On July 15, Viavi Solutions declined 5.02% in regular trading, trading at $39.57/share, with turnover of $49.97 million. The decline was driven by a continued sell-off across the AI hardware sector that broadly weighed on communication equipment stocks.

The sector-wide selling pressure was evident, with Applied Optoelectronics down 12.0%, Lumentum down 8.2%, Arista Networks down 6.26%, Cisco down 4.94%, and Nokia down 4.79%. Investment bank Stifel previously noted that market expectations had run ahead of fundamentals, triggering a rational valuation reset. While Viavi was identified as a name whose earnings revisions could outpace multiple compression, it remains subject to near-term sector-linked selling pressure.

Despite the company having secured $1.1 million in EU funding for a 6G security project earlier this week, the positive catalyst was insufficient to offset the systematic sector headwinds.

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