VZ Q1 Earnings announcement tomorrow - What's the prognosis? When will VZ close on Frontier?
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The quality of earnings is weak and the Street knows this. Hans the hooligan think that he can fool the street with a little financial engineering but the top line did not grow while the company beat the earnings estimate. That is called cannibalizing what is working in the company to pay for what is not and still meet the dividend. This is why the stock is down. The Street knows that Hans is as full of doo doo as he is of himself. He was in over his head from day 1 and his DEI campaign shortcircuited esprit de corp and his prepaid campaign undermined the network. He has not gotten a single thing right since he became CEO, except replacing McAdams as the worst CEO.
Now the stock price is back to pre-ER. What are you guys”s excuse now?
Lmao
Replace all board members. They are all DEI hires. I want Denny Strigl back
The truth is that our customers are very unhappy with the customer service we provide. It is absolutely deplorable. We need to wake up before it’s too late. Keep outsourcing and we will be history in a few years. I want the Executive Team to call the general customer service number and experience what the general public does when they need assistance. I bet it will change real quick. We allowed TMobile to take over and we just sat there and allowed it to happen. I blame Executive leadership for this demise. We all know the CEO is not that great. He’s ruined this company like he did the prior one. This once beloved company is GONE..
Hans Vestberg was sold to Verizon’s board as a transformational leader. A “maverick” CEO. The reality?
A 5G evangelist who oversaw:
• 289,000 postpaid subscriber losses in Q1 2025 alone
• Bloated investment in underperforming ventures (BlueJeans, 5G Home)
• Executive pay ($24M in 2023) that outpaced shareholder value
• Strategic stagnation while T-Mobile outmaneuvered Verizon at every turn
Leadership is about results, not optics. “Maverick” doesn’t excuse decline — it explains boardroom denial.
It’s time to stop romanticizing underperformance.
Verizon is a slow-moving incumbent playing accounting gymnastics to preserve investor confidence and buy time. The core business is eroding under pressure from nimble competitors, and leadership is hoping broadband gains and dividend loyalty will mask the cracks. But you can’t polish a legacy network forever — unless they invest smartly and reform ops, it’s just a delayed decline in slow motion.
Impressive topline spin — but what’s under the hood?
Verizon leads in wireless service revenue and retail connections, yet questions remain:
• Are we seeing sustainable EBITDA growth, or just temporary boosts from prepaid churn post-TracFone?
• How much of this “confidence” in full-year guidance is driven by cost-cutting vs. actual innovation or market share wins?
• AI Connect and D2D sound promising, but are they revenue engines or PR talking points?
Healthy skepticism is not cynicism. It’s what shareholders, employees, and customers deserve in the post-commodity telecom era.
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Lol. Stock is UP. Go back to your doughnuts and Trump supporting.
Verizon Q1 2025: A Utility in Disguise, Not a Tech Leader
Verizon just beat earnings — but don’t let the headlines fool you.
Yes, EPS was $1.19. Yes, broadband subs grew. But here’s the uncomfortable truth:
They lost 289,000 postpaid wireless customers.
The lifeblood of their business is bleeding — and not slowly.
The “growth” is in fixed wireless — a stopgap, not a long-term infrastructure bet. Fios? Stagnant.
Now they want to acquire Frontier to mask the decay. Frontier — a debt-laden, legacy-ridden provider.
This isn’t transformation.
It’s a strategic retreat disguised as innovation.
Behind the boardroom buzzwords — “execution,” “synergy,” “scale” — lies a telecom giant slowly conceding its leadership. Investors saw through it. Stock dropped 2.5% despite the EPS beat.
Verizon is becoming what it never wanted to be:
A dividend-paying utility with a marketing budget.
Buy t-mobile. Vz will see considerate head winds with consumer defaults on the rise ( 9 million student loan defaults by eoy).
Premarket stock price is down 5% 😂 Focus on swag and photoshoots while losing subscribers was a huge success!
Cnbc hans interview, he says he is at Basking Ridge New York City
They announced a hiring freeze until Q3 so...not good.
Earnings beat expectations!
The leaders will all congratulate themselves for a strong quarter filled with momentum, while ignoring that their own strategic failures caused vsp and rifs. They will tout how most revenue is domestic while ignoring their frantic push to ruin American lives and careers by moving sourcing, parts of HR, data engineering and more offshore. They will bask in their progress towards getting their own bonuses while ignoring the burnout they achieved that on. Great work team. Proud to be VZ!
Prognosis negative
The market is suspecting a soft subscriber number and prices are down as a result. Consumer sentiment is negative at the moment and many are tightening their belts for the expected inflation. So it is expected that this soft performance will continue through Q2 and potential for the rest of the year. All stocks are suffering with a similar sentiment.