How is Verisign (VRSN) doing?

Verisign is a company in the software, infrastructure industry, based in Reston, VA, worth $27.5B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

Verisign shares are up 13% over the past year, 2 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Speculative Pop. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 59th percentile on market beat, the 0th on staying power and the 29th on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards, including 1st on “Which companies earn the most on their capital?”.

$303.74+13% in a yearWorth $27.5B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

VRSN against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Verisign +13%, the S&P 500 +16%.

VRSNS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Speculative Pop

BeatingErraticSlowingBought

Beating the market with buyers piling in, but erratically, and its business growth trails most.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Speculative Pop this month; Falling Knife before that.

Also Speculative Pop (69 in all): CME · CSCO · NTAP · LECO · DBX · WBD

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Data & analytics, 23 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Ratings, indices and financial-data franchises.

VRSN, past year+13%3 of 23 in the group

Rest of the group−14%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Verisign is +13% over the past year, against −14% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 3rd of 23 in Data & analytics.

VRSNRest of the group

Best in the groupVIRT Virtu Financial+75%CBOE Cboe Global Markets+26%CME CME+6%

Worst in the groupCSGP CoStar−62%FICO Fair Isaac−61%CLVT Clarivate−57%

Its closest rivalsGDDY GoDaddy−23%AKAM Akamai Technologies+39%NET Cloudflare+64%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Verisign typically moves 2.4% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 64% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.4%about $7.32 a share

Its usual2.7%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.5×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.8%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−21%now 2% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks27%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.5

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.73%

VRSN on our dashboards

Every question where Verisign appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with VRSN highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Who reports next, and what is expected? Earnings	40Steady	103 of 106	Estimate change, 1M 0% · Expected EPS growth +3% · Stock vs S&P, 1M +2.4 pts
Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality	100Excellent	1 of 60	Return on capital >200% · Gross margin 88% · Cash margin 62%
Which companies get the most from each employee? Business quality	93Lean	35 of 60	Revenue / employee $1.8M · Profit / employee $904K · Value / employee $29.6M
Which stocks are priced for perfection? Value	89Rich	39 of 60	Forward P/E 26× · EV / sales 16.1× · Expected EPS growth +13%
Where is money flowing in? Who’s buying and selling	97Inflow	12 of 60	30 days 99 · 5 days 97 · Net buying +22%
Where is trading volume surging? Who’s buying and selling	97Heavy	17 of 60	vs normal 1.7x · Traded a day $365.5M · 5D +5.3%

Go deeper on Stox

VRSN’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see VRSN’s full profile on Stox.

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