secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CIENA CORP (CIEN)
CIK:        0000936395
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000936395-24-000006
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ciena Q1 revenue $1.04B, down 1.8% YoY; GAAP EPS $0.34, adjusted EPS $0.66
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- Revenue of $1.037B, down 1.8% YoY from $1.056B; GAAP net income $49.5M ($0.34/shr) vs $76.2M ($0.51/shr) prior year.
- Adjusted (non-GAAP) net income $96.8M ($0.66/shr) vs $95.6M ($0.64/shr); adjusted gross margin 45.7% up from 43.7%.
- Cash from operations $266.1M; cash and investments $1.48B; repurchased 691K shares for $32M during quarter.
- CEO notes service provider inventory digestion taking longer than expected, but remains confident in long-term bandwidth demand.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639524000006/0000936395-24-000006-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936395/000093639524000006/cien-20240307.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936395-24-000006

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