Verisign (VRSN)
Technology · NASDAQ · US
Price as at 10 Aug 2026, 19:29 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Verisign trades at $294.53, which is 21% above the $231.68 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 65 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 29.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
VRSN dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $2.43 | 3 |
| 2025 | $2.31 | 3 |
| 2011 | $2.75 | 1 |
| 2010 | $3.00 | 1 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
VRSN earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 4 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Verisign
VeriSign, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides internet infrastructure and domain name registry services that enables internet navigation for various recognized domain names worldwide. The company provides root zone maintainer services, operating two of thirteen internet root servers; and offering registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net domains, which supports global e-commerce. It operates directory for .name and .cc; and back-end systems for .edu, domain names. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
VRSN passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
16 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Warren Buffett, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC$2.26B · 0.8% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$1.25B · 0.4% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$616.26M · 0.8% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$333.95M · 0.2% of book
- Steve Cohen, Point72 Asset Management, L.P.$125.59M · 0.2% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is Verisign (VRSN) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $231.68, VRSN at $294.53 is 21% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own VRSN?
16 of the institutions we track reported a position in VRSN in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is VRSN's P/E ratio?
VRSN trades at 29.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Verisign (VRSN) pay a dividend?
Yes. Verisign yields 1.20% at the current share price. It has paid $3.20 per share over the trailing twelve months. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its VRSN data?
Fundamentals for VRSN come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NASDAQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 10 Aug 2026, 19:29 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.