During Q4 2018 the big money sentiment decreased to 0.97. That’s change of 0.35, from 2018Q3’s 1.32. 64 investors sold all, 202 reduced holdings as CenturyLink, Inc. ratio turned negative. 178 grew holdings while 81 funds acquired holdings. Funds hold 796.14 million shares thus 1.37% more from 2018Q3’s 785.39 million shares.
Mackay Shields Limited Liability Corporation reported 329,635 shs stake. Ftb Advisors has invested 0% in CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL). Old Point Financial Serv N A stated it has 0.59% of its capital in CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL). Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania School Empls Retrmt owns 51,880 shs. Hanson Mcclain, California-based fund reported 769 shs. River And Mercantile Asset Mngmt Llp accumulated 55,000 shs. Oppenheimer Asset owns 2.34M shs. Bp Public Ltd Co holds 120,000 shs or 0.08% of its capital. Summit Secs Gru Limited owns 74,877 shs. Paradigm Asset Mngmt Ltd stated it has 45,130 shs or 0% of all its holdings. Amp Investors accumulated 0.03% or 274,162 shs. Geode Capital Mngmt Ltd Co accumulated 13.31M shs or 0.06% of the stock. Fairfield Bush And Company invested 0.11% of its capital in CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL). Gemmer Asset Mngmt Ltd Liability Com reported 1,632 shs. Green Square Cap Ltd holds 0.26% of its capital in CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) for 120,757 shs.

CenturyLink, Inc. had 2 selling transactions and 5 insider buys since December 4, 2018. This’s net activity of $253.56 million. Another trade for 50,000 shs valued at $587,500 was bought by Dev Indraneel. On Tuesday, December 4 Shares for $1.00 million were sold by Trezise Scott. 2,000 shs were bought by Chilton Kevin P., worth $24,608. CLONTZ STEVEN T bought $95,600 worth of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) on Wednesday, March 6. 16.00 million CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) shs with value of $254.40 million were sold by Temasek Holdings (Private) Ltd.

On May, 8 WallStreet anticipated CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL)’s earnings release, Zacks reports. Analysts have anticipation on stock’s earnings per share of $0.29. That’s up 16.00 % from last year’s $0.25 earnings per share. If $0.29 is reported, CTL’s profit will hit $316.24 million for 10.32 P/E. -21.62 % negative EPS growth is what Wall Street’s predicts after $0.37 reported EPS previous quarter. CTL reached $11.97 during the last trading session after $0.15 change.Currently CenturyLink, Inc. is downtrending after 30.17% change in last April 16, 2018. CTL has also 11.26M shares volume. CTL underperformed the S&P 500 by 34.54%.

CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) Ratings Coverage

Total analysts of 12 have positions in CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL) as follows: 0 rated it a “Buy”, 3 with “Sell” and 9 with “Hold”. The positive are 0. Since January 24, 2019 according to StockzIntelligence Inc CenturyLink has 17 analyst reports. On Thursday, February 14 the company was maintained by Cowen & Co. On Thursday, February 14 Bank of America maintained CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) with “Buy” rating. On Thursday, February 14 the rating was maintained by SunTrust with “Hold”. On Friday, February 15 the stock of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) has “Hold” rating given by CFRA. On Thursday, January 24 the stock of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) earned “Sell” rating by Guggenheim. In Tuesday, February 5 report Citigroup downgraded the stock to “Sell” rating. On Tuesday, March 12 the rating was maintained by Macquarie Research with “Sell”. On Thursday, February 14 J.P. Morgan downgraded CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) to “Hold” rating. On Thursday, February 14 the company was downgraded by JP Morgan. On Thursday, February 14 the stock has “Hold” rating by UBS.

CenturyLink, Inc. provides various communications services to residential, business, wholesale, and governmental clients in the United States.The firm is valued at $13.05 billion. It operates through two divisions, Business and Consumer.Last it reported negative earnings. The firm offers broadband services, which allow clients to connect to the Internet through their existing telephone lines or fiber-optic cables; multi-protocol label switching, a data networking technology to support real-time voice and video; and private line services for the transmission of data between sites.

For more CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) news brought out recently go to: Globenewswire.com, Benzinga.com, Fool.com, Globenewswire.com or Seekingalpha.com. The titles are as follows: “CLASS ACTION UPDATE for TYME, KHC, DPLO and CTL: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders – GlobeNewswire” brought out on March 20, 2019, “Should Investors Buy The Dip In Centurylink? (NYSE:CTL) – Benzinga” on February 14, 2019, “Where Will CenturyLink Be in 5 Years? – The Motley Fool” with a publish date: March 19, 2019, “Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC Class Action Update: CTL, MAT & CNDT – GlobeNewswire” and the last “CenturyLink Investors Should Learn From My Mistake – Seeking Alpha” with publication date: April 02, 2019.