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~2 min read · 458 words ·updated 2026-04-29

Financials overview

Coherent is a US-domestic filer — Form 10-K annually + 10-Q quarterly + 8-K event-driven + Form 4 insider real-time. Fiscal year ends Saturday closest to June 30 (52/53-week fiscal). All amounts in USD.

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Filing regime

FilingFrequencyUse
Form 10-KAnnual (Aug for FY ending late June)Full audited financials, MD&A, risk factors, capital structure
Form 10-QQuarterlyUnaudited interim financials
Form 8-KEvent-drivenMaterial agreements (NVDA $2B investment), earnings, capital actions
Schedule 13G/13DPer holder ≥5%Institutional ownership
Form 4Per insider transactionReal-time insider activity (10b5-1 plans common)

Segment structure

Through FY2025 Coherent reported Networking / Materials / Lasers; from FY2026 the structure was simplified to Datacenter & Communications / Industrial. Translation:

FY2026 segmentMaps from (FY2025)Drivers
Datacenter & CommunicationsNetworkingInP EML/laser sources (AI-datacenter pull-through), datacom transceivers, ROADM/wave-shaper (telecom carrier capex), silicon photonics — dominant and growing
IndustrialMaterials + LasersSiC substrates (EV power-electronics) + industrial fiber lasers, life-sciences instrumentation, additive manufacturing — slower-growing, more cyclical

FY2025 segment trajectory (legacy reporting): Networking +49%, Lasers +3%, Materials −6%.

Capital structure (post-Coherent-Inc.-2022 deleveraging cycle)

The July 2022 Coherent Inc. acquisition was financed with substantial debt + up to $2.0B Series B Convertible Preferred (Bain Capital alone via the BCPE Watson SPV; optional conversion at $85.00; 5.00% PIK through year four — dividends fully waived November 2025) + a $575M public Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred that converted on July 1, 2023. Post-acquisition deleveraging has been a multi-year focus. The March 2026 NVDA $2B common-stock injection (7,788,161 shares at $256.80, Section 4(a)(2) private placement, immediate voting and dilution) materially de-risks the balance sheet and provides capacity for the AI-photonics capex envelope.

Sub-pages

  • Quarterly trend — last 8 quarters revenue, GM, opex, EPS (GAAP + non-GAAP)
  • Segment revenue mix — Networking vs Materials vs Lasers; AI/non-AI splits
  • Balance sheet — cash, debt, working capital; Series B Convertible Preferred (Bain Capital alone via BCPE Watson, $85 optional conversion, 5% PIK through year four, dividends waived); NVDA $2B common-stock stake
  • Capex cycle — InP fab Sherman TX expansion, SiC substrate capacity, NVDA-driven 200G EML ramp
  • Margins and pricing — InP EML ASPs, transceiver gross-margin profile, mix-shift to AI
  • Coherent Inc. integration — acquisition financials ($7.01B); deleveraging trajectory
  • Finisar integration — 2019 acquisition financials and integration learnings
  • Comparable transactionsLumentum comp; NVDA-direct strategic-investment comps
  • DCF assumptions — capacity utilization, ASP trajectory, NVDA-customer concentration scenarios
  • Earnings calls — most recent transcripts and management commitments