Coherent. Every tracked FinTwit mention of $COHR, newest first. 1000 mentions since the first on Aug 6, 2025. See the price chart.
July 2026 · 50 mentions
Jul 16
Michael | Hypermarkets — The AI "bubble" already popped.
Average drawdown: -42% from peaks so far:
🔴 NuScale $SMR -85%
🔴 Oklo $OKLO -76%
🔴 Redwire $RDW -69%
🔴 Navitas $NVTS -63%
🔴 Oracle $ORCL -62%
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Jul 16
Gaetano — I believe that there is more interest in Photonics again
$LITE $COHR $SIVE $AAOI $NOK etc.
So my goal leading into earnings is to give a quick pulse check on where my favorite com…↗
Jul 16
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Dropped $100K into the market here into a fresh "I bought the dip" account.
Risk reward looks fantastic to just go long a big list of my favorite stocks, some down 30-50%. I see…↗
Jul 16
Serenity — @afasano23 Morgan Stanley listed $SIVE as the three core CPO laser players alongside $LITE and $COHR in their note 3 days ago.
Fidelity Research, JP Morgan and others have started…↗
Serenity — @meikozz_2026 I don't see any fundamentally wrong. There's probably going to be large corrections from time to time flush out margin/leverage before things move higher.
And this…↗
Jul 14
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AEHR (~$2.2B) reports tonight at 5pm ET.
Last earnings the stock dropped 5% after hours on a revenue miss, then ran from $52 to $126 in five weeks. Bookings crossed $92M by mid-A…↗
Jul 14
Serenity — @talethdabm89 Feels like algos often miss $SIVE, after slight $LITE / optical sector recovery after CPI print. Especially bc it's trading on some random Swedish exchange, but catch…↗
Jul 14
Jason Luongo — 5. $COHR - Coherent
NVIDIA invested $2B directly. Multi-year strategic agreement for advanced optics. Expanding indium phosphide manufacturing in Texas with $50M in CHIPS Act fund…↗
Jul 14
Gaetano — The Prevailing Narratives In Photonics Right Now...
$LITE $COHR $SIVE $AAOI $AXTI etc.
> Scale Up CPO is further away than some people thought
> Copper is lasting longer and pushi…↗
Jul 13
Serenity — TLDR of Innolight investor relations takeaways:
1. "Overall, 1.6T market demand has not contracted; instead, 800G demand has increased significantly compared with previous expecta…↗
Jul 13
Serenity — @IrisWan39849142 $AAOI mainly gets revenue from pluggable, they’re developing/sampling related lasers but have no CPO design wins.
Others like $MTSI look like they fell off the ma…↗
Jul 13
Gaetano — Positive signs on the Substrate layer
$AXTI $COHR $LITE $AAOI etc.
We like to see more substrates being manufactured
Helps minimize one of the gating factors for downstream produ…↗
Jul 13
Serenity — Morgan Stanley note on CPO today. Key participants include:
- $SIVE, $COHR, and $LITE in laser supply
- Broadcom and Nvidia in switch platforms
- Lightmatter, Ayar Labs, Marvell/C…↗
Jul 13
InvestmentGuru — $MU $AMD $CRDO $MRVL $AAOI $AXTI $COHR $INTC $SNDK $NBIS
AI infrastructure stocks are under pressure in the premarket as the sector goes through a broad rotation and consolidatio…↗
Jul 12
Alex A.C. — IA about the "alternatives" in Photonics and the battle VCSELs ⚔️ microLEDs:
"Fundamentally what you need to understand is micro-LED and VCSEL CPO/NPO are conceptually very simila…↗
Gaetano — Whether you think it's a risk for Photonics or not...
$SIVE $AAOI $LITE $COHR
It's worth understanding how some funds/investors are positioning accordingly
Then you can either b…↗
Jul 10
Serenity — Rosenblatt on recent optical sector weakness from $AAOI to $LITE:
"Stocks in the Optical sector have traded poorly for the last 1-2 months" due to CPO delay reports and China capa…↗
Jul 10
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Rosenblatt: Photonics short sellers have zero conviction and are preying on fear.
They point out that short sellers have no real conviction in the short thesis and actually intend…↗
Jul 9
Gaetano — There is one looming bear case for Photonics
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $SIVE
That this is cyclical and will end up in oversupply.
With lots of the focus on lasers/transceivers.
My goal…↗
Jul 9
PhotonBull — Data centers are hitting the physical limits of copper. Goldman sees AI optical component spend growing from $15B in 2026 to $154B by 2028, and NVIDIA just committed $2B each to Co…↗
Jul 9
Gaetano — Again, this was a very positive update
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $GLW $CIEN $NOK etc.↗
InvestmentGuru — buying opportunity in market
Photonics $AAOI $AXTI $COHR $GLW $NOK
Space $RKLB $ASTS $SPCX $RDW $SATL
NeoCloud $NBIS $CRWV $CIFR $APLD $IREN $HIVE $BTDR
Energy $OKLO $SMR $EOSE…↗
Jul 9
Gaetano — I think the next 2 quarters for $COHR are going to be insane
This is when the 6-inch InP ramp really gets tested
We have visibility into the supply / demand gap remaining tight t…↗
Jul 9
Midas — 3) $COHR
Photonics and optical connectivity.
The layer enabling ultra-fast data transfer between GPUs, memory, and across data centers.
Electrons get slow. Photons get the job…↗
Jul 8
Alphatica — LARGE / MID-CAP TAPE | July 8, 2026
Large / mid-cap blocks. +$214M net buy. Flipped. Yesterday: -$726M. $AKAM +$88M zero sells. $NET +$65M. $CRWV +$62M. Yesterday's sellers became…↗
Jul 8
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $AAOI is down over 40% in a month.
On no information that suggests the company's ramp to $400M+ in monthly revenue isn't on track for 2027.
The market might point to dilution, in…↗
Jul 8
Gaetano — If you care about Photonics, read this
$AXTI $SIVE $LITE $COHR $GLW $AAOI etc.
There are lots of important updates here
The one I want to talk about in this post is InP substrate…↗
InvestmentGuru — Silicon-to-Substation: 5 Themes Built for the Long Run
Photonics / Optical Interconnects The bottleneck is shifting from compute to data movement. Co-packaged optics fixes that. $…↗
Jul 7
Alex A.C. — Investing firm Nomura 🇯🇵 estimates for Data Centers and Memory, from some days ago
I'm still shocked they forecast an AI Data Center (AI only!! excluding the "traditional" ones)…↗
Jul 6
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $20M trade update.
I just updated my "Photonics Is Next" AI infra portfolio on @joinautopilot followed by 3300+ U.S. retail investors and $21.9M in connected assets as of 7/6.
Th…↗
Jul 5
CK Capital — Kyber delayed 12+ months and CPO sliding toward the Feynman era, per SemiAnalysis. The copper and pluggable era just got extended by a year or more if true.
$AAOI wins cleanest.…↗
TheValueist — There is a reason I updated new write-ups on $LITE $COHR yesterday. Get updated.
$LITE
https://t.co/ARVGvuvTFQ
$COHR
https://t.co/mPyy9gepah↗
Jul 3
TheValueist — $AXTI $COHR $LITE $NVDA CURRENT CHINESE INP EXPORT-CONTROL REGIME
China’s formal InP control is not a blanket embargo; it is a discretionary licensing regime. On February 4, 2025,…↗
Jul 3
InvestmentGuru — AI remains the biggest story in the market, but leadership is clearly rotating.
Today , AI infrastructure names came under selling pressure as stocks like $NVDA, $AVGO, $MU, $CRDO…↗
Jul 2
TheValueist — $AXTI $COHR Do you believe this is last InP prepayment deal that will be cut over the next 5 years? We merely getting started.
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BOTTOM LINE: This is incrementally bullish f…↗
Jul 2
Gaetano — Nice to see $COHR locking up more 6-in supply
Now I would like to know if this is for a U.S. based facility or one of their international sites
Would have significant implication…↗
Jul 2
Serenity — $AXTI signs 3-year wafer deal with $COHR.
"Coherent will make a prepayment of $22,288,500 to AXT-Tongmei in exchange for a committed supply capacity." https://t.co/nTkyJSMo96↗
Jul 2
Gaetano — Some thoughts on Photonics...
$SIVE $CIEN $AAOI $COHR $LITE etc.
Whether the risk is laser oversupply
Or VSCELs used for scale up over SiPh
The first train of thought usually goe…↗
Jul 2
TheValueist — $COHR Coherent Corp: Scaling the AI Optical Infrastructure Bottleneck. Investment Thesis. New: 7/2/26.
Coherent Corp is navigating a business model transition that goes beyond the…↗
Jul 2
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Let's talk about photonics.
My photonics portfolio is up roughly 100% in 6 months but down around 10% in the last month, and will be down more after today's price action is baked…↗
Jul 2
Alex A.C. — "microLEDs (today) are only capable of 2-4 Gbps per lane in pre-production (while on paper they are capable of 11 Gbps per lane...)"
As of today, InP Lasers, even taking into acc…↗
Jul 2
Shay Boloor — Semiconductors are extending their pullback for a second straight day:
• $AAOI -17%
• $SNDK -14%
• $KLAC -13%
• $AMKR -12%
• $MRVL -10%
• $COHR -10%
• $LITE -9%
• $CRDO -8%
• $AR…↗
Jul 2
Serenity — Photonics is backed by actual revenue numbers and it's an architectural shift championed by $NVDA.
Quantum barely has any revenue.
$LITE is completely sold out for the next 2 yea…↗
Jul 1
Shay Boloor — Semiconductors pulling back today after reports that $META is developing “Meta Compute” to sell access to excess AI compute:
• $KLAC -11%
• $SNDK -11%
• $AMAT -10%
• $MU -10%
• $…↗
June 2026 · 129 mentions
Jun 30
Gaetano — Last week I updated my mock Optics ETF
$AAOI $SIVE $GLW $CIEN $NOK $COHR
I use this, along with 12/24 month financial modeling
To support the research behind the companies I disc…↗
Jun 30
Michael | Hypermarkets — $AEHR — Reports Jul 21 ✅
Revenue: $10.3M vs Est. $10.8M ❌ | EPS: -$0.05 vs Est. -$0.07 ✅
Q4 FY2026 Guidance: Revenue $25M–$30M | Return to profitability expected
🔴 Beat estimat…↗
Jun 29
TheValueist — $GLW $LITE $COHR $AAOI This is the more verbatim Chinese-to-English version, not the cleaned explainer. I preserved the spoken order and filler much more closely, with only obvious…↗
Damnang2 — Most quantum computing discussions still focus on qubit count and gate fidelity.
But as these systems scale, the bottleneck starts to move from the quantum device itself to the li…↗
May 31
InvestmentGuru — Computex 2026 kicks off June 2nd.
Theme: “AI Together.”
$NVDA $AMD $INTC all expected on stage. But the real alpha isn’t on the mainstage — it’s in the supply chain sitting behin…↗
May 31
Gaetano — You gotta read about $COHR
You just have to.↗
May 31
Gaetano — Dang, $AAOI had the most mentions!
I'd have to agree, I do believe it is one of the most asymmetric plays out there that I would ever hold any significant amount of money in. Yes…
April 2026 · 207 mentions
Apr 30
Serenity — Retail short sellers should really not touch $AXTI.
I keep seeing people misunderstand $AXTI as only "InP Substrate" with Sumitomo, over and over but just never made a comment.…↗
Apr 30
Serenity — Fun fact: don’t think any large US institution had positions in $SIVE / $SIVEF since it was a majority owned local Swedish retail stock.
There’s also fund mandates preventing US f…↗
Apr 30
InvestmentGuru — Photonics & Semiconductors: The Quiet Kings of This Market
The rotation is happening in plain sight. While macro noise dominates headlines, photonics and semiconductor names are qu…↗
Serenity — The market are missing the implications from $NVDA investing:
$2B into $COHR for optical.
$2B into $LITE for optical.
and $2B into $MRVL for optical today.
Nvidia did this exact…↗
Serenity — Pls stop tagging me in stuff where random retail investors or journalists tries doing an analysis on $AXTI or $SIVE.
For $AXTI:
Majority of folks have 0 clue what they’re talking…↗
Mar 31
Serenity — @HeLiuLeo Yep, I spent a lot of time making this on the chart.
Chokepoint 1: $VNP is probably the closest you get to $AXTI in the West for one chokepoint, but nothing to the same…
February 2026 · 137 mentions
Feb 28
Serenity — @obsidiancap1 - even if everyone produces 800g/1.6T there’s not enough. Demand far outstrips supply.
It’s not quite the trio Samsung/sk Hynix/micron but $AAOI is probably the only…↗
Feb 28
Gaetano — The excitement around $AAOI is palpable
This was a name that for the most part sat on the sidelines of the optical supercycle while others like $LITE $COHR $GLW etc. ripped
I thi…↗
Feb 28
Serenity — @Meatusmax Seems reasonable to me. It's expected hyperscaler demand for qualified 800G or 1.6T optical transceivers severely outstrips supply like memory.
And it's only 2026, bigg…↗
— $GLW $LITE $COHR $AAOI My Analyst Agent rebuilt this video in English. Some great insights in here.
Note: this is a cleaned/technical English translation, not lip-sync and not a c…
Alex A.C. — Our fren @FundaAI posted in May about the 2.4T (300G lanes) adoption timelines. I found it very important, and I took good note.
Now professor Damnang is hearing the same in the s…↗
Jun 28
Alex A.C. — @damnang2 Enough to need good Lasers (ie., only the Tier 1 manufacturers will succeed here $LITE $COHR $AAOI ), but not enough to fully accelerate CPO adoption ??
https://t.co/QBz…↗
Jun 28
Shay Boloor — SEMICONDUCTOR STOCKS BY PEG RATIO
PEG < 1 usually means mispriced growth
PEG > 2 starts to push into the danger zone
Here’s how they stack up:
• $ALAB ~3.6x
• $INTC ~2.7x
• $LRCX…↗
Jun 27
Frenchie — Le trade sur l'IA est-il mort ? (Je vous préviens c'est un mega tunnel)
>Non
Mais pour la première fois, ce n'est plus la bonne question, et il faut faire un petit voyage dans le…↗
Jun 27
InvestmentGuru — The FTC approval of $SPCX’s acquisition of Mesh Optical is more than just another M&A headline—it’s a strong signal that AI infrastructure is entering its next phase. As AI cluster…↗
Jun 26
Black Panther Capital — $AAPL just raised prices on the MacBook and iPad. The reason they gave, on the record, was higher component costs. Memory chips, specifically.
Sit with that for a second.
This is…↗
Jun 26
Gaetano — If you care about $AAOI $NOK $COHR $LITE
You want to understand their capacity ramps
Especially what they are saying about 6-inch InP capacity
This article lays it out!
Check…↗
Jun 25
Michael | Hypermarkets — BOOKMARK this so you know when the NEXT massive earnings plays are.
$AEHR Jul 21
$ASML Jul 15
blockstack:native Jul 16
$TSM Jul 16
$TE Aug 18
$INTC Jul 23
$AMKR Jul 27
$GEV Jul 29…↗
Jun 25
Damnang2 — What I have been hearing from people on the ground lately is that $COHR sounds really strong in terms of its six inch InP capacity, yields, and ramp.
Very bullish on this company…↗
Jun 24
Michael | Hypermarkets — $MU is the biggest bottleneck for AI infrastructure.
It's revenue increased 346% in 1 year.
Here's 20 AI bottleneck stocks to buy:
Memory / Storage
1. $MU — HBM monopoly w/ SK…↗
Gaetano — Everyone is working on 6-inch capacity...
$COHR $AAOI $LITE $NOK
But do you know who is the furthest ahead?↗
Jun 24
AlmaCap — $AAOI at c.$151 presents a nice opportunity, with an IV of 134.1% you can sell at the money weekly puts expiring on the 2nd July for roughly $13 - presenting a c.8.4% return on at…↗
Jun 24
InvestmentGuru — $NVDA AGM Day — 3 Things That Matter for the AI Chain.
$NVDA shareholders meeting is live today. Stock sitting near $200. Here’s what the smart money is watching 👇
1. Blackwel…↗
Jun 23
Frenchie — Une de mes positions long terme favorites :
$CIEN
Ciena est probablement l’un des meilleurs plays publics sur le scale-across.
Le scale-across, c’est simple :
>Les clusters IA…↗
Jun 23
Gaetano — $COHR showing great relative strength
Almost hit new ATH yesterday
Now getting smoked overnight 😅
As always, expecting lots of volatility. But this is one of my core holdings a…↗
Jun 23
Serenity — @SaiseiInvesting No, 0 clue why people invest in those types of ETFs.
- You have the most basic names you can buy yourself like $LITE / $COHR as heaviest weights, where they take…↗
Jun 22
Gaetano — It is really nice to see the strength in optics today
$GLW $COHR $VIAV $SMTC $AAOI $NOK etc.
Especially nice to see $GLW and $COHR relative strength
I believe that these are two…↗
Jun 22
PhotonBull — Photonics seems to be back in rotation, at least so far
$AAOI $LITE $COHR↗
Jun 22
Black Panther Capital — 12 months ago people hesitated.
9 months ago people hesitated.
6 months ago people hesitated.
3 months ago people hesitated.
Meanwhile $MU went up +850%
$SNDK went up +4.800%
$AXT…↗
Jun 21
Gaetano — The optical supercycle!
$LITE $COHR $GLW $AAOI $SIVE
What's your favorite way to play?↗
Jun 21
Serenity — @HawkChainETH We're in a massive EML bottleneck right now and CW lasers are getting bottlenecked now too.
To my knowledge, $COHR is buying EMLs off $LITE because they can't make…↗
Jun 21
Serenity — @AsteroidLabsX Korea is far behind with lasers. Maybe like 1 1/2 years if I had to guess.
Which is why OE Solutions is the very first/only to produce 100G EML in Korea AFAIK.
U…↗
Jun 21
Serenity — I've been getting a lot of questions about OE Solutions (138080) recently.
Here's my research/thoughts so far on it:
They're a small Korean optical transceiver company, similar…↗
Jun 20
Alex A.C. — The "Chinese oversupply" FUD in Optics/Photonics is the same nonsense than the fake Chinese Memory oversupply from 3 months ago🤦♀️🤦♂️
Where is the giga tons of memory from Chi…↗
Michael | Hypermarkets — $SPY AI Infrastructure — YTD Returns & Why They will keep going higher...
1. $SNDK +820.36% — Spun off from Western Digital, pure-play NAND flash exposure. AI data centers need ma…↗
Jun 20
PhotonBull — $AAOI: Applied Optoelectronics
$AAOI is a great way to own the laser and transceiver bottleneck inside the AI buildout. They are vertically integrated down to an in house InP lase…↗
Jun 20
Gaetano — This might be the best report I will ever write...
$AXTI $COHR $AAOI $LITE $SIVE $IQE etc.
I finally solidified my outline:
Optical Oversupply Risk - Table of Contents:
- The op…↗
Jun 19
Jason's Chips — Can a company 1/20 the size of $LITE and $COHR compete on equal footing for dominance of the massive OCS market?
In this article, I not only provide the most intuitive, comprehens…↗
Jun 19
CK Capital — Copper wire has run the world for over a century. The era that replaces it is starting right now, and it might be the most important infrastructure shift of the decade.
Here is th…↗
Jun 19
Kevin Maro — After too many hours of research/DD to count, these are my Top 5 AI Stocks in the Top 5 AI Sectors to Invest in:
1. Neoclouds: The GPU & Compute landlords. Whoever owns the comput…↗
Jun 19
Jason's Chips — For anyone interested in learning about OCS for free!
Despite all the hype around CPO, $LITE and $COHR actually consider OCS their biggest growth driver.
Could this be what lifts…↗
Jun 19
Jason's Chips — Optical circuit switches are a technology still in the early stages of its S curve.
Its growth rate scales with three vectors: AI growth, adoption rate (how many electrical switch…↗
Jun 19
Serenity — @_king142 Yes, choosing the right theme is extremely important.
Even if $POET doesn't really do anything, it still gets brought up thematically due to $LITE, $COHR, and others.…↗
Jun 19
Gaetano — There is so much in my research/content funnel
Going to be a busy few days
Here's some stuff I am working through and will be posting over the next week or so:
1 - China Oversu…↗
Jun 18
Trade Whisperer — @kay83227648 So missed $TSM $AMD $INTC $ARM $SIMO $ASX $AMKR $GLW $LITE $COHR? cpu interconnect z-axis trades with notifications on?↗
Shay Boloor — FUTURUM EQUITIES PODCAST EPISODE #46
Daniel and I will be live tomorrow at 1PM EST exclusively on the Futurum Equities YouTube channel covering:
• $ASTS launching three satellit…↗
Jun 17
Gaetano — What are the odds $AMD is trying to lock up high-power CW laser supply with $AAOI?
We already know $NVDA secured strategic capacity with $LITE and $COHR.
If AMD wants an optical…↗
Jun 17
Gaetano — $CSCO just gave us AI networking bulls a new datapoint...
A single agentic task can generate 450% more network traffic than a human doing the same work.
Roughly 70% of that traff…↗
Jun 17
Damnang2 — There are many articles on $COHR and $LITE, but very few explain what actually separates the two, how their positions differ in the CPO era, and which company may benefit more from…↗
Jun 17
Damnang2 — This article is a deep dive on Coherent ($COHR).
I wrote it with the help of one of my Substack subscribers, a professional investor, who helped relay my technical questions direc…↗
Jun 17
TheValueist — $COHR A J. Huang Capital Management and @TheValueist top pick. Much much more to go.↗
Jun 17
Shay Boloor — $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang broke ground today on $COHR new American laser factory.
Nvidia running the same playbook on optics that it ran on HBM and advanced packaging by identifying…↗
Jun 17
Gaetano — The Optics sector momentum won't last forever...
There will be winners and losers
Those that outlast the rest and those that get crushed
So my goal is to find the companies that…↗
Jun 17
Gaetano — @michaelsikand $cohr recent strength is noteable. One of my favorite picks as well↗
Jun 16
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Jensen broke ground today on $COHR's new American laser factory.
He's casually flexing to everyone $NVDA locked up supply for years.
This is the world’s first 6 inch InP wafer…↗
Jun 16
Michael | Hypermarkets — 1. $NVDA
Why Critical:
Provides the AI GPUs powering SpaceX's orbital intelligence, Starlink AI, and Terafab ambitions.
If Supply Stops:
SpaceX's AI roadmap slows dramatically.…↗
Jun 16
KawzInvests 🦑 — $NOK just announced a 10x expansion of its photonic chip facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania. New capacity online by end of Q3 2026.
Less than 2% of global semiconductor advanced…↗
Jun 16
mon — New models are shipping every few weeks, each one needing more computing power than the last, and the models coming in 2, 5, and 10 years will need vastly more than anything runnin…↗
Jun 16
Serenity — @AsianbeBlazin Other way around, $NVDA bottlenecked the entire industry for EML capacity.
And did the same with CW capacity ONCE AGAIN with $LITE, $COHR, and $MRVL (if they have L…↗
Jun 16
CK Capital — @HOUSEofZAVARO $AAOI
$CRDO
$LITE
$SIVE
$COHR↗
Jun 16
KawzInvests 🦑 — The AI infrastructure buildout has three distinct networking layers. Each one is at a different point in its adoption curve and each one has different winners.
