Stock · VRSN · Technology
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1998 · Revenue 12 mo. $1.7B
Price as of 11/06/2026
VeriSign, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides internet infrastructure and domain name registry services that enable internet navigation for various recognized domain names worldwide.
VeriSign, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides internet infrastructure and domain name registry services that enable internet navigation for various recognized domain names worldwide. The company provides root zone maintainer services operating two of thirteen internet root servers; and registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net domains, which support global e-commerce. It also operates directory for .name and .cc; and back-end systems for .edu domain names. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
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Summary
56.7 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €958.7M (2025), it supports €10.7B. The remaining €14.1B of the market value assume it grows 11.8% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
11.8%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 26.3×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 21.8× to 25.8×, median 24.0×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
6 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | −39.99% | 14.60% | Rank 3 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 501.57% | 29.77% | Rank 97 |
| EBIT margin | 67.67% | 17.40% | Rank 99 |
| FCF margin | 64.49% | 18.54% | Rank 98 |
| Gross margin | 88.15% | 48.47% | Rank 97 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 6.37% | 12.70% | Rank 26 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 12.64% | 9.54% | Rank 56 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 4.76% | 14.07% | Rank 21 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.38% | 2.87% | Rank 31 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.89% | 2.64% | Rank 55 |
| FCF yield | 3.87% | 3.06% | Rank 60 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 17.38 | 5.18 | Rank 12 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 25.69 | 26.24 | Rank 51 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 19.22% | −0.59% | Rank 77 |
| Share price, 6 months | 7.58% | −4.46% | Rank 66 |
| Share price, 3 months | 9.92% | −5.84% | Rank 75 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −2.94% | −33.23% | Rank 95 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −27.40% | 1.65% | Rank 97 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −5.70% | −0.17% | Rank 96 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 8 | Rank 18 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −0.91% | −1.57% | Rank 54 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | −162.35% | 53.98% | Rank 0 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.04 | −0.20 | Rank 22 |
| Debt to equitylower is betterdoes not count towards the rank | −0.81 | 0.33 | |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 28.37% | 50.37% | Rank 96 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1.1 | 60.1% | $498.4M | 129M | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 1.2 | 60.7% | $653.3M | 124M | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 1.2 | 63.2% | $660.8M | 123M | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 1.2 | 65.5% | $713.6M | 119M | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 1.3 | 65.2% | $686.8M | 115M | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 1.3 | 65.3% | $754.1M | 112M | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 1.4 | 66.2% | $803.7M | 108M | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 1.5 | 67.0% | $808.0M | 104M | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 1.6 | 68.0% | $874.5M | 98.2M | 1.6 |
| 2025 | 1.7 | 67.7% | $1.1B | 92.6M | 1.5 |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
VeriSign Inc mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
VeriSign Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
7 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for VeriSign Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 34.6 | 35.1 |
| P/B ratio | −12.1 | 5.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | −40.0% | 14.6% |
| Equity ratio | −162.3% | 54.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | −0.81 | 0.33 |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | 0.9% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| VRSN | VeriSign Incthis page | |
| CRWV | CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock | Low1.8 |
| MDB | MongoDB | locked |
| CPAY | Corpay Inc | High7.3 |
| IOT | Samsara Inc | locked |
| RBRK | Rubrik, Inc. | locked |
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