Aeluma. Every tracked FinTwit mention of $ALMU, newest first. 174 mentions since the first on Aug 29, 2025. See the price chart.
July 2026 · 2 mentions
Jul 7
AlmaCap — Lots of names getting brutally wiped out across the market today, Samsung Preferreds outperforming most AI picks as expected…
> Extremely defensive position, with the FY27 PE mult…↗
Jul 3
Gaetano — I am quite bullish $CIEN at these levels.
When I stress test the optical investment universe trying to find durable companies, Ciena is consistently a top 3 for me.
I have posted…↗
June 2026 · 3 mentions
Jun 16
Gaetano — With all the actions being taken around InP
I can only imagine the types of interest / conversations that $ALMU is having
If only they were 2 years further along…
They have the…↗
Jun 9
CK Capital — With $AMPG now being a multibagger from when I called it out here are a few more from this year.
$NBIS
$KRKNF
$AAOI
$PENG
$BE
$LWLG
$CPSH
$ALMU
More to come.↗
Jun 2
Gaetano — If you don't like a stock
Whether it's $SIVE $POET $ALMU $LWLG $AAOI etc.
Maybe just don't buy it
Rather than shorting it
NFA of course.↗
May 2026 · 20 mentions
May 28
AlmaCap — $TSEM, $SOI, $ALMU, $LPK all up massively since I posted this. Hope it helped.
Also, a brief primer on why glass (LPK): https://t.co/SAnp9Y3EQm↗
May 28
AlmaCap — $SOI (SOITEC) earnings yesterday and $IQE earnings this morning are a window into what we can expect across the photonics industry.
We're still very early to the photonics / CPO s…↗
May 26
AlmaCap — 6 from 7, not bad: if you had evenly distributed across the basket after my tweet yesterday you would have made 8.96% - basically 1 years S&P 500 gains.
Alternatively, you could…↗
May 25
AlmaCap — $LPK and $SIVE, European high beta names, ran very hard today. I think this is a tell for what's coming if sentiment on an Iran peace deal holds (no more war pls).
Here are the hi…
April 2026 · 44 mentions
Apr 30
BULL OF BRITAIN — "I expect a euphoric rally"
Up 120% since.
I was one of the first people to ever post about $ALMU. The recent rally basically blew up the entire bear case - They have no foundry…↗
BULL OF BRITAIN — @PolarizingLit $ALMU also got a TSEM deal. It's all speculative, the reason I chose most these names are because they are already proven past RnD↗
Apr 27
AlmaCap — Institutional risk capital is rotating out of defence/space (growth sectors) and into the AI semiconductor supply chain...
We have know the plays for months, institutions are foll…
March 2026 · 23 mentions
Mar 28
InvestmentGuru — The Photonics and Optical sector— Full Breakdown -
Light. Speed. Fiber. Lasers.
Infrastructure layer-
$CIEN — High-speed optical networking equipment
$GLW — The fiber optic ca…↗
Mar 26
PhotonBull — @FinnStockinger Most confident in $SOI right now. Higher r/r would be $GHH or maybe in the future $ALMU↗
Mar 26
InvestmentGuru — Photonics: The Missing Layer Powering the AI Boom
Photonics — using light instead of electricity — is emerging as the solution.
Photonics Ecosystem
1️⃣ Silicon Photonics & Opti…↗
Gaetano — 🚨How I construct my Photonics portfolio
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW etc.
For me, diversity is the game.
Different parts of the stack have different timelines and catalysts and…↗
Feb 25
Gaetano — 🚨I want to build a high-conviction community
$LITE $GLW $COHR $ALMU $POET $CIEN
I've been thinking about this alot since I posted.
I don't want to be a trading signal. I respec…↗
Feb 25
Serenity — @Racetoamilly IMO $ALMU and quantum dot is prob a few years out. Probably better to look at existing bottlenecks used in hyperscaler supply chains↗
Feb 25
Serenity — @martijnde_boer $ALMU and $POET feel more like science projects while $AXTI, $IQE, $LITE and others are all actively used in hyperscaler supply chains.