1. Scale-up connect…↗
Jun 15
Alex A.C. — This is potential BIG NEWS in Photonics! 😱
200G VCSEL Lasers with mass volume production (potentially) starting in early 2027 👀🔥
"The 32x50G uVCSEL isn't trying to push a sing…↗
Frenchie — Le stack photonique du moment est vraiment en train d’exploser
Voici les actions que je possède concernant l’optique et pourquoi :
> $LITE
Lumentum est l’un des plays les plus d…↗
Jun 15
Gaetano — If you care about $LITE $COHR $NOK $GLW $CIEN
Then bookmark and read this when you can!↗
Jun 15
Gaetano — @dankdrankkz I play scale across via $CIEN and $NOK primarily but also $COHR $LITE $MRVL and $GLW↗
Jun 14
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Guys we need to talk about $AAOI...
$AAOI is one of the most controversial stocks in the world and I enjoy the disagreement.
Pretty cool that's it up 3x since I went long with ma…↗
Jun 14
Jason's Chips — The most common question that I've gotten on this post is that all of $AXTI, $LITE, $AIXA, $COHR, $SOI, $TSEM have gone parabolic so why is this even an interesting space anymore?…↗
Gaetano — This article dives into some of my favorite companies
$cohr $cien $nok $lite etc.
Bookmark it and give it a read when you have a chance!↗
Jun 12
Trade Whisperer — "However much capacity you add, NVIDIA will consume it" -Jensen Huang
$MU $DRAM $SNDK $GLW $LITE $COHR $TSM $NVDA https://t.co/PhakQp5pkf↗
Jun 11
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI LightCounting releases Q2 Quarterly Market Update – June 2026 @lightcounting
Q1 2026 was the best quarter for the optical transceiver market since LightCo…↗
Jun 11
Gaetano — Thoughts/ clarifications on InP Substrates $AXTI ...
> $AXT has been getting permits to ship to U.S. companies based outside of the U.S. Think of $COHR Sweden facility as an examp…↗
Jun 11
Jason Luongo — Peter Lynch's favorite metric is the PEG Ratio. A PEG ratio under 1 means a company is growing faster than its valuation implies.
Here are 10 semiconductor stocks with a PEG unde…↗
Jun 11
mon — Anthropic's Fable 5 launch confirmed what I have been arguing for over a year now. There is simply not enough compute in the world to meet demand.
Keep in mind that Fable 5 and GP…↗
Jun 11
Michael | Hypermarkets — When $SPY crashes 10%-20% this summer, I'd BUY ONLY bottleneck AI stocks.
Without them there is no AI:
$MU — Micron Technology
Current: ~$879 | Buy Zone: $680–$700
HBM demand flo…↗
Jun 10
Kevin Maro — Do not lose your shares.
$NBIS . $CRWV. $IREN. $AAOI. $CRDO . $LITE. $COHR. $NVDA. $AMZN. $GOOG. $RKLB. $ASTS. $HOOD. $SOFI.
Every single one of these will be dramatically highe…↗
Jun 10
KawzInvests 🦑 — Where supply vs demand actually stands in optics right now, straight from the latest earnings calls.
$LITE is sold out. Their CEO quantified undershipping demand by more than 30%…↗
Jun 10
InvestmentGuru — CPO & 800V DC SELLOFF — DELAYED, NOT DEAD
➡️ A SemiAnalysis report flagged potential timeline slippage on two of the hottest AI infrastructure trades
➡️ $NVDA’s native 800V DC pow…↗
Jun 10
Gaetano — This is a really important post if you care about optics
$lite $cohr $poet $crdo $smtc $aaoi
Please give it a bookmark + read↗
Jun 10
Black Panther Capital — $AAOI dropped 17% Tuesday on a Semi Analysis report suggesting CPO rollout delays.
Here is what the report actually said:
It flagged delays in co-packaged optics adoption timelin…↗
Jun 9
Alex A.C. — Don't know what "report about CPO" from SemiAnalysis is the ppl. talking about and basically I don't care 🤷♀️
Just as was the case with Memory, I have the things very clear and…↗
Jun 9
KawzInvests 🦑 — Expect some short term selling in photonics names on the CPO/800V delay headline. The market will paint the whole sector with one brush.
Photonics is not just CPO. CPO is one sl…↗
Jun 9
CK Capital — This is something everyone needs to read and is very important.
Could be bearish for $LITE and $COHR.
I believe this is bullish for $CRDO.↗
Jun 9
Serenity — Names like:
- $ASX
- Sumitomo Electric
- $JBL
- $VICR
- $GFS
- $AAOI
- AlChip
- $TSEM
- $FN
- Furukawa Electric
- $CLS
- $NBIS
- $NOK
- $AMKR
- $LITE
- $COHR
Off the top of my…↗
Jun 9
CK Capital — The optical transceiver market triples to $36 billion this decade and $AAOI is the smallest cap name with arguably the most explosive upside in the entire space. Here is the math n…↗
Jun 8
TheValueist — $NVDA $AVGO $LITE $COHR The Future of AI Interconnect: CPO and NPO Architectures.
Co-packaged optics is the technically superior long-term architecture for the highest-radix AI da…↗
Jun 8
Jason's Chips — Besides the obvious $LITE $COHR $NOK $MRVL, InP substrates and MOCVD ($AIXA $AXTI) are actually very underrated beneficiaries here. InP PIC could possibly take up more wafer area i…↗
Jun 8
Midas — OpenAI - $30b
$IREN - $2.1b
$MRVL - $2b
$LITE - $2b
$COHR - $2b
If this helped you out, follow me for more.↗
Jun 7
Alex A.C. — @ren_stocks " $IQE -- upstream of every optical engine in the stack Assembly"
Not of "every" buddy, $LITE and $COHR have in-house EPI↗
Jun 7
CK Capital — Photonics is the future of computing and most people have not woken up to it yet.
Here is the simple reality. Every AI cluster being built needs to move enormous amounts of data b…↗
Jun 7
Jason's Chips — No I actually think this is true
M9 CCL (req for Kyber midplane) is very hard and supply chain prob ain't ready. NPO is next best solution.
But this isn't negative for CPO becaus…↗
Jun 7
Michael | Hypermarkets — The AI supercycle is in year 3 of 15. You didn't miss it.
You'd make millions by knowing whats coming and buying dips until 2030+
Pay attention, we just finished Phase 1 2023-202…↗
Jun 7
Kevin Maro — My top 5 best AI stocks to invest in long-term:
These are my biggest positions, and I believe each of these will 10x or more over the next 5 years:
$NBIS: The man who built Russi…↗
Jun 6
CK Capital — My favorite names in every sector right now. The full conviction list, three deep in each.
Humanoid Robotics
$AMBA
$OUST
$VPG
AI Infrastructure
$NBIS
$PENG
$CRDO
Defense
$EOS…↗
Jun 6
Shay Boloor — SEMICONDUCTOR STOCKS BY PEG RATIO
PEG < 1 usually means mispriced growth
PEG > 2 starts to push into the danger zone
Here’s how they stack up:
• $ALAB ~2.9x
• $ARM ~2.4x
• $INTC…↗
Jun 6
Shay Boloor — UPDATED FIB LEVELS FOR POPULAR STOCKS
AI Utilities
• $IREN $51
• $NBIS $177
• $CIFR $17
• $CRWV $100
AI Power
• $EOSE $7
• $BE $237
• $NVTS $22
• $VRT $282
AI Hardware
• $NVDA $…↗
Jun 6
InvestmentGuru — 15 sectors defining the next decade of investing
The megatrend map.
1. AI
$NVDA · $PLTR · $APP
The infrastructure king, the data layer, and the monetization engine. Three differ…↗
Jun 5
Serenity — @darkseidzz hmm, i prefer all your upstream chokepoints over $NVDA long term since those will be re-rated the most (nvidia already largest company in the world)
pretty sure hypers…↗
Jun 5
InvestmentGuru — 20-stock Total AI Infrastructure list across 7 layers:
1. $NVDA
The undisputed AI compute standard. Beyond chips, Nvidia offers a full-stack platform including networking, softwar…↗
Jun 4
Gaetano — Why $LITE $COHR $NOK $GLW $CIEN ...
The chain looks like this:
> AI clusters spread across physical locations.
> Scale-across DCI grows.
> Multi-rail architectures ramp.
> Line s…↗
Trade Whisperer — @dylanlep2 I am holding all 6. I have $TSM $COHR $LITE $GLW too.
Smaller positions on software for $NOW, $PLTR, $RDDT, $MSFT↗
Jun 4
KawzInvests 🦑 — $CIEN reported $1.57B in revenue, 39.5% YoY growth, and raised full-year guidance to $6.3B. Adjusted gross margin hit 44.9% and operating margin hit 19.5%, both above the high end…↗
Jun 4
Michael | Hypermarkets — TIER 2 — OPTICAL & NETWORKING BOTTLENECKS (The New Hottest Layer)
#6 $COHR (Coherent Corp.) — Nvidia invested $2 billion in Coherent in March 2026 alongside a multiyear purchase c…↗
Jun 4
Gaetano — If you care about $NOK
Or $LITE or $COHR or $CIEN etc.
You'll want to read this↗
Jun 4
Serenity — $SIVE looks like both a chokepoint and a bottleneck for CPO next year.
Keep seeing information published from nontechnical people who miss any nuances.
Here’s the reason why:…↗
Jun 4
Michael | Hypermarkets — AI COMPUTE is sold out until end of 2028.
This is exactly how you become a millionaire, you buy and hold these companies:
GPU / CHIPS (Direct Compute Suppliers)
$NVDA
GPU monopo…↗
Jun 4
InvestmentGuru — $AVGO Broadcom just reminded everyone how high expectations matter.
Q2 FY2026:
✅ Revenue: $22.19B (+48% YoY)
✅ Adj. EPS: $2.44 vs $2.40 expected
✅ AI Revenue: $10.8B, more than do…↗
CK Capital — The photonics sector has run and people think they missed it.
They have not seen what is coming. The buildout is only just beginning.
Here is the simple reality. Every AI cluste…↗
Jun 3
InvestmentGuru — CPO: The Bottleneck
Everyone’s watching GPUs. Semis. Memory. Nobody’s watching the wire between them. That’s the next bottleneck. And it’s real.
The Problem: AI Is Choking on Its…↗
Jun 3
Gaetano — $COHR Smashing all time highs > $450
Insane run.
I felt it deep in my bones that the 2nd half of this year was going to be massive for them.
And we aren't even there yet↗
Jun 3
Serenity — @OGCapital25 @Chi_w_wong It's expected Celestial and Lightmatter try and multi source.
But maybe for gen-1 my guess is a lot sole source / primary source with $SIVE for the $NVDA…↗
Jun 2
Gaetano — On Saturday I discussed my views on the market
Specifically what we were seeing with the weakness across our optical stack like $lite $aaoi $cohr etc.
A hand full of my subscribe…↗
Jun 2
Midas — $COHR
$AVGO
$ANET
$SMCI
$TSM
Follow me if you want to see when I enter these companies.↗
Jun 2
TheValueist — $MRVL $STM $COHR $HPE Some of key names I follow. Look at these +2z moves today. Out of control. https://t.co/fvdorsqZNb↗
Jun 2
Shay Boloor — Optical interconnect names are running because $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang basically validated the future AI architecture where copper wins inside the rack but optics becomes unavoidabl…↗
Jun 2
Trade Whisperer — @martingar_ I don't know but I lite $LITE $COHR $GLW↗
Jun 2
BULL OF BRITAIN — Why I flipped from bearish to bullish on $SIVE and added on to the $GFS news.
First, I was never short this. I fundamentally was bullish on the company when I bought in, but tur…↗
Jun 2
TheValueist — $COHR all-time high today. People still don't understand the strongly positive implications for revenue growth and margin expansion resulting from the upgraded 6-in fab in Sherman,…↗
Jun 2
TheValueist — $MRVL $COHR $LITE $GLW J. Huang Capital Management on fire today 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/i5aPVhbhAR↗
Frenchie — Jensen Huang vient de vous donner le prochain x5
Au Computex, devant tout le monde, il a qualifié $MRVL de « next trillion-dollar company ».
On en avait parlé en stream mais Marv…↗
Jun 1
Alex A.C. — @KawzInvests Photonics interconnections: $LITE , $COHR↗
Jun 1
Trade Whisperer — @DeedieRoze I cannot give out financial advices. Expensive names but I like $LITE $GLW $COHR fundamentals. Not financial advice.↗
Jun 1
BULL OF BRITAIN — A follow up as promised - a few names from every layer of the stack.
ALREADY RUNNING (still biddable, easy money gone)
> Agentic / server CPU - $INTC, $AMD, $ARM
> General-server…↗
Jun 1
Serenity — There's a new $SIVE short seller with 0 clue what they're talking about.
1. $MRVL Celestial is likely buying lasers directly with $SIVE as the laser supplier, not through $POET.…↗
Jun 1
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI is guiding to 930,000 units per month of 800G and 1.6T capacity by end of 2027.
That's 9x the Q1-26 exit rate of 100,000 per month.
Semis are already trading at 44x 2026 ear…↗
Jun 1
Serenity — @WuKongWAGMI There’s only a few major pluggable players that I can think of that don’t vertically integrate lasers like $LITE and $COHR.
So Innolight is possible.
$SIVE hinted at…↗
Jun 1
KawzInvests 🦑 — $NVDA "Vera Rubin Ramps Into Full Production to Power Agentic AI Factories Worldwide"
Right now from $NVDA's Press Releases
> NVIDIA Vera Rubin is ramping into full production, w…↗
Trade Whisperer — Everyone is talking about CPO but nobody is actually talking about CPO. Most CPO TAM talk is just components, lasers and photonics. Pretty strange if you ask me.
CPO stands for Co…↗
May 29
AlmaCap — $COHR and $LITE are effectively the same setup here, so worth taking together (AAOI is a different story, more on that later).
> Both make the indium phosphide (InP) lasers that s…↗
Alex A.C. — @ParadisLabs "Where they sit alongside $LITE, $COHR, $MTSI as critical laser suppliers for hyperscaler "
And $AAOI 😡
😅😉↗
May 28
AlmaCap — $AAOI, $LITE and $COHR will all do really well on this↗
May 28
InvestmentGuru — THE $42 BILLION BROADBAND SUPER CYCLE IS JUST GETTING STARTED -
$HLIT $CALX $CLFD $ADTN $DY $GLW $MTZ $PWR $COHR $AAOI $POET
Everyone is chasing AI semiconductors, GPU clusters,…↗
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Legendary stock picker @GavinSBaker ($4.1B AUM) dropped some insane bars on All In.
"If you look at the valuations for all these AI [plays], they just can't all be accurate."
"If…↗
May 27
Serenity — Back when $AAOI was ~$20-30 when I went long:
I thought $AMZN and $MSFT were qualifying specific optical transceivers for their ASIC programs.
Turns out it’s more interchangeable…↗
May 27
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $AAOI $GFS A little late to the story, but we’ll take the increased coverage.↗
May 27
Trade Whisperer — @paul_d2 I just own $LITE $GLW $COHR $TSM $ASX↗
May 26
Serenity — $SIVE is the most compelling CPO exposure stock to me.
Despite the volatility.
You probably won’t find something like this again until the next architectural shift in photonics…↗
May 25
Jason's Chips — InP names $LITE $COHR $AIXA $AXTI probably benefit a lot more from CPO than SiPho names $TSEM $SOI
It's all about content ratio in transceivers vs CPO. Big powerful lasers need a…↗
May 25
Trade Whisperer — @gurdag343434 That's your call. A lot people got in during green candles and they made whole ton of money. Same for $MU $TSM $LITE $COHR $SNDK. I don't know why some people think t…↗
May 25
Jason's Chips — In my opinion optics are broadly still undervalued.
$LITE and $COHR likely under 20x P/E on 2028 (estimates too low).
$AIXA DEFINETLY under 20x P/E 2028.
$AXTI could be under 20…↗
May 24
Jason Luongo — 4. $COHR - Coherent Corp
Lasers, photonic components, and engineered materials used across the entire optical networking stack. NVIDIA invested $2B into Coherent with a multi-bill…↗
May 24
KawzInvests 🦑 — Photonics is not new. Fiber optic cable has crossed oceans since the 1980s.
The alpha was a physics calculation made years before this chart went vertical.
Copper degrades beyond…↗
May 24
InvestmentGuru — The full optical stack:
$COHR → $LITE → $AAOI → $POET → $AXTI → $IQEPF → $SIVEF → $LWLG
This isn’t a trade. It’s a multi-year infrastructure supercycle.↗
May 24
KawzInvests 🦑 — $SLOIF +546% YTD on anticipation alone. Commercial CPO has not shipped at volume yet.
Soitec's 25% revenue CAGR through 2030 does not bake in a single CPO unit. That number gets r…↗
May 24
Shay Boloor — THE PHOTONICS LAYER OF THE AI BUILDOUT
Goldman Sachs says the AI optical networking market growing nearly 10x to $150B+ by 2028 as clusters scale into multi-rack systems like $NVD…↗
May 24
InvestmentGuru — QUANTUM COMPUTING — The Full Sector Map. Every Play. One Post.
PURE-PLAY QUANTUM
$IONQ → Trapped-ion leader. Best-in-class qubit fidelity. Customers include Airbus, AstraZeneca,…↗
May 24
Gaetano — The optical super cycle has been life changing
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI $AXTI $SIVE
If you got in early, you made insane returns
So the question is, what is the next theme to inve…↗
May 24
InvestmentGuru — THE THEMATIC WATCHLIST — 2025 EDITION
Every mega-trend. Every sector. One list.This is how I’m thinking about capital allocation across the next cycle 👇
AI
→ $GOOGL $PLTR $NVDA $…↗
May 24
Gaetano — $COHR Has been, and still is one of my highest conviction holdings
I believed they were under appreciated back then in Feb.
I think they are being rewarded now.
But the fun hasn…↗
May 24
Serenity — Photonics is nuanced and using ChatGPT/Gemini makes you miss all of it:
1. $SIVE is actually a chokepoint and partially a bottleneck.
The reason it's a chokepoint is leading CP…↗
Jason's Chips — The most common question that I've gotten on this post is that all of $AXTI, $LITE, $AIXA, $COHR, $SOI, $TSEM have gone parabolic so why is this even an interesting space anymore?…↗
May 23
Serenity — $AAOI is more pure manufacturing scale and I'm extremely bullish on them.
So it's more like Furukawa + Innolight in my view? So extremely bullish for revenue ramp.
$SIVE is jus…↗
May 22
Jason's Chips — I have seen some optics bears say that because it is much easier to add laser capacity than perhaps in other industries like memory, optics will be overbuilt. This is nearly imposs…↗
May 22
Jason's Chips — For anyone interested in learning about the CPO supply chain!
(I also explain it in a fun and understandable way)
Covered: $AXTI, $LITE, $AIXA, $COHR, $SOI, $TSEM↗
May 22
Gaetano — So many Optics companies have had awesome runs
$LITE $COHR $AEHR $SIVE $AXTI etc.
I was blessed enough to participate a lot of this run up for a long time
A large part of my focu…↗
May 22
AlmaCap — Loads of my picks having record days. Diversify across a basket and you'd have banked 5+ years of S&P 500 gains in a few weeks: $WOLF, $IQE, $LPK, $SOI, $ASTS, $FLY, $SIVE
We're a…↗
May 22
InvestmentGuru — Trump Just Put $2 Billion Into Quantum Computing
The Full Quantum Ecosystem to Watch:
Pure-Play Quantum:
→ $IONQ | $QBTS | $RGTI | $INFQ | $QUBT | $XNDU
Quantum Security:
→ $ARQ…↗
May 22
Trade Whisperer — @AsianbeBlazin $LITE $COHR $GLW are my picks.↗
May 20
Trade Whisperer — $NVDA has made over $18 billion in strategic infrastructure investments on in less than 6 months.
$GLW $3.2B. Three new US optical manufacturing plants. AI fiber capacity expandin…↗
May 20
Shay Boloor — $GOOGL I/O 2026 made it clear that Gemini is becoming the operating layer across Search, Android, Chrome, Workspace and agent workflows.
If Google shows real AI Search monetizatio…↗
May 19
Gaetano — Following up on Scale Across...
$LITE $CIEN $COHR $GLW $NOK
Multi-Rail Means More Content Per Deployment
A rail is a parallel optical path across the network. A normal DCI or sc…↗
May 19
Jason's Chips — Leopold's 13F caused the dumbest sell-off in semiconductor history (I am aware I played a part in the FUD, mb). The lesson is simple. OPTIONS ON 13-Fs ARE MISLEADING!!
The value o…↗
May 19
Dillon Valdez — $COHR is not just “AI optics” in the abstract.
The product matters because AI factories become a bandwidth + power problem as they scale. GPUs only earn their keep if racks can mo…↗
May 19
Shay Boloor — $NVDA earnings tomorrow are an ecosystem event and basically a read-through on the entire physical AI supply chain:
• Cooling: $VRT
• Foundry: $TSM
• Optical: $COHR, $FN
• Power:…↗
May 19
Gaetano — $LITE Is pushing hard on scale across
Working on a full breakdown from the call yesterday
Here is a slop infographic that summarizes part of my scale across section
There is als…↗
May 19
Gaetano — I often get asked what my largest positions are
Well, here they are:
$LITE
$COHR
$CIEN
$NOK
$GLW
$AAOI
These make up a majority of my portfolio
If you want to learn:
> wha…↗
May 19
Gaetano — I am VERY bullish on scale-across
$CIEN $NOK $LITE $COHR $GLW $SMOP
Every company over the last few weeks has been hammering the point here
They are seeing so much demand in the…↗
May 19
Serenity — A good looking guy that would mog Clavicular side by side has no impact to any fundamentals.
I cut some exposure too in $LITE $COHR like Leopold, last month.
But rotated it to a…↗
May 18
Michael | Hypermarkets — 🔴 EXITED (rotation out right now):
$COHR optical networking, all-time high exit
$TSEM Tower Semi, photonics contracts secured $HUT Hut 8, took profit near highs
$LBRT Liberty E…↗
May 18
Daniel Koss — Leopold Aschenbrenner's 13F finally dropped and X is already full of the DUMBEST interpretations possible!
Please read this.
1. The 13F shows what the fund held as of quarter-end…↗
May 18
Shay Boloor — LEOPOLD’S SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 13F IS OUT
New positions included $NVDA, $AMD, $INTC, $TSM, $ASML, $MU, $SMH, $GLW, $HIVE, $TE and $SHAZ.
Added to AI power and compute names incl…↗
May 18
tae kim — Leo's Situational Awareness 13F is out. Ruh roh for $COHR $LITE and $TSEM https://t.co/SbN9BxnXAj↗
May 18
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 17
Alex A.C. — "2.4T /coherent-lite is not a simple bandwidth upgrade: it implies higher lane rates, more complex modulation schemes, longer-reach links, and substantially higher photonic-electro…↗
May 17
Black Panther Capital — Let’s be real here…
Every AI data center Nvidia ever builds needs optical transceivers to move data between GPUs.
Not because of GPU performance. Not because of CUDA software. No…↗
May 17
Serenity — When I see comments like this (and there are a lot) from retail investors:
I immediately think they lack the technical depth.
I'll walk through each one from $SIVE to $LPK:
1.…↗
May 16
Mike Investing — SpaceX $SPCX is officially set to go public on June 12.
