Lumen Technologies Inc vs Banco Santander SA — how do they compare? Lumen Technologies Inc trades at $6.76 (market cap $6.47B), while Banco Santander SA trades at $13.74 (market cap $191.46B). The key difference: Banco Santander SA is far larger — about 29.6× Lumen Technologies Inc's market cap, and Banco Santander SA pays a 2.09% dividend while Lumen Technologies Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LUMN | SAN | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $6.47B | $191.46B |
Sector | Media | Financials |
52-Week High | $11.83 | $14.37 |
52-Week Low | $3.70 | $8.40 |
Enterprise Value | $18.10B | — |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.09% |
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With 450,000 route miles of fiber, including over 35,000 route miles of subsea fiber connecting Europe, Asia, and Latin America, Lumen Technologies is one of the United States' largest telecommunications carriers serving global enterprises. Its merger with Level 3 further shifted the company's operations toward businesses (over 70% of revenue) and away from its legacy consumer business. Lumen offers businesses a full menu of communications services, providing colocation and data center services, data transportation, and end-user phone and internet service. On the consumer side, Lumen provides broadband and phone service across 37 states, where it has 4.5 million broadband customers.
Read more on LUMN →Santander's focus is on retail and commercial banking. Latin America is geographically the largest operation, with Brazil by far the largest. Its continental European business is still mainly Iberian. Santander's U.K. presence is the result of the acquisition of building society Abbey. In the U.S., Santander operates a vehicle finance business and a regional bank focused on the Northeastern states.
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