Verizon Communications Inc., or Verizon for short, is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City.
Verizon was founded on June 30, 2000 and is registered in Delaware, resulting from the merger of Bell Atlantic Corporation and GTE Corporation (formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation).
According to Verizon's latest financial reports the company has a price-to-book ratio of 1.78. The price-to-book ratio is a way to measure how much the stock market thinks a company is worth compared to how much the company says its assets are worth on paper.