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Company snapshot — Lumen Technologies Inc

LUMN in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Lumen provides network services to businesses and to residential customers across two segments, Business and Mass Markets. It runs dark fibre, edge cloud, IP, VoIP, managed security and SD-WAN offerings for enterprise clients, alongside broadband and voice services sold to households under the Quantum Fiber and CenturyLink brands. The company was previously known as CenturyLink and is based in Monroe, Louisiana.
Where it sits in the stack
Lumen carries no seat in our index and sits outside the Rubin and Halo sleeves that track the AI build-out; it belongs instead to the wider telecom-services sector of our universe, where fibre networks and connectivity providers are grouped.
Who it is priced against
A comparison the market often draws is with AT&T, another large US carrier offering both enterprise network services and consumer broadband.
Why Closelook tracks it
Lumen holds no Closelook index seat and carries no score in the diary; it has not been quoted in any edition to date.
What the diary watches
Whether the shift from legacy voice and data-hosting revenue towards fibre and edge-cloud services stabilises the top line as older contracts run off.

Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) trades on US exchanges, classified under Communication Services.

The Closelook company score reads 25/100 composite (momentum 10, quality 21, valuation 51) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for LUMN, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Telecom Services · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Telecom Services · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against LUMN on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months

Dividends and capital return

What LUMN pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Distributions No cash distribution recorded in the price series over the last three years
  • Share count +0.7% in FY2025 48 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 66/100 · S&P 500 fund at 64, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-22
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-22
  • Sector × region Communication services in US: −0.1% week · +2.2% month · +6.2% quarter · −2.5% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLC.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-22
  • Sovereign pressure Index -0.03 · down 0.40 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-22

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-23

Quick answers

What is Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN)?

Lumen Technologies Inc trades as LUMN on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Communication Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-23.

Is LUMN in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Lumen Technologies Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-23.

What is Lumen Technologies Inc's Closelook composite score?

25 out of 100, with momentum 10, quality 21 and valuation 51 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-23. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does LUMN trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -0.5% vs the 50-day and -16.8% vs the 200-day average, 46.6% below the 52-week high and +15.6% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 39 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-22 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Lumen Technologies Inc do?

Lumen provides network services to businesses and to residential customers across two segments, Business and Mass Markets. It runs dark fibre, edge cloud, IP, VoIP, managed security and SD-WAN offerings for enterprise clients, alongside broadband and voice services sold to households under the Quantum Fiber and CenturyLink brands. The company was previously known as CenturyLink and is based in Monroe, Louisiana. A comparison the market often draws is with AT&T, another large US carrier offering both enterprise network services and consumer broadband.

Where does Lumen Technologies Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Lumen carries no seat in our index and sits outside the Rubin and Halo sleeves that track the AI build-out; it belongs instead to the wider telecom-services sector of our universe, where fibre networks and connectivity providers are grouped. Lumen holds no Closelook index seat and carries no score in the diary; it has not been quoted in any edition to date.

Does Lumen Technologies Inc pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in Lumen Technologies Inc’s price series over the last three years. The share count rose 0.7% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for LUMN, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Telecom Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.