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Materials and photonics company Coherent (NYSE:COHR) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Lumentum just torched Wall Street expectations and sent shockwaves through the entire AI optics complex, pulling peers like Coherent, Corning, and Ciena sharply higher as analysts scramble to figure out whether the rally has legs or has already outrun reality.
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Coherent (NYSE:COHR) shares climbed 5. 7% in premarket trading to $347.
Stocks tied to the AI trade are back on top this morning after stellar results from CoreWeave and Super Micro Computer. Cloud-computing company CoreWeave reported its fifth consecutive quarter of record revenue and a sales backlog of $104 billion yesterday—in the latest sign of continued strength of demand for AI computing. Server company Super Micro Computer reported sales that nearly doubled in its fiscal fourth quarter and surging profit.
Investor interest in photonics is rising as hyperscalers ramp AI spending, fueling expectations for a multi-year boom for optical connectivity tech providers.
Today Inflation data: Consumer price index for July, 8:30 a.m. ET Other data: EIA petroleum status report, Treasury budget Bond auctions: 10-year Treasury note Earnings: Cisco Systems, Stubhub, Coherent, Air Canada Thursday Economic data: Producer price index for July, Jobless claims, EIA natural-gas storage report Earnings: Applied Materials, Tapestry Federal Reserve speakers: Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, one of three Fed regional bank heads to dissent from last month’s rate decision.
The optical networking company reports better-than-expected earnings and revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter.
AXT has surged over 350% this year riding the AI optical wave, but tonight Lumentum reports earnings and its commentary on next-generation datacenter connectivity could either validate that run or trigger another painful reversal for anyone exposed to the InP supply chain.
Cisco and Coherent both report earnings the same afternoon, putting two very different AI networking bets head to head. One carries a 93% crowd-backed beat probability while the other just shed 14% in a single session, and only one belongs in a retirement portfolio.
Today Economic data: NFIB small-business index for July, existing home sales Earnings: Cardinal Health, Lumentum, CoreWeave, Super Micro, On Holding, Smithfield Foods Wednesday Inflation data: Consumer price index for July, 8:30 a.
Coherent heads into fiscal Q4 earnings with strong AI demand, capacity expansion and margin gains, but its sharp rally and premium valuation support a Hold.
Two AI optics darlings that posted triple-digit gains this year are suddenly selling off hard, and the reason has less to do with bad news than with what investors are bracing for this week.
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LITE heads into fiscal Q4 earnings with strong AI optics demand and a 1.6T transceiver ramp, though supply constraints could limit upside.
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U.S. stocks haven't had a week this strong for months. The S&P 500 and Dow are up 2.9% and 2.7%, respectively, through Thursday—putting both on track for their largest weekly gains since the week ending April 17.
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China controls more than 50% of the global transceiver market, and the Federal Communications Commission is drafting a measure to bar imports of new Chinese optical transceivers, with officials hoping to publish the rule this year. Optical transceivers are the fiber-optic pipes that move AI training data between GPUs at the speed of light. If ... The Trump Administration Could Soon Create the ‘Mother of All’ AI Bottlenecks. These Stocks Could Soar.
SYMBOTIC INC (SYM) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -25.00% and +0.85%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
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U.S. optical component stocks surged following a Reuters report that the Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new Chinese data center hardware. Applied Optoelectronics jumped 16%, Coherent gained 13%, Lumentum rose 11%, and Corning climbed 8%. According to four sources familiar with the matter, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is preparing restrictions against new Chinese optical transceivers—the critical hardware that routes data over fiber-optic cables inside AI
Chip stocks were a mixed bag on Monday as the Philadelphia semiconductor index, known as SOX, struggled to hold gains. However, Nvidia stock retook a key support level. In afternoon trades on the stock market today, the SOX rose a fraction.
AXT (NASDAQ:AXTI) reported record second-quarter revenue and a return to profitability, driven by strong demand for indium phosphide substrates used in optical connectivity for AI data centers. Management said it is accelerating capacity expansion as customer demand continues to exceed supply. Seco
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