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Verra Mobility Corp (VRRM)

Technology Information Technology Services
5.30 $
+2.9% vs. previous close
Closing price · As of: 31. Jul 2026
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Open questions

The business works in principle, but one material question is open. As long as it stays open, our findings do not carry a quality verdict.

Yellow, because the company is substantively healthy while one material operating question stays open. On the side of substance: $255.8 million of operating cash flow in 2025, income from operations covering interest expense about 3.7 times over, maturities not until 2029 and 2032, covenants met, and positive equity of $272.0 million — none of that points to the kind of balance-sheet risk that would turn the light red. Against green: earnings for the coming years hang on individual signatures. The terminated customer carried roughly 29 to 30 percent of 2025 segment profit, its replacement contract so far exists only as an agreement on key terms at expressly worse conditions, and two further large customers worth 21.9 percent of quarterly revenue are up for renegotiation within 18 months. Add an interim chief executive and $424.4 million of goodwill in the affected segment, more than the entire equity base. The low share price argues neither way — it is a price, not a quality attribute. Green turns yellow the moment the decisive number of the coming years sits in a document still being negotiated. The decision is yours.

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Verra Mobility: One Customer Brought 14 Percent of Revenue — and Almost a Third of Profit

On May 26, 2026, Avis Budget Group terminated its contract with Verra Mobility. Two months later the company announced agreement on the key terms of a new seven-year contract — and wrote in the same breath that those terms would be "materially less favorable." The numbers behind it are uncomfortable: the departing customer accounted for $135 million to $145 million of annualized revenue but $120 million to $125 million of annualized segment profit — roughly 29 to 30 percent of all segment profit in 2025. Add an interim chief executive since May 31, 2026, two more large customers whose contracts come up for renewal within 18 months, and $183.6 million of buybacks at about $22 a share shortly before the stock collapsed. Not investment advice — just the question of who draws the line under this story: the company or you.

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Trading Day

Previous Close
5.10$
Open
5.00$
Day High
5.30$
Day Low
5.00$
Volume
5,195,051shares

Key levels of the most recently completed trading day — not a live quote.

52-Week Range

52-Week Low 52-Week High
3.90 $ 25.50 $
05/27/2026 08/22/2025

Current price 5.30 $ — 7% of the range above the low.

Lowest and highest closing price over the last 52 weeks. The marker shows where the current price sits within that range: close to the high speaks for strength, close to the low for weakness.

Basics

Market Cap
0.8$B
Shares Outstanding
152Mio.
Float
98.9%
Beta
0.4

Performance

Perf. 1M
6.30%
Perf. 3M
-68.40%
Perf. 6M
-80.30%
YTD Performance (%)
-80.40%
52-Week-High Distance
-83.8%
Perf. 1Y
-79.06%
Perf. 3Y
-74.80%
Perf. 5Y
-65.45%
Perf. Since Inception
-47.10%

Technical Indicators

MA 38 Days
4.40$
MA 50 Days
5.10$
MA 200 Days
15.60$
RSI (14)
61.3
Volatility 30 Days
78.3%
Volatility 250 Days
131.2%

Calculated from the price history · as of 08/03/2026

Valuation

P/E
6.9
Forward P/E
10.5
PEG
P/B
3.2
P/S
0.8
EV/EBITDA
5.0
Price/FCF
7.8

Profitability

Gross Margin
56.9%
EBIT Margin
Net Margin
13.4%
Return on Equity
45.9%
Return on Assets
9.2%

Balance Sheet & Safety

Equity Ratio
Debt/Equity
0.3
Altman Z″
4.80
Piotroski
5 out of 9

Growth

Sales Growth Last Quarter
0.10%
EPS Growth Last Quarter
-15.00%
Sales Growth (Year)
11.36%
Forward Sales Growth
-4.17%
Forward EPS Growth
-16.20%

Dividend

This stock currently pays no dividend.

Quality & Screener

Stage
4
RS Rating
1
EPS Rating
25
Piotroski
5 out of 9
Fundamental Rating
C (46 out of 100)
Altman Z″
4.80

AI Rating

Uses AI

Verra Mobility setzt KI nach eigener Darstellung ein, um Geschäftsprozesse und ausgewählte Teile der eigenen Lösungen zu verbessern, und baut diese Fähigkeiten weiter aus — als eigene Umsatzquelle taucht KI in Geschäfts- und Quartalsberichten dagegen nirgends auf.

View the full file — quotes, sources, reviewed filings
„We utilize artificial intelligence (“AI”) to enhance our business process functions and select aspects of our solutions."

Wir setzen künstliche Intelligenz (‚KI‘) ein, um unsere Geschäftsprozessfunktionen und ausgewählte Aspekte unserer Lösungen zu verbessern.

