Ciena (CIEN) Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ciena in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings, 8 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CIEN shares.
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12 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Ciena's shares. Their CIEN share price forecasts range from $41.00 to $76.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $61.35 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 30.1% from the stock's current price.
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Ciena's stock was trading at $50.98 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, CIEN shares have decreased by 7.5% and is now trading at $47.17.
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Ciena saw a drop in short interest in August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,450,000 shares, a drop of 11.3% from the July 31st total of 3,890,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,050,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 days. Currently, 2.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, December 14th 2023.
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Ciena Co. (NYSE:CIEN) issued its earnings results on Thursday, August, 31st. The communications equipment provider reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.51 by $0.08. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $1.07 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.04 billion. Ciena had a net margin of 5.23% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.00%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 23.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.18 EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) stock in their portfolio include iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF (IGN), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (XTL), Future Fund Long/Short ETF (FFLS), iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ), Future Fund Active ETF (FFND), iShares Future Cloud 5G and Tech ETF (IDAT), First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETF (ROBT) and First Trust Indxx NextG ETF (NXTG).

Ciena issued an update on its fourth quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, September, 1st. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.06 billion-$1.14 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.10 billion.

581 employees have rated Ciena Chief Executive Officer Gary B. Smith on Glassdoor.com. Gary B. Smith has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Gary B. Smith in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Ciena trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CIEN."

Ciena's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.14%), BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. (2.87%), State Street Corp (2.84%), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (1.86%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.84%) and Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.71%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew C Petrik, Andrew C Petrik, David M Rothenstein, David M Rothenstein, Gary B Smith, Gary B Smith, Gary E Dickerson, James E Moylan Jr, James E Moylan, Jr, Jason Phipps, Joseph Cumello, Joseph Gebbia, Judith M Obrien, Rick Hamilton, Scott Mcfeely, Stephen B Alexander, Stephen B Alexander and Thomas Michael Nevens.
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One share of CIEN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $47.17.

Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) has a market capitalization of $6.97 billion and generates $3.63 billion in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $152.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.48 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 8,079 workers across the globe.

Ciena's mailing address is 7035 RIDGE ROAD, HANOVER MD, 21076. The official website for the company is www.ciena.com. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at (410) 694-5700, via email at ir@ciena.com, or via fax at 410-694-5750.