Compare · ASTS vs LITE
ASTS vs LITE
Side-by-side comparison of AST SpaceMobile Inc. (ASTS) and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- ASTS operates in Consumer Discretionary, while LITE operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
- LITE is the larger of the two at $79.44B, about 3.3x ASTS ($24.13B).
- LITE has been more active in the news (21 items in the past 4 weeks vs 17 for ASTS).
- LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 22 for ASTS).
- Company
- AST SpaceMobile Inc.
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Price
- $62.02-0.51%
- $885.85+6.75%
- Market cap
- $24.13B
- $79.44B
- 1M return
- -
- +24.44%
- 1Y return
- -
- +610.50%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2019
- News (4w)
- 17
- 21
- Recent ratings
- 22
- 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.
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 ASTS
- Amendment: EVP and Chief of Staff Turco Christopher Edward was granted 200,000 shares, increasing direct ownership by 40,000% to 200,500 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Technology Officer Yao Huiwen exercised 40,000 in-the-money shares at a strike of $0.06, increasing direct ownership by 115% to 74,750 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Executive Officer Avellan Abel Antonio was granted 150,000 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.19% to 78,692,209 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Accounting Officer Bernal Maya was granted 20,000 shares, increasing direct ownership by 18% to 132,449 units (SEC Form 4)
- CFO and CLO Johnson Andrew Martin was granted 75,000 shares, increasing direct ownership by 16% to 556,484 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Operating Officer Gupta Shanti B. was granted 75,000 shares, increasing direct ownership by 19% to 474,980 units (SEC Form 4)
- EVP and Chief of Staff Turco Christopher Edward was granted 200,000 shares, increasing direct ownership by 40,000% to 200,500 units (SEC Form 4)
- President Wisniewski Scott was granted 75,000 shares, increasing direct ownership by 11% to 782,443 units (SEC Form 4)
- President Wisniewski Scott covered exercise/tax liability with 22,135 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 707,443 units (SEC Form 4)
- CFO and CLO Johnson Andrew Martin covered exercise/tax liability with 22,135 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 481,484 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest LITE
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen covered exercise/tax liability with 10,565 shares and sold $1,690,805 worth of shares (2,000 units at $845.40) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 12% to 93,229 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- Officer Retort Vincent sold $2,055,477 worth of shares (2,483 units at $827.82) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and covered exercise/tax liability with 10,083 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 11% to 101,929 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- SVP, GENERAL COUNSEL Kim Jae covered exercise/tax liability with 5,899 shares and sold $1,576,169 worth of shares (1,904 units at $827.82) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 17% to 38,170 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. covered exercise/tax liability with 6,185 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 112,794 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- EVP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Ali Wajid covered exercise/tax liability with 10,728 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 13% to 71,851 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.