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Equinix$EQIX · filed: grew revenue 5.4% in FY2025 to $9.2BSound shipTrillion Score 496Fall Risk MediumNext year $8.8B–$10.5B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Equinix filed
Grew revenue 5.4% in FY2025 to $9.2 billion, operating margin 20.0% against a 24.7% median for real estate investment trusts, equity 35.3% of assets, and dividend per share up 9 years running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Equinix’s card. Sound ship: one warning sign. Trillion Score 496, #50 of 102 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $8.8B and $10.5B, an 80% range sealed on 26 Sept 2026 · receipt #ff52c5 · graded in public by the revenue in Equinix’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Equinix absorbs Verizon's 50-site portfolio for **$3.6bn**, controlling **43%** of U.S. carrier-neutral capacity and ending telco infrastructure ownership.
$3.6 billion
in cash and assumed liabilities
10.5 million square feet
of raised floor
1,200 existing enterprise customers
under multi-year contracts
18 months
The deal closed two weeks ahead of the April…
Equinix completed its acquisition of Verizon's entire data center portfolio today, absorbing 50 facilities across 24 U.S. metros for $3.6 billion in cash and assumed liabilities. The transaction, first announced in December 2024, makes Equinix the sole neutral host operator of significance with coast-to-coast coverage and direct peering to every Tier 1 carrier.
Verizon exits infrastructure ownership completely. The carrier had operated these facilities since 2001, initially to support its own enterprise cloud services before shifting to third-party colocation around 2016. The portfolio includes 10.5 million square feet of raised floor, predominantly in Ashburn, Santa Clara, and Chicago—three of the four highest-value interconnection markets in North America. Equinix inherits 1,200 existing enterprise customers under multi-year contracts, most of which reset pricing to market rates within 18 months. The deal closed two weeks ahead of the April 15 target after expedited CFIUS review.
This consolidation matters because it removes the last vertically integrated carrier from U.S. data center ownership. CenturyLink sold its 57-facility portfolio to Cyxtera and BC Partners in 2017 for $2.15 billion. AT&T divested its remaining colocation assets to Brookfield in 2021. Verizon's exit completes the structural separation of network services from physical infrastructure, a shift that began when hyperscalers stopped building their own meet-me rooms in 2014. Equinix now controls 43% of carrier-neutral interconnection capacity in North America, up from 29% before the deal. The next competitor, Digital Realty, holds 18%.
The pricing tells the real story. Verizon paid roughly $340 per square foot on a mark-to-market basis, below the $425-$475 range Equinix commands for new builds in the same metros. That gap reflects deferred capex—Verizon underinvested in power density upgrades, cooling redundancy, and fiber diversity for the past six years while running these assets in harvest mode. Equinix's guidance assumes $900 million in capex over 24 months to bring power per rack from an average of 8kW to 15kW and install liquid cooling infrastructure in 14 priority sites. The company expects EBITDA margins to improve from Verizon's 41% to Equinix's standard 48% by Q1 2027 as legacy contracts reprice and operating density increases.
Allocators should watch Equinix's debt refinancing by June 30. The company issued $2.1 billion in senior unsecured notes at 5.25% to partially fund the acquisition, raising its net leverage to 4.8x EBITDA, above the 4.2x threshold where its revolver pricing steps up 25 basis points. Management committed to returning to 4.0x leverage by year-end 2026 through EBITDA growth, not asset sales. Operators should track customer concentration risk in the inherited portfolio—six hyperscale tenants account for 62% of the acquired revenue, and three of those contracts include termination rights if Equinix changes ownership or sells specific facilities within 36 months. The company has 90 days to notify those tenants of its intent to retain or divest certain sites.
Equinix now operates 260 data centers globally, with 115 in North America. The Verizon facilities add 840 megawatts of critical IT load, bringing total North American capacity to 2.3 gigawatts—enough to support every major AI training cluster announced in the past 18 months if converted to high-density deployments.
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For the principal
Consider exposure to Equinix's $2.1bn refinancing by June; debt service costs rise if leverage stays above 4.8x through Q4 2025.
For the operator
Track customer concentration risk—six tenants control 62% of acquired revenue, three with termination rights if facilities change hands within 36 months.
For the house
Huang Goodman maintains overweight Equinix at $925 target; acquisition accelerates interconnection moat, execution risk priced in at 4.8x leverage.
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