How is Ciena (CIEN) doing?
Ciena is a company in the communication equipment industry, based in Fulton, MD, worth $63.7B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Strong
Ciena shares are up 182% over the past year, 144 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Bellwether. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 98th percentile on market beat, the 98th on staying power and the 94th on business growth. It appears on 18 of our dashboards, including 5th on “Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth?”.
Compare with ANET · CSCO · COHR · LITE · FFIV
Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Bellwether
Beating the market, steadily, with a growing business and buyers adding. Everything is lined up.
Bellwether since Aug; Distribution Top before that.
Also Bellwether (93 in all): LITE · MU · STX · AMD · WDC · LRCX
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Semis & hardware, 54 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Chipmakers and the gear that builds them — the AI-cycle epicentre.
Ciena is +182% over the past year, against +84% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 7th of 54 in Semis & hardware.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Ciena typically moves 5.5% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 98% of large US stocks.
CIEN on our dashboards
Every question where Ciena appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CIEN highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| How much are stocks swinging? Market health | 86Stormy | 41 of 60 | Daily move now 4.6% · Usual 4.6% · 1M change +34% |
| What moved this week? What’s leading | 88Unusual | 8 of 60 | This week +14.9% · × normal week 1.2× · 1M +34% |
| What are this year’s biggest winners and losers? What’s leading | 96Top | 22 of 60 | This year +92% · vs S&P +78 pts · Past month +34% |
| Who is joining or leaving the S&P 500? Events | –Added Feb 9 | 51 of 66 | Market value $63.7B · vs S&P since the change +38 pts · 1Y +182% |
| Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading? Events | 1Upgraded | 13 of 60 | Upgrades 1 · Downgrades 0 · Latest change Evercore ISI Group: In Line to Outperform, Sep 21 |
| Where are analysts raising estimates? Earnings | 99Raised | 6 of 60 | Change, 1M +9.4% · Change, 3M +9.7% · Next-year EPS $7.17 |
| Which companies do analysts expect to grow fastest? Earnings | 98Fast | 11 of 60 | EPS growth +64% · This year 7.17 · Next year 11.78 |
| Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks | 97Excellent | 5 of 60 | Pressure 85 · 1Y +182% |
| Which stocks keep winning? Leading stocks | 9632 of 52 wks | 22 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y +166 pts · Rank steadiness 98 · P3 score 97 |
| Who is beating its rivals? Leading stocks | 97Ahead | 14 of 60 | 3M −13 pts · 1Y +165 pts · Rivals ANET, CSCO, COHR, LITE |
| Which companies are growing fastest? Business quality | 93Fast | 37 of 60 | Revenue, 1Y +33% · Change +20 pts · Earnings, 1Y +365% |
| Whose profit margins are widening? Business quality | 92Widening | 31 of 60 | Change, 1Y +8.6 pts · Operating margin 14% · Gross margin 44% |
| Which businesses are getting better? Business quality | 94Improving | 29 of 60 | Revenue growth +26% · Cash-flow growth +262% · Operating margin 8% |
| Whose cash flow backs up their earnings? Business quality | 92Backed | 29 of 60 | 3 years 176% · Last year 110% · Free cash flow $719.0M |
| Which companies invest the most in research? Business quality | 73Moderate | 53 of 60 | R&D / revenue 15.4% · R&D a year $924.9M · R&D, 1Y +13% |
| Who is spending big on expansion? Business quality | 91Ramping | 31 of 60 | Capex, 1Y +72% · A year $335.7M · % of revenue 6% |
| Which stocks are priced for perfection? Value | 88Rich | 44 of 60 | Forward P/E 30× · EV / sales 10.2× · Expected EPS growth +64% |
| Where is trading volume surging? Who’s buying and selling | 98Surging | 9 of 60 | vs normal 2.0x · Traded a day $1.7B · 5D +14.9% |
Go deeper on Stox
CIEN’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see CIEN’s full profile on Stox.
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