Introduction
Verizon, or what is formally known as Verizon Communications Inc., is an American wired and wireless telecommunications company. One good way to measure this company’s current performance is by checking its stock market performance. Verizon is one of the components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is a stock market index, composed of 30 publicly owned companies, to which the Verizon Communications Inc. belongs. The company, whose former name is Bell Atlantic, was founded in October 1983. It became a large cross-listed public company after a series of mergers with and acquisitions of other smaller, private and publicly owned telecommunication ...
