2	12.4	(1.3)
Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations before Income Taxes, Noncontrolling Interest, Total	976.5	880.2	782.2
Income tax (expense) benefit	(158.9)	(206.4)	2.6
Net income	817.6	673.8	784.8
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax	0.1	0.1	0.0
Comprehensive income	$ 817.7	$ 673.9	$ 784.8
Earnings per share
Earnings per Share, Basic	$ 7.91	$ 6.24	$ 7.01
Earnings per Share, Diluted	$ 7.90	$ 6.24	$ 7.00
Shares used to compute net income per share
Basic	103.4	107.9	112.0
Diluted	103.5	108.0	112.2

VRSN Balance Sheet

2023-12-31

Consolidated Balance Sheets - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 240.1	$ 373.6
Marketable securities	686.3	606.8
Other	61.9	58.3
Total current assets	988.3	1,038.7
Property and equipment, net	233.2	232.0
Goodwill	52.5	52.5
Deferred Income Tax Assets, Net	301.0	234.6
Deposits Assets, Noncurrent	145.0	145.0
Other long-term assets	29.0	30.6
Total long-term assets	760.7	694.7
Total assets	1,749.0	1,733.4
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	257.4	226.5
Deferred revenues	931.1	890.4
Total current liabilities	1,188.5	1,116.9
Long-term deferred revenues	315.0	328.7
Senior Notes, Noncurrent	1,790.2	1,787.9
Other long-term tax liabilities	36.3	62.1
Total long-term liabilities	2,141.5	2,178.7
Total liabilities	3,330.0	3,295.6
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' deficit:
Preferred stock	0.0	0.0
Common Stocks, Including Additional Paid in Capital	11,808.0	12,644.5
Accumulated deficit	(13,386.4)	(14,204.0)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(2.6)	(2.7)
Total stockholders' deficit	(1,581.0)	(1,562.2)
Total liabilities and stockholders' deficit	$ 1,749.0	$ 1,733.4
Preferred stock, par value	$ 0.001	$ 0.001
Preferred stock, authorized shares	5.0	5.0
Common stock, par value	$ 0.001	$ 0.001
Common stock, authorized shares	1,000.0	1,000.0
Common Stock, Shares, Issued	354.9	354.5
Common stock, outstanding shares	101.3	105.3

About VeriSign Inc

VeriSign, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides domain name registry services and internet infrastructure that enables internet navigation for various recognized domain names worldwide. The company enables the security, stability, and resiliency of internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating two of the 13 internet root servers; and offering registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net domains, which supports global e-commerce. It also back-end systems for .cc, .gov, .edu, and .name domain names, as well as operates distributed servers, networking, security, and data integrity services. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

CEO	Mr. D. James Bidzos
WEBSITE	verisign.com
INDUSTRY	Software - Infra
EMPLOYEES	914

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As of Thu Apr 18 2024, market cap of VeriSign Inc is 18.47 Billion. The market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the stock price with the number of shares outstanding.

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What is VeriSign Inc's Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to sales (PS) ratio?

As of Thu Apr 18 2024, VRSN's PE ratio (Price to Earnings) is 22.59 and Price to Sales (PS) ratio is 12.37. The price to earnings and price to sales ratio are two most important valuation metrics for any company. PE ratio tell us the number of years of earnings investors are ready to pay for owning the company. Historically, S&P500 price to earnings ratio has fallen below 12 during periods of gloom and gone past 30 during periods of euphoria. VRSN PE ratio will change depending on the future growth rate expectations of investors.

What is 5 year return on VeriSign Inc's stock?

In the past 10 years, VeriSign Inc has provided 0.137 (multiply by 100 for percentage) rate of return.