This will be the largest IPO in history, & will cause a total reprice amongst the entire space sector.
These are the criti…↗
May 16
Black Panther Capital — 3/6. His Q1 2026 13F drops this week.
Based on running his exact framework forward against what changed in Q1.
Here’s my prediction on what he MOVED.
New position positions:
$C…↗
May 16
InvestmentGuru — Most people are focused on silicon.
The real bottleneck nobody’s talking about? Indium Phosphide.
$NVDA needs faster chips.
Faster chips need faster interconnects.
Faster interc…↗
May 15
InvestmentGuru — $NOK
Unusual options activity keeps pouring into $NOK and it’s getting harder for the market to ignore what is happening beneath the surface.
Over $10M in LEAPS calls have hit N…↗
May 14
Jason's Chips — $CBRS fully diluted valuation is over $100 billion.
This is larger than $LITE, $COHR, $BE, $CIEN, $SNPS, $CRWV
Would you take Cerebras over them? https://t.co/2RliMRms01↗
May 14
TheValueist — $NVDA $NOK $LITE $COHR Equal weight index of J. Huang Capital Management's current holdings. Crushing the competition over the past year. The question is what it looks like going f…↗
TheValueist — $NVDA $NOK $LITE $COHR The current holdings of J. Huang Capital Management. You might think it is sophomoric, but you could simply buy these, hold them for the next 3 years, and do…↗
May 14
TheValueist — $NVDA $NOK $LITE $COHR NVDA PUBLIC EQUITY INVESTMENTS: SCOPE AND CONCLUSION
Analysis through May 13, 2026 identifies 18 public-company NVIDIA equity or equity-linked investments o…↗
May 13
Trade Whisperer — $COHR +65% since the BLUE candle call in April
Not luck. Structure.
AI is not just a compute problem. It is a bandwidth problem. Above 400 gigabits per second, optical transceive…↗
May 13
Gaetano — Hey Everyone,
I want to take a moment and just talk
A lot of names in our photonics basket hit all-time highs again today.
The run over the last few months has been incredible.…↗
May 13
Michael | Hypermarkets — In 2026, $NVDA put $15,000,000,000 in 7 AI super companies so far.
Here's exactly why they partnered with these companies:
$MRVL Marvell → AI scaling is now bottlenecked by netwo…↗
May 13
TheValueist — $COHR keeps on going… up another ~8% pre, above $400. https://t.co/xnQgANC5XN↗
May 13
Michael | Hypermarkets — Trump just landed in China with the most powerful CEO's for President Xi:
Get ready for SPY target $800+ (revised from $780).
🍎 Tim Cook — $AAPL
Apple manufactures ~90% of iPho…↗
May 13
Frenchie — Mes 5 plus grosses convictions actuellement sur le stock :
$STMPA - MCAP ~$51.5B / ~€43.8B
Semi européen sous-valorisé.
Exposition auto, industriel, Datacenter, power semis. Le m…↗
May 13
Serenity — People wonder why I'm focusing on non-US markets recently.
Why? CPO is my #1 thematic long.
Markets don't know yet, the sudden paradigm shift in photonics...
I was one of the…↗
May 12
Frenchie — Si vous aviez acheté le panier photonics depuis mon ancien post :
$LITE → +14%
$COHR → +14,7%
$AAOI → +38,1%
$AXTI → +69,6%
$IQE → -13,0%
$POET : → +101,4%
$SOI / Soitec : →…↗
May 12
Serenity — Hey great question! So $SIVE headcount doesn't matter as much when you're doing IP/design.
Lot of media misunderstand nuances, when they compare it with $COHR that have tens of t…↗
May 12
InvestmentGuru — The “Inflation Era” of AI Compute is Breaking Out Across the Board
Every layer of the AI infrastructure stack is seeing demand explosion — and the winners aren’t just $NVDA.
Here’s…↗
May 12
Serenity — Random CPO related names I like:
- $SIVE
- Foci (3363)
- $TSEM
- Browave (3163)
- PCL (4977)
- $AXTI
- Msscorps (6830)
- $IQE
- Shunsin (6451)
- Furukawa Electric (5801)
- $MTSI
-…↗
May 12
InvestmentGuru — ANTHROPIC REVENUE TRAJECTORY IS BREAKING MATH
→ Jan 2025: $1B ARR
→ Dec 2025: $9B ARR
→ Apr 2026: $30B ARR
That’s a 30x in 15 months.
One analyst is now projecting $100B by end of…↗
May 12
amit — A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
Here’s a full recap:
1. The $SPX S&P 500 and $QQQ Nasdaq closed at fresh all-time highs today, even with oil spiking and U.S.-…↗
May 11
Alex A.C. — CPO adoption timelines: NO consensus 🧐
$COHR push it even further (until year 2030 Transceivers and OCS will be the kings)
However, any adoption starting from 0 means a great ra…↗
May 11
Gaetano — @zcelestialbaby Hey ZC! It varies, but most of my money is in longer term holds. I trade around my core position a bit as well to take advantage of volatility
For example I’ve ow…↗
May 11
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
KawzInvests 🦑 — Where did all the optical panicans go?
$LITE +16%. $AAOI +24%. $COHR +13%.
There were so many of you last week during $LITE and $AAOI earnings. Now silence. https://t.co/YPtslmDb…↗
May 11
TheValueist — $COHR *COHERENT HITS SESSION-HIGH 12%; CEO TO GO TO CHINA WITH TRUMP
COHR hits an all-time high. I added 1/21/28 calls on the post-print sell-off, which I believe was an erroneous…↗
Serenity — I didn’t say it should be valued at $10B+ today.
I said I expected $SIVE to be around ~$3B if they were listed on US markets. And could be $10B+ next year
Since they likely are t…↗
May 11
InvestmentGuru — AI IS THE MEGA-DRIVER
→ 1 ChatGPT query ≈ 10× the electricity of a Google search
→ Hyperscalers have announced nuclear PPAs exceeding 10GW since 2023
→ The wave thesis plays out in…↗
May 10
Gaetano — If you invest in photonics, please read this.
I spent this weekend researching the OCS supply chain.
Quick lesson:
> OCS = Optical Circuit Switching
> Hyperscalers want lower po…↗
May 10
Shay Boloor — SEMICONDUCTOR STOCKS BY PEG RATIO
PEG < 1 usually means mispriced growth
PEG > 2 starts to push into the danger zone
Here’s how they stack up:
• $INTC ~2.8x
• $LRCX ~2.0x
• $KLAC…↗
May 10
InvestmentGuru — The market is up. Oil is at $100+. Inflation is sticky. And bonds are whispering something equities are ignoring.
Here’s what’s actually going on-
OIL SHOCK REALITY
➜ Geopolitic…↗
May 10
InvestmentGuru — EVERY BUCK STOPS AT ENERGY — The Bottleneck Nobody Talks About Enough. The real constraint on AI isn’t chips. It isn’t bandwidth. It isn’t capital.
It’s electrons.
Here’s the full…↗
May 10
Shay Boloor — $NVDA has committed more than $40B to equity investments this year alone:
• OpenAI $30B
• $GLW ~$3.2B
• $IREN ~$2.1B
• $MRVL ~$2B
• $LITE ~$2B
• $COHR ~$2B
• $CRWV ~$2B
• $NBIS ~$…↗
May 9
InvestmentGuru — The Complete Semiconductor Playbook — AI Supercycle 2026
The AI trade is no longer one ticker. It’s a full stack. Here’s every layer:
💾 MEMORY
$MU · $WDC · $STX · $SNDK · $AM…↗
May 9
Shay Boloor — UPDATED FIB LEVELS FOR POPULAR STOCKS
AI Utility
• $IREN $50
• $NBIS $133
• $CIFR $17
• $CRWV $103
AI Power
• $EOSE $7
• $BE $194
• $NVTS $13
• $VRT $258
AI Hardware
• $NVDA $17…↗
May 8
Gaetano — We're seeing a trend with earnings
Companies that are already viewed from the market as having significant optics exposure are dropping 10-15%
Like $LITE $COHR $AAOI $FN $GLW…↗
May 8
Michael | Hypermarkets — The AI supercycle is no longer about $NVDA
AI is no longer ONLY GPU driven.
As AI agents begin reasoning, scheduling, retrieving memory, calling tools, and operating software aut…↗
May 8
Michael | Hypermarkets — The AI supercycle is year 3 of 15 only.
Pay attention, you're not late!
This is a buy-and-hold infrastructure cycle.
These are the catalyst for every layer:
PHASE 1 — COMPLETED…↗
The Future Investors — The Future Investors presents the 40 stocks with the highest projected revenue growth for the next 3 years! 📈🚀
1. $NBIS | Nebius - 211.8%
2. $IREN | IREN Limited - 106.0%
3. $CR…↗
May 8
Serenity — Every day it's like this on repeat with $SIVE, it's like dejavu lol.
Makes sense why Sivers is getting listed on Nasdaq soon instead of staying in local markets.
New local hit…↗
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI Q1 is in. Here's my take after listening to the full call.
Q1 came in at the low end at $151.1M, 29.2% gross margin, -$0.07 EPS. Stock got hit on the print. None of that mat…↗
May 7
Michael | Hypermarkets — The AI supercycle is year 3 of 15. You're still super early!
Millionaires will be made by knowing whats coming and being patient. This is buy and hold market.
Pay attention, we j…↗
May 7
TheValueist — $COHR KEY READ-THROUGHS FROM COHERENT CORP Q3 FY26 EARNINGS CALL
Coherent’s Q3 FY26 call was a high-signal event for AI optical infrastructure, datacenter interconnect, compound s…↗
May 7
InvestmentGuru — Black swan innovations that could destroy today’s AI bottleneck trade (HBM, GPUs, power infrastructure):
Everyone is crowded into the same AI scarcity trade:
GPU scarcity → $NVDA…↗
May 7
Gaetano — Things I want to write about:
1 - $GLW full breakdown of their event today
2 - OCS supply chain + a potential new OCS pure play
3 - Multirail with $GLW $COHR $LITE $CIEN $NOK↗
May 7
Serenity — I'm still laughing how much Swedish hate their own frontier companies so much.
That they write hit pieces every day on $SIVE.
This one was entertaining: Local journalists show…↗
May 7
Serenity — $COHR earnings note:
Coherent's CEO basically reaffirmed GS research note about CPO being a massive revenue driver:
Transcript: “One of the most important long-term growth opport…↗
May 7
Gaetano — $COHR Is one of my largest holdings
They reported earnings today, and the stock is down
Is the reaction deserved?
What does the rest of 2026 look like?
Am I trimming, holding,…↗
May 6
Alex A.C. — $COHR
- The 6-inch production has higher yields (than 3-inch) according to the company 🧐
- Its CPO/NPO ramp up will start this very year 2026 😱
Good Guidance for Q4 (would imp…↗
May 6
Gaetano — $COHR CEO 6-Inch Comments
> 6-inch ramp going very strong
> Adding 3rd site for 6-inch
> Sees yields BETTER than 3-inch. Across the whole bunch INCLUDING EMLs
> On track to double…↗
May 6
Shay Boloor — $COHR Q3 EARNINGS
• Revenue $1.81B vs Est. $1.78B
• EPS $1.41 vs. Est. $1.39
• Operating Income $366M vs Est. $373M
• Gross Margin 39.5% vs. Est. 39.7%
Q4 Guidance
• Revenue $1.9…↗
May 6
TheValueist — $COHR (Dow Jones) -- May 6 (Financial News Systems) - Coherent reports 3Q revenue of $1.81 billion, above FactSet consensus of $1.78 billion.
-- 3Q adj EPS of $1.41 compared with F…↗
May 6
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI reports earnings tomorrow and this is what I'm expecting.
2025 revenue was $456M. Management guided $1B+ for 2026 with $120M+ in non-GAAP operating profit. The business is s…↗
May 6
Shay Boloor — $NVDA is up over 5% today as the market finally rewards Jensen’s AI infrastructure dealmaking.
These deals are basically a roadmap for where shortages are getting worse and which…↗
May 6
Serenity — Yes, $LITE admitting they're forced to buy CW lasers from their competitors is a massive win for $AAOI.
Since they have their own CW Laser fab (and target 350% increase in capacit…↗
May 5
Serenity — @itsakek This is new information discovery that $LITE is forced to buy CW lasers from external competitors.
Likely because they have EML contracted from 2027-2028 and can't produ…↗
May 5
Gaetano — $LITE CEO is massively bullish on OCS (Optical Circuit Switching)
I have discussed this in detail many times
I have OCS exposure with $LITE and $COHR
But also a European company…↗
May 5
AlmaCap — Thought I'd step back from bull posting on memory stocks, and have a look at the AI infrastructure stack at a birds-eye view - obviously loads of these aren't comparable.
What do…↗
May 5
CK Capital — We have witnessed some of the most insane gains ever in the last year from these 2 sectors.
Photonics:
$AAOI up 1200%
$LITE up 1500%
$COHR up 380%
$AXTI up 7500%
Memory:
$MU up 7…↗
May 5
Gaetano — We've heard a lot about DCI this earnings cycle
From $GLW to $NOK to $FN
DCI is Data Center Interconnect. The optical/fiber layer connecting data centers, AI clusters, and campus…↗
May 5
Serenity — True… I did call:
$AXTI $12 -> $105
$SOI $43-> $145
$TSEM $110 -> $218
$AAOI $30 -> $180
$IQE $13 -> $46
$LITE $363 -> $1000
$AEHR $30 -> $85 (if you count siph segment)
As ind…↗
May 5
Gaetano — $FN Fabrinet reported earnings today.
Stock reaction is negative so far.
The market may be focused on:
> Negative FCF
> Datacom revenue down QoQ
> Supply constraints broadening…↗
May 4
InvestmentGuru — Earnings watchlist for the week:
𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆
After Hours:
$PLTR $FN $BWXT $AEIS $FLY $ADEA $ON
𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆
Pre-Market:
$SHOP $PYPL $ENLT $ETN
After Hours:
$AMD…↗
May 4
InvestmentGuru — Money still coming in this stocks
$LITE
$COHR
$AAOI
$AXTI
$ALMU
$SIVEF
$GFS
$LWLG
$VIAV
$AEHR↗
Serenity — If you're curious about Goldman's Report:
They expect "significant EPS upside" among:
1. Optical modules and engines
2. CW lasers and EMLs
3. PCB/CCL manufacturers
Here's the ma…↗
May 3
Shay Boloor — Last week was wild for anyone tracking the AI cycle.
We got a ton of new data on where things are heading and we covered it all on the latest Futurum Equities podcast:
• Big Tec…↗
May 3
Alex A.C. — Optics/Photonics TAM x13 for the next years 😱🔥🔥
Remember that Transceivers and OCS are the big bros here ( $LITE - $COHR - $AAOI ), with CPO expected to be a minor part until 2…↗
May 3
BULL OF BRITAIN — There will be a very good gauge on how to frontrun
$AAOI earnings this week from multiple ER's. Heres what I'm looking out for to try and predict the future.
> $VIAV [reported -…↗
May 3
Frenchie — Voici un panier d'une vingtaine d'actions que je regarde systématiquement en ce moment :
1. $AAOI - Optical infrastructure play. Si la demande en bande passante pour les data cent…↗
May 3
Alex A.C. — @damnang2 $COHR disagrees about that early and so quick CPO adoption
https://t.co/MzaGrBjOjV↗
Gaetano — OCS (Optical Circuit Switching) Is on my mind
This week especially with $LITE and $COHR reporting
I believe that for both companies, the OCS opportunity is going to become even m…↗
May 3
Serenity — It's pretty insane to see $SIVE become a Tier 1 laser supplier for CPO.
This is my prediction/guess with est. mapping:
$NVDA ate up all the capacity with $COHR, $LITE after the…↗
May 3
Serenity — Last year I called out $LITE, $COHR, $AAOI, $AXTI, and Innolight before the supercycle...
This year:
Found $SOI, which was the SiPH substrate = $AXTI.
Then $SIVE, which was th…↗
May 2
Gaetano — We've got an even BIGGER week coming up
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $FN
$FN on Monday
$LITE on Tuesday
$COHR on Wednesday
$AAOI on Thursday
Over the next 24 hours I'm going to repost a f…↗
May 2
CK Capital — Just 1 year ago:
$ASTS was $18
$NBIS was $20
$BE was $18
$KRKNF was $2.50
$EOS.AX was $1.20
$AAOI was $10
$COHR was $55
$NOK was $4
What stock is next?↗
May 2
InvestmentGuru — The Full Optical AI Industry Chain:
1. IC Design & Manufacturing
(Where the brains are built)
ASIC / xPU / Photonic ICs
→ $NVDA $MRVL $AVGO $LITE $COHR $INTC $AMD $CSCO…↗
May 2
InvestmentGuru — Optical Communications: The Next Breakout in AI Infrastructure
Everyone is focused on GPUs, but the real bottleneck in AI is no longer compute — it’s data movement.
As AI clu…↗
May 1
Frenchie — Ça continue à pousser sur la photonique
J’avais donné pour guidance de ne pas vendre encore de photonique et plutôt renforcer pour bénéficier à long terme du cycle de l’optique…↗
May 1
TheValueist — For new connections to my timeline...
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI↗
May 1
InvestmentGuru — Where NOK Sits vs. The Photonics Stack- Most photonics plays are component-level:
$COHR, $LITE, $CIEN, $AAOI, $MRVL, $FN, $POET, $LWLG
$NOK is the system-level integrator sitting…↗
May 1
Serenity — As for 3x brrrs these levels:
1. $SIVE
2. MSSCORP (6830)
3. Auros (322310)
Are my best guesses. Here's my thought process:
1. $SIVE: I genuinely do see them being $10B+ next y…↗
May 1
Trade Whisperer — $DRAM $TSM $LITE $COHR $GLW
Samsung just entered silicon photonics. First order. Mass production H2 2026.
TSMC saw this coming years ago.
-CoWoS. SoIC. Hybrid bonding. Now CPO.
-…↗
May 1
Gaetano — @KhtanHussain there sure are!! Big ones. And yeah it was a great week.
We've got $LITE on tuesday
$COHR on wednedsay
$AAOI on thursday
I cannot wait. It's going to be insane↗
— Monitoring the situation for you (testing/yields edition):
$VIAV and $FORM earnings: Extremely Bullish
So what does this mean?
Names like $ONTO / $CAMT go brr. Throw in $TOWA (…
The AI Investor — It's funny to see forward PE, or even a few more years EPS of some of the hottest stocks in AI infra like $BE $LITE $COHR $ALAB $CRDO
And even the storage stocks like $STX or CPU…↗
Apr 29
CK Capital — If you are building a long term portfolio today here is exactly how I would allocate it across the most important themes of the next decade.
This is not trading. This is building.…↗
Apr 29
KawzInvests 🦑 — The State of Texas just gave $AAOI a $20.9M grant to expand its Sugar Land facility.
This stacks on top of the 900,000 square foot Houston footprint they announced two weeks ago.…↗
Apr 29
Gaetano — While there are many exciting smaller companies with interesting positioning
I still like to be heavily concentrated in my optics port in companies that are performing well right…↗
Apr 29
Trade Whisperer — $COHR The PINK candle told the story before the move even happened
Not after. Not during. Before.
Get 300+ charts daily. Try it free:
https://t.co/ZQDP5HCFyq https://t.co/JVZ8ijO…↗
Apr 29
KawzInvests 🦑 — Insane hyperscaler capex. Insane token/inference demand. And the AI buildout has barely even begun.
Market was shaky today on an OpenAI revenue miss headline and oil ripping on Ir…↗
Apr 28
Serenity — @KaneCapz I mean $SIVE is a stock I don't plan on selling.
Photonics TAM is absolutely massive for AI, robotics, consumer hardware (eg. $AAPL), Space...
And Sivers happens to be…↗
Apr 28
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $QCOM is asymmetrical because it's being priced to fail.
The demand for CPUs is exploding and $ARM $INTC $AMD are the biggest winners.
But remember in February comparing $AAOI --…↗
Apr 28
InvestmentGuru — Semis and photonics are seeing a healthy pullback — that’s often just a technical reset after strong momentum. If you missed the last run and had the patience not to chase, this i…↗
Apr 28
Serenity — I'm happy Japanese communities started positions in $SIVE after doing research!
A stronger international shareholder base is always positive.
As for some thoughts, my read on the…↗
Apr 28
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI's 1.6T pluggable optics line at OFC 26 is running on $VIAV ONE-1600 test equipment.
This is the unsexy chokepoint of the optical transition. Nobody ships a 1.6T module witho…↗
Apr 28
Gaetano — How I weight my optics portfolio
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI $POET
I get asked often about my port
And also what ETF is best for optics exposure
So I created a MOCK ETF that reflect…↗
Apr 27
Serenity — @tme5s $LITE and $COHR are probably majority/fully allocated to $NVDA after their deals. Since Nvidia did the same thing with EML last year.
It's harder to do that with Win since…↗
Apr 27
Serenity — Highly likely now $MRVL just buys the lasers directly from $COHR, $SIVE, or $LITE.
It just causes delays to Marvell Celestial roadmap.
But I've always had expectations on the pac…↗
Apr 27
BULL OF BRITAIN — $SIVE Deep Dive
Sivers Semiconductors. Swedish. ~$1B market cap. Indium phosphide laser supplier sitting inside the supply chain of every major AI optics architecture being built…↗
Apr 27
CK Capital — Market is giving some great discounts today.
These are my favorite:
$CRDO down 8%
$AAOI down 11%
$COHR down 5%
$LITE down 5%
$MRVL down 5%
$NBIS down 4%↗
Apr 27
Michael | Hypermarkets — CHEATSHEAT and price targets for PHOTONICS STOCKS:
Here’s the full stack + WHY each matters + price targets 1 year from now:
1. MATERIALS & WAFERS
$AXTI — Enables indium phosp…↗
Apr 26
Serenity — TLDR of recent news + bottlenecks that go brr:
1. CPU bottleneck - $INTC CEO said AI inference pushed CPU Ratio From 1:8 to 1:1.
CPUs go brr ( $AMD, Intel, $ARM) -> $AMAT / $TSM…↗
Apr 26
Shay Boloor — 2026 IS THE YEAR OF PHOTONICS
• $GLW glass fiber & cable infrastructure for optical networks
• $MRVL optical DSPs & custom interconnect silicon for AI clusters
• $CRDO retimers, D…↗
Mike Investing — THE FULL PHOTONICS BOTTLENECK
It’s clear that the next phase of AI scaling is no longer compute, but rather optical connectivity.
1. $AAOI builds high-speed transceivers with ver…↗
Apr 25
Serenity — It's highly nuanced, and I'll explain why it's not late, but late to some:
Photonics is the newest supercycle (maybe H1 into H2 2025 was the start).
Then there's many different…↗
Apr 25
Shay Boloor — HERE ARE THE TOP 15 PERFORMERS OF 2026
1. $AEHR +375%
2. $AAOI +365%
3. $SNDK +317%
4. $BE +166%
5. $NVTS +142%
6. $LITE +139%
7. $WDC +135%
8. $INTC +124%
9. $ARM +115%
10. $DOCN…↗
Apr 25
Shay Boloor — PETER LYNCH’S FAVORITE METRIC IS THE PEG RATIO
PEG < 1 usually means mispriced growth
PEG > 2 starts to push into the danger zone
Semiconductor multi-year PEG ratios:
• $INTC ~3.…↗
Michael Sikand 🦑 — I usually make money in America and spend it in Europe.
