LUMN Stock: More Upside For Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE: LUMN)?

In the last trading session, 5.28 million Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.21. With the company’s per share price at $7.34 changed hands at -$0.03 or -0.41% during last session, the market valuation stood at $7.42B. LUMN’s last price was a discount, traded about -40.74% off its 52-week high of $10.33. The share price had its 52-week low at $0.97, which suggests the last value was 86.78% up since then. When we look at Lumen Technologies Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 12.29 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 17.37 million.

Analysts gave the Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.46. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 3 out of 7 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 3 recommended LUMN as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

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Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) trade information

Instantly LUMN was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -6.50%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 301.09%, with the 5-day performance at -6.50% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) is 9.72% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 64.54 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.35 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 4, meaning bulls need a downside of -83.5% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LUMN’s forecast low is 3.15 with 10 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -36.24% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 57.08% for it to hit the projected low.

Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Lumen Technologies Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 468.99% over the past 6 months, a -290.00% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 17.80%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -45.15%. The 2024 estimates are for Lumen Technologies Inc earnings to decrease by -269.04%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -2.00% per year.

LUMN Dividends

Lumen Technologies Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 11.94 per year.

Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 7.71% of Lumen Technologies Inc shares while 65.37% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 70.84%. There are 65.37% institutions holding the Lumen Technologies Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 15.1122% of the shares, roughly 148.83 million LUMN shares worth $163.72 million.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 11.9933% or 118.12 million shares worth $129.93 million as of 2024-06-30.