“I nterest expense in fiscal year 2026 slightly decreased by $0.4 million, or 2%, as compared to fiscal year 2025, primarily due to the early conversion and equitizations of a portion of the 2026 Notes, 2028 Notes, and 2029 Notes, offset in part by the interes…”10-K · Aug 17, 2026 ↗
Lumentum Holdings Inc.
LITE
Market read
Lumentum Holdings Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 18 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Gross margin rose to 41.7%, with 54% of the gross-margin dollar increase attributed to lower manufacturing costs from higher factory utilization.
- Lumentum reported a $237.7M tax benefit, partly tied to releasing valuation allowances on certain U.S. deferred tax assets.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if LITE's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 18 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 6 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Gross margin rose to 41.7%, with 54% of the gross-margin dollar increase attributed to lower manufacturing costs from higher factory utilization.
- Lumentum reported a $237.7M tax benefit, partly tied to releasing valuation allowances on certain U.S. deferred tax assets.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +83.2% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +28.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
- Net margin changed -231.7 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Diluted shares increased 7.2% in the latest annual period.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Foreign exchange has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- EV/sales is 366% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
926.81Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“This included $ 14.6 million of assets written off, including property, plant and equipment, right-of-use assets, prepayments and other current assets as well as charges for other contractual commitments associated with site closures, and $ 4.3 million of emp…”10-K · Aug 17, 2026 ↗
“Cash used in investing activities of $24.7 million during the nine months ended March 29, 2025 was attributable to capital expenditures of $177.1 million, offset by net proceeds from sales or maturities of short-term investments of $104.3 million, $47.8 milli…”10-Q · May 6, 2026 ↗
“Other income, net for the six months ended December 27, 2025 decreased by $8.4 million from the six months ended December 28, 2024 primarily due to a $5.9 million inducement expense related to the partial repurchase of 2026 Notes and a decrease in net foreign…”10-Q · Feb 4, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 22.9× · EV/sales 22.3×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for LITE. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for LITE. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind LITE
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
MFGMizuho Financial Group, Inc.supplierNov 5, 2025 ▾
“As the principal amounts of all of our outstanding convertible notes must be settled in cash, the actual cash settlement may be higher if we decide to settle the conversion value in excess of the principal amounts in cash, rather than issuing shares of common…”
MFGMizuho Financial Group, Inc.lenderFeb 4, 2026 ▾
“The actual cash settlement may be higher if we decide to settle the conversion value in excess of the principal amounts in cash, rather than issuing shares of common stock.”
Depended on by
AAOIApplied Optoelectronics, Inc.competitorFeb 26, 2026 ▾
“Our major competitors in one or more of our markets include Coherent Corporation, Eoptolink Technology Inc., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Ltd., InnoLight Technology (Suzhou) Ltd., Intel Corporation, Lumentum Holdings, Inc., Mitsubishi, Molex, LLC, So…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
LITE is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group Technology-Heavy Mixed. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for LITE; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.