$POET has a better chance…
January 2026 · 32 mentions
Jan 29
Leveraged Cat — When you’re on a heater you trust your gut, it’s as simple as that. When you’re cold, you get defensive - just so happened that I’m hot and my gut said get defensive
Things still…↗
Jan 28
Gaetano — If you’re watching AI data center optics, $AAOI is a must watch.
800G is moving from qualification into real volume, and this is one of the cleanest show me execution setups in th…↗
Jan 27
Gaetano — One of the first things that caught my attention on $ALMU
Their CEO stated that it was his ambition to capture a 'majority' of their SAM (4.9B) in 2030
As I have become much mor…↗
Gaetano — @valleyinvesting Hey man, I don't like to give reccs but I'll just tell you what I have bought from the companies that I publicly talk about.
Over the last few months I've bought…↗
Dec 26
mon — These are 10 high-risk, high-reward stocks with market caps under $1bn.
1. $PRME
2. $POET
3. $ALMU
4. $RR
5. $NUAI
6. $SLNH
7. $BZAI
8. $DGXX
9. $ASTI
10. $PPIH
I currently hold…↗
Dec 26
TheValueist — $ALMU $LITE $COHR Aeluma: Scaling Semiconductor Integration for AI, Quantum Photonics, and Indium Phosphide Implications
Aeluma, Inc. (ALMU) is an emerging semiconductor company s…↗
Leveraged Cat — I'm long $ALMU. At the bottom of a trading range it's been in since June, with positive developments since that time. There is a lot of execution risk in the stock, but they also h…↗
August 2025 · 2 mentions
Aug 29
Leveraged Cat — $ALMU +6.5% roughly since this post https://t.co/qM5pV1m1Qy↗
Aug 29
Leveraged Cat — $ALMU My newest position, good write-up below
Impressive relative strength today
They are exposed to a lot of topical themes in which they could be a major disruptor
Also, TINY…↗
Gaetano — You can make a lot of money trading high spec stocks
In the NYSE/NASDAQ optics space that's typically $LWLG $POET $ALMU
Personally, I can't go into any of these with any meaning…↗
May 13
BULL OF BRITAIN — Bull of Britain portfolio activity last few weeks
> Sized $DGXX after $CBRS $1B contract -> up 71% in 6 trading days
> $VNP.TO hitting ATH week after week. Best earnings to date.…↗
Gaetano — We need to remind Photonics companies they are overvalued
They shouldn't keep going up
$LITE ATH
$COHR ATH
$SMTC ATH
$AAOI ATH
$CIEN ATH
$GLW ATH
$ALMU ATH
$HUBN ATH
$AEHR ATH…↗
May 11
Cobra — $ALMU I was early
Now they’re following me https://t.co/GLZgQjA8Bn↗
May 11
Cobra — $ALMU up 100% on these ones https://t.co/tceQLoA0dr↗
Gaetano — $ALMU Is a very exciting stock, to say the least
There is massive upside potential if they can commercialize successfully
And massive downside risk if they cannot
When people as…↗
May 4
AlmaCap — $ALMU, wow that was quick - less than a month and more than a 100% gain.
You can also make these insane gains in mega cap memory stocks anon https://t.co/fNmTHi8SgY↗
May 3
Gaetano — @AUKM_42 My personal high risk/high reward would be $ALMU↗
May 3
PhotonBull — A small thesis on $ALMU ($460M):
Aeluma is one of the few companies putting compound semiconductors on standard 200mm/300mm silicon. Quantum dot lasers, AlGaAs nonlinear photonics…↗
May 2
BULL OF BRITAIN — @FinnStockinger Good stuff. The $ALMU news has been very bullish, but until it proves to pass RnD. Then it will always be extrememly up and down. QD lasers will be the future 100%.↗
May 1
Gaetano — $ALMU Congrats to all holders on new ATH!
What a wild ride it has been.
And we are still in the 1st inning of the story.
Earnings in 2 weeks will be interesting
Historically e…↗
BULL OF BRITAIN — $POET being bad makes $ALMU even more bullish btw 😉↗
Apr 25
AlmaCap — @Robarbarian38 $IQE, $LPK and $ALMU are more speculative - $SOI and $TSEM are probably safer bets. Though expect volatility and size accordingly.
