VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Verizon Communications Inc. is a corporation organised under the laws of the State of Delaware, United States. It reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under Central Index Key 0000732712 and Exchange Act file number 1-8606, with IRS Employer Identification Number 23-2259884 and Delaware entity file number 2018751. The company was incorporated in 1983 as Bell Atlantic Corporation and began doing business as Verizon Communications on 30 June 2000, on completion of the merger of Bell Atlantic Corporation with GTE Corporation. Its principal executive offices are at 1095 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036.
The Florida Department of State document number F00000006782 and the date 7 December 2000 carried on this profile are a Florida filing reference, not the company’s charter. Verizon Communications Inc. was already filing annual reports with the SEC under the same CIK, employer identification number and Delaware state of incorporation in 1994, more than six years earlier, so 7 December 2000 is not the date of incorporation. The Delaware number 2018751 is the charter identifier. The Florida register entry itself could not be retrieved, and the Florida number and date are reported here only as identifiers held by the source record.
Verizon is a holding company whose consolidated operations are managed as two reportable segments. Verizon Consumer Group sells wireless service and equipment to retail customers, fibre and copper broadband, fixed wireless access broadband, video and voice, and wholesale network access to mobile virtual network operators. Verizon Business Group sells mobility, broadband, Internet of Things connectivity, corporate networking, voice, security and managed network services to enterprises, public sector bodies and carriers. It serves business customers in more than 180 countries and, as at its 2025 annual report, provided wireline services in 31 U.S. states and Washington D.C.
For the financial year ended 31 December 2025 Verizon reported consolidated revenue of USD 138.191 billion and consolidated net income attributable to the company of USD 17.174 billion, of which Consumer contributed USD 106.8 billion and Business USD 29.1 billion. At 31 December 2025 the group had approximately 89,900 full-time-equivalent employees, 89% of them in the United States, approximately 147 million wireless retail connections and approximately 14 million broadband connections. In the fourth quarter of 2025 Verizon announced a reduction of more than 13,000 positions, over 80% of which took effect in December 2025.
Verizon common stock, par value USD 0.10, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol VZ, and many of its note issues are separately listed on the NYSE. The company holds Federal Communications Commission spectrum licences across the 700 MHz Upper C block, 850 MHz Cellular, 1900 MHz PCS, AWS-1 and AWS-3, 3.7 GHz C-Band and millimetre-wave bands. It completed the acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. on 20 January 2026 and of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. on 30 January 2026.
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of Verizon Communications Inc.
Verizon Communications Inc. is a widely held U.S. listed company with no controlling shareholder and no disclosed ultimate beneficial owner. Approximately 4.18 billion shares of common stock were outstanding on 3 March 2026. Only holders above the 5% reporting threshold of Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act are published, so the disclosure below is a partial view of the shareholder base and not a complete register.
The 5% table in the proxy statement filed on 6 April 2026 lists three beneficial owners: The Vanguard Group with 350,035,321 shares (8.4%) and BlackRock, Inc. with 348,127,746 shares (8.3%), both on the basis of Schedules 13G filed in February 2024 reporting positions as at 31 December 2023, and State Street Corporation with 215,538,375 shares (5.2% on Verizon’s share count) on the basis of a Schedule 13G filed on 10 November 2025 reporting a position as at 30 September 2025. State Street’s own filing states 5.1% and records no sole voting or dispositive power, only shared power over 132,838,580 and 215,490,064 shares respectively.
Two later filings change that picture. On 27 March 2026 The Vanguard Group, Inc. filed Amendment No. 10 to its Schedule 13G reporting nil shares and 0% following an internal realignment on 12 January 2026, after which its subsidiaries report separately. On 30 April 2026 Vanguard Capital Management LLC filed a Schedule 13G reporting 302,904,960 shares, or 7.18% of the class, as at 31 March 2026, with sole voting power over 42,720,425 shares and sole dispositive power over the whole holding. That filing covers Vanguard Asset Management Limited, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company, Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC and Vanguard Investments Australia Ltd.
All of these holders file as investment advisers or as a holding company under Rule 13d-1(b), holding shares for funds and client accounts rather than for their own economic account. No natural person is identified as a beneficial owner of Verizon Communications Inc. in any filing reviewed, and none is identifiable from them.
Data availability: Major shareholders only. United States federal law requires disclosure of beneficial ownership only above 5% of a class, so holders below that level, and the identity of the underlying fund investors behind the institutional holders named above, are not published. The percentages shown in the structured shareholder table on this page are fund-level position sizes and do not represent ownership of Verizon Communications Inc.
