Lumentum Drop, POET Secures $400M: Optical Disruption Comes?

Lumentum plunged 8.83% today, as competitor POET Technologies announced a $400M strategic funding round, triggering a repricing of competitive dynamics in the photonic interconnect space. Despite Tiger Global initiating a position in Q1, broad de-risking across AI infrastructure names ahead of NVIDIA's earnings is hitting high-valuation stocks hardest. Whether POET's fresh capital translates into a real challenge to LITE's market share in AI data center photonic solutions. Can Lumentum defend its moat in the AI infrastructure photonics race?

avatarkoolgal
05-20 09:58
The Light Speed Disruption:  Why Corgi & the Photonics Race Make EUV ETF A Great Buy 🌟🌟🌟The global technology infrastructure grid has collided with a brutal, physical brick wall.  For the past 2 years, Big Tech have blindly thrown billions of dollars into high performance computing, assuming that adding more heavy duty GPUs would scale AI indefinitely. However the laws of physics are fighting back.  Connecting thousands of advanced chips using legacy copper wiring has created an unsustainable data bottleneck and a catastrophic energy crisis.  Copper cables waste massive amounts of electricity as heat, placing a hard physical limit on how fast data can travel between processing clusters. The structural solution to this emergency is Silicon Photonics.  This
avatarTigerNZ7
05-19 18:05
Next bottleneck boom? 
avatarJettLam
05-19 18:04
#LUmentum drop poet secured 400M
avatarWRATHKILLER112
05-19 16:39
Im not sure but it seems that the kings horses shoes fell off or didn't have a professional but a back yard metal smith with very low IQ should always get ones with a heart that aim true.... 
avatarDEEP.PROFIT
05-18 22:17
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$SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$  $Lumentum(LITE)$  no nonsense only deep profits.  Insiders know it best. Big boys have an advantage. Retailers always APE to monkey

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avatarAN88
05-13
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avatarAdz5150
05-13
$Lumentum Holdings Inc.(LITE)$ is interesting here because Nasdaq 100 inclusion is the kind of thing that can create a short-term tailwind, but it does not automatically mean the stock is suddenly cheap. The bullish case is straightforward: passive inflows can help, sentiment improves, and strong optical / AI infrastructure names are still getting attention. But after a move like this, I think the question becomes whether buyers are chasing the inclusion headline, or whether there is still real upside beyond that event. To me, this feels like one of those setups where the long-term story can still be good, while the short-term move may already be crowded. So I’m not bearish on LITE here. I’m just wondering whether this is a buy-the-inflow moment, or a take-some-profit moment. What do peopl
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$SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ follow me for the right signals.$Lumentum(LITE)$  totally bearish as I posted sell signal at 1550
Lumentum is no longer just an ā€œindex inclusion trade.ā€ The Nasdaq-100 addition accelerated flows, but the real debate now is whether the company deserves to remain valued as a structural AI infrastructure winner after passive buying fades. The bullish case is still fundamentally credible: AI clusters are increasingly bandwidth-constrained, pushing hyperscalers toward optical interconnects and photonics solutions.  Lumentum’s recent results showed ~90% YoY revenue growth with expanding operating margins, suggesting this is not purely speculative narrative inflation.  NVIDIA’s strategic investment and partnership materially strengthened the market’s confidence that LITE sits inside the next-generation AI networking stack.  But the stock is now entering a harder phase: Index in
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$Lumentum(LITE)$  #Lumentum  Big move for $LITE! Effective prior to market open on May 18, 2026, Lumentum will officially join the Nasdaq-100 Index, replacing CoStar Group.This marks a massive year for the photonics leader—it just joined the S&P 500 in March—and the stock is already up over 145% year-to-date.šŸŒŖļø The "Passive Inflow" ThesisForced Buying: Passive funds and ETFs tracking the Nasdaq-100 (which manage over $600 billion) are now required to buy Lumentum shares.The AI Tailwinds: As a key supplier for 800G optical modules, Lumentum is essential to the "physical layer" of AI data centers.Price Targets: Major institutions like Citigroup and Jefferies have recently hiked targets to as high as $1,100 - $1,200.āš ļø The "Take Profit
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šŸŽ What the Tigers Say | Lumentum Joins Nasdaq 100! Buy the Passive Inflow or Take Profits?

Hi Tigers 🐯, Welcome to "What the Tigers say." šŸ‘‹Here's the move driving this week's tape: Lumentum surged 16.5% on May 8th, with the primary catalyst being its official inclusion in the $ēŗ³ęŒ‡100ETF(QQQ)$ index, as passive tracking purchases from index funds and ETFs concentrated on the rebalancing date.The photonics sector has seen valuation re-rating driven by AI data center optical interconnect demand, and index inclusion further amplified institutional inflow scale. Once the rebalancing is complete, passive buying might gradually fade, making fundamental self-sufficiency the core question for the stock. Is $Lumentum Holdings Inc.(LITE)$ still worth holding after the index inclusion effect is absorbed?That
šŸŽ What the Tigers Say | Lumentum Joins Nasdaq 100! Buy the Passive Inflow or Take Profits?
$SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ mother of all crashes coming $Lumentum(LITE)$  just watch and thank me later 
Lumentum Holdings joining the NASDAQ-100 does create a genuine short-term technical catalyst because passive ETFs and benchmark-tracking funds are effectively forced buyers. That can extend momentum into and shortly after inclusion. But historically, index inclusion rallies often become ā€œbuy the rumour, sell the newsā€ events once passive positioning is completed. If valuation stretches too far ahead of fundamentals, post-inclusion volatility can arrive quickly. Meanwhile, Applied Optoelectronics showed the market is no longer rewarding ā€œAI exposureā€ alone. Expectations in optical networking have become extremely demanding: Investors now expect visible hyperscaler orders, sustainable margins, and strong forward guidance simultaneously. Within opticals, I would separate the sector into two g

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Great analysis. It’s wild to see an 11% drop despite record revenue ($808.4M) and a massive operating margin expansion. With the $2 billion Nvidia investment now on the balance sheet, this feels more like a technical 'buy the news' pullback than a change in the AI narrative. I’m viewing this dip as a solid entry point for the long term