CPU is going to be very hot and m…↗
Apr 25
AlmaCap — $IQE, $LPK, $ALMU and $SOI, looking back on some of my best calls from the past month reinforces the important of mapping sectors and supply chains.
My detailed research allowed…↗
Apr 23
Gaetano — $ALMU is quite complex
And a long dated story
I did my best to try to explain what they do as simple as possible
And what their potential is if they succeed
And how long it w…↗
Apr 22
Gaetano — Posted! $ALMU
I dug into:
What exactly is Aeluma trying to do?
What is the relevance of this news?
What progress metrics do we have?
What happens if Aeluma is successful?
Why cou…↗
Apr 22
Gaetano — $ALMU The news yesterday was important
Up 20% today
Up 100% in a week
But it goes deeper than what the headline said
Doing a full writeup now on how to interpret the news, where…↗
Apr 22
PhotonBull — $ALMU is now up ~50% from where I entered just a few weeks ago after the headline, and I have decided to trim this position.
My thesis was to see a run similar to $LWLG fueled by…↗
Apr 21
PhotonBull — More good news for $ALMU
They received a NASA award for integrated quantum dot lasers
''Quantum dot lasers are increasingly being considered for AI data center interconnect appl…↗
Apr 21
BULL OF BRITAIN — $ALMU - some more good news. NASA have worked with Aeluma for a few years now.
If quantum dotting technology goes from speculative to real, they will be the only wafer to withsta…↗
Apr 20
Gaetano — My portfolio has exposure to every level here
$ALMU $AIXA $TSEM $AEHR $LITE $SMTC
Just to name a few
I introduced every company in this stack in a full article
Read it here!
h…↗
Apr 19
Gaetano — Photonics is a stack!
$AXTI $AIXA $TSEM $AEHR $LITE $GLW
Here is a clean map of the sector.
Please bookmark & share!
A laser, a photonic chip, a finished module, and a deployed…↗
Apr 18
Gaetano — One of my biggest mistakes in Photonics...
$POET $ALMU $COHR $MRVL $LITE
Was having meaningful exposure to pre-commerical companies rather than being predominantly weighted on the…↗
Apr 17
Gaetano — $ALMU It seems like the market likes the announcement from earlier this week
If you haven't watched this video, I highly recommend it
It is very dense, so bookmark this and come…↗
Apr 15
Gaetano — Watchlist update is live‼️
$lite $mrvl $poet $smtc $sive etc.
This is no longer a static piece that gets fully redone every few weeks. It is going to function more like a living d…↗
Apr 15
AlmaCap — Be me:
100s of hours researching photonics supply chain, RF engineering, rockets, space systems, datacenters etc only to be outperformed by a shoe intelligence company $BIRD
$AS…↗
AlmaCap — @PhotonBull Probably $SOI and $TSEM, both feel safe to me.
Not going to get the +60% moves you get on $SIVE and $ALMU though↗
Apr 14
AlmaCap — AI chip packaging is confusing, here's another diagram to help
Two types of die live inside the same next-generation package:
- Logic die (GPU/ASIC): the compute engine, performs…↗
Apr 14
PhotonBull — There is no stopping this train
$ALMU just hit over $18 in premarket trading
Hope some of you managed to get in with me at $13! https://t.co/L4X72VQfeq↗
Apr 14
Gaetano — $ALMU Has been shared!
https://t.co/3Z2tAfTMDg↗
Apr 13
AlmaCap — $LPKF up c.30% today, I think I know why.
$ALMU just announced a foundry partnership with $TSEM. While ALMU itself is III-V on silicon (not glass), it signals the broader AI chip…↗
Apr 13
CK Capital — @investAndForget $NBIS is the big one man, $ASTS too. also great runs from smaller positions of mine like $LWLG and $ALMU↗
Apr 13
Gaetano — I've got alot cooking today
1 - $ALMU brain dump + significance of news (3:00pm PST release)
2 - Undiscovered supply chain play on the Bloomberg data center delay (already poste…↗
Apr 13
Gaetano — $ALMU Is so tight
The narrative and stock could flip on a dime.