Sources:
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Verizon Communications Inc. definitive proxy statement (DEF 14A), filed 6 April 2026, “Security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management”: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Schedule 13G/A filed by The Vanguard Group, Inc. on 27 March 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Schedule 13G filed by Vanguard Capital Management LLC on 30 April 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Schedule 13G filed by State Street Corporation on 10 November 2025: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
Data-provider feed — rows as supplied to Zavia for Florida Department of State — Sunbiz, including entries the profile above does not cover. These rows are not a verbatim copy of the register: they have been found to duplicate the same person under different spellings and to keep a status of Active after an appointment ended. Where they disagree with the profile above, the profile is the checked version.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 18.5% | Florida Department of State — Sunbiz | |
| SCHWAB STRATEGIC TRUST-Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF | 3.2% | Florida Department of State — Sunbiz | |
| Fidelity Concord Street Trust-Fidelity 500 Index Fund | 2.6% | Florida Department of State — Sunbiz |
Officers
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Directors and officers of Verizon Communications Inc.
At the annual meeting held on 21 May 2026 shareholders of Verizon Communications Inc. elected nine directors: Shellye Archambeau, Roxanne Austin, Mark Bertolini, Vittorio Colao, Caroline Litchfield, Jennifer Mann, Laxman Narasimhan, Daniel Schulman and Carol Tomé. A tenth director, Charles Phillips, was elected by the board with effect from 25 September 2026 and has not yet been assigned to a board committee. Mark Bertolini has served as independent Chair of the board since October 2025; the roles of Chair and Chief Executive Officer are separate.
The executive officers confirmed by filing are Daniel H. Schulman, Chief Executive Officer and principal executive officer; Anthony T. Skiadas, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer; Mary-Lee Stillwell, Senior Vice President and Controller and principal accounting officer; Kyle Malady, Executive Vice President and Group CEO – Verizon Business; Vandana Venkatesh, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer; and William L. Horton, Jr., Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, who signed the company’s current reports through 29 September 2026.
Recent officer changes. On 4 October 2025 the board appointed Daniel H. Schulman as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect, and Hans E. Vestberg stepped down as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on the same date; Mr Vestberg was named Special Advisor for a term expected to run to 4 October 2026 and did not stand at the 2026 annual meeting. On 4 February 2026 Sowmyanarayan Sampath ceased to serve as Executive Vice President and Group CEO – Verizon Consumer, served in an advisory capacity and left the company on 27 March 2026. On 4 February 2026 Clarence Otis, Jr. notified the company that he would not stand for re-election, and his term expired at the 2026 annual meeting. Jennifer K. Mann was elected to the board on 25 August 2025.
Nationality is not disclosed for any director or officer in the filings reviewed, and is recorded here as Not disclosed. Neither dates of birth nor personal identifiers are published by the company and none are reproduced here.
Data availability: Current only, and partial. Delaware, the company’s state of incorporation, does not publish a register of directors or officers, so the information above comes from securities filings rather than from a corporate register; those filings disclose the board and the executive officers who are Section 16 reporting persons or named executive officers, but not appointment dates for every role, nor any officer’s nationality or country of residence. The structured officer table on this page is a raw provider feed: it flags every row as active without appointment or resignation dates, repeats the same individual under several spellings, truncates job titles, and lists the company’s Florida registered agent as though it were a person. Nobody should be treated as a current officer of Verizon Communications Inc. on the strength of that table alone.
Sources:
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Form 8-K, Item 5.07, results of the annual meeting held 21 May 2026, filed 28 May 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Form 8-K, Item 5.02, election of Charles Phillips as a director, event 25 September 2026, filed 29 September 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Form 8-K, Item 5.02, chief executive officer transition, event 4 October 2025, filed 6 October 2025: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Form 8-K, Item 5.02, departure of Sowmyanarayan Sampath, filed 5 February 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Form 8-K, Item 5.02, Clarence Otis, Jr. not standing for re-election, filed 9 February 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Form 8-K, Item 5.02, election of Jennifer K. Mann as a director, filed 25 August 2025: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Verizon Communications Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, signature page, filed 17 February 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — definitive proxy statement (DEF 14A), filed 6 April 2026, board leadership structure and summary compensation table: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
Data-provider feed — rows as supplied to Zavia for Florida Department of State — Sunbiz, including entries the profile above does not cover. These rows are not a verbatim copy of the register: they have been found to duplicate the same person under different spellings and to keep a status of Active after an appointment ended. Where they disagree with the profile above, the profile is the checked version.
