Corning (GLW) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Corning's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
GLW closed at $149.81 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -14.0% from its 50-day average and +6.5% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “split trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -21.9%, trailing SPY by 25.0%. It remains 44.9% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -14.0% from its 50-day average and +6.5% from its 200-day average. Over three months, GLW returned -21.9% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -14.0%
- vs 200-day
- +6.5%
- From 52W high
- -44.9%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
GLW appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 2 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 2 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.09, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | #21 | — |
| 2026-07-01 | #25 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.077 calls, 0.065 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Corning position in their latest filing, worth $697M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lone Pine Capital Steve Mandel · GLW | $697M | 4.26% | 2.73M | -26.6% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open GLW Financials →How GLW trades — the working manual
Corning develops specialty glass, ceramics and optical products for communications networks, displays, mobile devices, vehicles and life-science labs. For the stock, technology content and long customer relationships must be balanced against telecom inventory cycles, display-glass pricing and the utilization of capital-intensive manufacturing assets.
What can move the tape
- 01Optical-network demand from carriers, data centers and broadband deployments.
- 02Display-glass volume, pricing and manufacturing efficiency across panel cycles.
- 03Specialty-material content in mobile devices, vehicles and environmental products.
- 04Factory utilization, operating margin, capital expenditures and free cash flow.
What can fool the read
- 01Telecom inventory corrections can delay optical demand despite long-run bandwidth growth.
- 02Display pricing and utilization can move quickly when panel supply changes.
- 03Large manufacturing investments can pressure returns if product ramps arrive late.
- 04Customer concentration and consumer-device cycles can amplify product-transition risk.
Corning triggered 5 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was GLW on 2026-07-28: 3.2× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.5% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported GLW events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
GLW stock questions
Is GLW stock in an uptrend?+
GLW is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -14.0% from its 50-day average and +6.5% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in GLW mean?+
Corning's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the GLW 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are GLW's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated GLW Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no GLW earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.