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NYSE · US · Communication Equipment

CIEN Ciena

Coherent optics for data-centre interconnect

Tight but sold off Its supply chain is tightening but the stock is below its 50-day average — price and fundamentals disagree. (automatic: supply-chain trend + price vs 50-day average)
Last close (delayed) · 2026-10-26
$343.4
+7.23% today
1W
−0.2%
1M
−3.8%
3M
−2.0%
YTD
+46.8%
1Y
+91.8%
Off 52w high
−45.2%
Market cap$45.42B
P/E (trailing)71.7Forward 27.0
EV / sales7.7×EV/EBITDA 45.2×
Revenue (TTM)$6.02BGrowth 37.0% y/y
Margins44.1%gross · op 18.1%
Free cash flow$633MCash $2.63B · debt $3.29B
Analyst target$513.0+49.4% upside · 20 analysts · buy
Riskβ 1.29Short 4.3% of float

Fundamentals from public market data, refreshed daily (2026-10-24 02:59 UTC). Figures in reporting currency.

CIEN · price with what management and the data said

Supply tighteningBeat / raiseMiss / cutData releaseEasing Hover a numbered marker for details · dashed lines = 50- and 200-day averages

Timeline: management commentary, data & earnings

8 events
  1. 8
    2026-09-03EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 2.11 vs 1.73 expected (+22.1% surprise).

  2. 7
    2026-06-04EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.64 vs 1.46 expected (+12.3% surprise).

  3. 6
    2026-03-05EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.35 vs 1.17 expected (+15.6% surprise).

  4. 5
    2025-12-11EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.91 vs 0.77 expected (+18.2% surprise).

  5. 4
    2025-09-04EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.67 vs 0.53 expected (+27.6% surprise).

  6. 3
    2025-06-05EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS 0.42 vs 0.52 expected (-18.9% surprise).

  7. 2
    2025-03-11EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.64 vs 0.41 expected (+54.7% surprise).

  8. 1
    2024-12-12EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS 0.54 vs 0.65 expected (-17.5% surprise).

Earnings history

EPS vs expectations
DateExpected EPSReported EPSSurprise
2026-09-031.732.11+22.1%
2026-06-041.461.64+12.3%
2026-03-051.171.35+15.6%
2025-12-110.770.91+18.2%
2025-09-040.530.67+27.6%
2025-06-050.520.42−18.9%
2025-03-110.410.64+54.7%
2024-12-120.650.54−17.5%
2024-09-040.260.35+34.5%
2024-06-060.150.27+80.1%
2024-03-070.480.66+38.8%
2023-12-070.690.75+8.7%
2023-08-310.510.59+16.1%
2023-06-060.610.74+20.7%
2023-03-060.360.64+77.3%
2022-12-080.080.61+684.1%
2022-09-010.340.33−1.9%
2022-06-020.540.5−7.4%
2022-03-070.450.47+4.1%
2021-12-090.850.85−0.6%
2021-09-020.790.92+16.4%
2021-06-030.480.62+28.6%
2021-03-040.450.52+16.2%
2020-12-100.630.6−4.4%

About Ciena

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Ciena Corporation, a network technology company, provides hardware, software, and services for various network operators in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and India. It operates through Networking Platforms, Platform Software and Services, Blue Planet Automation Software and Services, and Global Services segments. The Networking Platforms segment consists optical networking, routing, and switching products and services. This segment products include the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver modular interconnect system, the 6500 Reconfigurable Line System, and coherent pluggable transceivers; and the 3000 family of service delivery platforms and the 5000 family of service aggregation, as well as the 8100 Coherent Routing platforms and virtualization software. The Platform Software and Services segment offers navigator network control suite; and …

8,898 employees · Fulton, United States

Cluster scale pushes past copper. 800G→1.6T pluggables ramp now; co-packaged optics shift value toward the switch and laser.

Laser→Module→Switch→Fabric

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if transceiver ASP collapses with surplus module capacity.

Peers at the same bottleneck

Who else supplies this

StockRoleLast1D1MYTDTrend
COHR
Coherent
Lasers, InP capacity and optical transceivers $224.3+7.18%−24.2%+21.5%
LITE
Lumentum
EML and CW lasers for 800G/1.6T $834.8+10.40%−11.3%+126.5%
FN
Fabrinet
Precision optical manufacturing for transceivers $334.1+6.10%−19.9%−26.6%
AAOI
Applied Optoelectronics
US-made optical modules and lasers $73.00+8.13%−28.0%+109.4%
300308.SZ
Zhongji Innolight
Largest 800G/1.6T transceiver maker ¥594.5−2.96%−33.5%−2.3%
300502.SZ
Eoptolink
High-speed optical modules ¥251.7−3.57%−40.7%−18.1%

Not investment advice. Prices delayed and in local currency. Quotes in "double quotes" are verbatim as reported by the linked source; other commentary is our paraphrase. Earnings dates are estimates.