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% Held by Institutions72.49
Short Interest (% of float 05/31/23) 52.16
(from TD Ameritrade...may need validation)
Will the WallstreetBets crowd even Notice...???
Recent data shows Short Interest of 52.16% of float...while Institutional ownership is 72.49% of float...
Ya think there may just be an Overshorted situation here...???
I have a small position...just recently bought shares at $1.81
Iam Not a Wallstreet Bets member...but I think they Might be interested...
haha
JMO
Service providers, content providers and enterprises can now quickly and dynamically route network traffic between data centers
DENVER, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced a new network interconnection ecosystem called ExaSwitch™, created in collaboration with Google and Microsoft. This platform empowers organizations with high bandwidth needs to route their traffic dynamically and quickly between networks, and without third-party intervention.
"The days of slow, legacy cross connects are over; ExaSwitch is the future of network interconnections."
"The days of slow, legacy cross connects are over; ExaSwitch is the future of network interconnections," said Andrew Dugan, Chief Technology Officer, Lumen. "Large network backbones no longer need a physical location to connect. Instead, optical switching will be used to establish high-capacity optical links between metro sites. And it's so much more than just internet peering; it's an on-demand network connection for quickly deploying needed capacity across all types of data traffic exchanges."
Current participants
This ExaSwitch project was created by the initial participants to route traffic between large internet and cloud networks. Early adopters include Lumen, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and an additional large cloud provider. The ExaSwitch ecosystem will continue to strengthen as additional participants join, making it easier to automate, scale and manage capacity between the members.
"We like the ease, speed and cost efficiency of performing interconnects to network partners directly from our main sites," said Steve Walter, Global VP of Network Operations, Google. "ExaSwitch provides an agile, on-demand platform using proven technology that achieves that."
"Creating a geographically distributed yet automated interconnection platform creates so many options to improve connectivity, resiliency, and speed to add capacity on to one's network," said Frank Rey, Partner, Azure Networking, Microsoft. "We are pleased at the opportunity ExaSwitch has to change the interconnection ecosystem."
How it works
The ExaSwitch administrator will install optical hardware at the preferred location for each participant, who will choose their own fiber source for connecting into ExaSwitch. When two participants agree to connect, they can join quickly through self-provisioning, or an API portal driven and managed by the administrator. The real-time capacity deployment allows them to easily order, modify and delete services as needed. Lumen is acting as the administrator for the initial deployments.
Key benefits
Participants use a self-service portal to configure and turn up connectivity with other participants much faster than they can now.
Connections are set up in 400G increments and can be consumed on demand in 100G increments, with each site capable of up to 25.6 Tbps of optical cross connects.
Participants will have the ability to connect their edge sites, data centers and central offices in major markets to gain diversity and save costs on cross connects.
"The ExaSwitch optical switching platform is an innovative on-demand ecosystem for automating, scaling and managing high-value interconnect services," said Courtney Monroe, VP of Telecommunications Research for IDC. "It is poised to disrupt legacy manual platforms, as well as the way enterprises, and the IT ecosystem interconnect, procure and manage interconnectivity."
Lumen is currently operating the ExaSwitch platform in three of the largest US interconnection hubs – Chicago, Dallas and Virginia – with plans to expand to all major markets in North America with large internet hubs. ISPs, cloud providers, large content providers and enterprises can go to http://exaswitch.net to learn more about ExaSwitch and how to join this growing ecosystem.
About Lumen Technologies:
Lumen connects the world. We are dedicated to furthering human progress through technology by connecting people, data, and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Everything we do at Lumen takes advantage of our network strength. From metro connectivity to long-haul data transport to our edge cloud, security, and managed service capabilities, we meet our customers' needs today and as they build for tomorrow. For news and insights visit news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies, and YouTube: /lumentechnologies.
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Go Lumen Tech, Go...
Kirby McInerney LLP Announces an Investigation of Shareholder Claims Against Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN)
These things never help anyone except the law firms.
https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/LUMN/news/story?e&id=2464496
Still has positive cash flow. Hopefully things turn around.
Another new low $3.38. Is Chapter 11 in the cards?
Carefully...buying some more VVR...as of "extra" dividend announced-
Read this...It May just be a return of capital...but...
the SP is still way below Net Asset Value (currently $4.22)
To me, its worth it...as once the Fed pauses...I expect SP to get closer to NAV..