Group Structure
Group structure of Verizon Communications Inc.
Verizon Communications Inc. sits at the top of its own group. It is a holding company, it has no parent or ultimate parent, and no shareholder holds a controlling stake. Exhibit 21 to its Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 names twenty principal subsidiaries: Verizon Delaware LLC, Verizon Maryland LLC, Verizon New England Inc., Verizon New Jersey Inc., Verizon New York Inc., Verizon Pennsylvania LLC, Verizon Virginia LLC, BAMS Communications LLC, Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems LLC, Cellco Partnership (trading as Verizon Wireless), GTE Wireless LLC, MCI Communications Services LLC, MCI International LLC, Verizon Business Global LLC, Verizon Business Network Services LLC, Verizon International Inc., Verizon Online LLC, Verizon Value, Inc, Verizon Services Ireland Limited and Verizon Americas LLC. Most are organised in Delaware; Verizon New England Inc. and Verizon New York Inc. are New York entities, Verizon New Jersey Inc. a New Jersey entity, Verizon Virginia LLC a Virginia entity and Verizon Services Ireland Limited an Irish company. Exhibit 21 lists principal subsidiaries only, so the group is larger than twenty entities.
Recent structural changes. Verizon completed the acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. on 20 January 2026, extending its fibre broadband footprint to 31 U.S. states and Washington D.C. It completed the acquisition of Starry Group Holdings, Inc., a fixed wireless broadband provider serving multi-dwelling units in five U.S. markets, on 30 January 2026. An acquisition of selected spectrum licences of United States Cellular Corporation, now named Array Digital Infrastructure, Inc., was still pending at the date of the 2025 annual report.
Data availability: Partial. Delaware does not publish subsidiary or ownership data, so the verified structure above rests on the company’s own securities filings, which disclose principal subsidiaries and their state or country of organisation but not registration numbers or ownership percentages. Ownership percentage not disclosed for every relationship listed.
The corporate tree shown on this page comes from a third-party provider and was audited against Exhibit 21. It should not be relied on. It contains roughly 253 nodes, and the following classes of defect were found in it: entities belonging to unrelated corporate groups grafted into the tree, including a subtree of about a dozen H.B. Fuller adhesives companies placed beneath a Verizon-named node although H.B. Fuller Company is a separate NYSE-listed registrant, and Geotab Europe Limited, which belongs to the Canadian telematics group that acquired Verizon Connect’s international commercial operations in October 2025; identifiers that are not company registration numbers, including roughly sixty entries of the form “#0940928914”, U.S. entries carrying nine-digit federal tax-style numbers in the registration-number field, Indian entries carrying goods-and-services-tax registration numbers and a Philippine entry carrying a tax identification number; jurisdiction mislabels, beginning with the root node itself, which is labelled “US NY 2018751” although 2018751 is Verizon’s Delaware charter number; duplicate entities repeated under different internal identifiers, including Cellco Partnership three times and Bell Atlantic Tricon Leasing Corporation, Verizon Business Global LLC, MCI Communications Services LLC and Verizon Ventures LLC twice each; brand, trading and misspelled names stored as if they were legal entities, such as “Verizon Partner Solutions”, “Safelink Wireless”, “The Wireless Experts”, “Nynext”, “VERAIZON RUS, OOO” and “VERRAIZON (THAILAND) COMPANY LIMITED”; and entities disposed of years ago, such as AOL Deutschland Medien GmbH, part of the media business Verizon sold to an affiliate of Apollo Global Management on 1 September 2021.
Sources:
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Exhibit 21, principal subsidiaries of Verizon Communications Inc. at 31 December 2025, filed 17 February 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Verizon Communications Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed 17 February 2026: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Verizon Communications Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2021, sale of Verizon Media, filed February 2022: sec.gov (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation — LEI record 2S72QS2UO2OESLG6Y829, legal jurisdiction US-DE, registered with the Delaware Division of Corporations as entity 2018751: search.gleif.org (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- Geotab — press release on the acquisition of Verizon Connect’s international commercial operations, 1 October 2025: geotab.com (retrieved 30 September 2026)
Data-provider feed — rows as supplied to Zavia for Florida Department of State — Sunbiz, including entries the profile above does not cover. These rows are not a verbatim copy of the register: they have been found to duplicate the same person under different spellings and to keep a status of Active after an appointment ended. Where they disagree with the profile above, the profile is the checked version.
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
United States
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. do?
