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 have 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: 24,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
77% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 113 | Existing positions closed: 64
9% more funds holding
Funds holding: 498 [Q3] → 542 (+44) [Q4]
5.6% more ownership
Funds ownership: 63.22% [Q3] → 68.82% (+5.6%) [Q4]
0% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q3] → 2 (+0) [Q4]
0% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 154 | Existing positions reduced: 154
19% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $4.56B [Q3] → $3.71B (-$849M) [Q4]
24% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $137M | Put options by funds: $182M
Research analyst outlook
3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
3 analyst ratings
Raymond James Frank Louthan 29% 1-year accuracy 4 / 14 met price target | 3%upside $4.50 | Outperform Upgraded | 5 May 2025 |
Citigroup Michael Rollins 75% 1-year accuracy 21 / 28 met price target | 48%upside $6.50 | Buy Upgraded | 26 Feb 2025 |
Wells Fargo Eric Luebchow 53% 1-year accuracy 24 / 45 met price target | 14%upside $5 | Equal-Weight Upgraded | 21 Feb 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 18 articles about LUMN published over the past 30 days