This week was different.
Since we called the Euro AI rotation last week.
$SOI +15% $AIXA +9% $LPKF +19%
Vs. $LITE -0.73…↗
Apr 24
Shay Boloor — $GOOGL TPU shift is now pulling demand across the full AI compute stack from silicon & packaging to optics, power & memory:
• CPU Architecture: $ARM
• Optical Circuit Switch: $COH…↗
Apr 24
Serenity — I'm amused by Swedish culture at this point.
That their retail/journalists are crying every day when someone posts a supply chain mapping of $SIVE lasers to:
-> $MRVL CPO
-> $AMD…↗
Apr 24
Serenity — Just putting out there...
Would have been +15.02% in 2W equal-weighted return.
On 30 different stocks... mostly medium-large cap.
1. $INTC +29.62%
2. $MRVL +40.95%
3. $TSM +4.7…↗
Apr 23
CK Capital — This is the life you and bro will be living in 2030 because you held these stocks with conviction.
$ASTS — $80 today → $1,500 by 2030
The only space-based cellular network connec…↗
Apr 23
Gaetano — I am determined to find all the best plays for OCS
Obviously $LITE and $COHR have good exposure
There are a handfull of European companies that are very interesting as well like…↗
Apr 22
Alex A.C. — $GOOGL Virgo Network
Bullish OCS 🔥🔥
You know the suppliers and the supply chain: $LITE $COHR $MEMS https://t.co/kfgGGbdbnb↗
Apr 22
KawzInvests 🦑 — Really interesting read from @Semicon_player.
I could actually see this playing out the same way NVIDIA invested into $LITE, $COHR, and $NOK strategic equity stakes instead of fu…↗
Apr 22
InvestmentGuru — The optical communications sector continues to show strong structural momentum this year, with clear rotation into OCS, CPO, silicon photonics, and fiber-related names as AI infras…↗
Apr 22
KawzInvests 🦑 — $CRDO up 74% in the past month.
Credo's entire business was built on copper cables. Copper works today, but every hyperscaler is moving to optical for 1.6T and beyond. That was th…↗
Apr 21
KawzInvests 🦑 — One question decides who wins the next decade of AI infrastructure. Who captures the 1.6T testing TAM?
I asked a Cisco guy at GTC how $AAOI $LITE $COHR hold their margins when eve…↗
Apr 21
Alex A.C. — @TheRayMyers - Solid real stories: $LITE, $COHR, $CIEN
- Potential huge growth, still to prove execution: $AAOI
- Speculative, rather ahead in valuation, with strong confirmations:…↗
Apr 21
Alex A.C. — According to $COHR :
The main engine of growth from a Revenue pov in Optics/Photonics for the next years until 2030 will still be Transceivers and OCS; CPO will be a relative smal…↗
Apr 21
Gaetano — Update!
$POET $CRDO $AEHR $AAOI $SMTC $COHR
My personal watchlists are fairly conservative
But when they hit a few weeks ago, they produced some nice gains!
$AEHR
Level 1 - $30…↗
Apr 21
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $COHR $AAOI $AXTI https://t.co/QgmilVpzIJ (ELASER)
The global AI optical transceiver market is projected to reach US$26 billion in 2026, up from US$16.5 billion in 2025…↗
Apr 20
Gaetano — I think OCS is going to be a massive revenue driver
$LITE $COHR
But Lumentum and Coherent aren't the only ways to play
I just posted about a company that is working on taking sha…↗
Apr 20
Trade Whisperer — $COHR Blue +39%
Signal was posted 3 weeks ago here on X
Get 300+ charts daily. Try it free: https://t.co/UOnxsgc8Ii https://t.co/wE07ilBvFM↗
Apr 19
Serenity — Frontrunning 1.6T/CPO within the broader photonics supercycle is the most compelling investment to me.
I have high conviction in that statement.
Which is why I'm long the entire…↗
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 19
InvestmentGuru — $COHR — Nvidia’s Chosen Partner. The Laser Foundry of AI.
Coherent and Nvidia are pioneering next-generation silicon photonics to enable AI infrastructure at unprecedented scale, s…↗
Apr 19
Mike Investing — The upcoming $2T SpaceX IPO is about to cause a generational rally amongst the full space economy…
Your chance to enter these space sector names below before they squeeze will end…↗
Apr 19
Shay Boloor — THE OPTICAL PHOTONICS BOTTLENECK
As AI clusters scale past copper’s physical limits, the bottleneck shifts to optical & these are the companies building that layer across the stac…↗
Jason Luongo — Electronics & Semiconductors
• $QRVO ($82.11) — SATCOM beamformer ICs for phased-array terminals and satellite payloads. Pending Skyworks merger creates a $22B RF platform.
• $AD…↗
Apr 18
Trade Whisperer — @Rollneck Photonics are taking off because most are small caps. They are easily modulated by the sudden investments that come in. Now having said that, the need for optics is REAL…↗
Apr 18
Trade Whisperer — AMA is open again. Ask Me Anything!
21 years in HBM, DRAM & NAND. Graduate research in Silicon Photonics (Micro Plasma) & Lasers.
Semiconductors, advanced packaging, opti…↗
Apr 18
Shay Boloor — SPACE ECONOMY CHEAT SHEET
A SpaceX IPO likely forces the market to look beyond rockets and start repricing the full supply chain and infrastructure layer beneath the space economy…↗
Apr 18
Shay Boloor — HERE ARE THE TOP 15 PERFORMERS OF 2026
1. $AAOI +357%
2. $AEHR +315%
3. $SNDK +288%
4. $LITE +143%
5. $BE +139%
6. $WDC +116%
7. $PL +95%
8. $TWST +89%
9. $NBIS +88%
10. $COHR +87…↗
Apr 18
Frenchie — @HolySmokas I would add slowly an exposure to photonic
$AXTI
$AAOI
$COHR
$LITE↗
Apr 18
Gaetano — This is my most viewed post ever!
$AXTI $LITE $COHR $POET $AEHR
I think it did a good job for anyone interested in the Photonics sector of laying out all the different layers that…↗
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 — $COHR is, and has been, one of my largest positions this year
It was quite a wild ride during earnings season
I dove through what this year brought, where we stand today, and how…↗
Apr 17
Gaetano — Earnings seasons is almost upon us
$COHR $LITE $AAOI etc.
Provided such good opportunities
Especially during their earnings calls
In this instance, $COHR dipped hard. And it cr…↗
Apr 17
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI just announced its Houston footprint is expanding to 900,000 sq ft with InP laser fab capacity growing ~350% by end of 2027.
InP lasers are the physical bottleneck of the en…↗
Apr 17
AlmaCap — $LPK, why am I excited?
You don't need to go to China to get glass mate...
> Glass core substrates are the future of semiconductor packaging. Intel, Samsung, Absolics, TSMC. They…↗
Apr 17
Gaetano — As someone heavily exposed to optics like
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI etc.
I want exposure to copper too
Companies like $CRDO and $SMTC are decent sized positions for me
Learn more…↗
Apr 16
Black Panther Capital — The space economy is getting its own Wall Street sector map now.
Morgan Stanley just published a 60-stock list organized around the space economy; propulsion, alloys, communicatio…↗
Apr 16
InvestmentGuru — Photonics and Space bouncing today
$AAOI
$COHR
$LITE
$LWLG
$POET
$AXTI
$AEHR
$SATL
$RKLB
$ASTS
$SIDU
$SPIR↗
CK Capital — People think they already missed photonics.
They haven’t.
$AAOI, $LITE, and $COHR are still in the early innings of the most important infrastructure upgrade the technology indust…↗
Apr 16
Frenchie — Comment faire x10 en bourse :
Achetez des actions de photonique
ATH cette semaine sur :
> $SOI
> $COHR
> $IQE
> $AAOI
> $AXTI https://t.co/VZTagzayUK↗
Apr 16
TheValueist — $COHR clipping another all-time high. I have said this multiple times - I don't believe the market is giving them credit for the upgraded six-inch facility in Sherman, Texas. Now y…↗
Apr 16
InvestmentGuru — Rotation in Play — Space & Photonics Cooling Off
After strong runs, Space and Photonics are seeing some healthy profit taking as capital rotates into more undervalued sectors heat…↗
Apr 16
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $COHR $TSM $ASX $AXTI $AAOI
“Scale up focused optical technologies, protocols, and switch architectures are foundational to building scalable, multi-rack, high performa…↗
Apr 16
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $COHR $AXTI $TSM $ASX
Tech titans have formed the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to develop an open, standardized specification for…↗
Apr 15
InvestmentGuru — Photonics names took a breather today, consolidating while the broader market ripped — with key players like $AAOI, $COHR, $LITE, $AXTI, $AEHR, and $OPTX in the red; looks more lik…↗
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
TheValueist — Interesting divergence between $LITE $COHR over the past 10 trading days. Again, it feels like a catch-up trade for the "cheaper" comp. I am long both via 1/21/28 calls. I have sha…↗
Serenity — Enplas (6961) at ~$985M seems kinda interesting.
They hold two chokepoints:
1. Dominant supplier for MLAs (micro lens arrays). Eg. SiPH switches, 1.6T, 3.2T for photonics.
2.…↗
Apr 14
KawzInvests 🦑 — The rotation into CPO names is inevitable. From what I am reading, it may be coming faster than most expect.
Soitec $SLOIF up 10% today. It is the only company on earth supplying…↗
Apr 14
Trade Whisperer — $COHR Blue +29%
Signal was posted 2 weeks ago here on X
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Apr 14
BULL OF BRITAIN — What I'm looking for in the upcoming earnings season of AI/Photonics/Space/Cloud servicing
$ASML - Apr 15: Do orders confirm the AI capex cycle is accelerating or decelerating
$T…↗
Apr 14
Black Panther Capital — A material most investors have never heard of is quietly becoming the single most IMPORTANT chokepoint in the entire AI infrastructure stack.
It’s called indium phosphide. And rig…↗
Apr 14
TheValueist — $AAOI $LITE $COHR $CIEN @CitronResearch next time you want to short a GAI infrastructure name, message me first. I might save you some time, heartache, and money. https://t.co/2Rew…↗
Apr 14
Serenity — A Guide by Serenity:
How to Cripple the Western Hyperscaler buildout with just $170m.
Just take over Nippon Chemical (4092) with $169m!
For InP substrates, you need: Indium and…↗
Apr 14
InvestmentGuru — Most investors are always chasing the last wave.
The AI infrastructure cycle is playing out in layers — and each one is bigger than the last.
Here’s the full roadmap:
Wave 1: Semi…↗
Apr 13
KawzInvests 🦑 — Credo $CRDO is acquiring DustPhotonics for $750 million cash plus equity. This is the biggest move they've made.
My concern with CRDO was always copper. Their business was built o…↗
Apr 13
Ben Pouladian — The Credo bear case is built on the wrong question
everyone arguing "when does cpo kill copper"
meanwhile Credo shipped zeroflap optics at 800g three weeks ago and quietly walked…↗
Apr 13
KawzInvests 🦑 — $NOK Optical Networks grew 17% in Q4 2025 with €2.4B in hyperscaler orders for the full year.
That growth is being powered by the same force driving every name in this space. Five…↗
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 12
Gaetano — Just putting this here
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI $AEHR↗
Apr 12
Michael Sikand 🦑 — ALL OF THE LIGHTS.
$LWLG is up 70% since I pointed out its $TSEM partnership.
In a hot sector, I typically view big moves in pre-rev names as a *potential* top signal.
BUT $LWLG…↗
Apr 12
Black Panther Capital — Wall Street talks about the hyperscalers: $AMZN, $GOOG, $META, $MSFT. That is where the headlines are.
But the money flows through the supply chain. Capex is tracking above $1 tri…↗
Apr 12
CK Capital — $LWLG is up almost 200% this year and I think most people still have no idea what this company is.
Let me explain why it could be the next $LITE.
Lightwave Logic has developed a…↗
Apr 12
InvestmentGuru — PHOTONICS / OPTICAL STACK — THE FULL VALUE CHAIN
“The layer below the chips” — AI’s real bottleneck
Layer 1 — Materials
Foundation of everything (InP, fiber, wafers)
$AXTI $GLW $…↗
Apr 12
Gaetano — Well, we might get a needed cool off in Photonics
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI $AEHR
If we get a market wide sell off, we know what to expect
These names have run like crazy the last…↗
Apr 12
Black Panther Capital — $AAOI, $COHR, $LITE have already run 150-250% and trade at extreme multiples.
The UPSTREAM play is where the undiscovered leverage sits.
Here is what most people are missing in t…↗
Apr 12
Frenchie — Je vous présente @ParadisLabs la star montante du trading
Manager de hedge fund depuis 10 ans, spécialiste des thématiques de niches comme l'IA.
Paradis a un track record de furi…↗
Apr 11
Gaetano — 🚨 Is the optics trade doomed? Data center delays?!
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $POET $AEHR $SIVE
I just posted what I believe to be one of my most important articles yet.
If you follow my…↗
Apr 11
CK Capital — Other than space stock photonics is my next favorite sector.
These stocks still have insane potential after massive run ups.
$AAOI $LITE $AEHR $COHR↗
Apr 11
Shay Boloor — The AI Inference boom is now driving demand across the full compute stack from silicon & memory to optics, power, packaging & cloud:
• AI Silicon: $NVDA, $AMD, $AVGO, $INTC
• Foun…↗
Apr 11
Shay Boloor — $NVDA has built one of the deepest strategic investment portfolios in public markets with bets across nearly every layer of the AI stack:
• Physical AI: Figure AI, Wayve
• Nuclea…↗
Shay Boloor — HERE ARE THE TOP 15 PERFORMERS OF 2026
1. $AAOI +332%
2. $SNDK +259%
3. $AEHR +249%
4. $LITE +143%
5. $WDC +99%
6. $BE +92%
7. $VG +90%
8. $PL +76%
9. $NBIS +73%
10. $INTC +69%
11…↗
Apr 11
Gaetano — If you invest in Photonics
Especially $LITE & $COHR
You need to read and understand this.↗
Apr 11
Serenity — $NVDA is driving CPO, extremely, extremely hard.
As seen with investments in $MRVL, $LITE, and $COHR.
But, what's interesting is: CPO timelines are also happening way earlier th…↗
Apr 11
InvestmentGuru — PHOTONICS — THE MOMENTUM TRADE SMART MONEY IS ROTATING INTO
Institutional capital is quietly flowing into optical networking.
This isn’t hype — it’s AI infrastructure.
Why photon…↗
Apr 10
Gaetano — Update:
$AAOI $85 to $153: 80% gain
$AEHR $30 to $71: 135% gain
$COHR $220 to $307: 40% gain
$CRDO $95 to $120: 27% gain
$SMTC $71 to $86: 22% gain
$POET $5 to $7: 40% gain
Wow.…↗
Apr 10
Serenity — So private placement is ~9.4% dilution via 40M new shares via Win Semi (3105).
Any other stock I'd be cautious... but last time Win did this, $AVGO took a stake in Win Semi.
And…↗
Apr 10
Jason Luongo — Nvidia invested $6B into photonics in March alone.
The AI bottleneck isn't chips. It's moving data
between them.
10 photonics stocks I'm watching:
$AAOI - Applied Optoelectronic…↗
TheValueist — Solid momentum in $COHR . All time high today. Chart looks great. Playing catch-up with $LITE . The market is still not giving them credit for the upgraded 6in wafer facility comin…↗
Apr 10
Serenity — @TVAFR786 $30 -> $150, 5x return. “Bagholding”.
Try shorting it then if you believe it’s overvalued.
Imo it’s the next $LITE and has the largest 1.6T capacity in America soon…↗
Apr 10
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI As I said two days ago, don't short GAI optical networking names. The momentum is too strong, and one hyperscaler deal announcement will kill you. The stock…↗
Apr 10
KawzInvests 🦑 — @CitronResearch is short $AAOI on three claims. Here is what the capacity ramp plan actually shows why he is wrong.
Claim one: Oracle is the anchor and Oracle is financially stres…↗
Apr 10
CK Capital — Shorting the hottest sector out there??
Good luck with that
Main points addressed.
On Oracle customer concentration. $AAOI has three hyperscalers each above 10% of revenue.
Th…↗
Apr 10
Gaetano — $LITE the demand signal are insane
This also bleeds into $COHR $AAOI $SIVE etc.↗
Apr 10
InvestmentGuru — Follow the money — smart flow is rotating into next-gen tech infrastructure
$AAOI
→ Massive momentum on AI/data center demand + 800G transceivers
→ Recently saw explosive upside…↗
Apr 10
Frenchie — 🚨 La photonique en Bull-run complet
La demande explose tellement sur l'ensemble du secteur, les fabricants sont complètement saturés sur 2026, 2027 et probablement même 2028.
C…↗
Apr 10
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI (Bloomberg) -- Lumentum Holdings Inc. said demand from the biggest US tech companies for its optical components is accelerating and on track to fill its ord…↗
Apr 10
Serenity — @kishwarAI Lower the marketcap, higher the growth usually if they have similar customer profiles.
$AAOI probably highest ROI vs $LITE / $COHR on transceiver side.
Then Win prob…↗
Apr 10
Serenity — @yy1625066197303 $SIVE / Win benefits from CW lasers from the next architectural supercycle in 2027. I'm just frontrunning that now H1 like $LITE last year.
You already kinda know…↗
Apr 10
Serenity — We're now in the photonics supercycle.
The trio from $COHR, $LITE, $AAOI in America are expected to perform well from a surge in demand.
New Report:
" Lumentum is experiencin…↗
Apr 10
Gaetano — If you invest in Photonics, you gotta read this $COHR↗
Apr 10
InvestmentGuru — Photonics — still one of the strongest sectors to keep on watch 👀
$AAOI $COHR $LITE $POET
$MRVL $LWLG $TSEM $SIVEF $NOK $OPTX $AEHR $LASR $OPTX↗
Apr 9
Gaetano — While we are at all time highs in these names
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $CIEN $AEHR etc.
Remember what happened the last two weeks.
A macro sell is still very possible and these names go…↗
Apr 9
TheValueist — GAI Optical networking is still going nuts to start the day.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI https://t.co/ilJLQmA0Nj↗
Apr 9
Gaetano — Update:
$AAOI up 70%
$AEHR up 125%
$COHR up 30%
$SMTC up 28%
$POET up 30%
$CRDO up 17%↗
Apr 9
Serenity — Here's a bunch of random 30 US-available random stocks I like today and why:
1. $INTC - America's hope for foundry, national security
2. $MRVL - scales rev from future maia asic…↗
Apr 9
Serenity — @NabQ321 Good question! $AAOI, $AEHR are two extremely high beta, fast growth stocks.
Maybe some larger companies like $COHR, $TSEM, $SMTC, $MRVL, $INTC or $FN on the next drop?…↗
Apr 9
Gaetano — Its never too late to learn about optics
$lite $aehr $cohr $cien $sive $poet↗
Apr 9
CK Capital — My favorite stocks right now by sector:
Space & Launch:
$ASTS — Direct-to-device satellite connectivity. 3.2B addressable subscribers. Commercial service this year.
$FLY — First…↗
Apr 9
Gaetano — This platform is more than stock ideas.
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $CIEN $POET $AEHR
Subscribers get:
• Company specific deep dives and sector wide research
• My watchlist, valuation wo…↗
KawzInvests 🦑 — This is a multi-year cycle and every layer runs.
Transceiver testing is happening now. CPO testing is the next leg. InP laser burn-in after that.
The market keeps repricing the s…↗
Apr 8
CK Capital — My portfolio and how it performed today
$ASTS +4%🟢
$NBIS +7%🟢
$EOS.AX +5%🟢
$AAOI +13%🟢
$COHR +10%🟢
$AEHR +25%🟢
$BE +8%🟢
Green across the board.
Hold strong and know wha…↗
Apr 8
Michael Sikand 🦑 — AI's $1T photonics bottleneck isn't lasers.
It's testing them.
When I attended $NVDA GTC, a comment from the CTO of $CRWV at a niche side event stuck with me.
“If there’s a day…↗
Apr 8
Serenity — I feel like $COHR and $MRVL are the two "They Do Everything" longs.
That nobody actually knows what they do if you ask them in public.
$NVDA? GPUs.
$INTC? Foundry.
Marvell? No…↗
CK Capital — $AEHR has been one of the most talked about names in the photonics space and after yesterday’s earnings it is not hard to see why.
Here is what $AEHR actually does and why it matt…↗
Apr 8
CK Capital — I am long on all $LITE, $COHR, and $AAOI and here is exactly why I own all three.
These are not three versions of the same trade. They are three different layers of the same inevi…↗
Apr 8
Gaetano — If you haven't read this yet, please do
$LITE $AEHR $POET $AAOI $COHR
The market presented us with such great opportunities over the last couple weeks
If you have conviction in t…↗
Apr 8
Serenity — @SidkMena Maybe $JBL is interesting here too. Ended up buying Jabil and more $COHR today↗
Apr 8
Serenity — Did you listen anon???
My high conviction long $AAOI is up extreme amounts.
Post from 2025 around hyperscalers:
“We’ll likely see investments pour to players like $COHR, Innol…↗
Apr 8
TheValueist — This proved to be generally accurate and also highly profitable.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI↗
Apr 8
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI is up 37.66% in 5 days.
The OFC numbers we posted are why.
~$64 million per month in current revenue. ~$303 million per month by Q4 2026. ~$701 million per month by Q4 2027…↗
Apr 8
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AEHR is up +66% since my last post in 5 days.
The three catalysts that matter most haven't happened yet.
Posted the full thesis here before it moved. 4 separate orders across 4…↗
Apr 8
TheValueist — Optical networking got the internet going nuts.
It is all about lasers.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI https://t.co/TzFytnAE0x↗
Apr 8
Serenity — @AsianbeBlazin yeah i decided have a higher concentration on $AEHR after the new silicon photonics t1 customer like $LITE, $AVGO, or $COHR.
a ton of of retail investors misunderst…↗
Apr 8
Gaetano — "What photonics positions do you own?"
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI $GLW $TSEM
I get this question often.
So I created a mock photonics ETF
To show how I view these companies in term…↗
Apr 8
InvestmentGuru — Photonics and Space are two of the strongest sectors to keep on watch right now:
Photonics —
$AAOI $COHR $LITE $POET
$MRVL $LWLG $TSEM $SIVEF $NOK $OPTX
Space —
$RKLB $ASTS $SATL…↗
Apr 8
Gaetano — This is another brick in the case that AI is evolving toward always-on enterprise workloads
And that is good for optical infrastructure over time
$CIEN $NOK $LITE $COHR $AAOI↗
Apr 8
Serenity — When you go through the list of the leading CW laser companies from $COHR to $AAOI.
It’s very impressive $SIVE stands out at $300m still… compared to the every other player in the…↗
Apr 8
TheValueist — Do yourself a favor and don’t short any part of the GAI optical networking ecosystem. The bullish momentum itself is incredibly strong. One hyperscaler deal announcement and you wi…↗
Apr 8
Serenity — @TD_btc24 Most recent 5 thesis posts I've shared:
1. $HPS.A ($1.77B) - Transformer/Switchgear DC bottleneck
2. $ARM ($152B)- AI CPU ramp
3. Win Semi ($5.7B) - Foundry for CW laser…↗
Apr 8
InvestmentGuru — Photonics — still one of the strongest sectors to keep on watch 👀
$AAOI $COHR $LITE $POET
$MRVL $LWLG $TSEM $SIVEF $NOK $OPTX
Strong demand + AI/data center tailwinds = cont…↗
Apr 7
Gaetano — There was so much criticism last week
$lite $cohr $aaoi $cien $poet
People talking about how all these stocks were done for
Valuations stretched so far that they have no where to…↗
Apr 7
Serenity — @straightcash385 If $AEHR lands a major optical company like $LITE or $COHR.