Anyway, for minor risk, I like it better than any Bank Savings, CD, T-bond, or Money Market...as the dividends are Monthly, and the symbol can be sold/traded on any given market day...
12:15 pm ET December 5, 2022 (PR Newswire) Print
The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Invesco
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EX-DATE RECORD DATE REINVEST DATE PAYABLE DATE
12/16/22 12/19/22 12/30/22 12/30/22
Name of Closed-End Ticker Dividend Amount Per Share
Management Investment Company
Invesco Senior Income Trust VVR $0.12391
The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Invesco Senior Income Trust (NYSE: VVR) (the "Fund") approved an increase in the monthly distribution amount payable to common shareholders pursuant to the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan (the "Plan"). Effective October 1, 2022, the Fund will pay its monthly dividend to common shareholders at a stated fixed monthly distribution amount of $0.032 per share.
The Plan is intended to provide shareholders with a consistent, but not guaranteed, periodic cash payment from the Fund, regardless of when or whether income is earned, or capital gains are realized. The Plan may have the effect of narrowing the discount between the Fund's market price and the net asset value ("NAV") of the Fund's common shares, but there is no assurance that the Plan will be effective in this regard.
If a Fund's investment income is not sufficient to cover the Fund's intended monthly distribution, the Fund will distribute long-term capital gains and/or return of capital in order to maintain its managed distribution level under its Plan. A Fund may at times distribute more than its income and net realized gains; therefore, a portion of the distribution may result in a return of capital.
Will add more LUMN before end of 2022
for those who miss dividend/yield...
I will share a symbol I hold/trade as opposed to a "savings account"...
Invesco has a Senior Notes fund V V R
It trades like a stock and pays a monthly dividend/distribution...
Currently trading at around a 10% discount to its Net Asset Value of $4.21
When the Fed nears the end of its tightening cycle..it should, IMO, move back up a bit...
as long as interest rates keep climbing...it may stay at these low levels...but
you get something back each month...
Hope this helps...
I will be adding as well. LUMN is already undervalued IMO, but more bargains are likely here as the world markets work through difficulties, and markets like this can create even more undervalued prices.. Hard to predict bottoms, so I am inclined to add on crazy dive price days.. bit by bit...
Once all the dust clears here, I suspect bottom and turn back up pretty fast here. Mostly dividend stock owners selling to buy over priced dividend stocks...
This one is going to buy back shares instead of paying dividends and use the cash pay down debt. Both are great in this market for share holder value..
keep posting...an Interesting situation here...with LUMN for the future...
A LOT of disappointment by those with "dividend-interest" in mind...so expect sporadic selling til end of year...???..
I hope the Company starts buying back shares at Every opportunity to garnish Bargain priced shares...
If so...and there is reasonable profitability next year (2023)...I believe a Double or More in SP is quite possible...
JMO
I will be buying more, selectively, as I have a relatively small recent position...
GL
Continued:
"we believe will provide a clear path to invest in growth, repurchase shares at attractive valuations, and maintain a strong balance sheet. It has been a privilege to serve as CEO to this very talented team, and I am confident that my successor, Kate Johnson, will continue building on our momentum to drive profitable growth at Lumen."
Lumen will supply the Defense Information Systems Network with high capacity, end-to-end communications services that enable the U.S. Department of Defense to achieve U.S. national security objectives in the 36-nation Asia Pacific region.
These crucial services—which include ethernet, internet and wavelengths—will help protect America's interests in a diverse, strategically complex region that also includes Alaska.
The company is serving as a trusted provider of secure, resilient network services that transport data, imagery, video and voice traffic.
Lumen is providing the network infrastructure backbone to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, the oldest and largest unified geographic combatant command charged with integrating U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps forces within a region that contains more than half of the world's population.
"Lumen is extremely proud to serve the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command with essential mission services that help protect and defend U.S. territory, our people and America's national interests," said Zain Ahmed, senior vice president, Lumen public sector. "We're delivering the always-on network infrastructure so the U.S. Department of Defense can focus on its mission to enhance the stability of the Asia Pacific region, promote security cooperation with our allies and partners, respond to emerging situations, deter aggression and if necessary, fight to win."
Tech Talk:
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) [color=red]contract has a $1.5 billion ceiling over its 10-year period of performance and represents new business for Lumen.[/color]
Lumen is honored to support military and government agencies with innovative adaptive networking, edge cloud, connected security and collaboration services using the company's platform for advanced application delivery solutions.
