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Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for VZ, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta −0.11 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How VZ has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year −0.11 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Verizon Communications Inc moved −0.11% on average · correlation −0.04 · higher than 6% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.25 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.63% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +1.72% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Telecom Services · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Telecom Services · US

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against VZ on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Verizon Communications Inc

VZ in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Verizon runs a telecoms and technology business built for consumers and companies across the world, split into a Consumer and a Business segment. The Consumer arm sells wireless plans under the Verizon and TracFone names, fixed wireless broadband, handsets and other connected devices, and wireline and fibre services such as Fios in the north-eastern United States. The Business arm sells wireless and wireline connectivity, networking, security and managed-network services, and internet-of-things products to companies, governments and other carriers. It sells through its own stores, digital channels, agents and retail partners, and traces back to Bell Atlantic before it took the Verizon name.
Where it sits in the stack
Verizon carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, so it sits outside our build-out sleeves; inside the wider universe it belongs to the telecom services sector, where it acts as a network operator rather than a supplier to the AI stack.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet has not set a peer group for Verizon; the market's usual comparator is AT&T.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Verizon is a Dow Jones Industrial Average constituent but is not part of Rubin or Halo, carries no Closelooknet score, and has not yet been quoted in the diary's editions.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Verizon's price action relative to its own moving averages and its gap to the 52-week high starts to move together with the wider telecom trade.

Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: VZ news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 5.94%, quarterly · last 0.71 USD on 2026-07-10

Dividends and capital return

What VZ pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.80 USD per share · a 5.94% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +2.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.73 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.71 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-10
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.67 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.67 USD · 2025: 2.74 USD · 2026: 2.11 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-06

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Verizon Communications Inc (VZ)?

Verizon Communications Inc trades as VZ on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is VZ in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Verizon Communications Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does VZ trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -2.1% vs the 50-day and +2.8% vs the 200-day average, 8.9% below the 52-week high and +26.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Verizon Communications Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Verizon Communications Inc had a beta of −0.11 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 6% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.63% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Verizon Communications Inc do?

Verizon runs a telecoms and technology business built for consumers and companies across the world, split into a Consumer and a Business segment. The Consumer arm sells wireless plans under the Verizon and TracFone names, fixed wireless broadband, handsets and other connected devices, and wireline and fibre services such as Fios in the north-eastern United States. The Business arm sells wireless and wireline connectivity, networking, security and managed-network services, and internet-of-things products to companies, governments and other carriers. Closelooknet has not set a peer group for Verizon; the market's usual comparator is AT&T.

Where does Verizon Communications Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Verizon carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, so it sits outside our build-out sleeves; inside the wider universe it belongs to the telecom services sector, where it acts as a network operator rather than a supplier to the AI stack. Verizon is a Dow Jones Industrial Average constituent but is not part of Rubin or Halo, carries no Closelooknet score, and has not yet been quoted in the diary's editions.

Does Verizon Communications Inc pay a dividend?

Verizon Communications Inc has paid 2.80 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 5.94% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.71 USD on 2026-07-10. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for VZ, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Telecom Services. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.