VZ Insider Buying & Government Contracts (2026)

VZ insider buying and selling over the past year

Insiders at VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 3 Form 4 sales totaling $12.02M, against no open-market purchases.

Only 1 of the 3 sales were flagged as Rule 10b5-1 plan trades, so most selling was discretionary rather than pre-scheduled. Activity clustered in 2026-02 (2 trades) and 2026-03 (1 trades); the latest filing in this window is dated 2026-03-02. The average open-market sale price was $49.44; the last close of $44.79 is 9.4% below that level, so sellers exited above the current price. The single largest trade was a sale of 225,000 shares worth $11.16M on 2026-02-24. Since the most recent filing the stock has moved -10.4%, from $49.98.

Where VZ trades relative to its one-year range

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC closed at $44.79 on 2026-10-16, inside a one-year range of $38.40 to $51.45. That puts the stock in the middle of its range, at 49.0% of the distance from low to high. Over one year the share price moved +11.0%, and over roughly three months +2.8%. Average daily volume over the last month was about 26,911,631 shares.

Across 38 companies in the same SEC industry group (SIC 48) with a full year of prices in Gemral Edge, the median one-year return was -9.5%. VZ is ahead of that median and beat 68% of that peer group on this measure.

Members of Congress who traded VZ

STOCK Act disclosures show 79 trades in VZ by 30 members of Congress over five years (38 purchases, 41 sales), most recently on 2026-09-25. The most active traders were Ro Khanna (D-CA), 25 trades; Tim Moore (R-NC), 8 trades; Julie Johnson (D-TX), 5 trades; Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), 4 trades; Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), 4 trades.

By party the trades split 51 by Democrats, 28 by Republicans; by chamber, 71 from the House, 8 from the Senate.

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC federal contract exposure

Federal procurement records resolve 20 prime award actions to VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC, worth $199.65M across 11 agencies. Department of Health and Human Services accounts for 51.1% of that value ($102.01M), so revenue from this channel is spread across several buyers.

VZ lobbying disclosures

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC appears in 25 Lobbying Disclosure Act filings between 2018 and 2018, with $3.45M in reported lobbying spend.

Compare VZ with indexed peers from the same industry group

These peers have full Gemral Edge dossiers and the closest one-year price move to VZ:

• T one-year return -10.5%
• CMCSA one-year return -20.1%
• SPOT one-year return -20.2%
• TMUS one-year return -29.7%
• LUMN one-year return -33.8%

Sources and method

Every figure above is computed from public filings stored in Gemral Edge, not estimated. Insider figures count only open-market purchases and sales reported on SEC Form 4; option exercises, grants and gifts are excluded because they do not reflect a decision to buy or sell at market prices.

• SEC EDGAR Form 4 (edge_insider_trades, codes P/S open-market only) — as of 2026-03-02
• edge_prices_eod (end-of-day close) — as of 2026-10-16
• House PTR / Senate eFD disclosures (edge_congress_trades) — as of 2026-09-25
• FPDS / USAspending (edge_contracts, tier-1 resolved) — as of 2026-10-09
• Senate LDA filings (edge_lobbying_filings)

VZ data questions

Are VZ insiders buying or selling stock?

Insiders at VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 3 Form 4 sales totaling $12.02M, against no open-market purchases.

What is the one-year price range for VZ?

Based on end-of-day closes through 2026-10-16, VZ traded between $38.40 and $51.45, last closing at $44.79.

Has any member of Congress traded VZ stock?

Yes. 30 members disclosed 79 trades in VZ over five years; the most recent disclosed trade date is 2026-09-25.