CIENA Corp (NYSE:CIEN) price on Thursday, May 01, rose 6.36% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $71.43.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $67.16, moving within a range at $69.06 and $72.73. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.147 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 132.33. Turning to its 52-week performance, $101.44 and $44.69 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, CIEN moved 16.07% over the past month.
CIENA Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $10.15 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-10.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that CIEN is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in Hold category.
21 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 4 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 16 recommend CIEN as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 3.98, with CIEN’s current price about 17.33% and 7.83% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 64.07, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.54% and 6.91% in the 30-day chart. Further, CIENA Corp (CIEN) has a beta value of 1.11, and an average true range (ATR) of 3.79. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $100, forecast between a low of $90 and high of $105. Looking at the price targets, the low is -26.0% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -47.0%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -40.0% jump to $100 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on CIENA Corp (NYSE:CIEN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.73 over the past 10 days and 2.41 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 142.53 million shares.
The 1.66% of CIENA Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 98.52% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 4.49 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 1.84. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in CIENA Corp (CIEN) stood at 509.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 4.2 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -15.78% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the CIEN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
