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BZFD vs CIEN

Side-by-side comparison of BuzzFeed Inc. (BZFD) and Ciena Corporation (CIEN): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • BZFD operates in Consumer Discretionary, while CIEN operates in Utilities - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • CIEN is the larger of the two at $62.19B, about 587.4x BZFD ($105.9M).
  • Over the past year, BZFD is down 40.0% and CIEN is up 497.6% - CIEN leads by 537.6 points.
  • Both names hit the wire about 16 times in the past 4 weeks.
  • CIEN has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 6 for BZFD).
PerformanceBZFD-40.00%CIEN+497.59%
2025-06-10+0.00%2026-06-10
MetricBZFDCIEN
Company
BuzzFeed Inc.
Ciena Corporation
Price
$1.35+0.75%
$433.10-1.38%
Market cap
$105.9M
$62.19B
1M return
+83.10%
-25.53%
1Y return
-40.00%
+497.59%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2021
1997
News (4w)
16
16
Recent ratings
6
25
BZFD

BuzzFeed Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc., a tech-powered media company, provides breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and videos across the social Web to its global audience. It also provides cross-platform network such as BuzzFeed Originals, which creates articles, lists, quizzes, and videos; BuzzFeed Media, comprises a portfolio of identity-driven lifestyle brands that includes Nifty, Goodful, As/Is, and Tasty; BuzzFeed Studios, that produces original content across broadcast, cable, film, and digital platforms; BuzzFeed News, which includes reporting and investigative journalism; and BuzzFeed Commerce, which develops social commerce products and experiences, licensing, and other strategic partnerships. The company is based in Rye, New York.

CIEN

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.

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