Lumen Technologies, Inc.

Telecommunications
Telecommunications Equipment
www.lumen.com

Earnings Score
Moat Score
Safety Score

Market Cap $4.21B
PE -13
Debt $18.63B
Cash $1.91B
EV $20.93B
FCF $1.02B

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	-$313.00M
EBIT	$465.00M
ROE	-108%
ROA	1%
FCF	$1.02B
Equity	$289.00M
Growth Stability	-6K%
PE	-13.44
PEG	-14.08
PB	14.56
P/FCF	4.14
P/S	0.32
Price/Cash	0.45
Debt/Equity	64.47
Debt/FCF	18.32
Net Margins	-6%
Gross Margins	48%
Op. Margins	4%
Earnings CAGR	2%
Sales Growth YoY	-3%
Sales Growth QoQ	-4%
Sales CAGR	-4%
FCF CAGR	-1%
Equity CAGR	-28%
Earnings Stability	0.04
Earnings Growth YoY	-453%
Earnings Growth QoQ	-336%
Earnings CAGR 5Y	1%

Sales CAGR 5Y	-11%
FCF CAGR 5Y	-19%
Equity CAGR 5Y	-61%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	-14%
Sales CAGR 3Y	-14%
FCF CAGR 3Y	-25%
Equity CAGR 3Y	-80%
Market Cap	$4.21B
Revenue	$13.00B
Dividend Yield	0%
Payout Ratio	-0%
Assets	$33.54B
Total Debt	$18.63B
Cash	$1.91B
Shares Outstanding	991.27M
EV	20.93B
Earnings Score	6%
Moat Score	10%
Safety Score	22%
Final Score	13%
Working Capital	732M
Current Ratio	1.21
Gross Profit	$6.26B
Shares Growth 3y	-1%
Equity Growth QoQ	-38%
Equity Growth YoY	-43%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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Lumen Technologies is one of the United States' largest telecommunications carriers serving global enterprises. Its merger with Level 3 further shifted the company's operations toward businesses (over 70% of revenue) and away from its legacy consumer business. 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.

SEC Filings

Direct access to Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2025
- 10-Q Mar 31
2024
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2023
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31

Sector Comparison

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of Lumen Technologies, Inc. compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

CAGR 2%

Stability 4%

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Lumen Technologies, Inc. Discounted Cash Flow

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= $9.3B

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
fcf	$1B	$1B	$991M	$979M	$966M	$954M	$942M	$930M	$918M	$906M	$895M	$8.9B
DCF		$913M	$819M	$735M	$660M	$592M	$532M	$477M	$428M	$384M	$345M	$3.4B
Value	$9.3B

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Net Margins	5%	4%	8%	-7%	-24%	-6%	10%	-9%	-71%	-0%	-6%
ROA	-	5%	3%	1%	-4%	2%	7%	0%	-28%	1%	1%
ROE	-	5%	6%	-9%	-39%	-11%	17%	-15%	-2K%	-12%	-108%

Bad Net Margins (-6.32%)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	13.41	49.22	9.46	12.23	12.37	8.54	12.16	-21.59	17.18	18.32
Debt over Equity	1.57	1.63	1.62	1.84	2.77	3.1	2.6	2	48.67	40.8	64.47
Growth Stability	-	-	-	-180%	-6K%	-	-	-	-	-	-6K%

Bad Debt/FCF ratio (18.32)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Bad Debt/Equity ratio (64.47)

The company is overleveraged and has a bad balance between equity and debt.

Bad Graham’s Stability (-6K%)

The company has a bad stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a bad competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	-2%	1%	33%	-4%	-8%	-5%	-11%	-17%	-10%	-11%
Earnings YoY growth	-	-29%	122%	-225%	204%	-77%	-265%	-176%	565%	-99%	1%
Equity YoY growth	-	-5%	75%	-16%	-32%	-17%	6%	-12%	-96%	11%	-61%
FCF YoY growth	-	-29%	-53%	400%	-21%	-8%	29%	-52%	-155%	-217%	-19%