QualityDipStocks / Technology · IT services
VeriSign VRSN
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 1% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $202.61−34%
- Market Value
- $305.35price +1%
- Off 52-wk high
- −1%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.04
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $307.21
- Fair value est.base case$202.61−34.0%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$211.49−31.2%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 22$305.35−0.6%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$307.21you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$310.00+0.9%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 5.2% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 3.2%; bull = 8.5% and 7.2% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, VRSN’s free cash flow would need to grow about 13% a year for five years; our estimate uses 5%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much VRSN moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 2.2× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.04
- Volatility
- 28% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.02
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.06
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin of 68% over the last 12 months.
Cash returnsShare count down 3.4% in a year: $874M of buybacks over 12 months.
ProfitabilityGross margin of 89%, above the 59% median for the 151 Technology companies we cover.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 3.7%, above the 3.1% median for the 161 Technology companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $202.61, 34% below the price.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 11% to $6.24 in FY2022.
GrowthSales grew 6.5% over the last 12 months, below the 18% median for the 163 Technology companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 5.2% a year over the last three fiscal years, below the 11% median for the 162 Technology companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: no return-on-capital data.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on VeriSign in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in IT services
All fundamentals
P/E 32.7 · FCF yield 3.7% · Sales +6%
Valuation
- P/E
- 32.7×Technology median 33.9×
- Price / FCF
- 27.1×
- FCF yield
- 3.7%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 16.04×
- Price / book
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Market cap
- $27.8Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.7B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +6.5%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +5.2%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- EPS growth, last FY
- −10.9%
- Net income, 12 months
- $850M
- Net income growth
- +5%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 88.6%
- Operating margin
- 67.6%
- Net margin
- 49.1%
- FCF margin
- 59.1%
- Return on equity
- n/anegative shareholder equity
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $476M
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- 15.0×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $1.0B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +2%
- Dividend yield
- 1.05%$292M paid
- Payout ratio
- 34%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $874M3.1% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −3.4%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $77M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From VeriSign’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $202.61 · MV $305.35 · FCF value $285.91
Assumes 5.2% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 5.2% a year FY22–FY25), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $11.33 a share (trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 22, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 58 · 5 days +2.3%
The business
FCF $1.0B · Sales +6%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$1.0B
- Free-cash-flow yield3.7%
- Free-cash-flow margin59%
- Gross margin89%
- Operating margin68%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+6%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.3×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
VRSN is outside our quality screen
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