VRSN

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VeriSign Inc. Common Stock
Technology · Software - Infrastructure · NASDAQ · United States
$303.12+0.35%
Market cap $27.4BNext earnings 2026-10-22Updated Sep 20, 2026
FAIR VALUE · CONSENSUS
$303.12+0.0%
confidence-weighted across 4 of 6 models
Now $303.12
$303.12
$121.89$265.01
AvoidSilver64
Price vs fair value
59.5% above
-37.3% to fair value
ACCE score
56
out of 100
Analysts
50% buy
4 covering
P/E
32.9x
forward 27.9x
1-year return
+6.0%
Dividend yield
1.05%
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Overview

⚠ Investor warnings · 3 flags
  • moderate
    Negative equity structure
    Debt/Equity of -0.83 indicates negative book equity, meaning liabilities exceed assets, a structural leverage concern.
  • moderate
    Insider selling only
    Last 10 disclosed transactions show $0 buys vs $3.15M in sales, with no insider conviction buying at current levels.
  • moderate
    Premium valuation, low growth
    P/S of 14.5 and EV/EBITDA of 21.6 price in perfection, yet QoQ revenue growth is just 0.8% and YoY only 6.6%.
Reports in 31 days, last quarter beat by 0.0%.

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Price

+7.2% · 1Y

Valuation

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Wall Street consensus

Mixed50% buy · 4 covering analysts
● Strong buy 2● Buy 0● Hold 1● Sell 0● Strong sell 1
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  • +Quarter-over-quarter institutional position changes
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Where it sits vs peers

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 50% of peers
low 0.0x32.9xhigh 525.4x
ROEbetter than 17% of peers
low -3%0%high 29%
Div yieldbetter than 100% of peers
low 0.0%1.1%high 1.1%

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News and Record

Reports in 31 days, last quarter beat by 0.0%.

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Recent performance

1 week
+3.6%
1 month
+11.0%
3 months
+14.5%
6 months
+25.9%
YTD
+24.8%
1 year
+6.0%

SEC filings

40 filings
September 2026
Sep 16
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-15
Sep 16
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-15
Sep 16
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-15
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