Verizon Surges 32% in a Year: Should VZ Stock be in Your Portfolio?

Buoyed by a holistic growth model, Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) has gained 32% over the past year compared with the industry’s growth of 36.8%. Despite lagging peers like AT&T Inc. (T) and T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS) , the stock appears poised to gain from customer-focused planning, disciplined engineering and steady infrastructure investments.In addition, Verizon is likely to benefit from the deployment of a cloud-native, container-based, virtualized architecture for higher flexibility, scalability and cos ...