Compare · ASTS vs CIEN
ASTS vs CIEN
Side-by-side comparison of AST SpaceMobile Inc. (ASTS) and Ciena Corporation (CIEN): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- ASTS operates in Consumer Discretionary, while CIEN operates in Utilities - the two are in different parts of the market.
- CIEN is the larger of the two at $63.26B, about 2.4x ASTS ($26.71B).
- Over the past year, ASTS is up 34.6% and CIEN is up 440.3% - CIEN leads by 405.7 points.
- CIEN has been more active in the news (20 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for ASTS).
- CIEN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 19 for ASTS).
- Company
- AST SpaceMobile Inc.
- Ciena Corporation
- Price
- $68.77+1.67%
- $447.20+0.45%
- Market cap
- $26.71B
- $63.26B
- 1M return
- -29.53%
- +0.50%
- 1Y return
- +34.61%
- +440.27%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2019
- 1997
- News (4w)
- 7
- 20
- Recent ratings
- 19
- 25
AST SpaceMobile Inc.
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. operates space-based cellular broadband network for mobile phones. Its SpaceMobile network is being designed to provide connectivity at 4G/5G speeds on land, at sea, and in flight. The company is based in Midland, Texas.
Ciena Corporation
Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company's Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators. Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.
Latest ASTS
- Amendment: President Wisniewski Scott covered exercise/tax liability with 16,395 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 729,578 units (SEC Form 4)
- The SpaceX IPO Put a Spotlight on Starlink -- and on the One Public Company Building a Rival Direct-to-Phone Network
- A Former NASA Deputy Administrator Just Joined the Company Flying the World's Only Mach 2+ Commercial Jet Fleet
- AST SpaceMobile Announces BlueBirds 11, 12, and 13 Orbital Launch in the First Half of August
- Amendment: SEC Form SCHEDULE 13D/A filed by AST SpaceMobile Inc.
- SEC Form 4 filed by Chief Executive Officer Avellan Abel Antonio
- SEC Form 144 filed by AST SpaceMobile Inc.
- Liftoff for an Asset Class: How the Space Economy Became One of the Market's Hottest Frontiers
- AST SpaceMobile Announces Successful Orbital Launch of BlueBirds 8, 9, and 10
- Director Sarnoff Richard was granted 2,124 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 80,363 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest CIEN
- SVP and General Counsel Kosaraju Sheela sold $938,461 worth of shares (2,013 units at $466.20) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 88,081 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP & Chief Financial Officer Graff Marc D. sold $58,741 worth of shares (126 units at $466.20) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 0.10% to 126,955 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP Global Sales and Marketing Phipps Jason sold $1,225,640 worth of shares (2,629 units at $466.20) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 62,382 units (SEC Form 4)
- President, CEO Smith Gary B sold $1,383,972 worth of shares (2,952 units at $468.83) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 254,886 units (SEC Form 4)
- Tradr Introduces Leveraged ETFs on Ciena, Quantinuum, Rambus, Tower Semiconductor and TTM Technologies
- SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet Cumello Joseph sold $739,599 worth of shares (1,586 units at $466.33) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 42,872 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP & Chief Financial Officer Graff Marc D. sold $56,619 worth of shares (126 units at $449.36) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 0.10% to 127,081 units (SEC Form 4)
- Tradr to Launch Leveraged ETFs on CIEN, QNT, RMBS, TSEM & TTMI
- SVP Chief Supply Chain Officer Hoffman Grant was granted 6,517 shares (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 3 filed by new insider Hoffman Grant