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Lumen Technologies Stock Jump On Wednesday, Outperforms Market

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February 7, 2024

Lumen Technologies Stock Jump On Wednesday, Outperforms Market

(VIANEWS) - The NYSE ended the session with Lumen Technologies (LUMN) jumping 10% to $1.49 on Wednesday while NYSE rose 0.41% to $17,204.97.

Lumen Technologies's last close was $1.35, 77.04% below its 52-week high of $5.88.

About Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies, Inc., a facilities-based technology and communications company, provides various integrated products and services under the Lumen, Quantum Fiber, and CenturyLink brands to business and residential customers in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Business and Mass Markets. It offers compute and application services, such as edge cloud services, IT solutions, unified communication and collaboration solutions, colocation and data center services, content delivery services, and managed security services; and IP and data services, including VPN data network, Ethernet, internet protocol (IP), and voice over internet protocol. The company also provides fiber infrastructure services comprising high bandwidth optical wavelength networks; and unlit optical fiber and related professional services. In addition, it offers voice and other services, including private line services, a direct circuit or channel specifically dedicated for connecting two or more organizational sites; a portfolio of traditional time division multiplexing voice services; and synchronous optical network-based ethernet, legacy data hosting services, and conferencing services. The company was formerly known as CenturyLink, Inc. and changed its name to Lumen Technologies, Inc. in September 2020. The company was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana.

Earnings Per Share

As for profitability, Lumen Technologies has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-11.49.

The company's return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder's equity, for the twelve trailing months is negative -153.72%.

Sales Growth

Lumen Technologies's sales growth is negative 9% for the present quarter and negative 9.4% for the next.

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