In both directions.
All it takes is 1 headline.
It will continue to be very volatile until they get reccuring c…↗
Apr 13
AlmaCap — @KawzInvests I was waiting for a foundry partner to hit for $ALMU, market brought the moment I saw this news.↗
Apr 13
PhotonBull — Want to highlight this point here for $ALMU
$AXTI should probably trade down on this news and the dilution concerns, but I am not going to touch it.
Being able to disrupt $AXTI,…↗
Apr 13
PhotonBull — Now up 50% on the day $ALMU
incredible move! https://t.co/h6aViI35lR↗
Apr 13
BULL OF BRITAIN — Hello @DVLT146025
What are your thoughts on the $ALMU news?↗
Apr 13
AlmaCap — Photonics is a bit confusing, hopefully this simplified summary helps.
I have positions in $TSEM, $SOI, $ALMU, $LPKF https://t.co/SDKNfKOhS5↗
Apr 13
AlmaCap — $ALMU, up 37% today following TSEM and Sumitomo partnership signals it could be the $AXTI killer https://t.co/yWO0mTXhAf↗
Apr 13
Gaetano — Aeluma Secures More Than $4 Million in Contracts for Quantum Materials and Lasers $ALMU
That's a relatively large R&D contract for Aeluma
And with a big name like Tower in there…↗
Apr 13
CK Capital — $ALMU just secured $4M+ in US government contracts for quantum dot lasers and quantum nonlinear materials with $TSEM Tower Semiconductor as a manufacturing partner.
$ALMU is up al…↗
Apr 13
BULL OF BRITAIN — I wrote dd about $ALMU 4 months ago - for anyone who wants a quick rundown on the company after its recent news with $TSEM↗
Apr 13
PhotonBull — Okay took a small $ALMU position here around $13
Reasoning:
-Very cheap and did not run yet, even down 50% from the highs, I am expecting photonics investors to be searching for…↗
Apr 13
BULL OF BRITAIN — Another thing I called months ago
$ALMU is finally moving away from a science project and into a real quantum dotting pipeline.
These are the only technology capable of withstandi…↗
Apr 13
AlmaCap — I found $ALMU several months back when looking at $AXTI and thinking to myself "this is not good enough" we cannot be this dependent on China.↗
Apr 13
AlmaCap — $ALMU just secured $4M+ in contracts for quantum materials and lasers from NASA, US Navy and DARPA.
Their platform grows compound semiconductors on standard silicon wafers — the sa…↗
Apr 13
PhotonBull — This $ALMU news seems interesting
Feels similar to how the $LWLG run started off a $TSEM partnership
Still highly risky and very speculative, but worth monitoring over the long…↗
Apr 11
PhotonBull — @DVLT146025 @PepInvestStocks @KawzInvests Yeah it seems like the best way to invest in $ALMU is to sit it out or for a big partnership/order etc. to remove a lot of risks↗
Apr 11
PhotonBull — Almost forgot about this but me and @KawzInvests were actually looking at this one a while ago at the end of February.
We had looked at $ALMU before as a solution to the $AXTI bot…↗
PhotonBull — @PepInvestStocks $ALMU certainly an impressive technology stack and management team, I am planning to enter when commercialization begins↗
Mar 15
Gaetano — What Photonics companies should I buy?!
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET $LWLG
I get asked this question often.
I can't tell anyone what to buy.
So instead, let me lay out all the compa…↗
Mar 12
InvestmentGuru — $ALMU – Small Cap to Watch in the Photonics / AI Infrastructure Space
$ALMU is an emerging semiconductor company focused on compound semiconductor technology integrated with sil…↗
Mar 11
Kevin Maro — @yianisz Hi @yianisz , did you see the investigation of $ALMU headquarters, looks like a legit scam↗
Gaetano — @NickNemo17 Yeah definitely.
$POET is further along so that main thesis breaker for them would be no significant commercial traction by Q1 CY27. I would need to see successful del…↗
Mar 8
Gaetano — My strategy for investing in early-stage companies...
I get lots of questions about companies like
$POET $LWLG $ALMU etc.
