Evaluating Corporate Stocks

Project # 2

Evaluating a Corporate Stock

I decided on Verizon for this project, I am a Verizon customer I thought they would be a good choice to learn about.

Introductory Question

1. Note the full name and headquarters address of the company.

Verizon Communications Inc.

140 West Street

New York, NY 10007

2. Indicate which stock exchange its stock is traded on.

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

3. Indicate its stock trading symbol

VZ

4. State what kind of products or services it produces or provides.

• Business

• Conferencing

• Customer premises equipment design and maintenance

• Data center outsourcing

• Hosted messaging

• Information technology (IT)

• Systems integration

• Voice and data networking

• Telecom

• Billing and collections

• Directory assistance

• Internet access services

• Local exchange access

• Long-distance

• Public telephones

• Wireless

• Equipment sales

• Paging

• Wireless voice and data services

Financial Questions

5. Indicate the company’s Annual Sales for the past 5 years.

2009 - $107.8B

2008 - $97.4B

2007 - $93.5B

2006 - $88.2 B

2005 - $69.5B

6. Indicate the company’s Annual Earnings Per Share Earnings for the past 5 years. Are these earnings increasing or decreasing? By how much

2009 - $1.29

2008 - $2.26

2007 - $1.90

2006 - $1.88

2005 - $2.18

The earning per share have decline in 2009 vs 2008 but I belief that is because of increase infrastructure cost that will create high earnings in future years

7. Indicate the company’s Earnings Per Share, per quarter, for the past 4 quarters. What is the trend for these most current earnings?

Dec 09 - $0.54

Sept 09 - $0.60

June 09 - $0.63

Mar 09 - $0.63

The trend is that the earnings per share is decreasing.

8. Does it pay a dividend? If so how much per quarter & per year?

Yes, quarterly. The total 2009 dividend per...