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VeriSign Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Apr 25
VeriSign Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jan 24
VeriSign Management Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Oct 25, 2012
VeriSign Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
VeriSign Management Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
VeriSign Management Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
VeriSign Management Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Oct 27, 2011
VeriSign's CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
VeriSign's CEO Discusses Q1 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
VeriSign's CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Jan 27, 2011
VeriSign CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Oct 28, 2010
VeriSign Q2 2010 Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, Aug 2, 2010
VeriSign, Inc. Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Apr 28, 2010
VeriSign, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Feb 2, 2010
VeriSign Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Aug 6, 2009
VeriSign Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, May 7, 2009
VeriSign, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Feb 5, 2009
VeriSign, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Nov 6, 2008
Verisign, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Aug 6, 2008
VeriSign, Inc Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, May 8, 2008

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VRSN vs. ETF Alternatives

Company Description

Overview

VeriSign’s mission is to bring trust to the Internet. We offer a comprehensive spectrum of products and services that enable confidence among Internet users, website owners and operators of digital networks. VeriSign’s Naming Services capabilities enable domain name registration... More

Sector: Technology

Industry: Application Software

Country: United States

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Thursday, April 25, 4:22 PM VeriSign (VRSN): Q1 EPS of $0.58 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $236M (+15% Y/Y) beats by $3.37M. Shares +3% AH. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech, On the Move]
Monday, April 8, 8:26 AM VeriSign (VRSN) announces a new $600M offering of senior unsecured notes to be sold in a private placement to institutional buyers. Comment! [Tech]
Thursday, January 24, 4:12 PM VeriSign (VRSN): Q4 EPS of $0.59 beats by $0.08. Revenue of $230M (+13% Y/Y) beats by $0.72M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech]
Thursday, January 24, 12:10 AM Notable earnings after Thursday’s close: CPHD, CRUS, ED, EGHT, ETFC, FLEX, INFA, JBHT, JNPR, KLAC, MSFT, MXIM, QLGC, RMBS, RMD, SBUX, SCSS, SXL, SYNA, T, TKR, TPX, VRSN 1 Comment [Earnings]
Wednesday, January 23, 5:35 PM Notable earnings after Thursday’s close: CPHD, CRUS, ED, EGHT, ETFC, FLEX, INFA, JBHT, JNPR, KLAC, MSFT, MXIM, QLGC, RMBS, RMD, SBUX, SCSS, SXL, SYNA, T, TKR, TPX, VRSN Comment! [Earnings]
Monday, January 7, 7:07 AM VeriSign (VRSN) could see its business model copied as the Internet domain name landscape is opened up with new suffixes such as .MOVIE, .CASINO, and .BEER set to potentially challenge the domination of .COM. Venture capitalists are backing smaller players in the TLD land rush, while big companies such as Amazon and Google are also looking to win strategic suffixes. Comment! [Tech]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 4:31 PM VeriSign (VRSN) announces .net domain registration fees will rise 10% on July 1, 2013, to $5.62 from $5.11. The company's shares were recently clocked thanks to an agreement with the DoC to curtail price hikes for .com domain registrations - their price currently stands at $7.85. Comment! [Tech]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 1:39 PM The index-makers at the Nasdaq are good at selling the bottom: The average one-year return of stocks getting kicked out of the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) is more than 63%, according to Schaeffer's. "You buy low expectations, not low price," says Ryan Detrick. "Getting kicked out of the QQQ probably is a sign things can't get much worse." Full list of the 10 exiting on Monday. 1 Comment [Tech]
Thursday, December 6, 2012, 9:43 AM VeriSign (VRSN +1.4%) opens higher after disclosing it has increased the size of its buyback authorization by $458.8M to a cool $1B. That leaves VeriSign free to buy back 17.9% of outstanding shares at current levels. Management mentioned last week it was looking to re-evaluate VeriSign's capital structure, something that had led Wells Fargo to think both buybacks and debt offerings are likely. Following last week's bad news, shares are trading near late-2010 levels. Comment! [Tech]
Monday, December 3, 2012, 5:01 PM VeriSign (VRSN +5.1%) recouped some of the giant losses it saw on Friday after Barron's came to its defense, arguing VeriSign's amended .com domain name registration deal still leaves the company with a high-margin business featuring plenty of visibility. It also noted Wells Fargo's continued bullishness, and conference call remarks about the deal freeing VeriSign to focus on finding ways to monetize its patents. Comment! [Tech, On the Move, Quick Ideas]
Friday, November 30, 2012, 1:04 PM Midday top 10 gainers: MARK +38%. MITL +30%. MHH +25%. CBK +24%. PPHM +24%. AMPL +24%. TELK +19%. PLNR +17%. TLAB +15%. FIVE +15%.
Top 10 Losers: RIC -24%. NTLS -23%. FFKY -19%. SUPN -18%. SBLK -14%. VRSN -14%. PSUN -14%. MMYT -13%. HGSH -13%. PWX -11%. Comment! [On the Move]
Friday, November 30, 2012, 12:24 PM Thanks to the unfavorable amending of its .com domain renewal contract, Wells Fargo now sees VeriSign (VRSN -13.8%) growing at a 7% annual clip, down from a prior 11% - .com registrations make up ~85% of VeriSign's revenue. Also, Wells, which is reiterating an Outperform, thinks comments from management about re-evaluating VeriSign's capital structure suggests the company plans to take on more debt and increase its buyback activity. Comment! [Tech, Quick Ideas]
Friday, November 30, 2012, 8:23 AM More on VeriSign: The company announces the Department of Commerce has approved a 6-year renewal of its deal to operate the .com domain name registry. VeriSign's current fee of $7.85/registration will continue, but it won't be able to implement four 7% price hikes over the course of the renewal deal, as it had planned. Instead, price hikes will be tied to a new "consensus policy" or "extraordinary expenses," and will require the DoC's approval. VRSN -14.8%. CC at 8:30AM ET (webcast). Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Friday, November 30, 2012, 8:05 AM Shares of VeriSign (VRSN) are halted with news pending. A conference call to provide a status update on the .com Registry Agreement Renewal is minutes away, according to the company's investor relations website section. (webcast) Comment! [Consumer, Tech]
Monday, November 26, 2012, 11:52 AM VeriSign (VRSN -2.5%) is slumping after receiving a downgrade to Equal Weight from boutique i-bank First Analysis. Shares have been pressured this fall by concerns about regulatory reviews of VeriSign's 6-year renewal contract for handling the Dot.com domain name registry. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 2:20 PM Verisign (VRSN +10.4%) soars after providing details about an '06 amendment to a Cooperative Agreement it signed with the Commerce Department. The amendment states Verisign won't renew its deal to run the .com domain name registry without the department's approval, but also states there's an "expectancy of renewal." Verisign adds it believes the DOJ has "substantially concluded its own review process" - shares had sold off on worries about the DOJ/DOC reviews. (PR) Comment! [Tech, On the Move]

