Lumentum Holdings Inc.

LITE Technology · Communication Equipment
Delayed 15 min
Last close
$869.54
Oct 16, 2026
52-week range
$152.54 — $1,143.00
-24% from high
Market cap
78.8B
Diluted basis
Dividend yield
—
No dividend declared
P/E
—
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Verdict status · Oct 16, 2026

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AI synthesis · written from this company's SEC filings · not investment advice

What the filing actually says.

AI · forensic preset

This synthesis rests only on annual financial facts, because no MD&A text, risk-factor text, news headlines, or forensic scores are on file for Lumentum. That means no Beneish M-Score, Piotroski F-Score, Altman Z-Score, or Fog Index is reported here, and none is given a value or an interpretation. Each of those scores would need to be read against its own label in the source data before any conclusion is drawn, and none is available in this dataset. What the reported numbers show is a business whose revenue has moved across a wide range in the years provided: $837.1 million in fiscal 2015, $1.25 billion in fiscal 2018, $1.71 billion in fiscal 2022, $1.77 billion in fiscal 2023, $1.36 billion in fiscal 2024, and $1.65 billion in fiscal 2025. Revenue figures for fiscal 2019 through 2021 are not in the data, so the trend across those years cannot be assessed. Operating income is the sharper signal. It was $527 million in fiscal 2021 and $303.3 million in fiscal 2022, then turned negative in fiscal 2023 and stayed negative through fiscal 2025. The fiscal 2024 operating loss of $434 million is the largest in the years shown. Fiscal 2025 net income of $25.9 million sits alongside an operating loss of $180.1 million, a gap the data does not explain. Readers may want to check the income statement reconciliation, the MD&A discussion of non-operating items, and the tax note in the annual report. Readers may also want to review the segment disclosures, debt instruments, and legal matters, none of which are in this dataset, because any of them could change the picture.

Catalyst.The filings provided here contain only annual financial facts, so this synthesis cannot describe what management says is driving the business, because no MD&A text is on file. The numbers show revenue rising to $1.65 billion in fiscal 2025 (FYE June 28, 2025) from $1.36 billion in fiscal 2024, a year-over-year increase of about 21.3%. That followed a decline from $1.77 billion in fiscal 2023, when revenue fell about 23.2% into fiscal 2024. Operating income improved from a loss of $434 million in fiscal 2024 to a loss of $180.1 million in fiscal 2025. Readers may want to look at the MD&A in the company's annual report to see what management attributes these changes to.

Hidden risk.The most visible tension is that fiscal 2025 shows net income of $25.9 million while operating income was a loss of $180.1 million. The data does not include the items that bridge these two figures, such as non-operating income, taxes, or other adjustments, so the reason cannot be determined from what is on file. Operating losses also appear in three of the last four years shown: fiscal 2023 (a loss of $115.7 million), fiscal 2024 (a loss of $434 million), and fiscal 2025 (a loss of $180.1 million), after operating income of $303.3 million in fiscal 2022. Because risk-factor text is not on file, readers may want to check the risk factors section of the annual report for the company's own description of these pressures.

Market signals · from trading data, not filings

What traders are betting.

The scores above come from what LITE reports to the SEC. These readings come from how traders are positioned in its shares. They change quickly, they can be wrong, and they are not part of the verdict.
Short interest Shares sold short · reported twice a month
8.2%
of the shares available to trade
Moderate
0%5% · 10% · 20%25%+

The metric

Shares that traders have borrowed and sold, betting the price will fall, and not yet bought back. Brokers report the total to FINRA twice a month. Days to cover divides it by the shares that change hands on a typical day.

Shares sold short
7.4M
Change since Aug 31
+4.6%
Days to cover
1.7

What it tells us

A noticeable minority of traders is betting that LITE shares will fall.

Little changed since the Aug 31 report (+4.6%).

At normal trading volume, short sellers could buy back every borrowed share in under two days.

How investors use it

  • Squeeze watching. Some aggressive traders seek out heavily shorted stocks, betting that good news will force short sellers to buy back shares and push the price higher.
  • Hedging. Funds short one company to offset risk in another, often owning a stronger business and shorting a weaker one in the same industry.
  • Timing. Chart-based traders pair rising short interest with price patterns, such as a break below a level where buyers used to step in, to decide when to enter or exit.
  • Warning sign. Some owners treat a sharp rise in short interest as a red flag and respond by tightening stop-loss orders or holding smaller positions.

Lesson: short interest, explained →

Short-interest report for Sep 30, 2026, via Yahoo Finance. Reports come out about a week and a half after that date.

SEC filings · last 12 months

Annual report

The annual report (10-K) and current reports (8-K) Lumentum filed in the last 12 months, each linked to the original document on SEC EDGAR.

  • Aug 17, 2026
    10-K
    Annual report0
    EDGAR →
  • Aug 11, 2026
    8-K
    Current reportItem 2.02: Results of operations (earnings)0
    EDGAR →
  • Jul 30, 2026
    8-K
    Current reportItem 5.02: Departure/appointment of officers or directors
    ★ Curriculum-relevant
    EDGAR →
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