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 $72.91 – an increase of 8.24% over the previous week. Ciena employs 8,795 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $4 billion.
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| Latest market close | $72.91 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $44.69 - $101.44 |
| 50-day moving average | $65.97 |
| 200-day moving average | $67.98 |
| Wall St. target price | $77.54 |
| PE ratio | 132.4545 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.55 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $72.85 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-29) | 8.15% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-07) | 31.93% |
| 3 months (2025-02-07) | -18.79% |
| 6 months (2024-11-07) | 3.60% |
| 1 year (2024-05-07) | 49.25% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 65.27% |
| 3 years (2022-05-06) | 34.29% |
| 5 years (2020-05-07) | 56.43% |
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 current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 132x. In other words, Ciena shares trade at around 132x 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 "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 (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $317.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Ciena's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $4 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 7.67% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1.7 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 2.06% |
| Return on equity TTM | 2.76% |
| Profit margin | 1.95% |
| Book value | $19.60 |
| Market Capitalization | $10.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Ciena to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
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.
Over the last 12 months, Ciena's shares have ranged in value from as little as $44.69 up to $101.44. 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 1.147. This would suggest that Ciena's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Ciena Corporation, a network technology company, provides hardware, software, and services for various network operators in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and India. It operates through Networking Platforms, Platform Software and Services, Blue Planet Automation Software and Services, and Global Services segments. The Networking Platforms segment consist of a range of products and solutions for convergence of coherent optical transport, open optical networking, optical transport network switching, IP routing, and switching services. This segments products include the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver modular interconnect system, the 6500 Reconfigurable Line system, Coherent ELS open line system, O-NID edge OTN demarcation device, coherent pluggable transceivers, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms; and the 3000 family of service delivery platforms and the 5000 family of service aggregation, as well as the 8100 Coherent IP networking platforms, WaveRouter product, virtualization software, the 6500 Packet Transport system, the 8700 Packetwave platform, and SD-Edge software and passive optical network routing and switching portfolio products. The Platform Software and Services segment offers Navigator Network Control Suite domain controller solution, OneControl unified management system, and data and planning tools. The Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment comprises inventory management, multi-domain service orchestration, multi-cloud orchestration, route optimization and analysis, and unified assurance and analytics. The Global Services segment provides maintenance support and training, installation and deployment, and consulting and network design services.
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