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Trading Lessons: Verisign Closes October Earnings Gap Down: http://bit.ly/XisGTN $VRSN
Feb 9, 10:58 AM
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Tony Kau
Just closed 7-day shorts $EME $PSSI, longs $ARE $VRSN for avg return of 1.5% http://ow.ly/f6zZ5
11/7/12
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http://bit.ly/SaF46K Premarket loser $CTCT(-19%), $DECK(-18%), $FULT(-17%), $VRSN(-15%), $CSTR(-7%)
10/26/12
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dak269
VRSN...new 52 week high...would like to have seen a little more volume but the chart is worth a look!
10/3/12
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Jim Van Meerten
VRSN - 100% Barchart technical buy signal - 3 new highs and up 2.35% in the last month - Relative strength Index 63.43%
10/1/12
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Jim Van Meerten
VRSN - 96% Barchart technical buy signal - 12 new hgihs and up 10.43% in the last month - Relative Strength Index 69.19%
8/16/12
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The Oxen Group
What stocks should you be buying for earnings season? 1. ASH 2. DAL 3. DTV 4. VRSN. Find out more! http://stks.co/b1mo
7/12/12
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Jim Van Meerten
VRSN - 96% Barchart technical buy signal - 8 new highs and up 9.95% in the last month - Relative Strength Index 66.99%
6/26/12
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The Oxen Group
VRSN http://stks.co/423Z Go long. Has a nice trend line support, right below breakout, stock consolidating. http://stks.co/423a
5/30/12
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The Oxen Group
VRSN http://stks.co/40vx 50day and 20day MA's sit at around $40, look for it to move if it breaks $40. http://stks.co/40vy
5/29/12
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