10-K · 2025-02-27 · View SEC filing
„Our products, services, and business operations increasingly incorporate AI, and we continue to invest in the expansion of our AI capabilities, including through enhancements to existing, and development of new, AI-enabled features and functionality."

Unsere Produkte, Dienstleistungen und Geschäftsabläufe binden zunehmend KI ein, und wir investieren weiter in den Ausbau unserer KI-Fähigkeiten — unter anderem durch Verbesserungen bestehender und die Entwicklung neuer KI-gestützter Funktionen.

10-K · 2026-02-24 · View SEC filing

Filings Reviewed: 10-Q 2026-05-06 · 10-Q 2025-10-29 · 10-Q 2025-08-06 · 10-Q 2025-05-07 · 10-K 2026-02-24 · 10-K 2025-02-27

Rated on July 29, 2026 · How the Rating Is Built

Analysts & Price Target

Current Price 5.30 $
Price Target (average) 9.86 $

The price target sits 86.0% above the current price.

Consensus
Strong Sell
Analyst Ratings
7
Distribution of Recommendations
Strong Buy 5
Buy 1
Hold 1
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0

Combined picture of the price targets and recommendations of every analyst covering the stock. Price targets are expectations for the next 12 months, not promises — and they often follow the price rather than predict it.

Estimates by Fiscal Year

Estimates by Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EPS Estimate ($) EPS Range ($) Revenue Estimate ($M) Expected Growth Analysts
12/31/2026 1.23 1.19 – 1.31 989 -7.0% 8
12/31/2027 1.02 0.85 – 1.21 946 -16.8% 8

Average of the analyst estimates for the coming fiscal years. The range shows how far the most optimistic and the most cautious estimate sit apart — the wider it is, the less certain the expectation.

Next Reporting Date

5. Aug 2026 · after the close · Q2 2026
Expected Earnings per Share
0.30 $

Expected date of the next quarterly or annual figures. Dates do shift occasionally — only the invitation issued by the company is binding.

Revenue & Profit

Cash Flow

Balance Sheet

Margins

Per Share

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Sales Per Quarter ($M)
2024: Q4 · 221.5 $M Q4 2025: Q1 · 223.3 $M Q1 2025: Q2 · 236.0 $M Q2 2025: Q3 · 261.9 $M Q3 2025: Q4 · 257.9 $M Q4 2026: Q1 · 223.6 $M Q1

Source: fundamental data

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Quarterly Figures

Quarterly Figures
Quarter EPS (Earnings Per Share) EPS YoY (%) Sales ($M) Sales YoY (%) Net Margin (%) OCF ($M) FCF ($M)
2024: Q4 -0.41 -2,376.50 222 5.00 -30.10 41 22
2025: Q1 0.20 15.50 223 6.40 14.50 63 42
2025: Q2 0.24 17.70 236 6.10 16.30 75 40
2025: Q3 0.29 39.70 262 16.10 17.90 78 49
2025: Q4 0.12 258 16.40 7.30 40 6
2026: Q1 0.17 -12.80 224 0.10 12.00 40 9
What Do These Terms Mean?
EPS (Earnings Per Share):
Quarterly profit divided by the total share count — how much of the profit works out to a single share.
YoY (Year over Year):
Change versus the same quarter a year ago — this is how you compare without seasonal distortion (e.g. the holiday shopping season).
Sales:
All revenue for the quarter, before any costs are deducted — the top line of the income statement.
Net Margin:
What percentage of sales is left over as profit in the end. Negative means the company is posting a loss.
OCF (Operating Cash Flow):
The cash that actually flows into the till from the core business during the quarter — harder to dress up than book profit.
FCF (Free Cash Flow):
Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures — the money that's genuinely free to use, say for paying down debt, buybacks, or dividends.

Annual Figures

Annual Figures
Fiscal Year Revenue ($M) EBIT ($M) Net Income ($M) EPS ($) Operating Cash Flow ($M) Equity ($M) Total Assets ($M)
2016 231 48 29 0.72 44 0 0
2017 -1 -1 1 0.03 2 5 404
2018 370 13 -58 -0.67 46 302 1,345
2019 449 96 17 0.11 134 310 1,407
2020 394 38 -5 -0.03 47 316 1,367
2021 551 112 41 0.25 193 260 1,837
2022 742 165 92 0.58 218 231 1,756
2023 817 189 57 0.36 206 421 1,790
2024 879 136 31 0.19 224 265 1,614
2025 979 238 137 0.85 256 293 1,646

Fiscal years from the audited annual reports, oldest first. EBIT is the operating profit before interest and taxes; total assets are everything the company owns.

