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

Lumen Technologies has reported Return on Sales over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.0% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.0% for Q4 2025, down 3.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.14% (down 14.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.14%, down 14.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.0% at Lumen Technologies, up from 0.2% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for LUMN hit a ceiling of 0.14% in Q1 2023 and a floor of 2.39% in Q2 2023.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.01% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.17%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: tumbled -246bps in 2023 and later surged 237bps in 2024.
  • Lumen Technologies' Return on Sales stood at 0.1% in 2021, then plummeted by -871bps to 0.81% in 2022, then rose by 30bps to 0.57% in 2023, then surged by 105bps to 0.03% in 2024, then tumbled by -103bps to 0.0% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.0% (Q4 2025), 0.2% (Q3 2025), and 0.3% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.