What does wholesale — total adjusted EBITDA mean?

The total adjusted operating cash flow generated by the wholesale business unit.

How do you interpret wholesale — total adjusted EBITDA?

Higher values indicate stronger segment-level cash flow generation, whereas lower values may signal declining demand or operational inefficiencies in the wholesale network.

How does wholesale — total adjusted EBITDA compare across companies?

Comparable to segment-level EBITDA metrics used by other large-scale infrastructure and network service providers.

Lumen Technologies LUMN Wholesale — Total adjusted EBITDA

Discontinued — last reported Q3 '20

Similar metrics at other companies

SUNWholesale — Adjusted EBITDA

$84.25M—

SUNWholesale — EBITDA

$106.75M—

SUNWholesale — Depreciation Amortization And Accretion Net

$23.5M—

SUNWholesale — Profit Loss

$67.25M—

SUNWholesale — Total Assets

$3.2B—

SUNWholesale — Goodwill Purchase Accounting Adjustments

-$6.25M-933%

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 ratio1×-0.2×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Lumen Technologies in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept ctl:IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeInterestIncomeTaxDepreciationAndAmortization.

The official record: Lumen Technologies’s 10-Q, filed November 5, 2020, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does wholesale — total adjusted EBITDA mean?: The total adjusted operating cash flow generated by the wholesale business unit.
How do you interpret wholesale — total adjusted EBITDA?: Higher values indicate stronger segment-level cash flow generation, whereas lower values may signal declining demand or operational inefficiencies in the wholesale network.
How does wholesale — total adjusted EBITDA compare across companies?: Comparable to segment-level EBITDA metrics used by other large-scale infrastructure and network service providers.