Part 11Funded, not forecast
Gaetano's September 15 list of the money behind the orders runs from Tower's prepayments to Coherent's minimum-demand guarantees and Lumentum's take-or-pay terms.
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Lumentum is named in 1 Part of The Buildout, most recently Part 11: The Backlog Is Not the Quarter.
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Financial Modeling Prep, as of Oct 21, 2026, 4:00 p.m. ET. Delayed quotes.
- Price
- $850.70
- +28.19 (+3.43%) today
- Market cap
- $77.1B
- P/E (trailing)
- n/a
- Next earnings
- Nov 5, 2026
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- NASDAQ
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Part 11Shipping is not earning
Edelbridge Alpha's September 22 model for Lumentum assumes $11.1 billion of fiscal 2028 revenue against consensus near $9.6 billion, a number that requires optical circuit switches to scale quickly and current product lines to stay supply-constrained; Edelbridge still passes at current prices, because the target also needs sustained pricing power.
The Backlog Is Not the QuarterPart 11The tests ahead
The optics ramp has no date yet; Ciena, Lumentum and Coherent will each report in their own time.
The Backlog Is Not the Quarter
On the Docket
The tests that name Lumentum.
Each is on the Docket and resolves on the Results page.
- The optics ramp
Ciena's $10 billion backlog into shipments, Lumentum's path to $11.1 billion of fiscal 2028 revenue and Coherent's statement that it sells everything it can make, each measured against the margin the company targets.
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