Lumen (LUMN) closed at $4.65 on Oct 16, 2026, down 4.5% on the day. The stock is down 28.2% over the past month, down 27.1% over three months, down 40.2% year to date and down 36.0% over the past year. It trades 61.1% below its 52-week high of $11.95 and 6.2% above its 52-week low of $4.38. The close sits below its 50-day moving average ($6.08) and below its 200-day moving average ($7.43).
NextPick tracks LUMN in its Telecom Services basket alongside VZ, TMUS, T, CMCSA and CHTR. As of Oct 16, 2026, the basket's money-flow score is -17 (weak outflow), and the basket is up 3.5% over five sessions. Over the past month LUMN ranks 6th of 6 basket members by price change.
No — the Oct 16, 2026 close of $4.65 is 37.4% below the 200-day average of $7.43.
LUMN closed 61.1% below its 52-week high of $11.95.
NextPick groups LUMN with VZ, TMUS, T, CMCSA and CHTR in its Telecom Services basket.
Lumen Technologies, Inc., a networking company, provides integrated products and services to business and mass customers in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Business and Mass Markets. It offers dark fiber and conduit, edge cloud, internet protocol (IP), voice over IP, managed security, software-defined wide area networks, unified communications and collaboration, and optical services; ethernet and VPN data networks services; and legacy services to manage cash flow, including time division multiplexing voice and private line; other legacy services, such as Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) based ethernet, legacy data hosting services, and conferencing services; and managed and professional service solutions, as well as sells communications equipment. The company also provides high speed and lower speed broadband service to residential and small business customers; local and long-distance voice services, professional services, and other ancillary services; and federal broadband and state support programs. It serves its products and services under the Lumen, CenturyLink, Black Lotus Labs, and Quantum Fiber brand name. The company was formerly known as CenturyLink, Inc. and changed its name to Lumen Technologies, Inc. in September 2020. Lumen Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana.
