Lumentum (LITE) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Lumentum'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
LITE closed at $1048.60 on Oct 8, 2026. The price is +15.0% from its 50-day average and +37.9% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +30.8%, beating SPY by 28.2%. It remains 7.8% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessSplit-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts · Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonData as of 2026-10-08 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +15.0% from its 50-day average and +37.9% from its 200-day average. Over three months, LITE returned +30.8% versus +2.5% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +15.0%
- vs 200-day
- +37.9%
- From 52W high
- -7.8%
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
LITE appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 8 of 94 archived scanner sessions: 4 call-side, 4 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.10, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | — | #22 |
| 2026-08-13 | #17 | — |
| 2026-08-12 | — | #24 |
| 2026-06-23 | #24 | — |
| 2026-06-18 | #14 | — |
| 2026-06-10 | — | #13 |
| 2026-06-02 | — | #12 |
| 2026-05-28 | #13 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-10-07Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.258 calls, 0.119 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-09-08Sep 8: Lumentum rose 11.0% to $978.54, but no fresh company announcement or verified analyst action was identified as the driver. The automated earnings headline was commentary on previously released results.
Lumentum supplies lasers, optical modules and subsystems used in data-center and communications networks. Its next scheduled presentation is at the Citi Global TMT Conference on Sep 9 at 2:35 p.m. ET, followed by the Wolfe Research TMT Conference on Sep 10. Those appearances offer a chance to hear whether management updates its view of optical demand.
Source: Lumentum: upcoming investor events, Aug 14 ↗Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Lumentum position in their latest filing, worth $18M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · LITE | $18M | 0.03% | 20,447 | -2.5% 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 LITE Financials →How LITE trades — the working manual
Lumentum supplies optical and photonic components for cloud, telecom and industrial applications. For the stock, data-center bandwidth ramps and telecom recovery must translate into customer production volume, factory utilization and gross-margin improvement despite concentrated programs and fast product transitions.
What can move the tape
- 01Cloud and data-center demand for higher-speed optical components and transceivers.
- 02Telecom inventory normalization and carrier spending on transmission equipment.
- 03Customer qualifications, new-product ramps and manufacturing yields across major programs.
- 04Gross-margin recovery, factory utilization, working capital and free-cash-flow conversion.
What can fool the read
- 01Customer concentration can make one design change or delayed ramp material to revenue.
- 02Telecom and optical inventory cycles can remain weak longer than end demand suggests.
- 03Export restrictions and geographic concentration can constrain customers or manufacturing choices.
- 04Acquisitions and product transitions can pressure margins if integration or yields disappoint.
Lumentum triggered 5 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-10-08 archive. The latest was LITE on 2026-10-01: 1.8× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +6.7% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported LITE 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 | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-08 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-07 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-08 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-27 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
LITE stock questions
Is LITE stock in an uptrend?+
LITE is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-10-08: the close is +15.0% from its 50-day average and +37.9% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in LITE mean?+
Lumentum'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 LITE 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 LITE's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated LITE 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 LITE 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.