SeekingAlpha · Oct 6, 2026
POET Technologies: Upgrade To Hold As The Lumilens Order Meets A Lower Bar
POET Technologies is upgraded from Sell to Hold following a ~36% correction and a significant $50m Lumilens order. Read more on POET stock here.
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NASDAQ · POET
POET Technologies Inc.
Technology · Semiconductors
$6.97
Down-$0.56 (-8.03%)
Updated Oct 12, 2026, 11:49 PM
SID Score
4.3/10
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- Market cap
- 954.67M
- P/E ratio
- -12.87
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- 52-week range
- $4.87 – $20.81
- Volume
- 7.76M
- Avg. volume
- 11.2M
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POET price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
Prices through Oct 9, 2026
POET closed at $6.97 after 20 trading sessions, down 6.19% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $6.97
- Period change
- -6.19%
- Period low
- $6.97
- Period high
- $8.41
Daily close
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| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 | $7.26 | $7.26 | $6.87 | $6.97 | 7.76M |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $7.222 | $7.26 | $6.82 | $7.04 | 11.94M |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $7.54 | $7.60 | $7.24 | $7.415 | 10.26M |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $7.91 | $8.19 | $7.64 | $7.71 | 8.12M |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $7.815 | $7.83 | $7.49 | $7.81 | 7.41M |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $7.80 | $8.20 | $7.66 | $7.79 | 8.48M |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $7.56 | $7.80 | $7.39 | $7.64 | 7.72M |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $7.76 | $7.80 | $7.45 | $7.48 | 6.95M |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $7.71 | $7.925 | $7.54 | $7.67 | 6.91M |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $7.585 | $7.67 | $7.32 | $7.41 | 9.06M |
| Sep 25, 2026 | $7.88 | $7.94 | $7.675 | $7.77 | 4.11M |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $7.672 | $7.82 | $7.55 | $7.75 | 6.8M |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $8.10 | $8.1425 | $7.80 | $7.80 | 8.02M |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $8.18 | $8.29 | $8.015 | $8.17 | 10.12M |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $8.13 | $8.65 | $8.01 | $8.41 | 12.89M |
| Sep 18, 2026 | $7.63 | $7.825 | $7.445 | $7.80 | 7.12M |
| Sep 17, 2026 | $7.69 | $7.77 | $7.46 | $7.51 | 6.49M |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $7.43 | $7.475 | $7.18 | $7.40 | 5.73M |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $7.43 | $7.505 | $7.201 | $7.21 | 6.28M |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $7.385 | $7.68 | $7.345 | $7.43 | 8.84M |
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POET Technologies Inc is a design and development company offering high-speed optical engines, light source products, and custom optical modules to the artificial intelligence systems market and hyperscale data centers. Its integration solutions are based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel, patented platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. POET's Optical Interposer platform also solves device integration challenges across a broad range of communication, computing, and sensing applications. The company operates geographically in the United States, Canada, Singapore and China.
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- Average target
- $8.00
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| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2024 | Northland Capital Markets | Outperform | — |
| Nov 22, 2024 | Craig-Hallum | Buy | — |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Northland Capital Markets | Outperform | — |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Craig-Hallum | Buy | — |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Craig-Hallum | Buy | — |
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SeekingAlpha · Oct 5, 2026
POET Technologies: Still A Risk Worth Taking
POET Technologies' risk/reward remains favorable with a strong customer pipeline and substantial manufacturing capacity. Read more on POET stock here.
SeekingAlpha · Oct 2, 2026
POET Technologies: New Deals Are Arriving With Hefty Share Dilution
POET Technologies stays a Sell despite the $500M Lumilens dealâdilution, losses, PFIC tax risk, and execution issues remain. Click for this POET stock update.
Yahoo · Sep 27, 2026
This Photonics Company Trades at 2x Its Cash. Here’s What It Does, and Whether You Should Buy It.
If you can look past the short-term issues, this could be an ideal photonics play as AI infrastructure continues to expand.
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