On October 8, Coherent fell 4.31% in regular trading, trading at $318.95/share, with Turnover of $86.73 million.

The decline reflects sustained selling pressure across the optical communications sector, which has been in a pronounced pullback since early October. Reference reports indicate widespread weakness among peers, with Applied Optoelectronics and Ciena Technology falling more than 3%, while Corning, Lumentum, Astera Labs, Fabrinet, and Credo each dropped over 2% in recent sessions. The sector-wide retreat is characterized by traders as profit-taking following a strong September rally.

Despite Bernstein recently initiating coverage on Coherent with an Outperform rating and a $350 price target, and the company's launch of its PhotonLink integrated optics platform for AI data centers in late September, near-term sector-wide correction pressure has dominated trading, pushing the stock lower.

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