Earnings Results: Verizon CEO says he won’t ‘sacrifice financials for volumes’ as stock claws back

Verizon Communications Inc. returned to positive subscriber growth in its consumer postpaid phone business for the fourth quarter, but the company came up shy with its earnings outlook for the full year.

Its stock ended Tuesday’s session up 2%, breaking a four-quarter streak of post-earnings declines.

The company posted 41,000 net additions…