During the last session, Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN)’s traded shares were 7.04 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.29. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $5.77, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.35% or $0.02. The 52-week high for the LUMN share is $10.33, that puts it down -79.03 from that peak though still a striking 83.19% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $0.97. The company’s market capitalization is $5.86B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 8.55 million shares, and the average trade volume was 13.88 million shares over the past three months.
Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.33. LUMN has a Sell rating from 3 analyst(s) out of 7 analysts who have looked at this stock. 3 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) trade information
Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) registered a 0.35% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.35% in intraday trading to $5.77, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 3.96%, and it has moved by -4.79% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 318.12%. The short interest in Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) is 72.69 million shares and it means that shorts have 5.47 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $4, which implies a decrease of -44.25% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $3.15 and $7 respectively. As a result, LUMN is trading at a discount of -21.32% off the target high and 45.41% off the low.
Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that Lumen Technologies Inc has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) shares have gone up 287.25% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -290.00% against 15.30.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -45.15%. While earnings are projected to return -275.92% in 2025, the next five years will return -2.00% per annum.
LUMN Dividends
Lumen Technologies Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in February. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 11.94%.
Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN)’s Major holders
Lumen Technologies Inc insiders own 7.71% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 66.66%, with the float percentage being 72.23%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 641.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 148.83 million shares (or 15.1122% of all shares), a total value of $163.72 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 118.12 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 11.9933% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $129.93 million.
