LUMNLumen Technologies, Inc.
Is the price fair?
The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (6th percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.
Priced for a decline (~−3% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 9% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 3.6 vs a 7.2 median over 17 quarters (−49% vs median).
Sector median 16.8× across 43 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What LUMN's price assumes
Lumen Technologies, Inc. did not earn a profit over the last twelve months, so it has no trailing P/E and the price is measured against sales instead: 0.72× revenue.
Price / sales · no P/E: the last twelve months did not end in a profit
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.8%
Free cash flow yield · Telecom Services median 9.0%
- Growth the price implies
- −3.3%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −3.3% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; revenue has grown −8.8% a year over the last three.
- EV / sales
- 1.68
EV / sales
Details›
- EV / EBIToperating margin 1.7%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 1.68
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $837M
- Market capitalisation
- $8.57B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −8.8%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.