These companies appeal to many investors becuase they ar…↗
BULL OF BRITAIN — @crux_capital_ The biggest catalyst you can have in the photonics pipeline at the minute is to be completly U.S based pipeline, who don't require the bottlenecked monopolised resou…↗
Mar 4
Gaetano — @NickNemo17 @martijnde_boer Hey Nick,
Alright so I was really happy to see you ask this question because this is what is so exciting about $ALMU and is a core part of the investme…↗
Mar 3
Black Panther Capital — I've initiated 2 new long-term positions. Here's why:
Both are long-term. Both are sitting at inflection points the market hasn't priced in yet.
1) $KRKNF - Kraken Robotics:
I'…↗
Mar 3
Gaetano — I laid out this hypothesis last week for $LITE & $ALMU
The Lumentum chat yesterday gave some more insight
Let's dig into it
Lumentum is currently facing a massive supply-demand…↗
Mar 3
Gaetano — The $LITE conference with Morgan Stanley had so much insight in it
Currently writing up 3 posts:
1 - What Lumentum said about substrate sourcing and what it means for $AXTI
2 -…↗
Mar 2
Black Panther Capital — Added 2 new stocks to my long-term portfolio today.
4-5% on each allocation.
One stocks I’ve had before.
One is a complete new add.
Which two do you think I added.
$IBRX
$ALMU…↗
Mar 2
Gaetano — When it comes to finding the 'next' photonics trade
Like $POET $ALMU $LWLG for example
My strategy has evolved a lot over time
This post below reflects my own personal strategy…↗
Mar 2
Black Panther Capital — @moninvestor It’s insane. I was eying an oppurtunity in $POET and $ALMU. Will wait for pullback.↗
Mar 2
BULL OF BRITAIN — $ALMU - The news of NVDA investing 2 billion in COHR, to focus on SILICON BASED PHOTNICS, it is exactly why $AXTI was never going to win this race. Jensen already knows copper is c…↗
Mar 1
Black Panther Capital — In 2049 our kids and grandchildren will look back at 2026 and say:
“Amazing you lived through those times!”
“I wish it was possible to go back and invest in $IREN $NBIS $RKLB $ON…↗
Mar 1
Gaetano — @HyperTechInvest Good question! For me I like to be early with a starter and then DCA as the conviction builds.
I'd rather be too early than too late.
But that being said, I lea…↗
Gaetano — Well, maybe I was too conservative 😅
Yesterday we saw some big moves
$AXTI up 23%
$AEHR up 14.3%
$LWLG up 13.6%
$ALMU up 13.5%
$POET up 10.6%
$GLW up 4.3%
$AAOI up 4.2%
This…↗
Feb 24
Gaetano — This is a really great question $AXTI
And one worth exploring for all AXT and photonics investors in general
This also plays into my investment case for $COHR and $ALMU
If you f…↗
Feb 24
Gaetano — @waltek192 Good points Walker! For AXT the China angle is really important to understand as a risk. I detailed some more thoughts here:
https://t.co/lh3bqduCxU
As far as the pho…↗
Feb 24
Gaetano — $LITE has an InP problem that $ALMU could help mitigate.
A thought experiment worth working through...
Despite aggressively front-loading a 40% capacity expansion, Lumentum’s Ind…↗
Feb 24
Gaetano — 🚨Photonics Investors, here is my active watchlist!
Prices where I would consider initiating or adding
Keep in mind that none of this is financial advice or a recommendation and…↗
Feb 23
Gaetano — In a see of red, Photonics holds up
$COHR $ALMU $CIEN $AAOI $GLW
This is why it was my main theme going into 2026.
This is why I want to create this resource.
This is such a s…↗
Feb 23
BMSInvests — If I wasn’t full port $ONDS, these are the 10 stocks I’d be buying right now:
$PRZO
$SOFI
$RDW
$ALMU
$SRFM
$XTIA
$HYPR
$HIVE
$TAKOF
$KRKNF↗
Feb 23
Gaetano — Is this something you guys are interested in?
Photonics specifically!
Names like $lite $cohr $poet $almu $axti etc.
