Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ) Misses Q1 EPS by 3c

Verizon Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VZ) reported Q1 EPS of $0.84, $0.03 worse than the analyst estimate of $0.87. Revenue for the quarter came in at $31.82 billion versus the consensus estimate of $30.7 billion.

Wireless

• 7.5 percent year-over-year increase in service revenues; 6.7 percent year-over-year increase in retail service revenues; 35.0 percent operating income margin; 52.1 percent segment EBITDA margin on service revenues (non-GAAP).
• Added 549,000 net retail connections, including 539,000 net retail postpaid connections; low retail postpaid churn of 1.07 percent; 103.3 million total retail connections; 97.3 million total retail postpaid connections.

Wireline

• 6.2 percent year-over-year increase in consumer revenues; consumer ARPU (average revenue per user) up 11.3 percent year over year.
• 15.5 percent year-over-year increase in FiOS revenues; 98,000 FiOS Internet and 57,000 FiOS Video net additions.

Lowell McAdam, Verizon chairman and CEO, said: "Verizon has delivered double-digit earnings growth in eight of the past nine quarters, and in first-quarter 2014 we posted our strongest consolidated revenue growth in five quarters. With the wireless transaction now behind us, we have great confidence in our ability to sustain these strong results.

"We are already seeing the expected earnings accretion from the transaction," McAdam added. "The full access we now have to the significant cash flows of Verizon Wireless is energizing our efforts to provide customers with product and service innovations and to enable powerful solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges."

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