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CIEN vs LITE
Side-by-side comparison of Ciena Corporation (CIEN) and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- CIEN operates in Utilities, while LITE operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
- LITE is the larger of the two at $57.01B, about 1.1x CIEN ($53.00B).
- Over the past year, CIEN is up 340.5% and LITE is up 616.6% - LITE leads by 276.1 points.
- CIEN has been more active in the news (24 items in the past 4 weeks vs 9 for LITE).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Ciena Corporation
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Price
- $374.32-3.71%
- $732.49+3.70%
- Market cap
- $53.00B
- $57.01B
- 1M return
- -13.08%
- -16.29%
- 1Y return
- +340.48%
- +616.58%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 1997
- News (4w)
- 24
- 9
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
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.
Lumentum Holdings Inc.
Lumentum Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells optical and photonic products in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates in two segments, Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers (Lasers). The OpComms segment offers components, modules, and subsystems that enable the transmission and transport of video, audio, and data over high-capacity fiber optic cables. It offers tunable transponders, transceivers, and transmitter modules; tunable lasers, receivers, and modulators; transport products, such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, amplifiers, and optical channel monitors, as well as components, including 980nm, multi-mode, and Raman pumps; and switches, attenuators, photodetectors, gain flattening filters, isolators, wavelength-division multiplexing filters, arrayed waveguide gratings, multiplex/de-multiplexers, and integrated passive modules. This segment also provides Super Transport Blade, which integrates optical transport functions into a single-slot blade; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; directly modulated and electro-absorption modulated lasers; and laser illumination sources for 3D sensing systems. It serves customers in telecommunications, data communications, and consumer and industrial markets. The Commercial Lasers segment offers diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode, and gas lasers for use in original equipment manufacturer applications. It serves customers in markets and applications, such as sheet metal processing, general manufacturing, biotechnology, graphics and imaging, remote sensing, and precision machining. Lumentum Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Latest CIEN
- President, CEO Smith Gary B sold $1,243,098 worth of shares (2,952 units at $421.10) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 251,934 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP and Chief Strategy Officer Rothenstein David M sold $1,052,284 worth of shares (2,500 units at $420.91) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 182,731 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP Global Products & Supply Gage Brodie sold $538,980 worth of shares (1,200 units at $449.15) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 39,607 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP Global R&D Diperna Dino sold $351,235 worth of shares (782 units at $449.15) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 39,624 units (SEC Form 4)
- 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)
Latest LITE
- Director Thad Trent was granted 108 shares, increasing direct ownership by 9% to 1,313 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Small Ian was granted 108 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.51% to 21,116 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Lillie Brian was granted 108 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.78% to 14,018 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Johnson Julia Suzanne was granted 108 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.81% to 13,428 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Herscher Penny was granted 108 shares, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 2,165 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Fletcher Pamela was granted 108 shares, increasing direct ownership by 1% to 7,514 units (SEC Form 4)
- Lumentum Announces Reporting Date for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Results
- Amendment: SEC Form SCHEDULE 13G/A filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Director Harris Isaac Hosojiro was granted 952 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 395 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 12,957 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- Lumentum Chair of the Board, Penny Herscher, and CEO, Michael Hurlston to Participate in Rome Conference on AI, Ethics and Governance