It’s not going to show up in current financial numbers because these are small qualification orders b…↗
Apr 7
InvestmentGuru — Photonics are good
$AAOI
$LWLG
$LITE
$COHR
$AXTI↗
Apr 7
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $AAOI - a round of applause is due.
In the span of just 1 month, this stock has been through more plot twists than a Nolan film 🤣
- Bullish ER led to 100% re-rating
- Crashed o…↗
Apr 7
Serenity — For the next photonics CW laser chokepoint.
Personal high-beta exposure tierlist:
1. $SIVE: $302m
2. $AAOI: $8.35B
3. Yuanjie (688498): $13.55B
4. $MTSI: $17.4B
5. $LITE: $56.1B…↗
Apr 7
Serenity — @degenlurker_ $AXTI is a bottleneck.
$TSEM not yet so far, but I'd expect it to be maxed out on capacity next year or two.
$SIVE upcoming with CW lasers.
$COHR does way too much,…↗
Apr 7
CK Capital — This is the life you will be living when these hit.
$ASTS $3,000 — You own a piece of the company connecting 3.2 billion smartphones to space. Every major carrier on earth is your…↗
Apr 6
CK Capital — The AI trade is not just about chips.
Every single GPU $NVDA sells needs to talk to thousands of other GPUs at speeds copper cables physically cannot handle. Without solving that…↗
Apr 6
PhotonBull — Incredible run so far
$LITE $AAOI $AXTI $AEHR $COHR↗
Apr 6
CK Capital — The photonics sector has been the greatest trade most investors have never heard of.
Here are the one year returns of some of my favorite socks from the sector and their role in p…↗
Apr 6
TheValueist — $AEHR $VIAV $LITE $COHR This Research Note has been enhanced with additional color and context. I highly recommend you read it. Investors broadly are waking up to the fact that som…↗
Trade Whisperer — You just dropped your entire IRA and 401k into $LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI $GLW $TSEM $FN
This is what your broker's "research" promised 🤣 https://t.co/aO4ViOTNEL↗
Apr 5
KaizenInvestor — War-driven energy inflation is inevitable, but companies solving the AI bottleneck are uniquely positioned to protect their margins.
Their critical role gives them the pricing po…↗
Apr 5
Serenity — @AtlasShrug1 It's not greed, it's fundamentals. $AEHR went up in price is because they landed the leader in optical transcivers.
This could be $AVGO, $LITE, $COHR, $MRVL, $CSCO or…↗
Apr 5
InvestmentGuru — Next wave of market leaders-
Early innings. Big runway. Conviction required.
1. $COHR
The vertically integrated photonics king. Coherent has delivered 9 consecutive double beats…↗
Apr 5
InvestmentGuru — Photonics
Lumentum, $LITE, is up +1,137% over the last 12 months, the 2nd-best performing stock in the S&P 500.
Over the same period, Applied Optoelectronics, $AAOI, is up +…↗
PhotonBull — Seems like defense, space and photonics are really the best high beta spots to be invested right now during the volatility.
Have I missed any sector or theme?
$ASTS $RKLB $KRKNF…↗
Apr 4
CK Capital — Best 8 buys in the entire market right now.
1.$ASTS — Market cap $34B. Direct-to-device satellite connectivity for 3.2B subscribers. Commercial service starting this year. Destina…↗
Apr 4
TheValueist — $AEHR $VIAV $LITE $COHR Optical Networking Test and Measurement: Two Control Points in the Reliability Stack
https://t.co/jF5vgz9tx5
Bottom Line: The optical networking test oppo…↗
Apr 4
InvestmentGuru — $NOK — Nokia’s Photonic AI Infrastructure Play Nobody’s Talking About
The Infinera Acquisition Changed Everything-
Most people still think of Nokia as just a 5G RAN vendor. That…↗
Apr 4
Black Panther Capital — @CKCapitalxx Love the write up mate. Wild to see $AAOI being 6-7 smaller than $LITE and $COHR makes you think how early it is for $AAOI.↗
Apr 4
KawzInvests 🦑 — This supply chain has 6 stages from raw substrate to live hyperscaler network.
Every company in stages 3, 4, and 5 competes for a socket. $COHR or $LITE wins the laser. $AVGO or $…↗
Apr 3
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AEHR has received 4 separate orders in under two months across different platforms.
Each one covers a different burn-in use case. AI processor production. Silicon photonics quali…↗
Apr 3
CK Capital — $LITE is worth $59 billion.
$COHR is worth $49 billion.
$AAOI is worth $7 billion.
All three are in the same business. All three supply the optical infrastructure powering AI data…↗
Apr 3
Serenity — I just realized… hit 5,118.02% returns last week.
5000%+ not too bad in <2 years?
Hard to keep up with $5 footlong sandwich inflation even after front running:
-> $MSTR for halv…↗
Apr 3
KaizenInvestor — @aleabitoreddit Yes, read about that. $LITE and $COHR using companies like $FN. $AAOI has everything in-house. Do you consider this a competitive advantage?↗
Apr 3
Michael Sikand 🦑 — My photonics fund delivered 43.88% in 49 days.
The S&P? -3.5%.
"You're late bro" 🤣
598 ordinary investors owning AI's chokepoint with me.
Currently $LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI…↗
Apr 3
Trade Whisperer — $COHR is building toward another BLUE candle launch. Setup is there. Crossing fingers on geopolitics/macro sentiment.
Get 280+ charts daily. Try it free:
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Apr 3
Trade Whisperer — Books become movies in a single prompt. Anyone can do it.
We are in the earliest innings of what AI will consume. Storage. Bandwidth. Glass. Light.
Can't be bullish enough on $MU…↗
Apr 2
Gaetano — Updates on my watchlist...
$COHR $AEHR $POET $SMTC
10 days ago I launched my Substack
On day 1 I sent out a watchlist of all the companies
Since then, only 6 companies hit my fi…↗
Apr 2
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
Across the LightCounting materials, the common thesis is that optical connectivity has moved from a supporting component to a primary sc…↗
Apr 2
Gaetano — When we see deep red
$lite $cohr $aaoi $cien
Due to macro selloff
But the conviction is building in individual companies
And I believe the market will reward them again when the…↗
Apr 2
KaizenInvestor — With the whole focus on photonics companies like $LITE, $COHR, and $AAOI, it surprises me that a company like $FN is completely ignored by X investors.
Fabrinet is essentially the…↗
Serenity — Lightcounting: "This is not a typo"
Optical interconnects has a reasonable chance to reach $100B+ by 2030 from ~$19B (2025).
If you're looking for my favorite names:
Compounders…↗
Apr 2
Serenity — @PhotonCap Yes there’s others out there like Sumitomo, Furukawa, $MTSI, $LITE, $COHR, and these types of players…
But very rare to you see a pure play cw laser for the next photon…↗
Apr 1
Gaetano — Are we at the top of the optics cycle?
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET $AEHR
What I think gets lost in this conversation is that there are really two different questions here.
The first…↗
Apr 1
Black Panther Capital — Jensen Huang just told you where the bottleneck is.
Not in one investment. In a pattern.
In March alone, $NVDA committed $2 billion each to $LITE and $COHR, both photonics compan…↗
Apr 1
Black Panther Capital — THE AI SUPPLY CHAIN — COMPLETE MAP
I've spent a few hours mapping the entire AI supply chain. Hyperscalers are spending $750 billion. These are the 42 companies building, powering…↗
Apr 1
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $COHR
Optics and Photonics On Fire 🔥 https://t.co/7K9gtXFc05↗
Apr 1
Gaetano — There are many different ways to make money..
$AAOI $COHR $SMTC $LITE
My mom goes all in on 1 or 2 positions at a time
Her most commonly traded has been $AAOI and $COHR and a li…↗
Apr 1
Michael Sikand 🦑 — When I asked Jensen why he invested $4B in $LITE and $COHR...
His answer revealed the exact playbook behind yesterday's $2B $MRVL investment.
When upstream photonics capacity "is…↗
Apr 1
Gaetano — I am quite proud of this one
$LITE $COHR $GOOG
https://t.co/IWXir1wD1E↗
Apr 1
Gaetano — What do we think will happen to all the photonics names that were pushing ATH's before all the intense war escalation IF Trump comes out and formally announces a soon withdrawl fro…↗
Apr 1
InvestmentGuru — 10 Stocks to Buy in This Pullback
The market’s selling off. Here’s where I’m looking.
AI Infrastructure
$NVDA — AI capex cycle isn’t slowing down. This pullback is noise. Nvidia s…↗
Gaetano — Currently working on 3 reports:
1 - OCS Educational piece + $COHR & $LITE angle
2 - $SIVE deep dive + stress test
3 - $COHR CPO products + positioning
Lots of great content c…↗
Apr 1
Alex A.C. — If you needed more news about Photonics after the recent deal Nvidia - Marvell , there you are other one 🔥
$LITE $COHR $AAOI↗
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI AS OF MARCH 30, 2026
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
The March 30 drawdown in AI photonics and optical infrastructure is best understood as a policy-scare de-risking o…↗
Mar 31
Serenity — CPO Value Chain Summary from Mirae Asset:
Laser Source:
Coherent < $COHR >
Lumentum < $LITE >
Furukawa Electric (TYO: 5801)
Yuanjie Semiconductor (SHA: 688498)
Innolight Technolog…↗
Mar 31
InvestmentGuru — PHOTONICS stocks are under pressure — but this looks more like a healthy reset than a breakdown. After massive runs in names like $LITE, $COHR, $AXTI, and $AAOI, profit-taking was…↗
Mar 31
KawzInvests 🦑 — Nvidia put $2B into $COHR at $256.80 and $2B into $LITE at $695.31 on March 2nd.
Both are trading well below those prices. Combined paper loss is over $700M.
They also came with…↗
Mar 30
Gaetano — If you care about CPO
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $SIVE $MTSI
Then you'll be interested in what I have to share
I am currently writing up a series of reports on how all the main CPO laser…↗
Mar 30
Chris Ray — In case you were wondering why photonics names were getting slapped today…
Samsung is entering the silicon photonics foundry business.
Anyone buying here? 🤔
$LASR $AAOI $COHR $…↗
Mar 30
KaizenInvestor — $SIVE looks like the only investable option out of the pack in my opinion. Yes, gross profit margins are still shrinking but at least the revenues are growing.
Main reason I find…↗
Mar 30
Jason Luongo — These stocks may be worth buying on future dips:
AI Compute: $NVDA $AMD $AVGO
AI Memory: $MU
AI Infrastructure: $IREN $NBIS $VRT
Networking: $MRVL $ANET $ALAB
Photonics: $AAOI $LI…↗
Mar 30
Serenity — There’s clearly some market outperformers despite index’s and mega caps from $META / $MSFT crashing.
This probably signals institutions rotation or an extremely strong up and comi…↗
Mar 30
Serenity — I think I nailed the institutional bottleneck rotation.
-> Caught the tail end of memory name rise with $SNDK, Samsung, SK Hynix, $MU
-> Frontran institutions with photonics with…↗
KaizenInvestor — @boring_invest Great analysis, the financials of $AAOI, $LITE and $COHR have always looked better than those of $SOI, $IQE at the moment.
$SIVE is the only one where I would say…↗
Mar 29
KaizenInvestor — @rafalwywrocki97 $AAOI, $LITE and $COHR do have rising revenues and gross profit margins. The problem is that you are now chasing stocks with less good fundamentals, hoping on the…↗
Mar 29
InvestmentGuru — The sectors that will define the next decade of wealth. Bookmark this. Your future self will thank you.
AI → $GOOGL $NBIS $ $PLTR
Chips → $TSM $ASML $NVDA $AMD
Space → $RKLB $AST…↗
Mar 29
Serenity — Can't $SIVE just pull a $LITE and TAM expansion down the ELS stack?
I'm getting early stage $LITE flashbacks (Oclaro, NeoPhotonics, Cloud Light)...
Here's my thesis/idea:
on h…↗
Mar 28
Serenity — @ajouannic You can replace $MU / $SNDK with Sk Hynix. Or replace $COHR with $LITE.
I'm just saying my personal preferences in what I expect to outperform.↗
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 28
Shay Boloor — HERE ARE THE TOP 15 PERFORMERS OF 2026
1. $AAOI +182%
2. $SNDK +159%
3. $VG +157%
4. $LITE +91%
5. $DOCN +69%
6. $AEHR +61%
7. $WDC +60%
8. $PL +57%
9. $BE +53%
10. $TWST +40%
11.…↗
Mar 28
InvestmentGuru — PHOTONICS SECTOR SHOWING STRENGTH in this market
While the broader market bleeds ( $SPX -1.67%, $NDX -1.85%), the optical/photonics names are quietly holding green -
Here’s who’…↗
Mar 27
CK Capital — My favorite stocks right now by sector:
Space/Satellite:
$ASTS
$SATS
AI Infrastructure:
$NBIS
$OSS
Photonics:
$AAOI
$LITE
$COHR
Memory/Semiconductors:
$MU
$SNDK
Energy/Po…↗
Mar 27
KawzInvests 🦑 — AI optical networks have a zero-tolerance policy for failure if a single 800G or 1.6T link underperforms, an entire multi-million-dollar array of GPUs sits idle waiting for data.…↗
Mar 27
InvestmentGuru — Photonics — Watch for Opportunity on Pullbacks . The photonics and optical space continues to be one of the most important themes tied to AI data centers, bandwidth demand, and nex…↗
Mar 27
Serenity — You cant spell Winner without Win.
Because of that: I’m bullish on $SIVE supply chain.
$SIVE -> WIN (TPE:3105) -> Ayar SuperNova -> $JBL -> Hyperscalers, as one flow.
If you c…↗
Mar 27
Gaetano — We need to talk about vertical integration
$LITE $COHR $AAOI
AAOI appears to be among the deepest integrated inside the transceiver stack.
Lumentum is highly integrated in the o…↗
Mar 27
Serenity — I am long Win Semi (3105.TWO) at $4.1B MC.
I believe markets are sleeping on of the most important foundries in the world (aside from $TSM).
IMO their strategic positioning excee…↗
Mar 27
Serenity — @KaneCapz Revenue hasn’t even hit $AAOI earnings yet?
If they’re implicitly saying they can do $1.8B q4 2026… and it’s a $7B MC today.
They have the potential to be a $COHR or I…↗
Mar 27
KawzInvests 🦑 — Building the next-generation optical chips for AI (800G and 1.6T) is incredibly difficult.
At these extreme speeds, signals easily distort, and just one bad chip can crash a massi…↗
Mar 27
Alex A.C. — In a bloodbath day, a reminder of what the future holds for Optics/Photonics 💪
$LITE $COHR $AAOI↗
Mar 27
InvestmentGuru — Photonics names took a heavy hit today — sharp selloff across the board:
$LITE -11%
$COHR -10%
$AAOI -14%
$AXTI -13%
No major fundamental change — this looks like pure profit tak…↗
Mar 26
Michael Sikand 🦑 — This $2B photonics monopoly down 75% from ATHs is key to AI's next paradigm shift.
Soitec at €54.00 $SOI.PA / $SLOIF is the clearest photonics multi-bagger I see right now.
After…↗
Mar 26
CK Capital — This is exactly why I am long on $LITE $COHR and $AAOI.
CPO is not a trend. It is the only solution to a physics problem that gets worse every time Nvidia ships a new GPU.
The su…↗
Mar 26
Serenity — @BabyYod59296514 Yeah, if names like $LITE or $AAOI run up a lot, corrections timed with macro selloffs hit a tad harder.
Surprised lower beta names like $COHR got hit -8% or so…↗
Mar 26
Serenity — Photonics are not having a fun time.
Laser Companies from:
$LITE, $SIVE, $COHR, $MTSI, $AAOI all down.
Substrate, Foundries, and Epiwafer from:
$IQE, $AXTI, $SOI, $TSEM all down.…↗
Mar 26
PhotonBull — The traditional data center is dead; the era of the AI Factory has arrived.
AI factories are a new class of extreme-scale, GPU-driven facilities designed specifically for generati…↗
Mar 26
KawzInvests 🦑 — We are currently in the middle of an unprecedented, multi-year compounding supercycle
Here is how the distinct optical cycles actually overlap:
400G: The foundational baselin…↗
Mar 26
Gaetano — Photonics stocks are down today
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $CIEN
Market continuing to be punished with all the fear
A lot of these names are within 2-10% of the first level I would CONSID…↗
Mar 26
InvestmentGuru — Bookmark this post. Photonics can do better in this market in long term.
My favourite
$AAOI $LWLG $POET $SIVEF $TSEM
$AXTI $COHR $LITE $MRVL↗
Mar 26
Serenity — Lot of uninvited speculation about $P4O.
It's a pure-play glass substrate supplier, likely to $LITE OCS supply chains.
And they supply to Samsung with potential mapping to $COHR.…↗
Mar 26
Serenity — So if you care about the second optical transicever bottleneck outside of EML/CW Lasers:
- $SANM (US)
- $TTMI (US)
- WUS Printed Circuit (TPE: 2316)
- Unimicron (TPE: 3037)
- Zhe…↗
Mar 26
Serenity — @Alex__0x0 Yeah, everything from $AAOI, $LITE, $MTSI, $TSEM, $COHR, $AXTI, $SIVE, $IQE, Landmark, and others have been strongly outperforming!.
Sometimes you forget the index is…↗
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…↗
Mar 25
IvanaSPEAR — @zephyr_z9 This is not correct - My understanding is that only $LITE has enough that they sell externally. $COHR is expanding capacity in 2H and ‘27 6mm. And I believe $AAOI is sho…↗
Mar 25
Gaetano — $LITE $COHR & $AAOI
All grow lasers.↗
Mar 25
CK Capital — $LITE and $COHR get all the attention. I love both of them. But if you want the most asymmetric trade in photonics right now the answer is $AAOI and it is not particularly close.…↗
Mar 25
Serenity — @degentradingLSD I wouldn't say it's speculative. Hyperscalers have orders completely booked until 2028 from $LITE to $COHR.
Even $TSEM has 70% of their capacity booked and it's l…↗
Mar 25
KawzInvests 🦑 — Everyone talks about AI networking, but most investors completely misunderstand the two distinct battlegrounds: Scale-Out vs. Scale-Up.
Scale-Out: Connecting racks to other racks…↗
Mar 25
IvanaSPEAR — Why optics are the new memory ❓
Optical Components matter more than ever: we’re moving from human internet → AI internet
For decades, demand for bandwidth was growing predictabl…↗
Mar 25
Serenity — @genZinvest0r I got like 3 $P4O comments every other post of mine, so finally ended up taking a look at the DD.
Strategically it's pretty valuable as a glass supplier to Bosch, S…↗
Mar 25
KawzInvests 🦑 — Why are traditional pluggable optics doomed in the AI era?
Pushing data through copper traces to a pluggable module causes 22dB of signal loss and requires power-hungry DSPs that…↗
Mar 25
InvestmentGuru — Photonics: Leaders + Asymmetric Upside Plays
$COHR – AI Infrastructure Through Light
Core player in lasers + optical components powering hyperscale AI data centers.
$LITE – The…↗
Mar 25
Serenity — $SIVE is literally one of the only pure play public exposure to the (CW/EML) optical laser bottlenecks in the world.
$LITE - $55B+
$COHR - $53B+
$MTSI - $17.8B+
$AAOI - $8.8B
$…↗
Mar 25
Serenity — Every industry leader...
Especially $AVGO (Physical Layer Products division) in this statement today.
Cites Lasers as a bottleneck for semiconductors.
If you aren't long...
->…↗
Mar 25
InvestmentGuru — $COHR +6.77
$AAOI +18.94
$LITE + 10%
$TSEM +5
$AXTI +6.31
Photonics is quietly becoming one of the strongest sectors in the market right now. While everyone is focused on AI sof…↗
Mar 24
CK Capital — $AAOI up 18% today. Let me tell you why I think this is still early.
Most people found this stock at $40. Some found it at $60. I want to talk about why $113 is not late.
The sto…↗
Mar 24
Black Panther Capital — $AAOI is up 19% and the thesis is simple:
You are buying a critical bottleneck in the AI hardware stack that has a MASSIVE valuation gap compared to its peers.
The macro and mom…↗
Mar 24
Michael Sikand 🦑 — I called $AAOI at $50.
But I bought the bulk of my position in the $90s.
It's because the explosive re-rating around this stock created an EVEN more asymmetric set up...
One th…↗
Mar 24
InvestmentGuru — Hopefully you not missing
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI $IPGP $LASR $VIAV $LWLG $POET $AEVA
$EMKR $LASE $SIVEF $TSEM↗
Mar 24
KawzInvests 🦑 — INSANE $AAOI is up 17.7%
Same stock people were dumping three weeks ago over ATM dilution and insider sells. Here is what they got wrong.
The fear was understandable. AAOI has bu…↗
Mar 24
Serenity — If you're new to $AAOI:
It looks scary entering positions near ATH at $109 after a 175% YTD increase.
However, this looks like the photonics equivalent of $SNDK.
And it so hap…↗
Mar 24
CK Capital — $AXTI just hit all time highs and I think most people still have no idea what this company actually does or why it matters and how important it is.
Every time you hear about co-pa…↗
Serenity — So my 10x moonshot $AXTI ended up landing on the moon.
If you felt like you missed the rocket:
-> $SIVE is my personal favorite next 10x AXT moonshot at today's prices.
-> $…↗
Mar 24
TheValueist — $COHR EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
The March 17, 2026 OFC briefing was best understood as a strategic re-rating attempt. Management’s objective was to move Coherent from the market’s narrow…↗
Mar 24
InvestmentGuru — Photonics is quietly becoming one of the most interesting sectors right now. Money is starting to flow in, but unlike other crowded trades, many names are still undervalued relativ…↗
Mar 24
Serenity — There's the Space Satellite MegaCycle:
-> Triggered by $PL.
With $BKSY / $SATL / $SPIR and others following.
Then there's the Photonics SuperCycle:
-> Triggered by $LITE and $…↗
KawzInvests 🦑 — The Nvidia GTC report just dropped on Asymmetrical Bets.
36 hours on-site. Private press briefing with Jensen. One-on-one with Nvidia's SVP of Networking. A closed-door session wi…↗
Mar 23
Trade Whisperer — @Ackknowledged Wanted to keep the list to 12... sorry. But yeah $COHR gets its too.↗
Mar 23
CK Capital — Amazing video from Michael
Photonics is next
$AAOI
$COHR
$LITE↗
Mar 23
CK Capital — Elon Musk just announced something that nobody is connecting to the right stocks yet.
TERAFAB.