If so, drop the tickers that you want me to cover!
The more…↗
Feb 23
Gaetano — The most bullish data point for $ALMU Aeluma this week went largely unnoticed
It was the $AXTI call.
The market sees and feel the InP wafer constraint.
But is under appreciating…↗
Feb 21
Gaetano — @TheBigDaddyTuna $ALMU Aeluma plays in a few parts of the stack.
The whole supply chain above runs on InP substrates. Small, brittle, expensive, geopolitically constrained. Ael…↗
Feb 21
Gaetano — @turboturtle2025 $ALMU Aeluma plays in a few parts of the stack.
The whole supply chain above runs on InP substrates. Small, brittle, expensive, geopolitically constrained. Aelum…↗
Feb 20
Gaetano — 🚨Photonics investors! Read this post about $AXTI
Demand. Demand. Demand.
That's the story over and over.
No one can supply enough to meet the demand needed
The substrate layer…↗
Feb 20
Gaetano — The $AXTI call has major implications for $COHR and $ALMU
I've got 3 posts coming tomorrow
First one is already scheduled for the AM about $AXT and general downstream effects
Cu…↗
Feb 19
Gaetano — 🚨It's time for a Photonics Q&A
$POET $AAOI $LITE $COHR $ALMU
Please ask me any specific questions you have
From foundational questions
To understanding individual companie…↗
Feb 17
Gaetano — <1 Billion $ALMU $LWLG $POET
$ALMU - Aeluma Technologies $260m
Aeluma is shattering the cost barriers of AI and defense by fusing high-speed light technology with standard silic…↗
Feb 16
Gaetano — This is going to be an Institutional grade memo
$POET $ALMU $LITE $COHR $MRVL
Way more comprehensive than my DD on X
Imagine all the DD for companies i've done on X, but more ex…↗
Feb 15
Gaetano — $ALMU One of my only 'red' photonics positions
At current levels, I believe Aeluma provides significant upside potential
It still has lots to prove of course and there is risk i…↗
Feb 15
Gaetano — If you are new to my page and interested in Photonics
$POET $LITE $COHR $ALMU $AXTI $CIEN
This post linked here & the comment section are a great place to start
I will also be po…↗
Feb 15
Gaetano — 🚨Photonics Education Saturday!
$LITE $POET $COHR $AXTI $ALMU $MRVL
Today's topic is Co-packaged Optics (CPO)
If you invest in this space, you need to understand why CPO is, when…↗
Feb 14
Gaetano — Photonics investors, you'll want to read this!
$POET $ALMU $LITE $CIEN $AAOI
This weekend I will post an updated Photonics watchlist
Lot's of these names have run a bunch over t…↗
Feb 13
Gaetano — $ALMU Going After Detectors
Management has explicitly stated that they do not intend to compete in the high-volume laser market in the near term
While there is a shortage of lase…↗
Feb 13
Gaetano — @Kaizen_Investor Throw some photonics in there! $LITE $COHR $AAOI $ALMU $POET↗
Feb 13
Gaetano — Read this before my $ALMU post tomorrow morning
Will lay some foundation↗
Feb 12
Gaetano — $ALMU Dropped some bombs during their earnings call
If you follow photonics, you'll want to hear this
$POET $LITE $COHR $AXTI
What has felt like a far away story is suddenly gett…↗
Feb 12
Gaetano — 🚨Let's talk about the state of AI Infrastructure
There were lot's of recent earnings + updates that give us insight into the AI trade
In this post I will specifically reference…↗
Feb 11
BULL OF BRITAIN — $ALMU
Adj. EPS: $(0.04) Vs. Est: $(0.05)
Revenue Sales: $1.30M Vs. Est: $1.40M
"RFSUNY contract to integrate quantum dot lasers into the AIM Photonics 300mm silicon photonics…↗
Feb 11
Gaetano — There is alot to cover in the AI trade today:
$VRT - up 22% after earnings
$META - 1GW data center in Indiana
$ALAB - down 20% after earnings
$ALMU - earnings after market
$GFS -…↗
Feb 11
Serenity — @crux_capital_ $ALMU has done well as well. Maybe we’ve found the cheat code to markets. https://t.co/1xCMTl5tkf↗
Feb 10
BULL OF BRITAIN — $ALMU - Recent news and earnings prediction
Bouchaib Nessar is a serious commercial operator, not a lab guy. His track record at SCD transforming a niche imaging sensor supplier i…↗
Feb 7
Gaetano — Education Saturday📓
Photonics Glossary and Key Terms
If you follow $LITE, $COHR, $POET, $AAOI, $ALMU etc. these are some the terms that you should know that will show up on the…↗
Feb 5
BULL OF BRITAIN — $ALMU - message to the tutes + bears.
