The trading price of Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) closed higher on Firday, October 25, and closing at $6.44, 2.55% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $6.25 and $6.55. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $7.83 and a 52-week low of $0.78. Over the past month, the stock has lost -7.20% in value.
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Lumen Technologies Inc, whose market valuation is $6.55 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2024-Nov-05. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by -0.09 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of -0.33 for current year and -0.56 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 3.22B for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 3.17B and highs of 3.25B. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 12.97B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest LUMN has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned LUMN a recommendation rating is 7. Out of them, 3 rate it a Hold, while 1 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) as Underweight, while 3 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Hold, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that LUMN’s price is currently 0.16% off the SMA20 and 3.81% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 52.67, and weekly volatility stands at 9.76%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 6.65%. Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.19, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.46. With analysts defining $3.15-$10 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $4 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 51.09% off the estimated low and -55.28% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if LUMN’s share price rises to $4, which is the median consensus price. At that level, LUMN’s share price would be 37.89% above current price.
To see how Lumen Technologies Inc stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: LUMN stock’s performance was 2.55% in the latest trading, and 380.60% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN) indicates that the 3-month average is 37.58 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 16.19.
Currently, records show that 1.01 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 7.90% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 65.01%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-10-15, stood at 66.15 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 4.22 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 902.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in October were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 82.4 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 251.91% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
