How to buy Ciena stock (CIEN)

Ciena is a communication equipment business based in the US. Ciena shares (CIEN) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $87.38 – a decrease of 2.61% over the previous week. Ciena employs 8,313 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $4 billion.

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Ciena stock price (NYSE: CIEN)

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Ciena shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-19.

Latest market close	$87.38
52-week range	$43.30 - $91.82
50-day moving average more info button	$69.84
200-day moving average more info button	$55.56
Wall St. target price	$87.93
PE ratio more info button	144.6897
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$0.58

Is it a good time to buy Ciena stock?

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Ciena price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $85.79 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-4.38%
1 month (2024-11-21)	25.85%
3 months (2024-09-20)	46.08%
6 months (2024-06-21)	77.07%

1 year (2023-12-21)	96.05%
2 years (2022-12-21)	73.52%
3 years (2021-12-21)	14.17%
5 years (2019-12-20)	102.38%

Is Ciena stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Ciena stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Ciena's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Ciena's P/E ratio

Ciena's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 145x. In other words, Ciena shares trade at around 145x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Ciena's PEG ratio

Ciena's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.77. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Ciena's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Ciena's EBITDA

Ciena's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $364.3 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Ciena's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Ciena financials

Revenue TTM	$4 billion
Operating margin TTM	2.98%
Gross profit TTM	$1.9 billion
Return on assets TTM	2.52%
Return on equity TTM	4.73%
Profit margin	3.44%
Book value	$20.02
Market Capitalization more info button	$12 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Ciena share dividends

We're not expecting Ciena to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Ciena's shares ever split?

Ciena's shares were split on a 1:7 basis on 24 September 2006 . So if you had owned 7 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Ciena shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 600% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Ciena shares which in turn could have impacted Ciena's share price.

Ciena share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Ciena's shares have ranged in value from as little as $43.3 up to $91.82. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Ciena's is 0.938. This would suggest that Ciena's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Ciena overview

Ciena Corporation provides hardware and software services for delivery of video, data, and voice traffic metro, aggregation, and access communications network worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers convergence of coherent optical transport, open optical networking, optical transport network switching, IP routing, and switching services. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as 8100 coherent routing platforms; 3000 family of service delivery switches and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, multi-cloud orchestration, and unified assurance and analytics services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers MCP domain controller solution, and OneControl unified management system, as well as planning tools. The company's Global Services segment provides maintenance support and training, installation and deployment, and consulting and network design services.

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Ciena is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.924% of Ciena shares are held by insiders and 101.693% by institutions. How many people work for Ciena?
Latest data suggests 8,313 work at Ciena. When does the fiscal year end for Ciena?
Ciena's fiscal year ends in October. Where is Ciena based?
Ciena's address is: 7035 Ridge Road, Hanover, MD, United States, 21076 What is Ciena's ISIN number?
Ciena's international securities identification number is: US1717793095 What is Ciena's CUSIP number?
Ciena's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 171779101