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Lumen Overview

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Where is Lumen headquartered?

Lumen is headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana.

What is Lumen’s revenue?

Lumen disclosed revenue of 13,108M USD for 2024 and 14,557M USD for 2023.

How many employees does Lumen have?

Lumen has 25,000 employees.

What sector is Lumen in?

Lumen is a communications company.

When was Lumen founded?

Lumen was founded in 1968.

Lumen

Lumen Technologies, Inc.

100 CenturyLink Drive,
Monroe, Louisiana 71203
United States,
(318) 388-9000
www.lumen.com

Lumen is an integrated communications company engaged in providing an array of communications services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers. CenturyLink's communications services include local and long-distance, network access, private line (including special access), public access, broadband, data, managed hosting (including cloud hosting), colocation, wireless and video services. In certain local and regional markets, the Company also provides local access and fiber transport services to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and security monitoring. Lumen was established in 1968 and is based in Monroe, Louisiana.


M&A Summary

Buy vs Sell

Year ≤ '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 T
Buy (0.0/yr) # 17 - - - - - 17
vol $71.4B $71.4B
Sell (1.0/yr) # 1 2 1 1 - 1 6
vol $2.2B $10.2B $1.8B $5.8B $19.9B
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Top M&A Advisors

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Morgan Stanley
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Barclays Investment Bank
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Jones Walker
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Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP)
 1

Company Summary

SECTOR

Communications

Revenue

13,108   10% 2024
14,557   17% 2023
17,478   12% 2022
19,687   5% 2021
20,712   8% 2020
22,401   5% 2019
23,443   33% 2018
17,656   2% 2017
17,470   3% 2016
17,900   1% 2015
18,031   1% 2014
18,095   2% 2013
18,376   20% 2012
15,351   118% 2011
7,042   42% 2010
4,974   92% 2009
2,600   3% 2008
2,656   2007
(millions of USD) Show More Show Less

Employees

25,000

Established

1968

Public

NYSE: LUMN

Former Name

CenturyLink, Inc.


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