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Lumen Technologies (LUMN) Competitors

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$3.99 +0.01 (+0.25%)
As of 05/20/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

LUMN vs. IDT, ATNI, T, VZ, TLK, VIV, KT, FYBR, TIMB, and TKC

Should you be buying Lumen Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lumen Technologies include IDT (IDT), ATN International (ATNI), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (TLK), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), KT (KT), Frontier Communications Parent (FYBR), TIM (TIMB), and Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. (TKC). These companies are all part of the "telephone communication, except radio" industry.

Lumen Technologies vs.

Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) and IDT (NYSE:IDT) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

IDT has a net margin of 6.10% compared to Lumen Technologies' net margin of -0.42%. IDT's return on equity of 22.18% beat Lumen Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lumen Technologies-0.42% -46.17% -0.61%
IDT 6.10%22.18%10.03%

66.2% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of IDT shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of IDT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDT has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Lumen Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.1%. IDT pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Lumen Technologies pays out -322.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDT pays out 7.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. IDT has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Lumen Technologies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Lumen Technologies had 5 more articles in the media than IDT. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Lumen Technologies and 7 mentions for IDT. Lumen Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat IDT's score of 0.71 indicating that Lumen Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lumen Technologies
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
IDT
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Lumen Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $4.58, indicating a potential upside of 14.87%. Given Lumen Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than IDT.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lumen Technologies
2 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
IDT
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

IDT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lumen Technologies. Lumen Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lumen Technologies$13B0.31-$55M-$0.31-12.87
IDT$1.22B1.27$64.45M$3.1519.60

Lumen Technologies received 401 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.44% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 58.80% of users gave Lumen Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Lumen TechnologiesOutperform Votes
578
58.80%
Underperform Votes
405
41.20%
IDTOutperform Votes
177
63.44%
Underperform Votes
102
36.56%

Summary

Lumen Technologies beats IDT on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LUMN vs. The Competition

MetricLumen TechnologiesTelephone communication, except radio IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.09B$24.62B$16.50B$19.69B
Dividend YieldN/A13.18%2.49%3.84%
P/E Ratio-79.7815.5732.8535.11
Price / Sales0.313.51250.0634.10
Price / Cash1.739.0231.5317.51
Price / Book8.672.845.394.78
Net Income-$55M$1.01B$195.26M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-9.11%0.89%0.52%0.90%
1 Month Performance21.83%5.99%20.49%11.10%
1 Year Performance208.11%10.11%16.25%5.28%

Lumen Technologies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LUMN
Lumen Technologies
2.3979 of 5 stars
$3.99
+0.3%
$4.58
+14.9%
+208.1%$4.09B$13B-79.7829,000Positive News
IDT
IDT
2.2432 of 5 stars
$57.62
+3.9%
N/A+53.2%$1.45B$1.22B19.671,690
ATNI
ATN International
3.079 of 5 stars
$15.56
-0.7%
$26.00
+67.1%
-43.7%$235.86M$721.58M-5.702,300
T
AT&T
4.3171 of 5 stars
$26.91
-3.4%
$28.71
+6.7%
+58.4%$193.67B$122.93B18.06160,700Trending News
Analyst Revision
VZ
Verizon Communications
4.7732 of 5 stars
$42.90
-1.6%
$47.41
+10.5%
+10.2%$180.81B$135.29B10.36117,100Trending News
TLK
Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk
N/A$16.01
+0.9%
N/A-10.9%$15.88B$149.18T11.1320,900Positive News
Gap Up
VIV
Telefônica Brasil
3.7689 of 5 stars
$9.60
-3.1%
$17.23
+79.6%
-45.4%$15.84B$55.85B15.2134,000Analyst Downgrade
KT
KT
4.4519 of 5 stars
$19.21
-0.6%
N/A+43.9%$9.90B$26.38T10.7921,800Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
FYBR
Frontier Communications Parent
0.533 of 5 stars
$36.55
+0.1%
$36.07
-1.3%
+36.2%$9.15B$5.92B-28.3314,700Positive News
TIMB
TIM
4.2111 of 5 stars
$16.73
-2.5%
$17.33
+3.6%
+5.7%$8.10B$25.75B14.179,410Positive News
Gap Down
TKC
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.
N/A$6.32
+5.1%
N/A-3.6%$5.56B$166.67B4.3016,771Analyst Upgrade

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