Zacks Small Cap Issues Positive Outlook for POET Earnings

Key Points

• Zacks Small Cap has upgraded its Q3 2025 earnings estimate for POET Technologies to ($0.09) per share, an improvement from the previous estimate of ($0.11).
• POET Technologies reported a loss of ($0.21) EPS for the last quarter, missing analysts' consensus by ($0.10) and generating revenue of only $0.27 million.
• Recent institutional activity includes Osaic Holdings increasing its stake in POET by 22.3% and several other firms making new investments, indicating growing interest in the company.

POET Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:POET - Free Report) - Equities research analysts at Zacks Small Cap lifted their Q3 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of POET Technologies in a research report issued on Monday, September 8th. Zacks Small Cap analyst L. Thompson now anticipates that the company will post earnings per share of ($0.09) for the quarter, up from their prior forecast of ($0.11). The consensus estimate for POET Technologies' current full-year earnings is ($0.45) per share. Zacks Small Cap also issued estimates for POET Technologies' Q4 2025 earnings at ($0.09) EPS, FY2025 earnings at ($0.32) EPS and FY2026 earnings at ($0.31) EPS.

Separately, Wall Street Zen lowered POET Technologies from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Saturday, August 30th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating and two have given a Buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of $6.25.

POET Technologies Trading Down 1.7%

POET traded down $0.09 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $5.24. The company's stock had a trading volume of 1,051,607 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,114,176. The stock has a market cap of $475.37 million, a P/E ratio of -6.47 and a beta of 0.38. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $5.68 and a 200 day simple moving average of $4.68. POET Technologies has a twelve month low of $2.98 and a twelve month high of $7.79.

POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Monday, August 11th. The company reported ($0.21) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.11) by ($0.10). The business had revenue of $0.27 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $0.39 million. POET Technologies had a negative net margin of 11,497.01% and a negative return on equity of 141.43%.

Institutional Trading of POET Technologies

A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Scotia Capital Inc. lifted its position in shares of POET Technologies by 13.0% in the 2nd quarter. Scotia Capital Inc. now owns 18,295 shares of the company's stock worth $95,000 after acquiring an additional 2,100 shares during the period. Osaic Holdings Inc. lifted its position in shares of POET Technologies by 22.3% in the 2nd quarter. Osaic Holdings Inc. now owns 34,735 shares of the company's stock worth $181,000 after acquiring an additional 6,340 shares during the period. Strengthening Families & Communities LLC bought a new stake in shares of POET Technologies in the 1st quarter worth approximately $26,000. Sentry LLC bought a new stake in shares of POET Technologies in the 1st quarter worth approximately $38,000. Finally, Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC lifted its position in shares of POET Technologies by 390.4% in the 2nd quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC now owns 13,520 shares of the company's stock worth $70,000 after acquiring an additional 10,763 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 1.99% of the company's stock.

About POET Technologies

POET Technologies Inc designs, develops, manufactures, and sells discrete and integrated opto-electronic solutions in Canada, the United States, Singapore, and China. It offers integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques.