What's in the Cards for VeriSign (VRSN) in Q1 Earnings?

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VeriSign (VRSN - Free Report) is set to report first-quarter 2019 results on Apr 25.

Notably, the company’s earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in the trailing four quarters, the average positive surprise being 9.6%.

VeriSign ended fourth-quarter 2018 with 153 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, up 4.5% year over year. The figure reflects a net increase of 1.29 million registrations.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for first quarter earnings has remained steady at $1.24 over the past seven days. The consensus mark for revenues is pegged at $302.4 million, indicating an increase of 1.1% from the year-ago quarter reported figure.

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