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EV / sales at other companies

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Verizon CommunicationsVZ
1.8×-0.8×
AT&T logo
AT&TT
2.7×0.0×
Comcast logo
ComcastCMCSA
1.5×-0.4×
Charter Communications, Inc. logo
Charter Communications, Inc.CHTR
2.2×-0.4×
MaxLinear logo
MaxLinearMXL
3.1×+0.5×
Viasat logo
ViasatVSAT
1.1×+0.9×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$2.9B-8.9%
Gross profit$1.5B-2.1%
Operating income$602.0M+463%
Net income-$200.0M+0.5%
EPS (diluted)-$0.200.0%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$1.6B-14.4%
Total debt$13.4B-29.0%
Total equity-$1.3B-556%
Total assets$30.6B-8.7%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$1.3B+20.8%
CapEx$943.0M+19.2%
Free cash flow$380.0M+25.0%

Valuation

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Market cap$8.45B+79.1%
Enterprise value$20.23B-9.8%
P/S0.7×+0.3×

Profitability

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Gross margin47.3%-0.9pp
Operating margin-2.6%-6.6pp
Net margin-14.3%
FCF margin-3.9%-9.2pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity-170.9%+20.5pp
Debt / equity65.4×+26.1×
Current ratio-0.2×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Lumen Technologies’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Lumen Technologies’s 10-Q, filed May 5, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Lumen Technologies's EV / sales?
Lumen Technologies (LUMN) reported EV / sales of 1.6× in Q1 2026.
How has Lumen Technologies's EV / sales changed year-over-year?
Lumen Technologies's EV / sales decreased by 3.3% year-over-year, from 1.6× to 1.6×.
What is the long-term trend for Lumen Technologies's EV / sales?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Lumen Technologies's EV / sales has grown at a -0.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 2.1× to 2.1×.
What does EV / sales mean?
What the whole business costs relative to its annual sales.
How do you interpret EV / sales?
A fallback valuation gauge for pre-profit or cyclical firms. Like P/S, only comparable across similar-margin businesses, but it accounts for debt and cash unlike P/S.
How does EV / sales compare across companies?
Compare within a margin cohort; the debt-and-cash adjustment makes it cleaner than P/S for leveraged firms.