A $25 billion joint chip fabrication facility between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI being…↗
Mar 23
TheValueist — $TSEM $COHR $LITE $NVDA The market is treating the announcement primarily as a Tower event, which is directionally sensible. The release is a meaningful technical proof point for T…↗
Mar 23
TheValueist — $COHR $TSEM $LITE $NVDA Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) shares rose 6.1% in Monday trading after the company said it unveiled a 400 Gbps/lane data transmission through a silicon modulat…↗
Mar 23
Gaetano — @O_bhaina Yes $LITE is one of them. $COHR is another!↗
Mar 23
Gaetano — Crazy way to start the week
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $SPY
Who knows what comes next in regards to negotiations
Or how this price moves throughout the day.
Regardless of what happens, w…↗
Mar 23
InvestmentGuru — Buy the Fear — 15 High-Conviction Dip Opportunities
$MU
$ONDS
$NVDA
$PLTR
$TSLA
$IREN
$RKLB
$ASTS
$COHR
$NBIS
$IONQ
$OKLO
$ZETA
$HIMS
$SOFI
This isn’t about catching the exact bo…↗
Mar 23
Gaetano — I think we got cut short
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $CIEN
Many optics names had strong momentum during OFC
I do believe that a bunch of them were on track to hit ATH's by week end
Macro…↗
Mar 22
The Future Investors — AI’s next bottleneck: data movement 🚀
Photonics is the solution 💡
Photonics has multiple layers. These stocks stand to benefit 👇
🔴 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟭: 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 & 𝗠�…↗
Mar 22
Shay Boloor — AI SEMIS KEEPING THE MOST OF EVERY DOLLAR
Operating margin breakdown:
• Best-in-class (50%+) | $NVDA, $TSM
• Elite (40–49%) | $MU, $ANET, $KLAC, $AVGO
• Strong (30–39%) | $ASML, $…↗
Mar 22
Serenity — < $SIVE | $SIVEF > at a ~$250M valuation looks like one of the most severe structural mispricing in the optical semi market.
$LITE and $COHR, have $45B+ valuations today:
Largely…↗
Mar 22
Gaetano — @danreese347 I think breadth is always safer but could definitely limit upside. And the flip for higher concentration.
My strategy is a mix of both. I have exposure across the bo…↗
Mar 21
Gaetano — Education Saturday - What’s next in photonics
$LITE $COHR $AAOI
If you invest in photonics, one thing you really need to understand is where the architecture goes from here.
Bec…↗
Mar 21
CK Capital — The AI data center has a problem nobody is talking about enough.
The GPU is no longer the bottleneck. The wire is.
Copper cannot move data fast enough to keep up with what Nvidia…↗
Mar 21
Gaetano — As some of you already know, I am launching my paid Substack on Monday!
I wanted to take a moment to share with you everything that you will receive on week 1 as a subscriber.
I…↗
InvestmentGuru — $COHR is one of the core infrastructure plays in the AI and data‑center boom. As AI clusters scale, the bottleneck isn’t just compute — it’s getting data between the chips at terab…↗
CK Capital — This is the life you and bro will live when its 2030 and you held these stocks with conviction.
You wake up. The market opens. You check your portfolio and remember you bought the…↗
Mar 20
Gaetano — Well if there's one thing we were reminded of today
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI $SPY
It's that there is no need to rush into positions.
Two things can be true at the same time:
1 -…↗
Mar 20
Serenity — My thoughts today on $SIVE, at a ~$250M MC:
Sivers is the future likely CW + laser array light source powering hyperscalers from $AMZN, $META, and $MSFT.
At ~$250m...
From co…↗
Mar 20
InvestmentGuru — My Top 5 Photonics Plays
$COHR
The full-stack photonics leader — lasers, materials, transceivers, and components across AI, telecom, and defense. A true “picks & shovels” giant w…↗
Mar 20
InvestmentGuru — Where to concentrate in this market
NeoCloud
$IREN $CIFR $NBIS
Photonics
$COHR $LITE $POET $LWLG
Chips
$NVDA $MU $TSEM
Drone + Defence
$ONDS $KTOS $RCAT
Robotics +Automation…↗
Gaetano — $COHR Is a company that everyone should get familiar with
If you haven't yet, check out this article I wrote on them!↗
Mar 20
Serenity — $LITE Transcript from Conference Call:
"The thing that keeps me up at night most is: Substrates.
Less so sort of reactors and getting the right tools into the fab, although it’…↗
Mar 20
Serenity — The Serenity Silicon Photonics / CPO ETF.
YTD Returns of Each Index Stock:
$IQE: +282.5%
$AXTI: +246.6%
Landmark: 167.54%
$AAOI: +157.37%
$SIVE: +113.08%
$SOI: +103.54%
$LITE: +…↗
Mar 20
Gaetano — @LostFundamental @aleabitoreddit @bubbleboi This is actually really interesting that you posted this.
$COHR $MRVL and $LITE were my biggest photonics positions back in August I be…↗
InvestmentGuru — Photonics is lighting up the market!
This emerging sector is showing real strength today:
$LITE +10%
$AAOI +10%
$COHR +7%
$SIVEF +21%
$LWLG +5%
$LASR +3%
$TSE…↗
KawzInvests 🦑 — NVIDIA GTC is wrapping up. Starting today, @michaelsikand and I are going into full lockdown every hour we have goes into turning what I witnessed this week into the most thorough…↗
Mar 19
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $1M BABY 👿
My public photonics fund just hit $1M AUM.
Just saw someone put in $100K.
Even in the face of a choppy macro, you can stay long if you are concentrating into the nex…↗
Mar 19
Gaetano — @ChrisHodge36877 It carries higher risk than alot of the larger names like $lite $cien $cohr etc. due to it's early stage nature. They are still essentially pre-revenue. But the ma…↗
Mar 19
Gaetano — It sure has been a crazy 7 days!
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $TSEM $AAOI
On days like this, where practically every photonics company is up, we need to remember something
Only a few days…↗
Mar 19
Alex A.C. — P0rn Optics/Photonics version 😱
If that's not an explosive exponential increase in demand, I don't know what it is
$LITE $COHR $AAOI (I include $SIVEH ? 🤔😅)
[Chart from Mr.…↗
Mar 19
Gaetano — Posted full OFC breakdown $COHR
Will post on X later today as well!
https://t.co/A8GKEHofQV↗
Mar 19
Gaetano — $COHR Massive TAM Expansion
Almost done with my OFC deep dive
Here's the intro:
"Coherent already commands a massive core market of over $50 billion with their traditional plugg…↗
Mar 19
Serenity — $TSEM and the Photonics Supercycle…
Doesn’t like they’re bothered with Iran or Silver and Gold crashing?
Almost every name from $AAOI, $COHR, $SIVE, to $LITE is green.
This is w…↗
Mar 19
InvestmentGuru — Photonics are looking good in this market
$AAOI
$LITE
$COHR
$SIVEF↗
Mar 19
Serenity — $SIVE <> $SIVEF is now up 165% this week.
Valuation? ~$300M MC.
However; either I’m dumb or Sivers is one of the best opportunities in photonics today.
You get the laser supplie…↗
Mar 19
Gaetano — You all really seemed to like this one!
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET $TSEM
So sharing it again just incase you missed it↗
Mar 18
Jason Luongo — If you follow the smart money, you'll know exactly what sectors to invest in:
AI Compute: $NVDA
AI Memory: $MU
Data Centers: $IREN
Cloud Infrastructure: $NBIS
Networking: $MRVL
Op…↗
Mar 18
Gaetano — $COHR With a great update!
The optics industry is starved for InP, but Coherent is actively using this bottleneck to widen its manufacturing moat.
They are not only on track to…↗
Mar 18
Gaetano — I wrote up a post on $AXTI
Regarding some updates on what $LITE $COHR and $AAOI are saying in regards to substrate supply
I won't be posting it on X.
If you invest in AXT or tra…↗
Mar 18
Gaetano — There are 2 opportunities in the market that I love
$CIEN $AAOI $LITE $COHR $SPY
1 - A post earnings dip that is unjustified, which presents an opportunity for investors that know…↗
Mar 18
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $NVDA just made a MASSIVE $4B bet on photonics.
So I asked their SVP of Networking, Gilad Shainer, to give away Nvidia's entire optical roadmap to retail investors.
From scale ac…↗
Mar 18
InvestmentGuru — Photonics are looking good today
$AAOI
$AXTI
$LITE
$COHR↗
Mar 18
InvestmentGuru — PRE-MARKET MOVERS
🟢 GAPPING UP (Momentum Names)
$SWMR +23% → Fresh IPO strength, AI drone + defense narrative catching fire
$KC +17% → Cloud pricing power expanding (Alibaba AI…↗
Mar 18
InvestmentGuru — Photonics are moving Premarket , looks like bounce is coming
$AAOI +12%
$COHR + 6%
$LITE +8%
Definitely one to watch today↗
Mar 18
Serenity — @Shiboo9019 The base case scenario is they become more of a US Innolight/Eoptolink (which are still valued at $50B+) if they don't manage to scale up laser capacity and buy from $C…↗
Mar 18
Serenity — @HeLiuLeo even if they can’t scale up internal laser fab (buying from $COHR) and end up as a US Innolight/eoptolink, $AAOI is still undervalued at $6b↗
Mar 18
Serenity — $AAOI looks very undervalued at $6.49B.
If we model ASP and their newest capacity projections today:
Revenue from Capacity:
Q2 2026: ~$312.1M
Q4 2026: ~$1.41B
Q2-2027: ~$1.53B…↗
Mar 18
KawzInvests 🦑 — Applied Optoelectronics $AAOI released their capacity ramp plan. We are in Q2 2026, which means this timeline has already started.
Current monthly revenue: $64 million. By Q4 2026…↗
Mar 18
Serenity — $SIVE is the upstream laser supplier for CPO and Silicon Photonics.
They're the likely $COHR / $LITE type future light source for:
- $AMZN Trainium Clusters
- $MSFT Maia Clusters…↗
Mar 18
TheValueist — Good list. I agree with essentially all of it, except I would move $COHR $NVDA up into the very positive bucket.↗
Mar 18
Gaetano — If you really want to get a pulse check on the industry
$LITE $COHR $AXTI $POET $AAOI
You need to read this post
Please check it out, bookmark it, and share it!↗
Serenity — @wayne_rbee Three things:
1/ Generally, the lower the marketcap, the higher the upside (but more risk)
2/ Finding companies that weren’t priced into current pluggable cycles (EMl…↗
Mar 17
Gaetano — The signals we are getting today are insane!
$LITE $COHR $NVDA $AAOI $CIEN
If you invest in optics you need to read this...
@michaelsikand asked $NVDA why they invested in $LITE…↗
Mar 17
BULL OF BRITAIN — "The Silicon Photonics techonology/capacity we need, is significantly higher than what we have today" - Jensen Huang CEO of NVDA about Photonics.
He is literally telling you what…↗
Mar 17
KawzInvests 🦑 — @michaelsikand and I published the photonics infrastructure thesis on our substack before Jensen put 4 billion into $LITE and $COHR.
The accounts you follow are still pitching $AD…↗
Mar 17
CK Capital — Personally asking Jensen Huang about photonics.
Long $AAOI $LITE $COHR↗
Mar 17
Michael Sikand 🦑 — I just asked Jensen Huang a question.
Why did he invest $4B $LITE and $COHR?
"the amount of silicon photonics technology capacity that we need is substantially higher than the wo…↗
Mar 17
KawzInvests 🦑 — NVIDIA $NVDA CEO JENSEN HUANG JUST SAID:
"We need many many TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF CAPACITY...We work with EVERY MEMORY VENDOR, BECAUSE WE USE SO MUCH MEMORY. We are going to wor…↗
Mar 17
InvestmentGuru — $NVDA GTC Takeaways — Quick Hits
Fiber vs Copper = BOTH win
Jensen Huang made it clear: no full shift to optics. AI scale needs copper + fiber together.
Winners on balance:
$APH…↗
TheValueist — . @aleabitoreddit is locked into this GAI infrastructure build-out cycle. I am trying to keep up.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $AAOI EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
The post advances a real but overcomp…↗
Mar 17
Gaetano — How to best use my content...
$SMTC $MTSI $COHR $LITE $AAOI
When I post a thesis, report, update etc. it should not be a signal to buy.
I am not timing my posts with ideal entry…↗
Mar 17
Gaetano — The market is obsessed with copper vs optics
$LITE $CRDO $MTSI $COHR
You see copper rip and optics drop when people feel like copper will stay in the rack for longer.
You see opt…↗
Mar 17
Serenity — @N27gd I tend to like semi-monopolies... So $AXTI and $SOI on substrate level are probably kinda my favorites?
$TSEM and $COHR were my two steady compounders.
As for highest up…↗
Mar 17
Serenity — @GOATTRADER5184 So my personal picks out of the bunch were:
$SIVE, $TSEM, $AEHR, $SOI.
I like try and pick winners. As for current cycle it's:
$AXTI, $LITE, $COHR, $AAOI, $IQE↗
Gaetano — I have never really talked about this stock...
$SMTC $MTSI $LITE $COHR $AAOI
But I am invested in it.
If you invest in photonics, you'll want to check it out
$SMTC just reporte…↗
Mar 17
InvestmentGuru — Photonics need a consolidation phase before next upside cycle. This phase might be buying opportunity whoever missed earlier 🤞
$AAOI
$LITE
$COHR
$POET
$LWLG↗
Mar 17
InvestmentGuru — Key play
COMPUTE
$NVDA (leader)
MEMORY (HBM SUPER CYCLE)
$MU
SK hynix
NETWORKING / PHOTONICS
$MRVL
$AVGO
$LITE
$COHR
🟡 NEXT WAVE (Power / Cooling / Infra)…↗
Mar 17
InvestmentGuru — $NVDA GTC 2026 — This Was Bigger Than Just AI Chips
If you think Nvidia is just a GPU company after this keynote… you’re missing the entire picture.
Here’s the real takeaway from…↗
Mar 17
Serenity — @xreaptor The alpha is capturing the rotation from the current EML to SiPh / CW DFB architectural change next year.
So new stuff like Soitec ( $SOI ), $TSEM, $SIVE, and $POET t…↗
Mar 17
Serenity — Photonics is the next bottleneck after memory.
If you're not convinced yet?
$LITE CEO went out and said:
"We're sold out really until the end of 2027. We see no end in sight."…↗
Mar 17
PhotonBull — Photonics is the trade everyone on X is watching right now.
$AAOI is up +173% YTD, $LITE was added to the S&P 500 and is up a lot, $COHR got a $2B Nvidia investment alongside $LIT…↗
Mar 17
Gaetano — This is a really really solid read
$CIEN $NOK $MRVL $COHR
If you are bullish optics, you must read.
It's a great deep dive into why I really like $CIEN and why I am becoming incr…↗
Mar 17
Gaetano — This has become one of my favorite photonics plays
$CIEN $AAOI $LITE $COHR $LWLG
Ciena’s core business is in high-speed optical networking.
One of the most important AI opportuni…↗
Mar 17
Serenity — $SIVE is now up +73.78% today ($231M MC).
As markets price in information synthesis of the next potential $LITE of photonics.
If I had to explain the difference:
One laser so…↗
Mar 16
Gaetano — $NVDA Key Reminders for Optics
$LITE $COHR $MRVL $CIEN $TSEM
Copper still matters, and will for a long time
Pluggable optics still matter, and will for a long time
CPO is moving c…↗
Mar 16
BULL OF BRITAIN — $NVDA GTC - Quick Fire Long positions
-> Fabs ($TSM, $INTC)
-> HBM4 / Memory ( $MU, SK Hynix, Samsung) Feynman = die stacking with custom HBM.
-> Co-Packaged Optics ( $TSEM, $L…↗
Mar 16
PhotonBull — Everyone is watching $LITE, $COHR, $AAOI, $AXTI run. The photonics rotation is real and the AI capex thesis is well understood by now.
What isn't talked about enough is what comes…↗
Mar 16
Gaetano — Understanding EML & CW lasers📓
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $SIVE $MTSI
If you want to understand where the optical supercycle is going, you need to understand this.
This is going to be v…↗
Mar 16
KawzInvests 🦑 — Jensen just ended the copper vs. optical debate at GTC.
The answer is not one or the other. Nvidia is scaling both simultaneously copper for near-interconnect density, co-packaged…↗
Mar 16
Michael Sikand 🦑 — JENSEN on optical scale up and scale out
"We do NOT have enough capacity"
He specifically took the time to call out the photonics bottleneck.
$LITE $COHR $AAOI https://t.co/yI…↗
Mar 16
KawzInvests 🦑 — “We need a lot more capacity for copper, we need alot more capacity for optics” - Jensen @ GTC 2026
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $CIEN $TSEM https://t.co/DZRyaTL6rL↗
Mar 16
Alex A.C. — You know Optics/Photonics frens, ELS 💘 InP
$LITE $COHR https://t.co/d04XXQ5XrO↗
Mar 16
KawzInvests 🦑 — Six companies just standardized the physical layer of AGI infrastructure. That is what happened on March 12th.
$AMD $AVGO $META $MSFT $NVDA and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute I…↗
Mar 16
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Free money falls from the sky...
If you simply listen to the CEO of the world's greatest company.
Here are 3 things EVERY retail investor needs to watch for during Jensen's keyno…↗
Mar 16
KawzInvests 🦑 — GTC is live and the photonics basket is responding.
$TSEM leading the board at +11%.
$CIEN +5.1%.
$LITE +4.6%.
$MRVL +4.5%.
$COHR +3%.
The names catching the largest bids are…↗
Mar 16
Serenity — @O_bhaina Feels like $SIVE should deserve a much higher valuation than $POET, which is mainly on the advanced packaging side.
$LITE and $COHR get huge premiums for supplying EML l…↗
Mar 16
Serenity — $SIVE is now up 50%+, to a $190 million USD MC (~1.8B SEK -> USD).
However, I genuinely believe this could be the next $LITE for silicon photonics/CPO.
And I’m holding shares, a…↗
Mar 16
Jason Luongo — The smart money is telling you where to invest. You just have to pay attention:
AI Infrastructure: $NVDA
Photonics: $COHR
Data Centers: $IREN
Cybersecurity: $PANW
Defense/Drones:…↗
Mar 16
Serenity — I’m long $SIVE at $140M.
I believe this is the next $LITE that markets and institutions missed.
$SIVE makes InP CW DFB lasers.
Closest comparison is $LITE in the current EML l…↗
Mar 16
Jason Luongo — Photonics is the hottest theme in the market right now.
Here’s every company you need to add to your watchlist:
Photonics / Lasers
$LITE $COHR $MTSI $AAOI $IPGP $POET
Optical Mo…↗
Mar 15
KawzInvests 🦑 — @DP3188144159988 BofA projects the optical TAM to grow from $14 billion in 2025 to $73 billion by 2030 at a 39% CAGR the returns you see in $LITE, $COHR, and $AAOI are the market b…↗
Mar 15
KawzInvests 🦑 — Photonics has quietly become one of the hottest sectors on FinX right now.
$LITE +800%.
$COHR +262%.
$AAOI +360%.
$GLW +175%.
$CIEN +400%.
This sector pushed me out of my com…↗
Mar 15
Alex A.C. — AI Optics/Photonics
Can be this technology of micro-LEDs for short distances (<10m) disruptive for InP Lasers for Scale-Up? 🧐
$LITE $COHR https://t.co/ekLD8nM2lZ↗
Mar 15
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Memory, chips, and power aren't AI's biggest bottlenecks.
It's copper. So Nvidia invested $4B in this instead.
In this video, I break down photonics.
The problem, the solution,…↗
Mar 15
Black Panther Capital — 6/ WHERE THE REAL MONEY IS
Here's the trade. Oracle's $553B backlog is real even if the concentration risk is real too. Which means the picks and shovels upstream of Oracle are the…↗
Mar 15
Gaetano — I can't overstate the important to stress test
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $LWLG $POET
It's easy to be a bull with blinders on
It takes work to be a bull with earned conviction
It has happ…↗
Mar 15
Gaetano — What is the best Photonics ETF?
$LITE $COHR $AXTI $AAOI $LWLG $TSEM
This is another question I get alot.
I'm not an ETF guy, I'm a stock picker.
So I do not find any ETFs with o…↗
Mar 15
The AI Investor — A free breakdown explanation of the AI data center networking stack: Scale Up, Scale Out, and Scale Across.
What’s your best pick for an AI networking stock right now, given that…↗
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 14
KaizenInvestor — Big companies are announcing huge layoffs.
$AMZN to cut 30,000 jobs, $META potentially 15,000 jobs.
$ORCL, $XYZ, $CRM, $ASML,… all announced cuts as well.
It’s not that those…↗
Mar 14
Serenity — I realized by the amount of bookmarks.
I lowkey dropped a banger ETF?
AI Displacement Equal Weighted YTD:
$AXTI: +191.53%
$AAOI: +144.47%
$SNDK: +140.38%
$SOI: +114.3%
$LITE: +6…↗
Mar 14
Black Panther Capital — AI isn’t coming for jobs.
It already took them.
$META. $AMZN. $ORCL. All cutting.
All replacing.
The profits don’t disappear. They shift.
From labor. To capital. To sharehold…↗
Mar 14
Serenity — The news is pretty heartbreaking:
$META 20% layoffs
$ORCL layoffs
$AMZN 600,000 workers long term layoffs as they get replaced by robotics and AI.
This is a dystopian future.…↗
Mar 14
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Photonics stocks are the talk of FinX.
But Jensen Huang talked about photonics A YEAR AGO.
If you did a 2 min ChatGPT search into the best stocks after hearing that.
$LITE +878…↗
InvestmentGuru — AI Is Fast… But Your Copper Wires Are Slower
Think AI is all about GPUs? Think again. The real bottleneck is moving data fast enough. Enter Photonics — sending data at the speed o…↗
Mar 13
Serenity — I've been the first few to cover many supply chain photonic names.
Most are up 100-400%+ since I've posted.
Here's the TLDR overview of my thesis posts:
“Safest” Longs as of Tod…↗
Mar 13
Michael Sikand 🦑 — Jensen Huang has a 76% chance of saying "photonics" during the most scrutinized AI speech of the year.
And you're STILL underexposed to the sector.
$AAOI $CIEN $LITE $TSEM $COHR…↗
Mar 13
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI $LITE $COHR $POET $CIEN
NVIDIA just committed $4 billion to lock up laser supply from $LITE and $COHR.
$AAOI makes the exact same category of component in-house and trades…↗
Mar 13
Shay Boloor — Daniel & I will be live on the Futurum Equities YouTube channel at 1PM EST covering:
• Earnings reactions: $ORCL, $ADBE, $RBRK, $PATH
• $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang’s five-layer cake: $…↗
Mar 13
KawzInvests 🦑 — $LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET $CIEN
Next week we have NVIDIA GTC and OFC happening in the same week.
GTC is where Jensen Huang will talk about Silicon Photonics, Co-Packaged Optics, and…↗
Mar 13
InvestmentGuru — $AAOI $LITE $COHR $AXTI $GLW
$POET $MRVL $LWLG
OFC 2026 (Optical Fiber Communications Conference) starts next week — one of the most important events for the photonics and AI inf…↗
Mar 13
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $AAOI dumped 16% today...
Here's why I doubled down and loaded more.
$500M in new paper was a bit of a slap, up from the $250M ATM we expected...
The good news is that the first…↗
Mar 13
Gaetano — 🚨The next 7 days is going to be insane for optics
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET $CIEN
Next week we have both:
NVIDIA GTC where we will hear all about Silicon Photonics, CPO, Networkin…↗
Mar 13
Serenity — Top 10 common fallacies I keep seeing again and again on X.