$38M cash, zero debt, and 10+ years of runway at current burn? The sell-off is not only irrational, its mathematically stupid.
NASA, DARPA,…↗
Feb 4
BULL OF BRITAIN — @RichardPrati Solid read. I wrote some $ALMU posts on the subject matter of employee scale, in relation to next earnings. In my opinion its a non-verbal sign, they already have an…↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — wow, what a day Lumentum $LITE
We need to break this down, because this call had a ton of signal
First, quick context for anyone new to photonics.
Lumentum is one of the most im…↗
Feb 3
Gaetano — Yeah😀
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET $ALMU
“Our forward guidance calls for over 85 percent year-over-year revenue growth, yet we are only at the starting line for two substantial opport…↗
Feb 2
Gaetano — I own two very different photonics baskets that are easy to lump together, so let's differentiate them a bit
$LPTH $POET $OPTX $COHR $LITE $KOPN
1 - AI datacenter interconnect. Mo…↗
Feb 2
Gaetano — There in fact was a lot of momentum building when I posted this
$POET $LITE $COHR $AAOI $ALMU
I look forward to creating another post like this after we get all the earnings call…↗
Feb 1
Gaetano — If you are investing in photonics companies, you need to understand 400G, 800G, 1.6T, and 3.2T.
$POET $LITE $COHR $AAOI $ALMU $CIEN
An optical transceiver is a small box that take…↗
— High beta selloff kicking up again?
I’m watching a number of names closely for adds or new positions.
Some are long-duration compounders I’m comfortable holding for years; othe…
BMSInvests — 🔥 Stock Market Fire Sale 🔥
Top ten stocks currently on my watchlist👀🎯
$ONDS
$TAKOF
$SRFM
$RDW
$HIVE
$ALMU
$OSS
$DGXX
$HYPR
$XTIA↗
Jan 24
Gaetano — 🚨Copper crunch Is the viral narrative right now!
I'm really interested in the pivot from copper to optics
$POET $ALMU $LITE $COHR $AAOI
The market is obsessed with copper right…↗
Jan 23
Serenity — @PhotonCap @jukan05 If the moonshot (which is massive price hikes on InP like HBM) fails, then $AXTI increases revenue from capacity expansion from Northland's $100m raise and it…↗
Jan 22
Leveraged Cat — $ALMU crazy that we might revisit this trendline from above (have not redrawn since I first drew it Fall 25'). I didn't really believe it could happen but had too much respect for…↗
Jan 20
Leveraged Cat — more character change in $ALMU
following previous spikes higher, the stock has not seen the resiliency it is seeing today
i'm out of my swing trade shares but may re-initiate the…↗
Jan 20
Midas — Looking into photonics stocks like $POET $AAOI $ALMU and $LITE.
Which one do you believe is the best and why?↗
Jan 17
Serenity — @crux_capital_ Great writeup! I'm sure all players benefit both in engineering workarounds like $POET and $ALMU as well as the bottleneck itself like $AXTI.
Lot of opportunities…↗
Jan 17
Gaetano — @aleabitoreddit Great reporting Serenity! Last week I wrote a full article on the positioning of $poet, $almu, $cohr and $axti in regards to the InP constraint
Hope you could giv…↗
Jan 17
Gaetano — Pretty much sums up my entire thesis I wrote on the 7th!
