In the latest trading session,, 2.01 million Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.38. With the company’s most recent per share price at $4.42 changed hands at -$0.09 or -1.99% at last look, the market valuation stands at $4.53B. LUMN’s current price is a discount, trading about -133.71% 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 78.05% up since then. When we look at Lumen Technologies Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 14.23 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 12.44 million.
Analysts gave the Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 2.73. 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.
Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) trade information
Instantly LUMN was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action 4.25%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 342.01%, with the 5-day performance at 4.25% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) is 13.34% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 69.65 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 6.16 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 4, meaning bulls need a downside of -10.5% from its recent 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 -126.24% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 28.73% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 59.19%. The 2025 estimates are for Lumen Technologies Inc earnings to decrease by -358.66%.
LUMN Dividends
Lumen Technologies Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-01. 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 8.13% of Lumen Technologies Inc shares while 71.41% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 77.72%. There are 71.41% institutions holding the Lumen Technologies Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 15.0757% 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 11.9643% or 118.12 million shares worth $129.93 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Apr 30, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 47.06 shares estimated at $209.19 million under it, the former controlled 4.59% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 2.81% of the shares, roughly 28.88 shares worth around $128.36 million.