The company provides a platform for IT modernization that delivers the security and reliability military and civilian agencies need to carry out their important missions.
Additional Resources:
Learn more about our U.S. Customs and Border Protection network services contract: https://news.lumen.com/2022-07-26-U-S-Customs-and-Border-Protection-selects-Lumen-for-network-services-contract
Learn more about our U.S. Department of Agriculture $1.2 billion network services award: https://news.lumen.com/2022-01-20-U-S-Department-of-Agriculture-awards-Lumen-1-2-billion-network-services-contract
Learn more about our U.S. Department of the Interior $1.6 billion network services award: https://news.lumen.com/2020-01-16-U-S-Dept-of-the-Interior-Awards-CenturyLink-1-6-Billion-EIS-Network-Services-Win
Learn more about how Lumen is supporting the public sector here:
https://www.lumen.com/public-sector.html
About Lumen Technologies:
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately 400,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies. Learn more about Lumen's public sector capabilities on Twitter at @lumengov and on LinkedIn at @lumenpublicsector. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks in the United States.
I like that and this!!!
https://ih.advfn.com/stock-market/NYSE/lumen-technologies-LUMN/stock-news/89431089/lumen-wins-1-5-billion-defense-information-system
Lumen wins $1.5 billion Defense Information Systems Network contract
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Company will provide essential communications services in the Asia Pacific region
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) has won a $1.5 billion contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide essential network transport and communications services in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility.
I saw that, and this:
DENVER and LONDON, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and Colt Technology Services (Colt), a digital infrastructure company, announce today they have entered into an exclusive arrangement for the proposed sale of Lumen's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business to Colt for $1.8 billion. This represents a very attractive multiple (~11x) for Lumen's EMEA business and will create additional value for its shareholders.
Lot of moving parts here. Lots of news, and financials just reported. Some great, some not so great.
Subsequent Events
Capital Allocation Update
Eliminated stock dividend, there will be no dividend paid in the fourth quarter of 2022
Authorized an up to $1.5 billion, two-year share repurchase program
Investing in growth initiatives while remaining relatively net leverage neutral
Announced today that it had entered into an exclusive arrangement for the proposed sale of its EMEA business to Colt Technology Services for $1.8 billion
Completed the $7.5 billion divestiture of its 20-state ILEC business to Apollo on Oct. 3
DENVER, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LUMN) reported results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2022.
they are going to spend the money over 2 years buying back stock up to 1.5 billion dollars worth.
Going lower. I hate it too. I was buying the dip for the dividend.
Does anyone know if it's a one time cut or is it no more dividends from Lumen?
5.99/6.00 after hours
got cut. glta
https://ir.lumen.com/financials/results-overview/default.aspx
Financials $LUMN
IMO, this is the kind of market you want DD stocks like $LUMN and plot you timing and buys to long, long term...
I snagged a few more here today, because one never knows when news will rally it or the market or when this crazy market will stop giving up bargains...
If it goes a lot lower, I will buy larger lots...
I did this in 2009 with Novartis and Southern Company, at dirt cheap prices compared to today's prices... 10 years of rising dividends paid for those shares, and reinvested the dividends in other bargains...
Good question. https://ir.lumen.com/stock-dividend-info/default.aspx
Use the year menu to walk through the history.
Dividend has higher and lower going back 15 years.
Market is concerned about debt coming due and possible dividend cut, thus the price drops, but the apx 4:1 PE at these prices thanks to market panic seems nuts to me. Even a 50% dividend cut and using cash to buy back debt, makes this still undervalued.
There is subsidiary they are selling or sold, that may affect revenue, one time gains on the sale and cash on hand (To pay down debt....) so it has a lot of moving parts.
Where the market and this stock bottoms at is any ones guess..
But I am already long... and looking to add the rest of the year... on dips like this one. Still making 52 week lows this week.
when is the dividend due? tia
$LUMN update, still paying about a 12% dividend, PE about 4:1, way under valued because of the market and debt coming due in 2023/2024.. and market down turn, issued an 8-K of debt buy back. https://ih.advfn.com/stock-market/NYSE/lumen-technologies-LUMN/stock-news/89142815/lumen-announces-any-and-all-cash-tender-offers
LUMN is still on a down trend, so not clue where the bottom is yet, I am looking to buy more. If the new CEO cuts the dividend it goes lower. If the new CEO PRs or 10-Q files plans to keep the dividend, this rallies and sets the low. I old enough to want IRA dividend stocks, and this market is drop gifts before the christmas season...
