Compare · LITE vs NTGR
LITE vs NTGR
Side-by-side comparison of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) and NETGEAR Inc. (NTGR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- LITE operates in Telecommunications, while NTGR operates in Utilities - the two are in different parts of the market.
- LITE is the larger of the two at $81.19B, about 134.7x NTGR ($602.8M).
- Over the past year, LITE is up 404.0% and NTGR is down 32.1% - LITE leads by 436.1 points.
- LITE has been more active in the news (20 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for NTGR).
- LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for NTGR).
- Company
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- NETGEAR Inc.
- Price
- -
- -
- Market cap
- $81.19B
- $602.8M
- 1M return
- -7.87%
- -3.81%
- 1Y return
- +404.02%
- -32.09%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2003
- News (4w)
- 20
- 1
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 10
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.
NETGEAR Inc.
NETGEAR, Inc. designs, develops, and markets networking and Internet connected products for consumers, businesses, and service providers. It operates in two segments, Connected Home, and Small and Medium Business. The company offers smart home/connected home/broadband access products, such as broadband modems, WiFi gateways, WiFi hotspots, WiFi routers and home WiFi systems, WiFi range extenders, Powerline adapters and bridges, WiFi network adapters, and digital canvasses; and value added service offerings, including technical support, parental controls, and cybersecurity protection. It also provides Ethernet switches, wireless controllers and access points, unified storage products, and Internet security appliances for small and medium-sized businesses. The company markets and sells its products through traditional retailers, online retailers, wholesale distributors, direct market resellers, value-added resellers, and broadband service providers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle-East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. NETGEAR, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Latest LITE
- Lumentum, Astera Labs, and Corning to Demonstrate 1060 nm VCSEL-Based PCIe over Optics for AI Rack-Scale Connectivity at the 2026 OCP Global Summit
- SEC Form DEFA14A filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- SEC Form DEF 14A filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Lumentum Announces Reporting Date for Fiscal First Quarter 2027 Financial Results
- EVP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Ali Wajid sold $25,732,287 worth of shares (24,542 units at $1,048.50) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 25% to 75,074 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Lumentum Announces Speaker Lineup at 2026 OCP Global Summit
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen sold $764,365 worth of shares (807 units at $947.17) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 0.74% to 108,320 units (SEC Form 4)
- Bernstein initiated coverage on Lumentum with a new price target
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
Latest NTGR
- SVP and GM, Home Networking Oakes Jonathan Russell covered exercise/tax liability with 2,650 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 72,195 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- Amendment: SEC Form SCHEDULE 13G/A filed by NETGEAR Inc.
- SEC Form 10-Q filed by NETGEAR Inc.
- SEC Form 3 filed by new insider Murray Douglas Andrew
- Director Murray Douglas Andrew was granted 6,107 shares (SEC Form 4)
- NETGEAR Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Leadership Update, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- NETGEAR® Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results
- President & GM, NFB Badjate Pramod covered exercise/tax liability with 8,440 shares and sold $71,630 worth of shares (3,000 units at $23.88) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 7% to 154,073 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- Chief Executive Officer Prober Charles J. covered exercise/tax liability with 4,598 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 426,294 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- Chief Financial Officer Murray Bryan covered exercise/tax liability with 9,107 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 223,206 units (SEC Form 4) (tax liability)