Ciena - CIEN Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ciena in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" CIEN shares.
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15 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Ciena's shares. Their CIEN share price forecasts range from $45.00 to $76.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $64.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 31.7% from the stock's current price.
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Ciena's stock was trading at $50.98 at the start of the year. Since then, CIEN stock has decreased by 4.6% and is now trading at $48.61.
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Ciena saw a drop in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,880,000 shares, a drop of 5.4% from the February 28th total of 4,100,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,590,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 2.6% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, June 1st 2023.
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Ciena Co. (NYSE:CIEN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, March, 6th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.64 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.36 by $0.28. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $1.06 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $959.04 million. Ciena had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.22% and a net margin of 4.77%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 25.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.35 EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) stock in their portfolio include iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF (IGN), iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (XTL), Future Fund Active ETF (FFND), iShares Future Cloud 5G and Tech ETF (IDAT), First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETF (ROBT), ProShares Ultra Communication Services (LTL) and Janus Henderson Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha ETF (JSMD).

Ciena updated its second quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Monday, March, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.03 billion-$1.11 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.04 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Bank of America Corp DE (2.44%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.34%), Neuberger Berman Group LLC (2.33%), BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. (2.24%), Congress Asset Management Co. MA (2.19%) and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (1.74%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew C Petrik, Andrew C Petrik, Bruce L Claflin, 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, Patrick H Nettles, 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 $48.61.

Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) has a market capitalization of $7.25 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 $1.22 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.