On June 15, Lumentum Holdings rose 6.54% in regular trading, trading at $966.12/share, with turnover of $785 million. The rally was driven by SpaceX unveiling an ambitious space AI computing blueprint that explicitly calls for inter-satellite laser communication capabilities.
Industry analysis identifies the core component suppliers for this function as Coherent and Lumentum, the two dominant international laser giants. As a key optical communication component supplier, Lumentum is now facing substantive order expectations and incremental business growth from this emerging space computing segment. Northland Securities previously raised its target price on Lumentum to $1,200 while maintaining an Outperform rating, reflecting sustained optimism toward the company's optical chip business outlook.
Within the Communication Equipment sector, the broader group showed divergent performance. Among individual stocks, Applied Optoelectronics rose 8.3%, Ciena rose 5.56%, Arista Networks rose 0.98%, while Nokia fell 0.44% and Cisco fell 0.38%. The sector's optical-focused names led gains as space computing demand reshapes growth expectations across the optical communication supply chain.
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