Compare · LITE vs TDS
LITE vs TDS
Side-by-side comparison of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) and Telephone and Data Systems Inc. (TDS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both LITE and TDS operate in Telecommunications Equipment (Telecommunications), so they compete in similar markets.
- LITE is the larger of the two at $77.94B, about 20.1x TDS ($3.87B).
- Over the past year, LITE is up 555.5% and TDS is down 14.8% - LITE leads by 570.3 points.
- LITE has been more active in the news (42 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for TDS).
- LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 13 for TDS).
- Company
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Telephone and Data Systems Inc.
- Price
- $869.38-4.93%
- $33.61-0.24%
- Market cap
- $77.94B
- $3.87B
- 1M return
- +11.41%
- -2.32%
- 1Y return
- +555.49%
- -14.84%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 42
- 2
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 13
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.
Telephone and Data Systems Inc.
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., a telecommunications company, provides communications services in the United States. It operates through three segments: UScellular, Wireline, and Cable. The company offers wireless solutions to consumers and business and government customers, including a suite of connected Internet of things (IoT) solutions, and software applications for monitor and control, business automation/operations, communication, asset management, smart water solutions, and end-to-end IoT solutions; wireless priority services and quality priority and preemption options; smartphones and other handsets, tablets, wearables, mobile hotspots, routers, and IoT devices; and accessories, such as cases, screen protectors, chargers, and memory cards, as well as consumer electronics, including headphones, smart speakers, and home automation and business management solutions. It also provides replace and repair services; Trade-In program through which it buys customers' used equipment; internet connections and all-home WI-FI services; TDS TV+, an integrated cloud television platform that offers video content; local and long-distance telephone service, VoIP, and enhanced services; and broadband, IP-based services, and hosted voice and video collaboration services. It sells its products through retail sales, direct sales, third-party retailers, and independent agents, as well as through ecommerce and telesales. As of December 31, 2020, the company offers its services to customers 5 million wireless connections, and 1.2 million wireline and cable connections. The company was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Latest LITE
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen sold $1,368,495 worth of shares (1,500 units at $912.33) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 117,627 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Deutsche Bank initiated coverage on Lumentum with a new price target
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Evercore ISI initiated coverage on Lumentum with a new price target
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. was granted 7,941 shares and sold $525,346 worth of shares (548 units at $958.66) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 186,951 units (SEC Form 4)
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. was granted 66,764 shares, increasing direct ownership by 56% to 185,743 units (SEC Form 4)
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen was granted 5,138 shares and sold $479,330 worth of shares (500 units at $958.66) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 119,127 units (SEC Form 4)
- Officer Retort Vincent sold $32,963,734 worth of shares (38,663 units at $852.59) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 33% to 78,440 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest TDS
- Telephone and Data Systems Announces It Is No Longer Pursuing the Acquisition of Public Shares of Array Digital Infrastructure
- TDS announces third quarter 2026 dividends
- SEC Form 10-Q filed by Telephone and Data Systems Inc.
- Telephone and Data Systems Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- TDS reports second quarter 2026 results
- TDS and Array to release second quarter operating results and host conference call on August 7, 2026
- Executive Vice President & CFO Villacrez Vicki L exercised 10,170 shares at a strike of $40.03 and covered exercise/tax liability with 4,780 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 72,425 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP, Controller & CAO Kroll Anita J exercised 2,716 shares at a strike of $40.03 and covered exercise/tax liability with 1,277 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 20,546 units (SEC Form 4)
- Vice Chair Carlson Leroy T Jr exercised 45,135 shares at a strike of $40.03 and covered exercise/tax liability with 18,935 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 897,769 units (SEC Form 4)
- President & CEO, subsidiary Dixon Kenneth S. covered exercise/tax liability with 1,489 shares and exercised 4,653 shares at a strike of $39.33 (SEC Form 4)