---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-017731"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GLW"
cik: "0000024741"
company_name: "CORNING INC /NY"
filed_at: "2022-07-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T08:53:38.045244+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Corning Q2 core sales $3.76B (+7% YoY), core EPS $0.57 (+8% YoY); FY guidance slightly above $15B

## Summary
- Core sales $3.762B (+7% YoY); Optical Communications sales +22% YoY.
- Core EPS $0.57 (+8% YoY); GAAP EPS $0.66; free cash flow $440M.
- Q3 guidance: core sales $3.65-$3.85B, core EPS $0.51-$0.55.
- Management now expects FY core sales slightly above $15B, growth 6%-8%.
- Core gross margin and operating margin expanded 90 bps and 120 bps sequentially from Q1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-017731
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GLW
- cik: 0000024741
- company_name: CORNING INC /NY
- filed_at: 2022-07-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/24741/000143774922017731/0001437749-22-017731-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/24741/000143774922017731/glw20220509_8k.htm

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