Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Google-Parent Alphabet to Replace Verizon in Dow Jones Industrial Average

Great! Verizon has been booted from the Dow!

Alphabet will join mega-cap tech peers Nvidia, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft in the blue-chip index.

Verizon had represented just around one-half of a percentage point in the index because of its low share price, S&P Global said. The Dow is a price-weighted index, meaning that each member stock is weighted based on its share price. As a result, a company with a higher price per share will have more sway over the index.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/alphabet-to-replace-verizon-in-dow-jones-industrial-reshuffle-021307109.html

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/google-parent-alphabet-to-replace-verizon-in-dow-jones-industrial-average-d8dfe852


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@OP So?

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Post ID: @eg+1kvxppc8z

This old utility is a sinking ship. Lowell and Hans tried to diversify and made nothing but poor choices. They managed to steer us right into the iceberg. More RIFs will follow

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Post ID: @dr+1kvxppc8z

Verizon is basically an old school utility company and will just coast along. Its era is long gone, it’ll always make money but it’s been superseded by other companies and sectors (same can be said for telecom in general)

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Post ID: @bz+1kvxppc8z

@ay So, tell us, oh wise one.

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Post ID: @b1+1kvxppc8z

People on here don't know a thing about telcom let alone how the stock market works.

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Post ID: @ay+1kvxppc8z

Not sure how to feel about this. Can someone commission Dan the AI Poem Man for an elegy?

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Post ID: @ax+1kvxppc8z

10 years of bad management finally puts an end to a once good company , 10 years of not even putting up a fight to the competition. We were right Hans and Shankar were wrong , now everyone else pays for their hubris and misdeeds. Share holders whose money we squandered , good employees who were gas lighted against their best instincts on following one doomed project after another, good managers who were unceremoniously je-ked around pushed out or superseded by lightweight corrupt and talentless managers we all should have known better than to stick around.

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