Stock Risk Measures for Verisign Inc

1. Company Info - Description, identity and sector data.
2. Share Data - Stock earnings and key dates.
3. Market Risk - Beta, size, liquidity and momentum measures.
4. Financial Risk - Earnings and dividends.

by Paul Alan Davis, CFA

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VRSN Risk Report

Overview

Our quantitative data points are meant to provide a high-level understanding of factors in equity risk models for Verisign Inc. Portfolio managers use these models to forecast risk, optimize portfolios and review performance.

We show how VRSN stock compares to 2,000+ US-based stocks, and to peers in the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services sector and Custom Computer Programming Services industry.

Please do not consider this data as investment advice. Data is downloaded from sources we deem reliable, but errors may occur.

Company Info

Business Description

Verisign Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs, .gov, and .edu top-level domains. Verisign also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, distributed denial-of-service attack mitigation and cyber-threat reporting. In 2010, Verisign sold its authentication business unit – which included Secure Sockets Layer certificate, public key infrastructure , Verisign Trust Seal, and Verisign Identity Protection services – to Symantec for $1.28 billion. The deal capped a multi-year effort by Verisign to narrow its focus to its core infrastructure and security business units. Symantec later sold this unit to DigiCert in 2017. On October 25, 2018, NeuStar, Inc. acquired VeriSign’s Security Service Customer Contracts. The acquisition effectively transferred Verisign Inc.’s Distributed Denial of Service protection, Managed DNS, DNS Firewall and fee-based Recursive DNS services customer contracts.

Identity

• Symbol: VRSN
• FactorPad FPID: f54qnf
• SEC CIK: 0001014473
• Share Class FIGI: BBG001S7BCF6
• Location: Reston, Virginia US
• Web: https://www.verisign.com/

Sector and Industry

• Sector: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services
• SIC Code: 7371

Share Data

Shares

• Shares Outstanding: 114,109,868

Earnings and Dividends

• Trailing 12-month earnings: 6.94
• Next earnings date:

• Dividend yield in last 12 months: 0%
• Ex-dividend date:

Market Risk Measures

Many of the following risk metrics are standardized and transformed into quantitative factors in institutional-level risk models.

Rankings below represent percentiles from 1 to 100, with 1 being the lowest rating of risk.

Systematic Risk

Stocks with higher beta exhibit higher sensitivity to the ups and downs in the market. (↑↑)

• Beta: 0.98 | All: 30 | Sector: 33 | Industry: 34

Company Size

Stocks with higher market capitalization often have lower risk. (↑↓)

• Market Capitalization: $24,693,375,435 | All: 16 | Sector: 6 | Industry: 7

Trading Liquidity

Higher average daily dollar volume over the past 30 days implies lower liquidity risk. (↑↓)

• Daily Dollar Volume: $116,688,779 | All: 22 | Sector: 13 | Industry: 20

Price Momentum

Higher price momentum stocks, aka recent winners, equate to lower risk for many investors. (↑↓)

• Stock Price Change (1-Year): 12.31% | All: 41 | Sector: 52 | Industry: 60

Financial Risk Measures

Style risk factors often include measures of profitability and payout levels.

Earnings Yield

Companies with higher earnings generally provide lower risk. (↑↓)

• Earnings Yield (E/P): 3.26% | All: 42 | Sector: 32 | Industry: 20

Dividend Yield

Companies with higher dividend yields, if sustaintable, are perceived to have lower risk. (↑↓)

• Dividend Yield (D/P): 0% | All: 83 | Sector: 74 | Industry: 64

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