{"id":6825,"date":"2026-07-05T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:47:04","slug":"verizon-communications-debt-position-177-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6825","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Communications: Debt Position $177 Billion dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US Telecommunications giant Verizon, who’s roots can be traced back to the merger of the 2 “baby bells”, NYNEX and Bell Atlantic, today is giant in the global telecommunications landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.verizon.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It carries debt as part of its financing operation of the overall business<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/sites\/default\/files\/Verizon-IR-Debt-Portfolio-033126.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy of Verizon.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total Debt that Verizon carries is $177 Billion dollars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2025 Annual Report has some salient information:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-Annual-Report-on-Form-10k.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy of Verizon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the annual report is up to Dec 2025. Debt was stated at $147 Bn<\/strong>, (see below) and then 3 months later, the debt has increased to $177 Bn<\/strong>. In a quarter, the debt has grown by $30 Bn in just 3 months<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy of Verizon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see above, Debt Interest = Financing Costs are $6.694 Billion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Income statement we see:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy of Verizon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Version has revenues of $106 Bn<\/strong> (income) and while the income stream is huge, it still needs $6.694 Bn<\/strong> to simply pay interest on its debt to its Bond Holders (the creditor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The US Telecommunications giant Verizon, who’s roots can be traced back to the merger of the 2 “baby bells”, NYNEX and Bell Atlantic, today is giant in the global telecommunications landscape. https:\/\/www.verizon.com It carries debt as part of its financing operation of the overall business https:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/sites\/default\/files\/Verizon-IR-Debt-Portfolio-033126.pdf Courtesy of Verizon. Total Debt that Verizon carries is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}