Ciena Corp. (CIEN) stock price, quote and key numbers
Updated 28 September 2026, 09:52 ET
Ciena Corp. (CIEN) closed at $356.91 on 25 September 2026, down 0.4%. That leaves it up 2.3% over a week, down 11.7% over a month and up 157.8% over a year. That is 44% of the way up its 52 week range of $133.67 to $637.51. The median analyst price target of $525 sits 47.1% above the close.
The price
Changes compare dividend and split adjusted closes over trading sessions, so the one year figure is the last close against the close 252 sessions earlier. The 52 week range uses the daily highs and lows of the same window. Read the guide: How to read a stock quote.
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Trend and range
CIEN trades below both its 50 day average of $376.87 and its 200 day average of $387.78, the shape of a downtrend. The 50 day average sits below the 200 day average. Its beta against the S&P 500 over the last year is 2.54, a stock that moves a lot more than the market. It is 44.0% below its 52 week high and 167.0% above its 52 week low.
Moving averages smooth the closes of the last 50 and 200 sessions; being above or below them describes the trend, it does not predict it. Beta is how much the stock moved for each move in the S&P 500 over the year. Read the guide: Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta.
What analysts say
In the last 90 days 10 firms recorded 18 actions on CIEN: 16 kept a view and 2 upgrades. Price targets: 4 raised and 10 lowered. The most recent targets from 15 firms run from $347 to $660, with a median of $525, 47.1% above the last close.
| Date | Firm | Action | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Sep 2026 | Evercore ISI Group | Upgrades to Outperform from In-Line | $375.00 to $550.00 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Barclays | Maintains Overweight | $475.00 to $548.00 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Rosenblatt | Maintains Buy | $525.00 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Morgan Stanley | Maintains Equal-Weight | $425.00 to $450.00 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Needham | Reiterates Buy | $520.00 |
| 4 Sep 2026 | B. Riley Securities | Maintains Neutral | $413.00 to $347.00 |
A target is one firm's guess at the price a year out, and the average runs optimistic. The useful reading is the mood: high targets and a wall of buys mean high expectations. Read the guide: What analyst ratings and price targets tell you.
Earnings
The next report is on the calendar for 10 December 2026 for Q4 2026, with earnings per share expected at $1.65. The last report, on 3 September 2026 for Q3 2026, showed EPS of $2.11 against $1.67 expected, a beat of 26.4%, on revenue of $1.7 billion. Ciena Corp. beat the EPS estimate in 6 of its last 8 reported quarters.
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The numbers
Over the trailing twelve months Ciena Corp. shows revenue growth of 32.57%, a gross margin of 44.07%, an operating margin of 12.27% and a return on equity of 22.40%.
| Measure | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, TTM | 32.6% | 84th |
| Net income growth, TTM | 364.5% | 93rd |
| Gross margin | 44.1% | 56th |
| Operating margin | 12.3% | 69th |
| Free cash flow margin | 13.5% | 72nd |
| Return on equity | 22.4% | 88th |
| Return on assets | 9.5% | 90th |
| Debt to equity | 1.07 | 77th |
| Current ratio | 3.80 | 83rd |
| Effective tax rate | 9.8% | 52nd |
The percentile ranks the company against every US company the data covers; a high percentile means most companies score lower.
Margins say how much of each dollar of sales becomes profit, returns say how hard the balance sheet works, and debt to equity says how much of it is borrowed. The valuation ratios, price to earnings and the rest, are in the app on the stock page. Read the guide: The valuation ratios on a stock page.
About Ciena Corp.
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry
- Electronic Equipment
- Headquarters
- Hanover, Maryland
- Chief executive
- Gary B. Smith
- Employees
- 8,080
- Website
- ciena.com
Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products.
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Learn
- How to read a stock quote
- Reading a price chart from one day to one year
- Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta
- What analyst ratings and price targets tell you
- The valuation ratios on a stock page
- Price alerts, targets and percent moves
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