Verisign Inc
Verisign Inc (VRSN) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Infrastructure, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Reston, United States and has 926 employees. The company is worth $27.53B and trades at 33.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $1.66B in fiscal 2025, up 6.4% from the year before. Net income was $825.7M. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.06%. 8 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), at $2.26B. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 5 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $4.18M of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Articles on this site that cover Verisign Inc.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +26.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,382.42▲ +38.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
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| Year-end price | $242.95 | $206.96 | $205.96 | $205.44 | $253.82 | $216.40 | $192.68 | $148.29 | $114.44 | $76.07 | $87.36 | $57.00 | $59.78 | $38.82 | $35.72 | $32.67 | $24.24 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
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Earnings growing 4.5% a year plus a 1.1% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 27.6 across this company’s own years on record.
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPAYCorpay Inc | $415.01 | 25.2x | 7.7x | 0.00% | 29.21% | $27.25B |
| JBLJabil Inc | $267.41 | 28.8x | 17.4x | 0.12% | 66.37% | $28.02B |
| ZMZoom Communications, Inc. | $96.20 | 8.9x | 2.5x | 0.00% | 32.14% | $28.07B |
| FLEXFLEX Ltd | $76.69 |
| $19.08 |
| $37.61 |
| P/E | 27.6x | 27.6x | 25.9x | 26.1x | 32.9x | 36.3x | 30.6x | 37.4x | 31.2x | 31.1x | 22.2x | 31.0x | 22.6x | 17.1x | 19.9x | 41.5x | 7.0x | 18.9x | — | — |
| P/S | 9.5x | 13.4x | 12.6x | 13.9x | 15.1x | 21.1x | 19.3x | 18.2x | 14.6x | 9.5x | 6.8x | 9.0x | 6.6x | 8.3x | 6.8x | 7.4x | 8.3x | 7.2x | 6.5x | 10.5x |
| P/B | 7.2x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8.4x | 7.4x | 7.0x | 4.5x |
| EPS | $8.80 | $8.00 | $7.90 | $6.24 | $7.00 | $7.07 | $5.15 | $4.75 | $3.68 | $3.42 | $2.82 | $2.52 | $3.49 | $1.95 | $0.86 | $4.64 | $1.28 | -$1.87 | -$0.63 |
| Dividend yield | 7.70% | 0.95% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7.70% | 9.18% | — | — | — |
| Payout | 64.66% | 26.24% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 319.77% | 64.66% | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 47.29% | 49.84% | 50.45% | 54.76% | 47.29% | 59.11% | 64.41% | 49.71% | 47.94% | 39.25% | 38.58% | 35.42% | 35.17% | 56.41% | 36.63% | 18.51% | 122.10% | 39.87% | -66.96% | -17.68% |
| ROE | 16.69% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 122.85% | 41.02% | -72.19% | -7.64% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
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The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
3 methods answered, across 1 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-38.4% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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