And some of the most important things I look out for too when doing research:
1. Being in "crowded" names like $LITE…↗
Mar 13
Jason Luongo — NVIDIA just invested $4B into photonics. Marvell spent $5.5B on Celestial AI. GlobalFoundries acquired AMF.
Photonics is the hottest theme in the market and most investors still d…↗
Mar 12
Serenity — @KaneCapz General rule of thumb:
Lower the MC eg. $IQE -> $SOI -> $AXTI -> $AAOI -> $LITE -> $COHR, etc.
Higher upside from re-rating. That's unless you 10x reve…↗
Mar 12
Gaetano — Opportunities are everywhere
$COHR $AAOI $NOK $CIEN $LITE
'Crowded' trades still provide great opportunities on dips
'Risky' trades could come with significant upside once de-ris…↗
Mar 12
KawzInvests 🦑 — I've been watching $LWLG for weeks.
Sold off after the last ER because management didn't sound like they were commercializing fast enough.
But I never stopped watching.
The mana…↗
Mar 12
Alex A.C. — Scale-up CPO 💘 ELS ==> loves InP Lasers ==> $LITE $COHR $AAOI https://t.co/aFceVWk84a↗
Mar 12
Shay Boloor — Co-Packaged Optics could have its $NVDA GTC moment next week as AI data centers run into a bandwidth wall that traditional pluggables are struggling to solve.
CPO helps address th…↗
Mar 12
Serenity — @csapagyi “Priced in”. Meanwhile $TSEM is chilling at -1.89% YTD.
Lot of retail are earlier than institutions. $AXTI was the perfect example before it went up 4x in the past three…↗
Mar 12
Serenity — $NVDA GTC is next week.
And markets are wondering what names will be announced with Nvidia’s new silicon photonics architecture.
> $TSEM works with $NVDA for silicon photonics
>…↗
Mar 12
CK Capital — My favorite stocks in each sector:
Space/Satellite:
$ASTS
$RKLB
$SATS
Defense:
$EOS.AX
$KRKNF
$ONDS
AI Infrastructure:
$NBIS
$CIFR
$APLD
Photonics:
$AAOI
$LITE
$COHR
Energy…↗
Mar 11
Serenity — @demarscrypto There's nothing wrong with buying the entire photonics supply chain if you see it being the new paradigm of AI.
Substrates: $AXTI, $SOI
Assembly/Laser/Transceivers/s…↗
Mar 11
Alex A.C. — Optics/Photonics frens, we are SO early:
"In 2026 CPO is estimated to account for only around 0.5% of the AI data center optical transceiver market"
"TrendForce projects that Si…↗
Gaetano — Bullish optics
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $CIEN etc.
I laid out the full post on Substack.
But the simple version is this -
More GPUs = more data movement.
More data movement = more inte…↗
Mar 11
Frenchie — Pour les boîtes de photonique voici mon basket
La répartition est la suivante :
> $LITE : 30%
> $COHR : 25%
> $AAOI : 20%
> $AXTI : 15%
> $IQE : 10%
Cette allocation reste quan…↗
Mar 11
Gaetano — The photonics sector is tricky
$LITE $AAOI $COHR $AXTI
There is so much technical detail
So many layers to it
It can get really overwhelming
I do my best to break things down in…↗
Mar 11
Serenity — Jim Cramer: “Just impossible Day to Make Money”.
Today:
$AXTI: +15.08%
$AAOI: +11.5%
$HIMS: +6.05%
$LITE: +7.06%
$SNDK: +6.12%
$IQE: +19.08%
SK Hynix: 4.38%
$MU: +4.65%
$COHR: +4…↗
Mar 11
Gaetano — $ORCL With an important signal for the photonics trade
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $CIEN $MRVL
Two of my biggest concerns around AI infrastructure right now are that capex could slow and th…↗
Mar 11
InvestmentGuru — 10 AI Infrastructure Stocks To Watch
As AI data centers scale rapidly, many smaller companies are quietly becoming critical parts of the AI supply chain.
Here are 10 small-cap /…↗
Mar 11
InvestmentGuru — The AI boom is entering the -infrastructure bottleneck phase.
The winners are not just the GPU makers — they are the companies solving the scaling problems of AI data centers: powe…↗
Mar 10
Gaetano — You don't have to chase optics companies
$CIEN $LITE $AAOI $COHR
You can have issues with the valuations and the charts and still make money
Many of these names provide a post-ea…↗
Mar 10
InvestmentGuru — The Year of Lightspeed Optics — Here’s Every Stock You Need to Know
$AAOI
$COHR
$AXTI
$LITE
$POET
see more ……↗
Mar 10
KawzInvests 🦑 — Next week I’ll be at $NVIDIA GTC covering the new era of data center networking.
Getting to talk to NVIDIA's networking team directly and learn about the infrastructure behind the…↗
InvestmentGuru — These are my 5 favorite sectors
1️⃣ Photonics / Optical Technology
The backbone of AI infrastructure, data centers, and high-speed connectivity. As AI compute grows, optical com…↗
Mar 10
InvestmentGuru — Photonics are one of the strong sectors
$AAOI
$LITE
$COHR↗
Mar 9
Gaetano — 🚨What would crush the optical supercycle?
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $CIEN $AXTI
As investors we must consider this reality.
In my opinion, it would be a slow down in Hyperscaler spend…↗
Mar 9
Gaetano — $CIEN Is telling us something important...
$GLW $AAOI $LITE $COHR
The massive $600 billion AI infrastructure trade is hitting a physical wall. Literally. You can only cram so many…↗
Mar 9
Michael Sikand 🦑 — The short sellers are wrong about $AAOI.
I spent this past weekend reading through the @CulperResearch Feb 2025 short report.
The stock has rallied 631% since.
While there were…↗
Mar 9
Serenity — Leading photonic names do not concern itself with Crude Oil prices spiking.
$AXTI +14.13%
$AAOI +6.73%
$LITE +10.22%
$COHR +3.39%
Photonics is the next paradigm of AI, the War in…↗
Mar 9
Chris — People ask how we find these moves before the news.
$VRT +61%
$COHR +79%
Both called using Dealer Edge positioning before the S&P announcement. https://t.co/oBBebyOavP↗
Mar 9
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI just received its first volume order for 1.6T transceivers from a major hyperscaler.
The order totals more than $200 million. Shipments begin Q3 2026 and wrap in Q4. This cu…↗
Mar 9
Serenity — @Blazedsin I mean $AAOI basically signaled their US production capacity is bigger than $COHR, which is pretty big news↗
Gaetano — This dip is getting significant
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $CIEN $AXTI
But how has the investment case changed for these photonics companies?
Aside from valuations feeling stretched, how…↗
Mar 8
Gaetano — @NickNemo17 Oh yeah of course. They initially start very small and then they build themselves up as they become proven. Compared to my $COHR position which is my largest in this se…↗
Mar 8
Serenity — @LostFundamental That makes zero sense. $LITE and $COHR compete with one another but they’re completely different than Innolight that does design/assembly and buys the lasers from…↗
Mar 7
Serenity — @HyperAICapital $AXTI is my personal favorite since inp substrate/feedstock is used across any photonics bottleneck.
I just need someone to join their board and tell them that t…↗
Mar 7
Gaetano — ❓What happens to Optics in the next few years?
$LITE $COHR $AAOI
This is the question that should be on every Photonics investors mind.
How do the different future architectures…↗
Mar 7
Ben Pouladian — In 2021 Lumentum and II-VI fought a bidding war over Coherent
II-VI won, renamed itself Coherent
Five years later Jensen put $2B in each of them
This week both join the S&P…↗
Mar 7
Michael Sikand 🦑 — This is crazy.
$SATS just became the FIRST pure play space stock added to the S&P 500.
$ASTS $RKLB $PL holders pay close attention.
Yesterday the committee looked past a $14B GA…↗
Mar 7
Serenity — @MontSalvatUSA @daniel_koss I’ll make a follow up post on this, stuff like $INTC, $COHR, $RDDT, $IBIT, and $RKLB are not going away anytime soon.↗
Mar 7
Ben Pouladian — Wow what a week in AI optics!
$4B from Jensen into photonics. Hock Tan says stay on copper. Credo triples revenue. Marvell jumps 18%. LITE and COHR join the S&P 500.
I connec…↗
Mar 7
Gaetano — @NickNemo17 Nice graphic man. I really like your coverage of $COHR . I wanted to get your opinion on something. Management says that their 6-in is yielding better than 3-in. But th…↗
Mar 7
Gaetano — 🔊If you invest in Photonics, read this!
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $POET
I talk often about being a high conviction investor
So I want to take a moment to unpack what that means to me…↗
Mar 7
Shay Boloor — HERE ARE THE TOP 15 PERFORMERS OF 2026
1. $AAOI +174%
2. $SNDK +122%
3. $AEHR +76%
4. $BE +56%
5. $LITE +52%
6. $NTLA +49%
7. $TWST +48%
8. $FIGS +45%
9. $WDC +42%
10. $CAVA +34%…↗
Mar 7
InvestmentGuru — A few names worth watching closely:
$COHR appears in 3 categories — chips, fabs, AND transceivers
$NVDA is expanding beyond GPUs into optical networking
$LITE (Lumentum) is a key p…↗
Mar 7
InvestmentGuru — 2026: The Year of Lightspeed Optics — Here’s Every Stock You Need to Know
The optical networking revolution is accelerating, and the investment landscape just got a whole lot more…↗
Mar 6
Serenity — @InFoTheLongTerm I expected $VRT today given prediction market odds.
$LITE and $COHR together came in as a surprise.↗
Mar 6
Serenity — @DanRunner42 They're really well priced right now, and I expect companies like $LITE to probably end up $1000+ next year.
Each of them just got $2B each in new funding from $NVDA…↗
Mar 6
InvestmentGuru — These stocks are being added to the S&P 500
Vertiv $VRT
Lumentum $LITE
Coherent $COHR
Echostar $SATS↗
Mar 6
Serenity — @Sam_Badawi Think you might be late to $COHR.
That large .076% candle might have already priced in the few billion of new inflow from the S&P 500.↗
Mar 6
Jason Luongo — The White House is telling you exactly what sectors to invest in:
AI Compute - $IREN, $CIFR, $NBIS, $APLD
Chips - $NVDA, $AMD, $TSM, $AMKR
Optical Networking - $AAOI, $COHR, $LITE…↗
Mar 6
Serenity — Markets are excited about breaking news from the two leading photonics companies.
As they are now included in the S&P 500:
$COHR is up massive .047% on the news.
This follows…↗
Mar 6
Michael Sikand 🦑 — @SamNaq91 I've been writing about how $AAOI has the asymmetry not $LITE and $COHR↗
Mar 6
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $LITE and $COHR just joined the S&P 500.
Right after NVIDIA invested $2B in each.
Ask anyone on the street what photonics is and almost no one could say.
But now every $1 yo…↗
Mar 6
amit — S&P 500 NEW INCLUSIONS:
$VRT $LITE $COHR $SATS https://t.co/YQcz9WzBmH↗
Mar 6
Chris — Called it hours ago. $LITE $VRT $COHR - all added to the S&P 500 tonight
Bought $VRT 260 calls at 3:53 PM - before the 5:15 announcement
Why? Dealer Edge showed:
- GEX Rating: 5/…↗
Mar 6
TheValueist — 4 for 4 baby!!! First time ever!
$VRT $COHR $SATS $LITE↗
Mar 6
Shay Boloor — $COHR IS NOW OFFICIALLY INCLUDED IN THE S&P 500 https://t.co/5mc4Jlf8um↗
Mar 6
Gaetano — We sure got a pullback!
$LITE $COHR $GLW $CIEN $POET
Lot's of these names traded at uncomfortable valuations for investors (so I have been told)
Well, how about now?
I know the…↗
Mar 6
KaizenInvestor — Weekend is a great time to do some research.
Companies I’m going to look into this weekend:
$MRVL
$OUST
$COHR
$AEHR
$BWXT
$NEE
Here is my method 👇↗
Mar 6
Chris — S&P 500 rebalance announced tonight at 5:15 PM ET.
Estimated odds of inclusion:
$LITE - Lumentum - 70% (Nvidia invested $2B)
$VRT - Vertiv - 65% ($95B cap, AI data centers)
$COHR…↗
Mar 6
IvanaSPEAR — Tune into Making Money with @cvpayne @FoxBusiness at 2PM today. We ll cover:
1. Hardware vs. Software
2. Opportunities in Space&Defense
$MRVL $AVGO $NVDA $COHR
$ASTS $KRM…↗
Mar 6
Gaetano — Understanding Scale-Up vs Scale-Out CPO 📓
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $MRVL $POET
Yesterday I talked about how the optical supply chain is effectively sold out. But to understand where thi…↗
Mar 6
Michael Sikand 🦑 — We're not bullish enough on $AAOI.
If you're wondering why this stock is mooning during an escalating war...
It's because the demand picture for lasers is really just that nutty…↗
Mar 6
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI up 8% today.
Continuing to build photonics exposure into Nvidia GTC.
Ask the average person on the street what photonics is and they will look at you like you are crazy.
T…↗
Mar 6
Serenity — @FairValueHunter $COHR is probably the safest photonics name imo.↗
Mar 6
KaizenInvestor — @CarsonTalkMoney $MRVL, $LITE , and $COHR as well. Some heavy competition.↗
Mar 6
Shay Boloor — 8 MOST LIKELY CANDIDATES FOR S&P 500 INCLUSION TODAY AFTER THE BELL
1. $SOFI | SoFi
2. $MRVL | Marvell
3. $VEEV | Veeva
4. $LITE | Lumentum
5. $COHR | Coherent
6. $RDDT | Reddit
7…↗
Mar 6
Shay Boloor — $COHR CEO says $NVDA $2B investment reflects a shift toward optical interconnects as AI clusters hit limits moving data over copper.
As GPU clusters scale to tens of thousands, th…↗
Mar 6
Serenity — @ram_blings Depends on your risk profile. I really, really like $LITE, likely going higher as it's tethered to $GOOGL TPU program.
$AAOI just has more potential for multi-x retu…↗
Mar 6
Trade Whisperer — NVIDIA Rubin Ultra is Optics/Copper Hybrid Scale-Up Platform which is expected to have +5x more optics than previous gens.
A single rack: 792 optical engines. 144 GPU packages. 57…↗
Mar 6
Gaetano — Understanding CPO is critical for photonics investors
$LITE $POET $COHR $AAOI $MRVL
Tomorrow we will dive in to:
- Scale up Vs Scale Out CPO
- What the revenue implications are f…↗
Mar 6
Gaetano — 🚨 The Optics Supercycle is Sold Out
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $NVDA $AXTI
If the transition to advanced optics has been further delayed by copper, somebody forgot to tell the optical s…↗
Mar 5
Serenity — The entire market misunderstood $AVGO CEO’s comments around CPO.
This caused a selloff today on the photonics sector from $LITE to $COHR in the morning.
Markets trade off headlin…↗
Mar 5
Serenity — @CryptoVandelay A good lesson is if a stock like $IQE moves up 25% a day, it can also have 20% drawdowns in a single session too.
Whole photonics sector is down, $COHR is down 8%…↗
Mar 5
Serenity — $AAOI has exceptionally strong buying pressure.
All major photonics names are down today:
$LITE down -4.74%
$COHR down -8%
$AXTI down -2.5%
$IQE down -20%.
$FN down -3.98.
But…↗
Mar 5
Michael Sikand 🦑 — $AAOI is the most asymmetrical stock in the world.
Before it's 100% post ER rally, I had 2% of my portfolio in $AAOI.
Now $AAOI is around 25% of it so here's why I'm concentratin…↗
Mar 5
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AXTI $AAOI $COHR
Major shift toward optics starting NVIDIA Rubin Ultra:
The NVIDIA Rubin Ultra NVL576 rack will mark a major architectural shift by incorporating opti…↗
Mar 5
Gaetano — This could prove to be a very buyable dip
$LITE $COHR $AAOI
There is a lot to unpack here so I will do it in three posts:
1 - Optical scale-up + CPO
2 - Copper's moat and lim…↗
Mar 5
Serenity — @daniel_koss The base case I’ve seen from $AAOI short sellers was that the $250m ATM doesn’t cover the capacity ramp and they needed $50m-$278m more (which is pennies given scale)…↗
Mar 5
Serenity — Feels like $AAOI ($7.5B MC) is one of the highest upside AI trades right now?
With photonics lot of institutions miss upstream bottlenecks $AXTI, so retail can spot them before th…↗
Mar 5
Trade Whisperer — $LITE $GLW $AAOI $AXTI $COHR
Confused by Broadcom's CEO comments on Copper vs. Optics? Let me clear it up.
Hock Tan's emphasis on Direct Attach Copper (DAC) as "the way to go" f…↗
Mar 4
Serenity — @Orcawellian If $AAOI reveals there's three hyperscaler clients (maybe $META or $ORCL) + $AMZN + $MSFT) buying out any capacity they make.
Then they do end-to-end from $COHR lase…↗
Mar 4
Serenity — $AAOI is extraordinarily exciting.
There is a chance this re-rates to $35B+ or higher next year from $7B if they can execute.
I'll give a TLDR of the landscape and a simple exp…↗
Mar 4
Ben Pouladian — Custom ASICs use copper.
NVIDIA training clusters use optics.
Hock’s copper comments are about inference not 100K+ GPU fabrics where copper can’t reach.
Different workloads.…↗
Mar 4
Gaetano — $AAOI We have more insight!
CFO Stefan Murry spoke at the Raymond James Conference yesterday
And it was filled with great nuggets.
Let's unpack!
1. The Firmware issue.
First o…↗
Mar 4
KaizenInvestor — I have written a full article on the AI chip supply chain.
The supply chain is structured into 4 different phases with 13 layers:
1. Raw Materials: $SHECY, $SUOPY, GlobalWafers,…↗
Mar 4
Serenity — @SkiIIls No over the next year I think $AAOI will outperform just due to its small MC size + leapfrogging the other optical companies.
$COHR, $AXTI, $LITE are much more defensibl…↗
Mar 4
Serenity — High conviction long: $AAOI.
I genuinely think this could easily be a 3x by next year.
Nvidia funded $COHR, who does Malaysia manufacturing for 800G/1.6T.
$LITE uses FN i…↗
Mar 3
Mike Investing — $NVDA isn’t just building chips, but rather buying the entire AI stack…
Below are some of Nividia’s most notable investments:
~ $5B in $INTC (Intel)
~ $2B in $CRWV (CoreWeave)
~…↗
Mar 3
CK Capital — Photonics, Space, and Defense stocks are all you need to retire.
$AAOI
$ASTS
$KRKNF
$COHR
$LITE↗
Mar 3
Michael Sikand 🦑 — 30% in 1 week with 5 stocks.
On 2/19, I launched a public stock portfolio on @joinautopilot called "Photonics Is Next".
The idea? Own the 5 best stocks for AI's next $1T bottlene…↗
Mar 3
Gaetano — It's important to add that other companies like $COHR and $AAOI have also mentioned that they are locking up supply and have multiple suppliers. Should have added that in there but…↗
Serenity — @tanzhengjie3 Photonics is the new architectural paradigm for AI. Go long for next few years.
$NVDA basically just invested $4B the other day to help $COHR and $LITE scale up and…↗
Mar 3
Trade Whisperer — London Stock Exchange Group's just dropped perfect 10 scores on Earnings Outlook for $LITE and $COHR https://t.co/qkP8p17vE8↗
Mar 3
TheValueist — $NVDA $AMD $LITE $COHR (Wall Street Journal) -- Ayar Labs, a decade-old chip startup backed by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, has raised $500 million from investors including N…↗
Mar 3
Jason Luongo — NVDA just told you the next AI trade.
They invested $4 billion into optical infrastructure today.
$2B into $LITE.
$2B into $COHR.
Why? Because copper is dead at AI scale. Data c…↗
Mar 3
Damnang2 — $AVGO 는 인듐 포스파이드(InP) 팹과 레이저 생산을 자체적으로(in-house) 보유하고 있다.
$NVDA 는 레이저 공급망을 확보하기 위해 $LITE, $COHR 에 투자하고 있지만, $AVGO 는 이미 내부에서 자체 조달이 가능하다.
광(옵틱스) 투자자들은 웨이퍼부터 CPO까지 이어지는, 가장 수직 계열화된(v…↗
Serenity — @chad_the_stud $AXTI controls the supply chain needed for the AI buildout for photonics. At a $2.5B MC.
I would not be surprised if it were trading at $20B or more next year.
$N…↗
Mar 2
Serenity — Holy ****, this thesis was perhaps the most legendary one on X this year.
$AXTI is now at $46.7 after Nvidia funneled $4B into photonics players $LITE and $COHR today.
Guess who…↗
Mar 2
TheValueist — The core networking names impacted by today's $NVDA announcement all closed near their day's highs. Very encouraging.
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI https://t.co/gnwhMB15Fd↗
Mar 2
Gaetano — Revisiting my $COHR earnings thesis...
This is a great example of how there are still many investment opportunities that get presented
What helps is:
Understanding what you own…↗
Mar 2
Frenchie — 🚨 Le Supercycle de la photonique est en marche
NVIDIA vient d’annoncer des accords stratégiques avec $COHR et $LITE, avec 2 Md $ investis dans chaque société pour développer et s…↗
Mar 2
Trade Whisperer — $NVDA $COHR $LITE
"Nvidia is investing a combined $4 billion in Coherent and Lumentum, two photonics companies."
"Each company will receive $2 billion each from the chip giant as…↗
Ben Pouladian — Lumentum CEO just confirmed at MS TMT:
NVIDIA saw the scarcity of indium phosphide supply and locked it up.
Agreements with both Lumentum AND Coherent the two major InP supplie…↗
Mar 2
TheValueist — $NVDA $LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI EVENT OVERVIEW
NVIDIA disclosed on March 2, 2026 a $4B aggregate capital commitment to 2 photonics suppliers, with $2B directed to Lumentum Holdings…↗
Mar 2
TheValueist — Whatever you believe, it doesn't matter. $NVDA is telling you the world is moving to optics. Listen.
$LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI↗
Serenity — @invspoter I'm happy if I was able to help!
Glad I got this part spot on from my thesis last year though. $NVDA ended up investing in both of $LITE and $COHR. Then $AAOI ended up…↗
Mar 2
Gaetano — This move today in Photonics names is awesome
$AAOI $COHR $LITE
It's also important to look at the macro backdrop
$SPY is down 1% so far and there is obviously extreme geopolitic…↗
Mar 2
Serenity — I literally dropped a photonics goldmine last year.
Did you listen anon?
Everything either went up 2-3X in the past two months from $AXTI to $AAOI.
$LITE ended up increasing 10…↗
Mar 2
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $AAOI $AXTI sorted by pre. https://t.co/TrlfzG6T1o↗
Mar 2
Gaetano — $NVDA doesn't think the optical supercycle is over
$COHR $LITE↗
Mar 2
Serenity — @anhecdote Anytime! Yeah the entire photonics supply chain that I've mentioned from $AXTI, $LITE, $COHR, $IQE, and $AAOI has been a straight green line up.↗
Mar 2
Serenity — $NVDA has just invested $2 billion into $COHR for advanced laser and optical networking products.
This is an extremely bullish tailwind for $AXTI (substrate provider), other optic…↗
Mar 2
Serenity — $NVDA has just invested $2 billion to support Lumentum's R&D and a new U.S. fabrication facility.
