Zacks.com Announces That Bill Martin Highlights the Following Stock: VeriSign.CHICAGO -- Bill Martin believes that VeriSign (Nasdaq:VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ) shares will finally get back on track to close out the year. Check out his recent alert. Bill Martin is the editor of the FindProfit newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Highlights from the July 21 Featured Expert column by Bill Martin include: Quick Hit Alert Second-quarter profits at VeriSign (Nasdaq:VRSN) checked in at $58.6 million, or 24 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. , down from $73.6 million, or 27 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue, meanwhile, was $392.9 million, down from $430.4 million a year ago. VRSN's balance sheet continues to look solid. The company ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and short-term investments of $734 million. This is down -$76 million from the previous quarter, but VeriSign repurchased approximately 3 million shares of stock for $60 million during the quarter. VeriSign also spent $266 million in cash to acquire m-Qube. With year-over-year comparables becoming significantly easier for VRSN's Communications Group, and new acquisitions set to begin to contribute to operations, Bill Martin and his team are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. VRSN shares to finally get back on track to close out the year. Furthermore, with a free cash flow yield of nearly 7% on the shares, and strong multi-year growth visibility in the company's core businesses, Martin believes that VRSN will start to see its PE multiple stop compressing com·press tr.v. com·pressed, com·press·ing, com·press·es 1. To press together: compressed her lips. 2. To make more compact by or as if by pressing. 3. and start expanding over the coming next few quarters. Read Bill Martin's complete commentary regarding the company above and discover other stocks by clicking: http://at.zacks.com/?id=85 About Zacks Featured Experts Successful investing requires professional advice from knowledgeable experts who can help investors achieve their financial goals in good markets and improve their portfolios, especially in bad ones. 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