On June 5, Ciena fell 3.66% in after-hours trading, trading at 515.56 USD/share, with trading volume of $397,800, extending the prior session's over 19% selloff.
On the news front, Ciena reported fiscal Q2 adjusted EPS of $1.64, beating the consensus estimate of $1.46 by 12.3% and representing a 290% year-over-year increase. Revenue came in at $1.57 billion, surpassing expectations of $1.50 billion with approximately 39% year-over-year growth. The company also raised its full-year revenue guidance to $6.2-6.4 billion, above the prior range of $5.9-6.3 billion and the Street estimate of $6.18 billion. Adjusted gross margin expanded to 44.9% from 41.0% a year ago, while adjusted operating margin surged to 19.5% from 8.2%.
However, multiple investment banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Stifel had already raised target prices aggressively ahead of the report, driving shares to all-time highs. With strong expectations fully priced in, short-term traders engaged in concentrated profit-taking upon earnings release. The broader optical communications sector declined in sympathy, with Lumentum down 3.63%, Applied Optoelectronics down 4.53%, and Nokia down 3.61%.
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