Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGARShares offered
Since Nov 11, 2023: 3 registrations of shares for a merger, units or notes, 1 shelf registration.
- Nov 2, 2026 Shares for a merger, units or notes 424B3
- Nov 24, 2025 Shares for a merger, units or notes 424B3
- Aug 29, 2025 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
- Apr 8, 2025 Shares for a merger, units or notes 424B3
Every offering filing →“PROSPECTUS Verizon Communications Inc. Offers to Exchange the Notes Set Forth Below that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) For Any and All Outstanding Original Notes Set Forth Opposite the Corresponding Exchange Notes Exchange Notes Original Notes $2,903,000 6.860% Notes due 2028 (CUSIP No. 92343VJB1) (CUSIP Nos. 92343VHQ0 and U9221ACS5) $8,403,000 6.730% Notes …”
424B3, Nov 2, 2026 ↗
Paid in stock
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no stock-based pay line in the 10-K XBRL, year to Dec 31, 2025
Bought back
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no buyback line in the 10-K XBRL, year to Dec 31, 2025
Diluted shares: 4.23B in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 +0.2%2024 +0.2%2023 +0.3%2022 +1.3%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
FY2025, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.
Came from
| Operating cash flow | $37.1B |
| Debt raised | $27.6B |
Went to
| Dividends | $11.5B |
| Debt repaid | $9.0B |
| Added to cash | $14.9B |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$29.4B |
Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.
Each CEO's years
The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years. Facts, not a grade.
Mr. Schulman
- Operating cash flow
- $37.1B
- Dividends
- $11.5B
- Diluted shares since FY2024
- +0.2%
- Revenue since FY2024
- +3%
- Debt since FY2024
- +$14.5B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $65.5M
Mr. Vestberg
- Operating cash flow
- $151.1B
- Acquisitions
- $3.8B
- Dividends
- $43.5B
- Diluted shares since FY2020
- +2.0%
- Revenue since FY2020
- +5%
- Debt since FY2020
- +$14.7B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $119.6M
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | - | $11.5B | - | - | 4.23B |
| 2024-12-31 | - | $11.2B | - | - | 4.22B |
| 2023-12-31 | - | $11.0B | - | - | 4.21B |
| 2022-12-31 | - | $10.8B | - | - | 4.20B |
| 2021-12-31 | - | $10.4B | - | - | 4.15B |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: dividends = PaymentsOfDividends; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
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