$POET $ALMU $LITE $COHR
Here are excerpts from the full piece -
The Infrastructure Crisis
Artificial Intelligence creates…↗
Jan 17
Serenity — Executive Order: "President Trump orders HieFo to divest indium phosphide assets"
A follow-up report on the Jan 2nd EO shows that President Trump targeted HieFo's InP wafer fabric…↗
Jan 16
CK Capital — Very good write up go check this out!!!
$ALMU↗
Jan 15
BULL OF BRITAIN — One last $ALMU post before hibernation.
Everyone's focused on rare earths when they talk Greenland. But there's a more immediate semiconductor story hiding in plain sight.
China…↗
Jan 14
BULL OF BRITAIN — $ALMU - 9 new job openings currently on their website. Based on employee count they have 12 full-time employees. This increases their full-time output by 75% in a single quarter. W…↗
Jan 14
Serenity — @Skineeman My opinion around $POET and $ALMU is that inp workaround is 2-3 year timeframe in 2028-2029.
They dont have hyperscaler qualifications and aren’t in modern ASIC archit…↗
Jan 13
BMSInvests — I’m currently holding 40% cash in my portfolio.
I’ve sold all my small positions and trimmed almost 50% of my $ONDS position over the last few weeks.
I’m waiting for the next ma…↗
Jan 12
Gaetano — When I build my photonics portfolio, I like a mix of stages and a mix of where each company sits in the buildout
I think of it as 4 buckets
Bucket 1 - Executing now. Scaled earni…↗
Jan 11
PhotonBull — @retail_mourinho what is your $ALMU thesis?↗
Jan 11
BULL OF BRITAIN — We are at the inflection point. $ALMU is moving from 'PhD science' to '300mm mass manufacturing.' In a world where light is the only way to break the AI wall, owning the patent on…↗
Jan 11
BULL OF BRITAIN — While $AXTI and $SMTOY are "Geopolitical Hostages" $ALMU is building the bypass. By growing Quantum Dots directly on 300mm American silicon, they aren't just out-engineering coppe…↗
Jan 11
BULL OF BRITAIN — $ALMU - recently spoke of creating an entirely US-based pipeline with Tier 1 and 2 suppliers they are in talks with, that will package and manufacture their 300mm silicon-based qua…↗
Jan 11
BULL OF BRITAIN — Now we get to $ALMU. With the copperwall getting worse and worse every year. The only option the Ai stack has to combat this, is to out-engineer it. This is where Silicon-based qua…↗
Gaetano — Here is my active and updated photonics watchlist:
$AAOI ~$30
$ALMU ~ $17
$ANET ~ $110
$AVO ~ $320
$AXTI ~ $14
$CIEN ~ $170
$COHR ~ $170
$CRDO ~ $120
$FN ~ $370
$GLW ~ $78
$LITE…↗
Jan 8
Gaetano — 🚨Later today I will update my watchlist
$POET $LWLG $AXTI $ALMU $LITE $COHR
After a day of hard selling across some of these names
And a day of big gains for others
I want to q…↗
Jan 8
Leveraged Cat — $AXTI is a trade on bottleneck dynamics resolving favorably through export permits
$ALMU is an investment in the technology that makes those bottleneck dynamics obsolete↗
Jan 8
Gaetano — The AI Buildout and the InP supply constraint $AXTI
$POET $ALMU $LWLG $COHR $AVGO $LITE
AXT is seeing a tsunami of demand for their InP wafers with a record $49M backlog as they d…↗
Jan 4
Gaetano — 🚨What Photonics Companies Should I buy?!
$POET $LITE $COHR $AXTI $MRVL ...
You'll want to save this post.
It's no secret that the Photonics trade is here for 2026
Many tickers…↗
mon — List of stocks to add to your watchlist, heading into 2026.
Space: $ASTS, $RKLB, $PL
Data Center: $IREN, $CIFR, $NBIS, $SLNH
Solar: $ENPH, $TE, $ASTI
Rare Earth: $UAMY, $UUUU, $N…↗
Dec 16
Gaetano — 🚨Layer 2B drops tomorrow at 7:30am EST.
$ASPI $XOM $GLW $ALMU $LEU $CRS
Layer 2B focuses on the physical materials underneath AI hardware and why they matter more as systems scal…↗