VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN) earnings on July 23, 2026
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
Verisign surged over 7% to hit its best levels of the session, continuing to climb after early gains.
VRSN price around the earnings
280.00
Change: +7.0%
2026-07-24, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
255.93
264.07
272.21
280.35
261.58
July 23, 2026
July 24, 2026
- Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Consistent small beats and analyst upside support recovery from selloff, with mixed analyst actions.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Recent selloff followed by recovery into earnings, supported by consistent beats and analyst upside.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.8
- Analysts covering the stock
- 5
- Average price target
- 313.2
- Lowest price target
- 265
- Highest price target
- 355
- Upside to price target
- 19.5%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 7.6%
- Revenue growth
- 6.6%
- Forward EPS
- 10.47
- Trailing EPS
- 9.06
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 2
- Strong buy: 0
- Buy: 3
- Hold: 2
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 0
- Buy
- 3
- Hold
- 2
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- June 18, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- June 1, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (1)
- Wedbush Assumes VeriSign at Outperform, Announces Price Target of $318 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.4%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -15.5%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -1.9%
- 30-day change (30d)
- +6.1%
- 30-day relative strength
- +5.7%
- SPY change (30d)
- +0.4%
- Nearest support
- 262.14
- Nearest resistance
- 264.06
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.93
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +0.6%
- April 23, 2026: actual EPS 2.34 vs estimate 2.27 (surprise +3.0%)
- February 5, 2026: actual EPS 2.23 vs estimate 2.29 (surprise -2.4%)
- October 23, 2025: actual EPS 2.27 vs estimate 2.24 (surprise +1.3%)
- July 24, 2025: actual EPS 2.21 vs estimate 2.2 (surprise +0.6%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +2.2%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 3.8%
- 75th percentile move
- 6%
- 90th percentile move
- 8.2%
- Up / down moves
- 10 / 10
- Average up move
- +4.2%
- Average down move
- -4.5%
Monitoring and close
What VeriSign, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 2.38 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 2.36 |
| EPS surprise | +0.8% |
| Revenue | $435 million |
| Revenue estimate | $433 million |
| Revenue surprise | +0.3% |
VeriSign reported better-than-expected Q2 earnings and revenue, raised its 2026 sales guidance, and delegated .web.
Sources (11)
- VeriSign Q2 Earnings Call Highlights (opens in a new tab) — MarketBeat
- VeriSign (VRSN) Beats Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- DNIB.com Reports Internet Has 401.6 Million Domain Name Registrations at the End of the Second Quarter of 2026 (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
- Full Transcript: VeriSign Q2 2026 Earnings Call (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Conference Call: VeriSign Raises FY2026 Sales Guidance from $1.730B-$1.745B to $1.745B-$1.755B vs $1.744B Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) Reports In-Line Q2 Results as Raised 2026 Guidance Supports the Quality Stock Thesis (opens in a new tab) — ChartMill
- VeriSign Q2 EPS $2.38 Beats $2.36 Estimate, Sales $434.600M Beat $433.206M Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
- VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
- VeriSign, Inc. 2026 Q2 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
- VeriSign reported earnings of $2.38 per share, beating the $2.36 estimate, and revenue of $434.6M, above the $433.2M forecast. — Benzinga
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, the figures don't clearly confirm the prior scenario.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +7.0%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 7.2%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 1.7%