The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-04-19), Lumen Technologies's share price is $1.31. Lumen Technologies's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.41. Hence, Lumen Technologies's PB Ratio of today is 3.17.
The historical rank and industry rank for Lumen Technologies's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
LUMN'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.16 Med: 1.01 Max: 4.41
Current: 3.2
During the past 13 years, Lumen Technologies's highest PB Ratio was 4.41. The lowest was 0.16. And the median was 1.01.
LUMN's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 76.16% of 365
companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 1.7
vs LUMN: 3.20
During the past 12 months, Lumen Technologies's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -96.00% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -65.60% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -42.50% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -23.80% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Lumen Technologies was 23.90% per year. The lowest was -65.60% per year. And the median was 4.70% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Lumen Technologies PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Lumen Technologies's PB Ratio can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Telecom Services subindustry, Lumen Technologies's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Lumen Technologies PB Ratio Distribution
For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Lumen Technologies's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Lumen Technologies's PB Ratio falls into.
Lumen Technologies PB Ratio Calculation
The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.
Lumen Technologies's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.
Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) PB Ratio Explanation
The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.
Be Aware
Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.
Lumen Technologies PB Ratio Related Terms
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Lumen Technologies (Lumen Technologies) Business Description
With 450,000 route miles of fiber, including over 35,000 route miles of subsea fiber connecting Europe, Asia, and Latin America, Lumen Technologies is one of the United States' largest telecommunications carriers serving global enterprises. Its merger with Level 3 in 2017 and divestiture of much of its incumbent local exchange carrier, or ILEC, business in 2022 has shifted the company's operations away from its legacy consumer business and toward enterprises (now nearly 80% of revenue). Lumen offers businesses a full menu of communications services, providing colocation and data center services, data transportation, and end-user phone and internet service. On the consumer side, Lumen provides broadband and phone service across 37 states, where it has 4.5 million broadband customers.
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