Verizon Communications (VZ) came out with quarterly earnings of 1.08pershare,beatingtheZacksConsensusEstimateof1.07 per share. This compares to earnings of 1.19pershareayearago.Thesefiguresareadjustedfornon−recurringitems.Thisquarterlyreportrepresentsanearningssurpriseof0.931.17 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1.22, delivering a surprise of 4.27%.Over the last f ...