This is a massive tailwind for photonics stocks from: $LITE, $COHR, $AAOI, $AXTI,…↗
Mar 2
The Future Investors — $NVDA $LITE $COHR Nvidia will invest $4 billion in U.S. photonics firms, $2B each in Lumentum and Coherent, to boost R&D and domestic manufacturing.
The move strengthens Nvidia’s…↗
Mar 2
TheValueist — $NVDA $LITE $COHR 😂😉 - (Bloomberg) -- Nvidia Corp. agreed to invest $4 billion in two companies that develop data center optics that are essential for artificial intelligence sys…↗
Mar 2
Shay Boloor — $NVDA also invested $2B in $COHR in a similarly structured deal https://t.co/x1aaFdZAmT↗
Serenity — @Compounds365 Three to four hyperscaler orders for all the capacity they can make a year out doesn’t mean risk of cancellation? Not sure where you’re getting that from.
What 20%…↗
Mar 2
Serenity — @tannt8533 Probably very early to $AXTI and $AAOI. $LITE slightly more priced in. $COHR has some way to go.
$IQE is very early but I wouldn’t recommend it to people since it’s in…↗
Mar 2
Serenity — Apparently $IQE does not concern itself with the War in Iran either?
My core photonics segment picks from $AXTI, $LITE, $COHR, and $AAOI have been just vertical green line up ever…↗
Mar 2
Gaetano — $IQE has been exploding with interest lately.
Let’s peel this back and see what's going on here.
This post will be a bit dense, so feel free to ask questions.
$IQE is an epiwafe…↗
Mar 2
Gaetano — 🚨'The Photonics Trade Is Over'
$AAOI $LITE $COHR $GLW $CIEN
'All these companies are up way too much'
'We need to find the NEXT big play'
Etc.
I hear you.
I have heard these…↗
Mar 1
InvestmentGuru — Why Photonics Is a High-Conviction Sector Investment
Photonics isn’t just “optics.”
It’s the infrastructure layer enabling AI, hyperscale data centers, telecom upgrades, and next…↗
Mar 1
Gaetano — I have gotten alot of comments asking me about $IQE
It has especially gotten alot of interest over the last week when @aleabitoreddit posted about it
I am working on a post righ…↗
Mar 1
Gaetano — 🚨The photonics supply crisis!
$AAOI $COHR $LITE $POET
Why it's here
What it means
What to watch
$LITE $COHR & $AAOI all said the same thing
They're not limited by how much cu…↗
Mar 1
Serenity — @jahintanvir_ Probably the likes of these:
Memory - $MU, Samsung, SK Hynix, Sandisk
Foundries, Packaging- $INTC, $TSM, $AMKR
Photonics - $LITE, $COHR, $AAOI
ASICs - $AVGO, $MRVL
Co…↗
Mar 1
Gaetano — Education Saturday! 📓
$AAOI $LITE $POET $COHR $GLW
New to photonics stocks and wondering why they are going parabolic?
Let's break it down!
Photonics is simply the use of ligh…↗
— @Investmnt_Eagle Could look into Oxford instruments, they're a known $COHR and $AAOI supplier for etch/deposition process.
Slightly different than what $VECO/Axtron type are doin…
Serenity — Second order effects from $AAOI earnings:
-> Extreme demand for MBE/MOCVD reactors.
They're needed for epiwafers.
This signals two things for "manufacturing":
- $IQE is sitt…↗
Feb 28
Black Panther Capital — The hyperscalers and government are telling you exactly where to invest:
The AI capex supercycle is just beginning.
$655 billion.
That’s what the hyperscalers are spending on AI…↗
Feb 28
Gaetano — These guys are awesome!
I highly recommend subscribing to this podcast and giving these guys a follow
@austinlyons @vikramskr
I've listened to Austin for a while now and have…↗
Feb 27
Gaetano — We’ll get em next time Dad 😂
$AAOI $COHR
NFA https://t.co/8HFp5gauDp↗
Feb 27
Serenity — $AAOI's 10x projected rev surge in optical transceiver demand by 2027 for $4.3B ARR off a $5.5B MC...
Is enormous.
$LITE and $COHR might be crowded, but.
We'll likely see rotat…↗
Feb 27
Gaetano — So how do we value $AAOI today?
Part of my goal with my photonics community I am launching soon is to build deep conviction
With conviction we can hold through the noise and see…↗
Feb 27
KawzInvests 🦑 — $AAOI up 50% today.
Management guided $378M per month in transceiver revenue by Q2 2027. That is $4.5B annualized.
A $50B market cap does not sound crazy when you run those numbe…↗
Feb 27
Serenity — @yianisz Agreed! But I don’t quite think it’s crowded quite yet.
Most people are in names like $LITE and $COHR and $AAOI is just getting out on their radar.
I think there’s a l…↗
Feb 27
Serenity — Yeah $AAOI is the only true domestic player assembling in Sugar Texas for 800G and 1.6T transceivers. $COHR does their stuff in Malaysia/Vietnam, and $LITE uses $FN and others.
T…↗
Feb 27
Serenity — After earnings, $AAOI could easily be a $25B-$30B company next year from $5B if they hit their projections.
And they're one of the only "Made in America" (Sugarland, Texas) comp…↗
Feb 27
Serenity — @Investmnt_Eagle $LITE, $COHR, Innolight, $AVGO, and Eoptolink.
$AAOI is one of the only pure "Made in America" texas fab. So it will get the premium.↗
Feb 27
IvanaSPEAR — But what about copper, and specifically component suppliers $ALAB $CRDO . Should they be left for dead?
Here are some thoughts:
1. $ALAB is posting inmpressive growth ('25 57% '2…↗
Feb 27
IvanaSPEAR — The big debate: Optics vs. Copper
$COHR $LITE $GLW
vs.
$APH $ALAB $CRDO
Detailed thoughts below 👇 https://t.co/jQ2I5fTksA↗
Feb 27
Serenity — @BNAibex1628 If I had to guess, probably extreme interest by companies like $COHR and $LITE.
But $IQE probably wants to stay standalone and sell off their drag only, rather than t…↗
Feb 27
Serenity — Here's a deeper look into $IQE ($179M):
IQE's hidden InP optionality versus LandMark's $3.5B valuation. And the $IREN / $CRWV "miner" pivot to photonics:
Before I did a high-lev…↗
Feb 27
Serenity — $AAOI is another photonics name that has just doubled in the last two months!
Feels like every photonics company from $AXTI and $AAOI has been doubling or tripling recently?
I’ve…↗
Feb 27
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 26
Jason Luongo — Big Tech just committed $650B+ in 2026 capex.
Here's how that money flows through every layer of the AI stack:
Compute: GPUs and Accelerators
$NVDA - Blackwell shipping now, Rubi…↗
Feb 26
Serenity — Year to Date post $NVDA earnings:
477.27%.
Majority of the gains are the result of the research I've done the past few months:
From the $AXTI's InP chokepoint that went up few h…↗
Feb 26
KawzInvests 🦑 — We think we know what Jensen is announcing at GTC March 16.
A Co-Packaged Optics Switch ASIC. The next iteration of Spectrum-X and Quantum-X Photonics.
Conventional networking co…↗
Feb 26
Gaetano — $COHR provided an amazing dip buy
I'm hoping $AAOI will too https://t.co/N5QOiBU9sV↗
Feb 26
Gaetano — Maybe we'll finally see a red day?
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW $AXTI
Reminder, this watchlist is my own personal levels and reflect my already heavily concentrated port
I scheduled a…↗
Feb 26
Serenity — @wizlardbo Not a good idea, it’s inherently risky due to net debt and potential dilution.
I’m just sharing my thought process but risk-tolerance is different for everyone so make…↗
Feb 26
Gaetano — 🚨 Photonics investors, $NVDA just reported earnings.
The call had clear signal for the photonics trade.
Let's dig in.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW $FN $CRDO $MRVL $POET
1/ "Netwo…↗
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
Black Panther Capital — 👀7 sectors and 27 stocks to add to your watchlist:
Photonics: $CIEN, $COHR, $LITE, $AAOI, $POET
Space: $ASTS, $RKLB, $PL, $SATL, $RDW
Data Center: $IREN, $CIFR, $NUAI, $WULF
S…↗
Feb 25
Gaetano — A pullback into consolidation in these names would be very healthy
$lite $cohr $axti $glw $cien etc.↗
Feb 25
Serenity — @sslickith Yeah I forgot about my second best friend $COHR. Unfortunately didn’t do a thesis post distinctly on that name so I can’t brag.↗
Feb 25
TheValueist — Networking very strong start to the morning.
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW https://t.co/kewycF7nwS↗
Feb 25
Gaetano — The $COHR post earnings dip sure was a blessing
60% in 3 weeks↗
Feb 25
Serenity — Was the first to talk about $AXTI in relation to photonics BOM/supply chains:
$IQE is very interesting too as one of the only Western suppliers.
Basically if you look at photoni…↗
Feb 25
Serenity — @tme5s Yes, just wanted to add a disclaimer: this is an extremely oversimplified mapping of the likely supply chain.
$COHR, Eoptolink, or Fabrinet are likely too. Alongside JX/Su…↗
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
Serenity — Year to Date: 412.72%
Lot of it is just picking the right sector, profiting off of Jane Street algos weekly, and a bit of luck.
In terms of bottleneck longs, these are currently…↗
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…↗
KawzInvests 🦑 — Everyone asking where to hide from the AI selloff.
The answer is right in front of you. Go down the stack into what AI runs on. Chips, memory, photonics, energy.
$NVDA
$MU
$SND…↗
Feb 24
Serenity — @crypticTooth $AXTI is my favorite just because of their strategic value to the photonics supply chains.
Otherwise $LITE is runner up, and largely undervalued if you fast forward…↗
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
KawzInvests 🦑 — @pumacapital_ No Korea ( $EWY), no photonics ( $LITE $COHR) 6.5/10↗
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
TheValueist — $MS $LITE $COHR $CIEN Into the Spotlight: Optical Market Opportunities.↗
Feb 23
Shay Boloor — @VanquishTrader People don’t associate these names with $NVDA GPUs when they should.
Nvidia ships the GPUs. $LITE, $COHR & $GLW ship the plumbing that connects them.↗
Feb 23
TheValueist — $MS $LITE $COHR $CIEN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Morgan Stanley’s “Into the Spotlight: Optical Market Opportunities” frames the optical stack as entering a second phase of AI-driven scalin…↗
Feb 23
Shay Boloor — $JPM sees a multi-year optics upcycle for $LITE, $COHR & $GLW as hyperscaler spend surges into 2027 and 800G+ datacom compounds 40%+ CAGR.
$NVDA ships the GPUs but optics scal…↗
Feb 23
TheValueist — This OFC will be a banger. Crazy they are running it on the same days as NVDA GTC.
https://t.co/9RtPVBxl4G
$LITE $COHR $GLW $NVDA↗
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 22
Gaetano — 🚨Is the Photonics trade doomed??
We discussed the significance of the supply shortage.
$AXTI is in a position where it can't supply enough to meet demand.
This creates a down…↗
Feb 22
Gaetano — @Tolkhow I own both, recently bought more $LITE at a higher price than I trimmed at prior. I personally like $COHR going into Q3/Q4 for lower downside (at current levels) and for b…↗
Feb 22
Gaetano — "Is it too late to jump in?"
I get this questions a lot on my photonics posts
$LITE $COHR $CIEN $GLW $AXTI
It's important to remember that I really don't want to give specific ad…↗
Feb 22
Gaetano — @PeterSikachev $AXTI - Steps 0 and 1. Through their China subsidiary they have partial ownership in raw material companies producing the key inputs for InP so that's Step 0. Then…↗
Feb 22
TheValueist — $LITE $COHR $FN $AXTI KEY READ-THROUGHS FROM THE PHOTONICS SUPPLY CHAIN: START TO FINISH
The source material describes an end-to-end, yield-sensitive manufacturing chain in which…↗
Gaetano — Education Saturday! 📓
For all my Photonics followers, you'll want to learn this
$AXTI $LITE $COHR $GLW $POET etc.
The Photonics Supply Chain: Start to Finish.
Step 0: Mining an…↗
TheValueist — $AXTI $COHR COHR can be a reasonable way to express the InP/AI-optics scarcity theme with materially less direct exposure to the specific China export-permit gating factor that dom…↗
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 20
TheValueist — $NVDA $LITE $COHR $CIEN ISSCC 2026 CONTEXT AND SIGNAL VALUE↗
Feb 19
Michael Sikand 🦑 — The next $1T AI bottleneck isn't power, compute, or memory.
It's connectivity.
And the only solution is light.
So I launched @joinautopilot's first ever photonics themed stock…↗
Feb 19
TheValueist — $NVDA $LITE $COHR $CIEN ISSCC 2026 CONTEXT AND SIGNAL VALUE
ISSCC 2026 was positioned explicitly around AI system enablement, with the official theme framed as “Advancing AI with…↗
Feb 19
Ben Pouladian — @insane_analyst That bathtub curve is goated. 1e-12 BER across all 9 lanes, all on, PRBS31. Nice work will add this to my $lite $cohr work↗
Feb 19
Gaetano — @abhiatwork85 Yeah thats a good question that I was actually exploring today as well. Overall I am hoping that there is no significant escalation (obviously) and I don't think ther…↗
Feb 19
Serenity — @PhotonCap I think the nuance is that there’s two different bottlenecks. One is feedstock/refinery processing. The other is InP substrates.
Sumitomo/ $COHR sits in one of them bu…↗
Feb 19
Gaetano — @KairosPraxis Yes for sure $LITE currently holds the technical lead in performance specs (particularly in 200G EMLs), which always matters for high-end AI networking. but in a mark…↗
Feb 19
Gaetano — @austinhodly Thats a tough one that I can't really answer, Im sorry man. Some of the strongest charts are $LITE $GLW $CIEN . Thats reflective of their dominance and growth. For me,…↗
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 18
Gaetano — @DeepValueBagger $vrt and $cohr well done↗
Feb 18
TheValueist — The names I've been discussing regularly over these past months, $LITE $COHR $CIEN, have exposure to all the US hyperscalers, with $TE in addition.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The image pr…↗
Feb 17
Gaetano — 40-50 Billion $COHR $LITE $CIEN
Lumentum - $LITE $40.1B
$LITE sells optical communications components and modules that help data move through telecom and cloud/data-center networ…↗
Feb 17
Gaetano — 🚨 The Photonics Landscape: An Investor's Guide
$POET $LITE $COHR $AXTI $AAOI
Photonics interest is exploding
This is a sector with massive tailwinds for 2026
Let's dig into wha…↗
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 16
Gaetano — I am setting out on a very ambitious goal
$POET $LITE $COHR $CIEN $AXTI
I have just started what will be my most extensive and exhaustive report I've ever written
For photonics 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 — $COHR Will surprise the market in Q4
I believe that the market is under appreciating the supply that Coherent will be able to bring by year end
This is my highest conviction phot…↗
Feb 14
Frenchie — 📊 Les data centers représentent maintenant 7% de la consommation d’énergie américaine
Je doute que ça s’arrête là, je suis bull sur :
$CIFR $NBIS $IREN
Mais aussi sur les dif…↗
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 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 — As promised, I am now deep into my $OPTX report
$LITE & $COHR + Sector pulse ✅
$LASR deep dive ✅
Now deep in $OPTX
This is going to be a good one. You won't want to miss it.
Wi…↗
Feb 12
Serenity — The "Bottleneck ETF" from supply chain mapping.
Not a single name red.
Equal weighted results 1W: +12.83%.
List:
$LITE: +31.68%
$AMKR: +28.7%
Disco: +24.35%
$GLW: +23.57%
$COHR…↗
Feb 11
Serenity — For the vast majority of retail:
If you want to ride the capex trends happening right now, these are probably must have imo:
1. Memory - $MU, Samsung, Sk Hynix, $SNDK
2. Photon…↗
Feb 10
Jukan @COMPUTEX — 《GF International Electronics & Communications》
AI Networking: NVIDIA's Accelerated Roadmap, CPO Technology Debate Heats Up
Key CPO Takeaways from Recent Earnings Calls: Coherent…↗
Feb 10
TheValueist — $COHR (Bloomberg) -- Bain Capital offered an unregistered block of Coherent Corp. shares for as much as $2.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest selld…↗
Feb 10
Serenity — $AXTI - 7N high purity Indium hit over $1K+ USD and has increased parabolically over the last three months.
This is a derivative reflection of price hikes.
There's two nuances:…↗
Feb 9
Gaetano — Today $COHR hit all time highs ($247)
Last week it sold off ~20% on earnings and traded as low as $167
Thats almost a 40% swing.
In this post linked below I dove deep into the…↗
Gaetano — 🚨 Where Is The Photonics Trade Headed Next?
$AAOI $POET $GLW $MRVL $CIEN
$LITE & $COHR earnings came out last week.
So let’s talk about what they actually told us and how that s…↗
Feb 8
Shay Boloor — $GOOGL, $MSFT, $META & $AMZN just confirmed $600B+ in 2026 CapEx.
Here’s how that money flows through the AI stack:
GPUs, Accelerators
• $AMD provides second source AI GPUs with…↗
Feb 7
Serenity — @Frenchie_ I have $CRDO on there since I felt the selloff to $95 was a huge overreaction.
But I am a fan of photonic supply chains like $LITE, $COHR, $AAOI, $AXTI type companies↗
Feb 7
Serenity — Portfolio weightings is my most common question.
Here’s what my portfolio looks like:
35% Memory Supercycle
_
10% Samsung Electronics
10% Sk Hynix
10% $MU
5% $SNDK
25% Digital…↗
Feb 7
TheValueist — 🙏 thank you. I believe the market is tremendously underappreciating the value proposition of COHR’s new 6in facility expansion in TX. The information is essentially all in this po…↗
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 7
Serenity — Here's my TLDR + mapped into investment framework from Semivision bottleneck summary:
HBM:
HBM4 (16Hi) - Samsung, Sk Hynix, $MU
HBF - $SNDK, Kioxia
Base Die - $TSM, Samsung (inter…↗
Feb 7
Serenity — A new release shows Japan is investing:
$550B USD (86 Trillion Yen) into several sectors.
The first round of investments go into these three:
1. Synthetic Diamonds for Semis (h…↗
Feb 6
Jason Luongo — The hyperscalers are telling you exactly where the money is going.
AI Compute - $IREN $CIFR $NBIS $WULF
GPUs - $NVDA $AMD
Networking - $AVGO $ANET $MRVL
Optical/Fiber - $COHR $GLW…↗
Feb 6
Gaetano — It's crazy how much price could change sentiment
Did anyone end up buying over the last couple days?
If so, what did you pick up?
I ended up taking some drone plays that I've n…↗
Feb 6
Gaetano — 🚨Exciting news!
I’ve got 3 big reports in the works
$LITE and $COHR and entite photonics pulse check after earnings
$LASR & $OPTX Deep dives
And 1 suprise article
Will post…↗
Feb 5
Gaetano — $COHR "In addition, contributions from the 1.6T ramp, 6-inch InP cost advantages, and commercialization of CPO/scale-up architectures are more likely to become visible in the calen…↗
Feb 5
Gaetano — The 6-inch wafer is foundational to my long thesis $COHR
In a supply constrained world, be the company that can produce the most.
Working on a full writeup that explains exactly…↗
Feb 5
Gaetano — 🚨We just got the two most important photonics earnings of the quarter $LITE & $COHR
If you are interested in photonics, please read!
We talked about them individually, so now l…↗
Feb 5
TheValueist — $POET $LITE $COHR Room exists, but it is mostly in the “integration layer,” not in the wafer-level InP bottleneck where LITE/COHR are extracting the scarcity economics.
In this cy…↗
Gaetano — $LITE just catching all the bids! What a monster stock
Google's CAPEX is super bullish Lumentum.
Also bullish $COHR but not to the same degree↗
Feb 5
Gaetano — $COHR earnings sure were... exciting?
There is a lot to unpack here.
That price action definitely could make you question your thesis. But if you dig under the headlines the stor…↗
Feb 5
TheValueist — $COHR EXECUTIVE CALL SUMMARY: COHERENT CORP (02/04/26)
Coherent reported a record fiscal Q2 2026 quarter ended 12/31/25, characterized by accelerating DataCenter and Communication…↗
Feb 4
Serenity — @stefano_kerope True, $LITE and $COHR are large beneficiaries from this. https://t.co/A3nxoIQ3iE↗
Feb 4
Ray Wang — $COHR on CPO & Scale-Up. Optics acceleration.
- The recent large CPO purchase order is initially for Scale-Out architecture but is expected to lead to Scale-Up deployments
- CPO…↗
Feb 4
Serenity — $GOOGL reported earnings and their CapEX spend was enormous.
$175-$185 Billion vs. $120 Billion.
This is bullish for AI buildout.
Follow the money flow down to:
- $AVGO, Media…↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — Really strong earnings $COHR
Not the best price action, but I guess it's not too surprising coming after $LITE blowout and the market is looking too near term IMO
Dropped some n…↗
Feb 4
TheValueist — $COHR (Bloomberg) -- Coherent Corp reported adjusted earnings per share for the second quarter that beat the average analyst estimate.
SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
•Adjusted EPS $1.29 vs…↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — Very briefly I am watching OCS discussion/booking, 1.6T volume, margin expansion, 6-inch InP yields, any conversation around divestitures that would make it more of a pure play,…↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — @changbennyy Well I got some more $COHR today around $210 but I will look at add some more depending on ER.
If it dips im watching the 200ma @ ~187, and then ~180 and ~$168 https…↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — @blissfltht My largest in this bunch is $COHR↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — Whose here for the $COHR earnings?!
Will cover it extensively tonight after I hear ER call↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — Here are some of the stock on my watchlist
$LITE $LPTH $COHR $LASR $MU
Let me know if you want to hear my thoughts on any
Or what levels I am watching
While no one knows how low…↗
Gaetano — @ShortSeller Thanks for the share! Really impressive earnings. Looking forward to $cohr today↗
Feb 4
Gaetano — Reposting this before $cohr earnings
After $lite blowout earnings, will I regret my decision?😂
Maybe. Tune in later to find out
Reposting this before coherent earnings today s…↗
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 4
Gaetano — 2026 is off to a crazy start
$LITE $OPTX $LASR $COHR $KOPN
I knew that going into this year I wanted massive exposure to two themes
AI data center photonics
Aerospace / Defense…↗
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…↗
Serenity — I'm long shares on $AXTI.
We're seeing the HBM/NAND supercycle with $SNDK, $MU, Sk Hynix, and Samsung today.
With constant price hikes due to extreme demand.
The next? -> Phot…↗
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
KawzInvests 🦑 — CPO is the thesis behind the photonics sector catching a bid. Co-packaged optics is the next evolution of AI infrastructure and the supply chain runs through
- $AAOI
- $LITE
-…↗
Feb 2
KawzInvests 🦑 — My watchlist. Photonics caught a bid across the board today.
$AXTI +16% $OPTX +14% $LITE +11% $AAOI +10% $COHR +7% $PLAB +4%
This sector is just getting started.↗
Feb 2
KawzInvests 🦑 — @crux_capital_ This is literally my watchlist. Photonics sector is waking up across the board. $AAOI $PLAB $LITE $COHR $OPTX $POET all moving together. Earnings season is going to…↗
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…↗