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Lumen Technologies price to free cash flow LUMN

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026
5.6×
10-year median
4.6×
Against its 10-year history
60th
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
1.3× to 50.0×
Peer median
26.9×

Lumen Technologies' price to free cash flow is 5.6× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its ten-year median of 4.6×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 1.3× in Apr 2023 to 50.0× in Sep 2024.

The median for 7 telecom stocks of a similar size is 26.9×.

Price to free cash flow over time

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

YearEnd of yearLowHigh
2026 so far5.6×5.6×25.7×
20256.4×3.0×8.9×
20244.3×4.3×50.0×
20232.0×1.3×2.7×
20222.2×2.1×3.7×
20213.4×3.3×5.5×
20203.8×3.2×5.1×
20194.6×3.3×5.5×
20185.1×5.0×43.8×
201738.6×7.1×39.9×
20167.0×5.7×7.7×
20156.2×6.1×10.6×
201410.8×6.3×10.9×
20137.1×6.0×7.7×
201210.5×10.0×10.9×
201110.2×9.6×19.3×

Against its peers

Companies in Telecommunications Services nearest Lumen Technologies' size, closest first, today.

CompanyPrice to free cash flow
LUMNLumen Technologies5.6×
IRDMIridium Communications17.0×
TDSTelephone & Data Systemsn/m
ADArray Digital Infrastructuren/m
CALXCalix26.9×
IDTIDT30.1×
CHTRCharter Communications3.0×
ATEXAnterix138×
Peer median26.9×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of . Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.