Verizon Communications Inc. is a Delaware holding company whose consolidated operations provide wireless and wireline communications services in the United States and network services to business customers in more than 180 countries. It reports two segments: Verizon Consumer Group, which sells wireless service and equipment, fibre and fixed wireless broadband, video and voice to retail customers and wholesale access to mobile virtual network operators, and Verizon Business Group, which sells mobility, broadband, IoT connectivity, corporate networking, voice, security and managed network services to enterprises, public sector bodies and carriers. It holds FCC spectrum licences across the 700 MHz, 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, AWS, 3.7 GHz C-Band and millimetre-wave bands.
Who owns VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.?
Verizon Communications Inc. is widely held and has no controlling shareholder. The proxy statement filed on 6 April 2026 lists three holders above 5%: The Vanguard Group with 350,035,321 shares (8.4%) and BlackRock, Inc. with 348,127,746 shares (8.3%), both from Schedules 13G filed in February 2024 for positions at 31 December 2023, and State Street Corporation with 215,538,375 shares (5.2%) from a Schedule 13G filed on 10 November 2025 for a position at 30 September 2025. The Vanguard Group, Inc. subsequently reported a nil holding on 27 March 2026 after an internal realignment, and Vanguard Capital Management LLC reported 302,904,960 shares, or 7.18%, at 31 March 2026. Only holdings above the 5% federal reporting threshold are published.
Who is VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.'s UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No ultimate beneficial owner has been identified for Verizon Communications Inc. It is a widely held company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq with no controlling shareholder, and no natural person is named as a beneficial owner in any securities filing reviewed. The holders reported above 5% are institutional investment advisers and a holding company filing under Rule 13d-1(b), which hold shares for funds and client accounts rather than for their own economic account. The percentages shown in the structured shareholder table on this page are fund-level position sizes and are not ownership of the company.
What is VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.'s company registration number?
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.'s registration number is F00000006782, filed with Florida Department of State — Sunbiz in United States. Its current status on the register is active.
Is VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. still an active company?
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.'s status on Florida Department of State — Sunbiz is listed as active.
When was VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. incorporated?
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. was incorporated on 7 December 2000, according to Florida Department of State — Sunbiz.
What is VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.'s registered address?
The registered address on file for VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. is New York, United States.
What is VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.'s revenue?
For the financial year ended 31 December 2025 Verizon reported consolidated revenue of USD 138.191 billion and consolidated net income attributable to Verizon of USD 17.174 billion. Verizon Consumer Group contributed USD 106.8 billion, about 77% of consolidated revenue, and Verizon Business Group USD 29.1 billion, about 21%. These are consolidated group figures from the Form 10-K filed on 17 February 2026. The group had approximately 89,900 full-time-equivalent employees at 31 December 2025.
Is VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. listed on a stock exchange?
Verizon common stock, par value USD 0.10, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol VZ, CUSIP 92343V104. The company files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under CIK 0000732712 and Exchange Act file number 1-8606, and many of its note issues are separately listed on the NYSE. Approximately 4.18 billion shares of common stock were outstanding on 3 March 2026.
Who are the officers/directors of VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.?
Shareholders elected nine directors at the annual meeting on 21 May 2026: Shellye Archambeau, Roxanne Austin, Mark Bertolini, Vittorio Colao, Caroline Litchfield, Jennifer Mann, Laxman Narasimhan, Daniel Schulman and Carol Tome. Charles Phillips was elected to the board with effect from 25 September 2026. Mark Bertolini has been independent Chair since October 2025. Daniel H. Schulman has been Chief Executive Officer since 4 October 2025, when Hans E. Vestberg stepped down as Chairman and CEO. Anthony T. Skiadas is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mary-Lee Stillwell Senior Vice President and Controller, Kyle Malady Executive Vice President and Group CEO of Verizon Business, Vandana Venkatesh Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, and William L. Horton, Jr. Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Nationality is not disclosed in these filings.
Does VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. have a parent company or subsidiaries?
Verizon Communications Inc. has no parent and sits at the top of its own group. Exhibit 21 to its 2025 Form 10-K names twenty principal subsidiaries, including Cellco Partnership trading as Verizon Wireless, Verizon Business Global LLC, Verizon Business Network Services LLC, Verizon Online LLC, Verizon Value, Inc, Verizon Americas LLC, the Verizon state telephone companies for Delaware, Maryland, New England, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and Verizon Services Ireland Limited. Most are organised in Delaware. Verizon completed the acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. on 20 January 2026 and of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. on 30 January 2026. Ownership percentages are not disclosed, and the corporate tree displayed on this page is a third-party feed that contains unrelated companies, duplicate entries, brand names stored as entities and identifiers that are not registration numbers.
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