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Lumen Technologies LUMN Return on equity

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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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Debt / equity65.4×+26.1×
Current ratio-0.2×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Lumen Technologies’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Lumen Technologies’s 10-Q, filed October 30, 2025, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Lumen Technologies's return on equity?
Lumen Technologies (LUMN) reported return on equity of -170.9% in Q3 2024.
How has Lumen Technologies's return on equity changed year-over-year?
Lumen Technologies's return on equity decreased by 10.7% year-over-year, from -154.4% to -170.9%.
What is the long-term trend for Lumen Technologies's return on equity?
Over 3 years (2020 to 2023), Lumen Technologies's return on equity has grown at a 167.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from -10% to -190.9%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.