RBC Capital analyst Jonathan Atkin raised his price target on CenturyLink to $27 and kept his Outperform rating after its "solid" Q2 results and increased FY18 guidance on "stronger-than-expected synergy realization and benefits from portfolio rationalization". The analyst believes that the company's dividend yield is also safe and its operating expense synergy targets are "beatable". Atkin further notes that although CenturyLink's consumer business is "challenged", it only constitutes about 25% of its combined revenue, and its recent Level 3 Communications transaction helps its "pivot to the enterprise business" with "better underlying economics".