Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Verizon Earnings Miss Estimates by a Penny

Verizon Communications posted a quarterly loss due to a non-cash pension charge and high costs from strong sales of the Apple iPhone.

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Its Verizon Wireless venture with
Vodafone Group
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reported 1.2 million net new subscribers compared with the average expectation for over 1 million subscribers from four analysts contacted by Reuters with estimates ranging from 975,000 to 1.2 million.

Verizon posted a fourth-quarter loss of 71 cents per share compared with a profit of 93 cents a share a year earlier.

Excluding a hefty non-cash pension-related charge, it earned 52 cents per share. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected earnings of 53 cents a share.

Revenue rose to $28.4 billion from $26.4 billion in the year-ago quarter and compared with analyst expectations for $28.39 billion according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Following the earnings release, the company's stock

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were slightly lower in pre-market trading. (Click here to get real-time quotes for Verizon.)

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