Assessment: Opportunities & Risks

Earnings power of the core business

The Commercial Services segment turned $435.8 million of 2025 revenue into $282.5 million of segment profit — a 64.8 percent margin and roughly 68 percent of total segment profit of $415.9 million. Group-wide, 2025 delivered $979.1 million of revenue, $136.6 million of net income and $255.8 million of operating cash flow.

Customer concentration

Three Commercial Services customers (13.3 / 11.9 / 10.0 percent) plus the New York City Department of Transportation (15.2 percent) brought roughly half of consolidated revenue in the first quarter of 2026. Per the quarterly report filed May 6, 2026, the contracts of the two remaining large Commercial Services customers come up for renewal discussions within 18 months.

Avis Budget break and renegotiation

The May 26, 2026 termination costs, by the company's own figures, $135 million to $145 million of annualized revenue and $120 million to $125 million of annualized segment profit — roughly 29 to 30 percent of 2025 segment profit. The July 28, 2026 agreement covers only the commercial key terms of a seven-year contract, leaves Avis Budget the option to insource selectively and is expressly "materially less favorable."

Balance sheet and goodwill

As of March 31, 2026, $1,055.6 million of debt stood against $272.0 million of equity; maturities fall in 2029 and 2032, all covenants were met, and 2025 income from operations covered interest expense about 3.7 times over. The risk sits in $741.2 million of goodwill, of which $424.4 million is in the affected segment — in 2024 the company already wrote off $97.1 million in Parking Solutions.

Leadership and capital allocation

Chief executive change effective May 31, 2026 (filled on an interim basis), departure of the Government Solutions head on July 9, 2026, board reduced from seven directors to six, retention awards for executives. Beforehand the company had repurchased $183.6 million of its own shares between October 2025 and March 2026 at an average of roughly $22.27 — barely three months before the termination. In June 2026 the departed chief executive filed two Form 144 notices for proposed sales of 1,008,472 shares in total, with a stated market value of roughly $4.47 million; no Form 4 confirming execution had been filed as of July 29, 2026.

Bottom Line

Verra Mobility earns its money from the paperwork of driving, and it does so with unusual profitability: $979.1 million of revenue, $136.6 million of net income and $255.8 million of operating cash flow in 2025, plus a 64.8 percent segment margin in the rental car business. That is also where the weakness lies: four customers recently brought roughly half of revenue, and the most profitable of them terminated on May 26, 2026 — it accounted for $135 million to $145 million of revenue but $120 million to $125 million of segment profit. The July 28, 2026 agreement keeps the relationship alive, but it is only an understanding on key terms and expressly on materially worse conditions. Whoever buys here is not buying a multiple but an open contract negotiation. Not investment advice.

Worth Noting:
  • Verra Mobility reached our research list through the event radar, which pulls mandatory filings from the U.S. securities regulator, the SEC — specifically the Form 8-K under Item 7.01 filed on July 29, 2026 (event of July 28, 2026) announcing the agreement with Avis Budget. It was not a hit from any of our momentum or quality filters; those scanner lists are recomputed daily.
  • Important context for the valuation metrics: the price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios (about 5 and about 0.65 as of July 28, 2026) rest on the trailing twelve months and therefore still contain the full Avis business. The revised 2026 guidance likewise contains Avis through September 2026 — the full annual impact of the termination only lands in 2027.
  • Verra Mobility identifies the three large Commercial Services customers in its concentration note only as "Customer A, B and C" and attaches no names. That the magnitude of the Avis termination ($135 million to $145 million against $979.1 million of 2025 consolidated revenue, roughly 14 percent) matches the largest of those three is arithmetic by this analysis, not confirmation by the company.

About the Company

Verra Mobility Corporation bietet intelligente Mobilitätstechnologielösungen in den USA, Australien, Europa und Kanada an. Es ist in drei Segmenten tätig: Commercial Services, Government Solutions und Parking Solutions.

Employees1,888
HeadquartersMesa, AZ
Address2046 Riverview Auto Drive, 85201 Mesa, United States
Phone480 443 7000
Websiteverramobility.com
IPO Date24. Mar 2017
ISINUS92511U1025

Management

Management
Name Title Birth Year
Jonathan Keyser President & CEO 1982
Craig C. Conti Executive VP & CFO 1978
Stacey Moser Executive VP & Chief Customer Officer 1978
Hiten Patel Chief Accounting Officer 1982
Jason Rivera Chief Product and Technology Officer
Mark Zindler Vice President of Investor Relations
Kristen Young Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

Executives per the latest required filings; titles kept in their original language. Source: fundamental data.

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Data as of: July 31, 2026 · Source: fundamental data & SEC filings (annual and quarterly reports, 10-K/10-Q)

Note: pure fact-based analysis, not investment advice and not a solicitation to buy or sell. All figures without guarantee.

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