With the US dollar hitting 30 to 60+ year highs right now. Stocks like this one are getting even more hammered. Hell of a dividend here.
I grabbed more LUMN near the bottom. Hard to pass up PE of 5 stock paying an 11% dividend.
I suspect the dollar rally is part of why we are getting these bargains, plus interest rate/FED action... If the Ukraine war ends with a win and NAT gas starts flowing these shares may rally 100%.
They have a lot of debt to flip and or pay down in coming years, but I suspect that will go well...
I just grabbed some $LUMN at 11.29 and may buy more near the close. Like taking candy from a baby
Lumen Technologies (LUMN)
Communications technology giant Lumen Technologies has been on an acquisition spree in recent years. This broadened the company’s portfolio of tech services and prompted the management team to rebrand. However, these initiatives haven’t unlocked value for the shareholders yet.
The stock has been dragged lower along with the rest of the tech sector. Lumen has lost 20% of its value over the past year.
However, unlike other tech companies, Lumen is profitable and cash flow positive. In fact, the stock pays an 8.5% dividend yield. That’s substantially higher than the rest of the tech sector — where many stocks don’t pay a dividend at all
Investors are worried about the company’s debt burden — which is 2.3 times greater than the value of its equity. However, the stock trades at just five times earnings, which could make the risk-reward ratio attractive for some investors.
There is a near term glimmer of hope--CATALYST-- for Lumen Shareholders at this time tying to The Domino Effects of over leveraged hedge funds unwinding.
To be sure, the market in free fall is a direct result of that happening with Archegos, and their dubious founder, Sung KOOK Hwang, aka, Bill Hwang, being the Tip of the Iceberg.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/four-charged-connection-multi-billion-dollar-collapse-archegos-capital-management
One must have great respect for Elon Musk expressing his outward disdain and vehement disrespect for a complicit SEC who in many respects have compounded this problem for decades still counting.
Sadly, Jeff Storey is too weak of a CEO to get his head around it, and won't take action against it, but the fact that he brought that Guggenheim character in, McCormick, who once screamed at Jeff's earlier boss, Jim Crowe, "you are not a growth company," and nothing has still been done, makes me want to see him fired too since his pay scale is too high for too little in return except being an FN "host" as part of IR on earnings calls! He knows intimately how THE CROOKS work their DARK MAGIC!
Few investors realize the nefarious trading in Lumen and its predecessor Company as I have during what continues its 25th year while seemingly there is no end in sight when vetting the financials compared to this CONSTANT STUPID STOCK PRICE and sell side firms--dark pall downside volatility--especially, MS and BofA stumping for their short sighted clients with ridiculous negative reports accounting for nothing positive, as indicated by The Company, in its future today.
The bottomline is that the early 2021 Reddit Run will be paled by what is coming next assuming I become correct.
Viel Glück und viel Spaß Lumen-Owners.
I am accumulating - LUMN will go up and Pay a hefty Dividend ... Nice in this Market!!!
GLTA - Shermann
Didn’t cut, still $.25 for the quarter.
Where did you get info that they may cut dividend?
Good entry with yield around 10%. Hoping they don’t cut dividend too much.
I’m in here under $9.90
Taking a decent chunk here.
In my opinion the very severe plunge just because the analysts overestimated the previous quarter's profits lacks reasonable justification. Some drop might have been justified but certainly not a full-blown crash like we're seeing.
This company has a very long track record of paying quarterly dividends.
I'm not panicking and dumping all my shares. History shows that many stocks are incorrectly valued. What will happen is that the dividend yield percentage will skyrocket as the price tanks.
I have complained for years that Jeff Storey needs to "go to Washington" and lobby for rates that represent "fair freight" relative to the mammoth investments and capital expenditures for delivering the majority of bit traffic around the globe which is now at the CORE of the Modern Economy. Otherwise, maybe he should give them all a RUDE AWAKENING and shut the network down!
Back in The Crowe Days even before Comcast was using their weight and market clout to lever Netflix to pay for "non commensurate costs" just because they could even while Level 3's Network was facilitating savings making Comcast's charges more egregious(circa 2011), we had Jimmy develop a "bit traffic exchange" formula for dealing with the likes of Cisco's interest in that other Cogent Communications "Free Loader."
Who knows the status of that bit formula pricing system today? Which stupid analyst even asks about it on the calls?
