Ciena - CIEN Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ciena in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" CIEN shares.
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18 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Ciena's stock. Their CIEN share price forecasts range from $45.00 to $88.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $65.74 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 29.5% from the stock's current price.
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Ciena's stock was trading at $76.97 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, CIEN stock has decreased by 34.1% and is now trading at $50.76.
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Ciena saw a drop in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,230,000 shares, a drop of 15.2% from the October 31st total of 4,990,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,870,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 2.9% of the company's shares are sold short.
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Ciena Co. (NYSE:CIEN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, December, 8th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.61 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.08 by $0.53. The communications equipment provider earned $971 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $847.83 million. Ciena had a net margin of 5.37% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.91%. Ciena's revenue was down 6.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.75 earnings per share.

Ciena issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, December, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.21 billion-$4.29 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.04 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 a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.36%), Vanguard Group Inc. (9.67%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.98%), State Street Corp (2.80%), Neuberger Berman Group LLC (2.72%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (2.25%). 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 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 $50.76.

Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) has a market capitalization of $7.52 billion and generates $3.62 billion in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $500.20 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.27 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 7,241 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.