LumenLUMN
About: With 450,000 route miles of fiber, Lumen Technologies is one of the United States' largest telecommunications carriers serving global enterprises. Its merger with Level 3 in 2017 and divestiture of much of its incumbent local exchange carrier, or ILEC, business in 2022 has shifted the company's operations away from its legacy consumer business and toward enterprises (now about 75% of revenue). Lumen offers businesses a full menu of communications services, providing colocation and data center services, data transportation, and end-user phone and internet service. On the consumer side, Lumen provides broadband and phone service across 37 states, where it has 4.5 million broadband customers.
Employees: 27,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
76% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 111 | Existing positions closed: 63
6% more funds holding
Funds holding: 497 [Q3] → 525 (+28) [Q4]
4.38% more ownership
Funds ownership: 63.57% [Q3] → 67.95% (+4.38%) [Q4]
3% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 148 | Existing positions reduced: 153
20% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $4.59B [Q3] → $3.67B (-$918M) [Q4]
26% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $134M | Put options by funds: $182M
50% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q3] → 1 (-1) [Q4]
Research analyst outlook
3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
3 analyst ratings
Wells Fargo Eric Luebchow 60% 1-year accuracy 29 / 48 met price target | 7%upside $5 | Equal-Weight Upgraded | 21 Feb 2025 |
RBC Capital Bora Lee 100% 1-year accuracy 2 / 2 met price target | 9%downside $4.25 | Sector Perform Reiterated | 10 Feb 2025 |
Citigroup Michael Rollins 77% 1-year accuracy 17 / 22 met price target | 72%upside $8 | Neutral Maintained | 29 Nov 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 15 articles about LUMN published over the past 30 days
