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Keith Meister's activist firm Corvex Management has filed an amended 13D with the SEC regarding its position in CenturyLink (CTL).  Per the filing, Corvex now owns 5.6% of CTL with over 30.99 million shares.  This is made up of 18.99 million shares and 12 million shares underlying call options.

This is an increase of around 1 million shares from the beginning of May when Corvex first revealed its stake in CTL.  The latest filing was made due to activity on June 16th and it notes they bought CTL at $25.91.

We previously highlighted Meister's presentation on CenturyLink at the Sohn Conference New York.  CenturyLink is merging with Level 3, which Meister thinks is a game changer.

Per Google Finance, CenturyLink is "an integrated communications company. The Company is engaged in providing an array of communications services to its residential and business customers. Its segments include business, which provides strategic, legacy and data integration products and services to small, medium and enterprise business, wholesale and governmental customers, including other communication providers, and consumer, which provides strategic and legacy products and services to residential customers. Its communications services include local and long-distance voice, broadband, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), private line (including special access), Ethernet, colocation, hosting (including cloud hosting and managed hosting), data integration, video, network, public access, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), information technology and other ancillary services. As of December 31, 2016, it served approximately 5.9 million broadband subscribers and 325,000 Prism TV subscribers."