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IHS vs LITE

Side-by-side comparison of IHS Holding Limited (IHS) and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both IHS and LITE operate in Telecommunications Equipment (Telecommunications), so they compete in similar markets.
  • LITE is the larger of the two at $67.19B, about 24.1x IHS ($2.78B).
  • Over the past year, IHS is up 42.5% and LITE is up 951.7% - LITE leads by 909.2 points.
  • LITE has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 3 for IHS).
  • LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 12 for IHS).
PerformanceIHS+42.49%LITE+951.73%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricIHSLITE
Company
IHS Holding Limited
Lumentum Holdings Inc.
Price
$8.30-0.06%
$863.26-8.66%
Market cap
$2.78B
$67.19B
1M return
+1.22%
-8.66%
1Y return
+42.49%
+951.73%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
2021
News (4w)
3
14
Recent ratings
12
25
IHS

IHS Holding Limited

IHS Holding Limited owns, operates, and develops shared telecommunications infrastructure in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. It offers colocation and lease agreement, build-to-suit, inbuilding, small cell infrastructure, fiber connectivity, and rural telephony solutions. The company serves mobile network operators, Internet service providers, broadcasters, security functions, and private corporations. IHS Holding Limited was founded in 2001 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

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.

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