POET
POET Technologies Inc.

POET Technologies Inc.POET

Technology · Semiconductors
5.07USD
+19.01%
Nov 08, 2026
POET overview ready
Photonic Integrated Circuits Enabling High-Speed AI Data Connectivity
POET develops photonic integrated circuits, optical engines, light-source products and optical modules using its Optical Interposer integration platform.
Primary theme is lagging
Optical / Photonics is lagging (-26.6pp vs SPY over 21 sessions; 1 of 12 members ahead of SPY).
Price trend is broken
Longer-term context reads trend under pressure, with a near-term setup of distribution pressure.
The tactical setup reads distribution pressure, but the weekly structure is broken.
Demanding valuation
The price embeds expectations that run ahead of the growth it delivers per turn of revenue multiple.
Fundamentals under pressure
Ev / sales is weak.
Primary risk
Technology commercialization risk.
Market Nov 6Price action Nov 7Research Sep 7

Conviction Level

PriceAction5.4BusinessPerformance—BusinessQuality—Valuation0.3ThemeMomentum1.0Business Performance not yet available.

Conviction uses Price Action, Business Performance, Business Quality, Valuation. Theme Momentum is research context, not an input.

Theme momentumPrimary theme · group context, not entry timing
vs SPY
−26.6pp
Theme return
−31.6%
Beating SPY
1 of 12
21 sessions to Nov 6, 2026 · Theme Leadership V2
Price
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Price Action

Price trend is broken
Longer-term context reads trend under pressure, with a near-term setup of distribution pressure.
The tactical setup reads distribution pressure, but the weekly structure is broken.
EntryConstructive

Structure is constructive on both timeframes without excessive extension — a reasonable entry location.

Key Financials

Market Cap
$877.3M
Avg Volume (60D)
8.4M
60 sessions
Revenue Growth YoY
+266.1%
Trailing twelve months
Gross Margin
+100.0%
Free Cash Flow Yield
-4.2%
Distance from 200DMA
-38.0%
Next Earnings
2026-11-16
EV / Sales
52.5x
Market metrics as of Nov 7, 2026

Business Performance

Business Quality

Not assessed

Not assessed — the company files under a regime the financial record does not cover yet.

Fundamentals & Valuation

The available comparisons disagreed; the peers comparison is the more reliable method for this business and the others are published as dissent.
POET Technologies Inc. has an Expensive valuation stance because the price embeds expectations that run ahead of the growth it delivers per turn of revenue multiple.

What changed

  • POET rose 19.0% in one session
    POET closed +19.0% while the broad market was close to flat (+0.3%).
    2026-11-06
  • POET fell 12.7% in one session
    POET closed -12.7% against a broad market that moved -4.4%.
    2026-11-05
  • POET TECHNOLOGIES INC. — 6-K
    Reported on 6-K, dated 2026-11-02. POET closed -7.7% while the broad market was close to flat (-0.5%).
    2026-11-02 · source
  • POET fell 9.7% in one session
    POET closed -9.7% while the broad market was close to flat (-1.1%).
    2026-10-16

Company Research

Thesis
POET develops photonic integrated circuits, optical engines, light-source products and optical modules using its Optical Interposer integration platform. Its commercial target is high-speed AI and cloud data-center connectivity, including 800G, 1.6T and prospective higher-speed optical-link architectures.
Opportunity
High opportunity
AI-cluster scale-out and scale-up architectures require rapidly expanding bandwidth, density and power efficiency in optical links, optical engines, transceivers and related photonic interconnect components.
Key risk
Technology commercialization risk.

Economic classification

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Business & Markets

Technology · Semiconductors
What they do

POET Technologies designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products that integrate electronic and photonic devices on a single chip using advanced wafer-level manufacturing techniques.

How it earns

The company generates revenue primarily through transactional sales of its photonic integrated circuits and optical modules.

Products & services
Photonic integrated circuits
Optical engines
Light-source products
Optical modules
Customers & end markets
AI and cloud data-center operators
High-speed optical networking providers
Market position

Niche player developing a specialized optical interposer platform for co-packaged optics in high-speed data communications.

Demand drivers
Medium cyclicality

Demand is tied to capital expenditure cycles in AI and cloud data-center infrastructure, which can be variable but generally growing.