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GLW vs TEF

Side-by-side comparison of Corning Incorporated (GLW) and Telefonica SA (TEF): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • GLW operates in Industrials, while TEF operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • GLW is the larger of the two at $161.40B, about 6.1x TEF ($26.51B).
  • Over the past year, GLW is up 268.5% and TEF is down 27.9% - GLW leads by 296.4 points.
  • GLW has hit the wire 3 times in the past 4 weeks while TEF has been quiet.
  • GLW has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 13 for TEF).
PerformanceGLW+109.79%TEF-27.88%
2025-10-27+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricGLWTEF
Company
Corning Incorporated
Telefonica SA
Price
$187.49+5.68%
$3.81-0.91%
Market cap
$161.40B
$26.51B
1M return
+2.79%
-8.29%
1Y return
+268.49%
-27.88%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
1988
News (4w)
3
0
Recent ratings
25
13
GLW

Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated engages in display technologies, optical communications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences businesses worldwide. The company's Display Technologies segment offers glass substrates for liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes used in televisions, notebook computers, desktop monitors, tablets, and handheld devices. Its Optical Communications segment provides optical fibers and cables; and hardware and equipment products, including cable assemblies, fiber optic hardware and connectors, optical components and couplers, closures, network interface devices, and other accessories for various carrier network applications. This segment also offers operator-grade distributed antenna systems; optical network evolution wireless platform; subscriber demarcation, connection and protection devices, various digital subscriber line passive solutions, and outside plant enclosures; and coaxial RF interconnects for the cable television industry and microwave applications. The company's Environmental Technologies segment offers ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile, gasoline, and diesel applications. Its Specialty Materials segment manufactures products that provide material formulations for glass, glass ceramics, and fluoride crystals. The company's Life Sciences segment offers laboratory products comprising consumables, such as plastic vessels, specialty surfaces, cell culture media, and serum, as well as general labware and equipment under the Corning, Falcon, Pyrex, and Axygen brands. The company was formerly known as Corning Glass Works and changed its name to Corning Incorporated in April 1989. Corning Incorporated was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in Corning, New York.

TEF

Telefonica SA

Telefónica, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services in Europe and Latin America. The company's mobile and related services and products comprise mobile voice, value added, mobile data, Internet, wholesale, corporate, roaming, fixed wireless, trunking, and paging services. Its fixed telecommunication services include PSTN lines; ISDN accesses; public telephone services; local, domestic, and international long-distance and fixed-to-mobile communications; corporate communications; supplementary value-added services; video telephony; intelligent network; and telephony information services. The company also leases and sells handset equipment; and provides Internet and broadband multimedia services comprising Internet service provider, portal and network, retail and wholesale broadband access, narrowband switched access, high-speed Internet through fibre to the home, and voice over Internet protocol services. In addition, it offers leased lines; virtual private network; fibre optics; hosting and application; outsourcing and consultancy; desktop; and system integration and professional services. Further, the company offers wholesale services for telecommunication operators, including domestic interconnection; international wholesale; leased lines for other operators; and local loop leasing under the unbundled local loop regulation framework, as well as bit stream services, wholesale line rental accesses, and leased ducts for other operators' fiber deployment. Additionally, it provides video/TV services; smart connectivity and services, and consumer IoT products; financial and other payment, security, cloud computing, advertising, big data, and digital telco experience services; virtual assistants; digital home platforms; and Movistar Home devices. The company serves 337 million customers. Telefónica, S.A. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

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