Lumen Technologies Inc (NYSE:LUMN)
$ 7.61 0.13 (1.74%) Market Cap: 7.74 Bil Enterprise Value: 24.99 Bil PE Ratio: 0 PB Ratio: 16.54 GF Score: 49/100

Q3 2024 Lumen Technologies Inc Earnings Call Transcript

Nov 05, 2024 / 10:00PM GMT
Release Date Price: $7.61 (+1.74%)

Key Points

Positve
  • Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) has secured over $8 billion in Private Connectivity Fabric (PCF) sales, indicating strong demand for their network services.
  • The company is making significant progress in its transformation into a digital network services company, focusing on AI and cloud services.
  • Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) reported a 14% year-over-year increase in North American large enterprise and midmarket sales.
  • The company achieved record fiber net additions in the mass market segment, demonstrating strong consumer demand for fiber services.
  • Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) successfully executed a debt exchange, extending maturities and improving its balance sheet position.
Negative
  • Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) continues to face secular headwinds in its legacy revenue streams, impacting overall financial performance.
  • The company's EBITDA results are weighed down by heavy investments in transformation programs.
  • Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) expects EBITDA to decline year-over-year in 2025 due to legacy declines and transformation costs.
  • The nurture product revenue decreased by 15.2% year-over-year, largely impacted by declines in VPN and Ethernet services.
  • The company acknowledges that its current financial results make it difficult to envision long-term success, requiring time for transformation efforts to reflect in financials.
Operator

Greetings and welcome to Lumen Technologies' third-quarter 2024 earnings call. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Jim Breen, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Jim, please go ahead.

Jim Breen
Lumen Technologies Inc - Senior Vice President, Investor Relations

Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining the Lumen Technologies' third-quarter 2024 earnings call. On the call today are Kate Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Chris Stansbury, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our Safe Harbor statement on slide 1 of our third-quarter 2024 presentation which notes that this conference call may include forward-looking statements, subject to certain risks and uncertainties.

All forward-looking statements should be considered in conjunction with the cautionary statements and the risk factors in our SEC filings. We'll be referring to certain non-GAAP financial

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