Verzion reported adjusted fourth quarter earnings this morning of 86 cents per share, on revenue of $32.3 billion.
On the earnings side, that falls short of what Wall Street analysts had expected — EPS of 89 cents per share and $32.1 billion in revenue. That also marks a 5.6 percent revenue decline from the fourth quarter of 2015.
Verizon said it added 591,000 postpaid wireless subscribers during Q4, compared to the 726,000 predicted by analysts.
“We are positioning Verizon for future growth and continued sustainable shareholder value,” said Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam in the earnings release. “In the fourth quarter we expanded our customer base in highly competitive wireless and broadband markets. … We enter 2017 with confidence, based on our investments in next-generation networks and the new capabilities we have acquired. Our goal is to continue to earn our customers’ loyalty every day in a rapidly expanding mobile-first digital world.”
On the digital media side, AOL (which Verizon acquired in 2015, and which owns TechCrunch) saw $532 million in revenue, minus traffic acquisition costs. That’s down 5 percent year-over-year, although Verizon attributes this partly to “a revenue lift in fourth-quarter 2015 related to AOL’s Microsoft deal.”
As of 7:32am Eastern time, Verizon stock was down 2.8 percent in pre-market trading.
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