Serenity — Lumentum's CEO says the company can supply only 30% of 2027 demand as co-packaged optics arrive

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Serenity — Lumentum's CEO says the company can supply only 30% of 2027 demand as co-packaged optics arrive

If the transcription is right, Lumentum's CEO is telling the market the company's 2027 shortfall is structural, with balance not before 2029-2030, which turns the optical trade from a volume story into a pricing and qualified-capacity story. The quote is Serenity's transcription with a timestamp from the Global Photonics Economic Forum recording, not a Lumentum filing or release; it lines up with the Morgan Stanley read on 3.2T curbs earlier this week, which also pointed to laser pricing as the main effect.

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$LITE CEO: "Next year with the advent of CPO and NPO in 2027, our estimates are that we'll be undershipping demand... By 70%. Literally 70%. So we can only supply 30%. And this has caught us by supply. By 2029-2030, we get to some level of balance." Source: Global Photonics

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If the transcription is right, Lumentum's CEO is telling the market the company's 2027 shortfall is structural, with balance not before 2029-2030, which turns the optical trade from a volume story into a pricing and qualified-capacity story. The quote is Serenity's transcription with a timestamp from the Global Photonics Economic Forum recording, not a Lumentum filing or release; it lines up with the Morgan Stanley read on 3.2T curbs earlier this week, which also pointed to laser pricing as the main effect.

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