Compare · CIEN vs LITE
CIEN vs LITE
Side-by-side comparison of Ciena Corporation (CIEN) and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- CIEN operates in Utilities, while LITE operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
- CIEN is the larger of the two at $69.03B, about the same size as LITE ($67.19B).
- Over the past year, CIEN is up 574.3% and LITE is up 951.7% - LITE leads by 377.4 points.
- LITE has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 12 for CIEN).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Ciena Corporation
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Price
- $488.20-8.84%
- $863.26-8.66%
- Market cap
- $69.03B
- $67.19B
- 1M return
- -15.33%
- -8.66%
- 1Y return
- +574.31%
- +951.73%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 1997
- News (4w)
- 12
- 14
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
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.
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 CIEN
- SEC Form 10-Q filed by Ciena Corporation
- Ciena Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- Ciena Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
- President, CEO Smith Gary B sold $1,670,597 worth of shares (2,952 units at $565.92) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 269,557 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Ciena Corporation
- Biznet Enhances Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity with Ciena
- CORRECTING and REPLACING Cirion Launches Initial Phase of On-Demand NaaS Connectivity in Latin America with Ciena and Carma
- Cirion Launches Initial Phase of On-Demand NaaS Connectivity in Latin America with Ciena and Carma
- President, CEO Smith Gary B sold $1,659,175 worth of shares (2,952 units at $562.05) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 272,509 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP and Chief Strategy Officer Rothenstein David M sold $1,405,969 worth of shares (2,500 units at $562.39) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 190,081 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest LITE
- Director Harris Isaac Hosojiro sold $1,416,115 worth of shares (1,416 units at $1,000.08) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 17% to 6,984 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Harris Isaac Hosojiro sold $3,440,000 worth of shares (4,000 units at $860.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 32% to 8,400 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- SEC Form 8-K filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Director Small Ian sold $4,300,419 worth of shares (4,954 units at $868.07), decreasing direct ownership by 19% to 21,008 units (SEC Form 4)
- REX Shares Launches T-REX 2X ASTS (ASUP) & 2X LITE (LITU) ETFs
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen covered exercise/tax liability with 3,741 shares and sold $3,062,180 worth of shares (3,210 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 81,488 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- Officer Retort Vincent covered exercise/tax liability with 3,299 shares and sold $3,036,423 worth of shares (3,183 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 7% to 89,563 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding obligation)
- SVP, GENERAL COUNSEL Kim Jae covered exercise/tax liability with 1,416 shares and sold $1,356,517 worth of shares (1,422 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 32,333 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. covered exercise/tax liability with 5,438 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 124,417 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax