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Verizon

telecoms · United States · Accounts: VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC

Revenue 2025
$138.2bn

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Net profit 2025
$17.2bn

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Dividends paid 2025
$11.5bn

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Workforce
Not available

From the stored figures

  • In 2025 Verizon cut 15,000 roles and paid $11.5bn in dividends.
  • Revenue went from $126.0bn in 2016 to $138.2bn in 2025 (+10%).

Cuts against payouts

Jobs cut each year (tracker events) beside dividends and buybacks paid that year

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Revenue and profit

Revenue as bars; pre-tax and net profit to shareholders as lines

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Dividends and buybacks

Cash paid to shareholders each year; buybacks shown separately

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Workforce

Year-end headcount the company reports; triangles mark job-cut events

Headcount from annual filings. Cuts from the tracker's events.

Revenue and profit per employee

Each year's stored figure divided by that year's reported headcount

Figures from SEC EDGAR XBRL. Original reporting currency. "Not available" means no stored figure; nothing is estimated.

Every figure and its source

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  • 2026

    Revenue
    Not available
    Pre-tax profit
    Not available
    Net profit to shareholders
    Not available
    Cash dividends paid
    Not available
    Dividend per share
    Not available
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2025

    Revenue
    $138.2bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $22.7bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $17.2bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $11.5bn
    Dividend per share
    2.73
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2024

    Revenue
    $134.8bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $23.0bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $17.5bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $11.2bn
    Dividend per share
    2.69
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2023

    Revenue
    $134.0bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $17.0bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $11.6bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $11.0bn
    Dividend per share
    2.63
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2022

    Revenue
    $136.8bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $28.3bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $21.3bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $10.8bn
    Dividend per share
    2.58
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2021

    Revenue
    $133.6bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $29.4bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $22.1bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $10.4bn
    Dividend per share
    2.54
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2020

    Revenue
    $128.3bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $24.0bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $17.8bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $10.2bn
    Dividend per share
    2.48
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2019

    Revenue
    $131.9bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $22.7bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $19.3bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $10.0bn
    Dividend per share
    2.44
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2018

    Revenue
    $130.9bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $19.6bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $15.5bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $9.77bn
    Dividend per share
    2.38
    Share buybacks
    Not available
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2017

    Revenue
    $126.0bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $20.6bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $30.1bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $9.47bn
    Dividend per share
    2.33
    Share buybacks
    $0.00
    Year-end workforce
    Not available
  • 2016

    Revenue
    $126.0bn
    Pre-tax profit
    $21.0bn
    Net profit to shareholders
    $13.1bn
    Cash dividends paid
    $9.26bn
    Dividend per share
    2.29
    Share buybacks
    $0.00
    Year-end workforce
    Not available

10 of 10 years complete · checked 28 Oct 2026 · SEC CIK 732712