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Lumen Technologies (LUMN) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Lumen Technologies has reported Return on Equity over the past 16 years, most recently at 1.52% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Equity at 1.52% for Q4 2025, up 166.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 1.52% (up 166.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 5.33%, up 545.0%.
  • Return on Equity for Q4 2025 was 1.52% at Lumen Technologies, down from 1.78% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Equity for LUMN hit a ceiling of 56.29% in Q1 2024 and a floor of 8.0% in Q4 2023.
  • Median Return on Equity over the past 5 years was 0.21% (2025), compared with a mean of 3.09%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Equity: surged 5592bps in 2024 and later tumbled -5626bps in 2025.
  • Lumen Technologies' Return on Equity stood at 0.45% in 2021, then crashed by -238bps to 0.62% in 2022, then crashed by -1184bps to 8.0% in 2023, then soared by 98bps to 0.14% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 1213bps to 1.52% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Equity were 1.52% (Q4 2025), 1.78% (Q3 2025), and 0.13% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.