CTL CenturyLink, Inc.

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CenturyLink, Inc. is an investment holding company, which engages in the provision of integrated communications to residential and business customers. It operates through the Business and Consumer segment. The Business segment offers local and long-distance voice, VPN data network, private line, Ethernet, information technology, wavelength, broadband, colocation and data center services, managed services, professional and other services provided in connection with selling equipment, network security, and various other ancillary services to small, medium and enterprise business, wholesale and government customers, and other communication providers. The Consumer segment provides broadband, local and long-distance voice, video, and other ancillary services to residential customers. The company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Monroe, LA.

Company profile

Ticker

CTL

Exchange

NYSE

CEO

Jeffrey K. Storey

Incorporated in

Louisiana

Location

Louisiana

Fiscal year end

Dec 31

Sector

Communications > Specialty Telecommunications

Industry (SEC)

Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone)

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Former names

Century Telephone Enterprises Inc, Centurytel Inc

SEC CIK

0000018926

Corporate docs

Articles of Incorporation & Bylaws

IRS number

720651161

CTL stock data

S&P 500 1 month 1 year

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Quarter (USD)	Mar 19	Dec 18	Sep 18	Jun 18
Revenue	5.65B	5.78B	5.82B	5.9B
Net income	-6.17B	-2.41B	272M	292M
Diluted EPS	-5.77	-2.26	0.25	0.27
Net profit margin	-109%	-41.74%	4.68%	4.95%
Operating income	-5.5B	-1.84B	894M	767M
Net change in cash	-47M	98M	-310M	199M
Cash on hand	441M	488M	390M	700M
Cost of revenue	2.52B	2.66B	2.67B	2.73B

Annual (USD)	Dec 18	Dec 17	Dec 16	Dec 15
Revenue	23.44B	17.66B	17.47B	17.9B
Net income	-1.73B	1.39B	626M	878M
Diluted EPS	-1.63	2.21	1.16	1.58
Net profit margin	-7.39%	7.87%	3.58%	4.91%
Operating income	570M	2.01B	2.33B	2.58B
Net change in cash	-63M	329M	96M	-2M
Cash on hand	488M	551M	222M	126M
Cost of revenue	10.86B	8.2B	7.77B	7.78B

Financial data from CenturyLink earnings reports

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Competition

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Management Discussion

For over a decade, we have experienced revenue declines, excluding the impact of acquisitions, primarily due to declines in voice and private line customers, switched access rates and minutes of use. More recently, we have experienced declines in revenue derived from the sale of certain of our business products and services. To partially mitigate these revenue declines, we remain focused on efforts to, among other things:

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From filing 10-Q 2019 Q1