Northland Capmk Has Negative Estimate for Ciena Q4 Earnings

Ciena Co. (NYSE:CIEN) – Investment analysts at Northland Capmk cut their Q4 2025 earnings estimates for Ciena in a report issued on Wednesday, March 12th. Northland Capmk analyst T. Savageaux now expects that the communications equipment provider will post earnings of $0.53 per share for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $0.55. Northland Capmk currently has a “Strong-Buy” rating on the stock. The consensus estimate for Ciena’s current full-year earnings is $1.60 per share.

CIEN has been the topic of a number of other research reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of Ciena from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and upped their price target for the company from $84.00 to $88.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 28th. Stifel Nicolaus reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $82.00 price target (up previously from $75.00) on shares of Ciena in a research report on Tuesday, December 10th. Northland Securities raised shares of Ciena from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their price objective for the stock from $60.00 to $75.00 in a research report on Wednesday. B. Riley reissued a “buy” rating and set a $89.00 price objective (down previously from $97.00) on shares of Ciena in a research report on Wednesday. Finally, Morgan Stanley cut their price objective on shares of Ciena from $80.00 to $76.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nine have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Ciena presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $81.38.

Ciena Stock Performance

Shares of CIEN opened at $63.84 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 3.55, a quick ratio of 2.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.54. The stock has a market capitalization of $9.10 billion, a P/E ratio of 112.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.54 and a beta of 0.91. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $82.30 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $73.19. Ciena has a 12 month low of $43.30 and a 12 month high of $101.44.

Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, December 12th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.54 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.66 by ($0.12). The firm had revenue of $1.12 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.10 billion. Ciena had a net margin of 2.09% and a return on equity of 4.72%. The business’s revenue was down .5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.56 EPS.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Ciena news, CEO Gary B. Smith sold 6,800 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $76.41, for a total value of $519,588.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 398,549 shares in the company, valued at approximately $30,453,129.09. This trade represents a 1.68 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director Bruce L. Claflin sold 16,912 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $84.96, for a total transaction of $1,436,843.52. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 59,347 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $5,042,121.12. This trade represents a 22.18 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 63,442 shares of company stock worth $5,337,764 in the last quarter. Insiders own 0.93% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Ciena

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Carolinas Wealth Consulting LLC bought a new position in shares of Ciena during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $106,000. Forum Financial Management LP bought a new position in shares of Ciena during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $259,000. Orion Capital Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Ciena during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $42,000. Kolinsky Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Ciena during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $216,000. Finally, Delta Investment Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Ciena during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $254,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 91.99% of the company’s stock.

About Ciena

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.