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LITE vs USM

Side-by-side comparison of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) and United States Cellular Corporation (USM): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both LITE and USM operate in Telecommunications Equipment (Telecommunications), so they compete in similar markets.
  • LITE is the larger of the two at $72.98B, about 27.4x USM ($2.66B).
  • Over the past year, LITE is up 1069.5% and USM is up 25.5% - LITE leads by 1043.9 points.
  • LITE has hit the wire 21 times in the past 4 weeks while USM has been quiet.
  • LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 12 for USM).
PerformanceLITE+33.57%USM+25.55%
2026-03-27+0.00%2026-06-03
MetricLITEUSM
Company
Lumentum Holdings Inc.
United States Cellular Corporation
Price
$922.64-10.34%
$76.98+3.50%
Market cap
$72.98B
$2.66B
1M return
-3.90%
+10.02%
1Y return
+1069.45%
+25.55%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
1988
News (4w)
21
0
Recent ratings
25
12
LITE

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.

USM

United States Cellular Corporation

United States Cellular Corporation provides wireless telecommunications services in the United States. The company offers wireless services, including voice, messaging, and data services. It also provides wireless devices, such as handsets, tablets, mobile hotspots, home phones, and routers, as well as accessories; sells wireless devices to agents and other third-party distributors for resale; and offers option to purchase devices and accessories under instalment contracts. In addition, the company offers roaming, wireless eligible telecommunications carrier, and wireless tower rental services. It serves customers with 5.0 million connections in 21 states, including consumer, business, and government customers. The company provides its products and services through retail sales, direct sales, third-party national retailers, and independent agents, as well as ecommerce and telesales. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. United States Cellular Corporation is a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

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