US Equities Analysis

CIEN — Ciena

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 15.2%
Profit Margins 7.87%
Return on Equity 15.46%
Return on Assets 6.66%
Free Float 0.14B
Short Int % Utilisation 5.01%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 39.5%
Free Cash Flow 0.7B
EBITDA 78.78 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 61.9B
EV/Revenue 11.12
EV/EBITDA 78.78

Revenue growth of 39.5% places the company in a high-growth category.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 521.75%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 73.22%
1-Year Price Return* 371.85%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $428.77
52-Week Range $84.41 – $637.51
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $445.18
Market capitalisation $63.02B
Enterprise value proxy $63.33B
Revenue $4.77B
EBIT $248.05M
EBITDA $388.39M
Reported free cash flow $665.29M
Unlevered free cash flow $415.13M
FCF yield 1.06%
EV / EBITDA proxy 163.07x
Net debt / EBITDA 0.82x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 1.31
Cost of equity 11.96%
Pre-tax cost of debt 5.63%
WACC 11.77%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 3/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:30:15.862965 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-10-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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