Until there is new, meaningful legislation that ends the lunacy of POTS "regulatory schemes" for pricing the carriage costs in lieu of P2P and other antiquated payment systems not aligned with the modern internet, investors of this Disastrous Storey will be disappointed waiting for what will become The Fifth Industrial Revolution in another 100 years!
Jeff Storey is being paid a King's Ransom for horrific equity destruction, and needs to earn his keep. We need "Mr. Storey to go to Washington," and get away from the cows and chickens on his Texas Ranch so that may result in his shareholders being compensated correctly for their mammoth investments over the past three decades!
Clearly, one could see Brett’s eyes light up like a Christmas Tree when Jeff indicated they are not opposed to additional non core asset sales.
One should also be conscience of how much might go wrong completing these two deals at least for the prices being bandied about over the next year when Jeff indicated how hard they're working to keep showing the buyers what they are getting is real.
Incumbent customers are always nervous when their trusted network partners announce they are selling the business.
Justin over at Seeking Alpha, misunderstood me and TMV remains right. He knows of me in other forums as well.
We are very long this corporation today. About half a stick of Burry’s largest stake before he began selling.
We have a long history that we have shared to open the minds of all investors so they may know how bad things can go when management team’s like Level 3 now called Lumen NEVER deliver on their long dated promises.
In truth, the ability to penetrate "multi hundred billion dollar" sales contract wins should be easy for this network in the enterprise space connecting to The US Government and their Military, but somehow for more than two decades, those consistent, persistent major contract wins continue to elude us.
We would like to see our stock price at $100, but this overly rich Buffoon having received ungodly compensation for job poorly done, is not the guy to get us there!
History remains our guide, and will never be forgotten!
Maybe Lumen's B.O.D. will choose to buy more shares after the release of Q-3 earnings.
What Jeff Storey really needs to do is to go into the "stock buying biz" by taking out a near zero percent loan in the current climate and buying FIVE BILLION "more" DOLLARS worth of shares in order to retire another 400MM shares vs. the 80MM that if he is acting now, he is on target to eliminate!
That would really make his business, err, STOCK PRICE GROW without making another GD SALE of communications services which he continues to fail at doing!
Oh, but that can't happen since banks who own the current LESS than $30B debt on Jeff's books, have a GD noose around his neck tying him to INDENTURED SERVITUDE!
If you can't SELL SERVICES, JEFF, buy stock in your enterprise!
Der "LUMEN" to das moonen??? Yaaa... YAAAAAA!!!
While listening on the morning call with the CMO, Shaun Andrews, here is what we have to say aus Deutschland.
AnführerMitWut1 second ago
This analyst has been following these dummies for 20 years, and all he could get caught up in was the gobbly gook about product types and services without the hard question of where or why this great GIANT COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK with so few annual sales in the billions considering the addressable markets they TOUT does NOT have "PRICING POWER!"
Their internet connection sucked and the service provider who was supposed to allow questions with a "link" like other calls we have been on, didn't work or it wasn't visible or they precluded us from asking the question for him!
Sell this Storey's CEO and NETWORK to the highest bidder and be done with it. It's a commodity business with too much supply and too little product differentiation! EOM
Und Morgen die ganze Welt.....NICHT! This is what happens when a bad business model meets a horrific management team telling shareholder about tomorrow forever, but tomorrow never shows up.
Fire this CEO and sell this company lock, stock and barrel....SOFORT!
We can only hope today's creepy slow upward price bias is a final "takeover" to end the MISERY of 23 years filled with false promises, and expectations started by Buffett, Scott and Gates in Omaha.
If we do finally hear "The Telekom Shot Heard Round The World" from Buffett, it will be a "take under," but weary long term owners will finally have their END to this HORRIBLE STOREY!
It would be better to hear a German "TELEKOM" shot instead, however.
The most important communications network in the world connecting eyeballs to eyeballs after 23 years of building and rolling up fiber factories everywhere is unable to hold onto a measly $20B in annual revenues--it is still decreasing--and a $13B Market Cap while hundreds of billions of cost new network capital is DEAD inside MOTHER EARTH.
FN DISASTER and TERRIBLE FN STOREY! The Storey HISTORICALLY is giving away the STORE to "TECH COMPANIES" higher on the "STACK."
Sell this company lock, stock and barrel to the highest bidder ASAP! I have written the FINAL STOREY.
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