Coherent gives the dashboard a second serious optics name, which matters because AI networking is increasingly an optical problem.
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Price
$358.50
1D change
+1.38%
Market cap
$70.14B
Sector
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| Metric | COHR |
|---|---|
| Price | $358.50 |
| 1D Change | +1.38% |
| Market Cap | $70.14B |
| Enterprise Value | — |
| Trailing P/E | 169.1 |
| Forward P/E | 44.3 |
| Price / Sales | — |
| EV / Revenue | — |
| Revenue Growth | — |
| Earnings Growth | — |
| Gross Margin | — |
| Operating Margin | — |
| Net Margin | — |
| ROE | — |
| Free Cash Flow | — |
| FCF Margin | — |
| Debt / Equity | — |
| Current Ratio | — |
| Dividend Yield | — |
| Next Earnings | — |
| Quarterly Revenue | $1.81B |
| Revenue QoQ | +7.1% |
| Quarterly Net Income | $191.4M |
| Net Income QoQ | +30.5% |
COHR thesis lens
Optics + photonics bottleneck
Why it could benefit
- Coherent gives the dashboard a second serious optics name, which matters because AI networking is increasingly an optical problem.
- It provides exposure to lasers, transceivers, and photonic components that support large AI fabrics.
- If optical capacity becomes a key AI constraint, Coherent is closer to the bottleneck than many mainstream semiconductor names.
Moat / edge
- Deep photonics and materials expertise.
- A broad product set across critical optical components.
- Positioning in a specialized manufacturing stack that is hard to replicate.
What to watch
- AI-related datacenter optics demand and customer wins.
- Margin improvement as mix shifts.
- How much NVIDIA-linked optical demand translates into sustained revenue.
Key risks
- Execution and integration complexity can weigh on results.
- Optics demand can be cyclical and less linear than the AI narrative suggests.