Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
Decision snapshot: CIEN stock price vs AAPL: inconclusive — current versus $25.73 implied using P/E multiple.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at AAPL's multiple
Implied fair value · at CIEN's multiple
Needs CIEN P/E.
Close Dec 31, 2025
Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth edge
Reported gross margin
Operating income + D&A
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
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Values retain reported currencies and share bases. Select a figure to inspect its period, calculation and filing inputs. Differences require compatible units and periods.
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Trendline
Nine period-end years of reported revenue, earnings, and margins. Periods and currencies are shown with the data.
Price framework
USD market cap plus reported borrowing debt, less cash and equivalents. This EV proxy excludes investments, preferred stock and noncontrolling-interest adjustments.
Complete market value, debt and cash evidence is required for enterprise value.
Capital structure 98% equity / 2% debt · EV / Revenue 8.34x · EV proxy / EBITDA proxy 23.29x
Price framework
The same filing-backed model used on each company's valuation page, with company-specific inputs and calculated scenarios.
Ciena Corp · implied price per share
Debt and bridge-cash inputs are required to translate enterprise value into equity value.
Apple Inc. · implied price per share
Bear
$130.85
Base
$159.76
Bull
$182.30
Balance sheet health
Inspect reported liquidity and leverage alongside historical financial-health checks.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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Cash excludes investments. EBITDA is an operating-income-plus-D&A proxy. Missing borrowing categories remain unavailable; select a value to inspect its inputs.
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LLM-powered synthesis
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If you believe CIEN can sustain 18.8% revenue growth and rapidly expand margins toward AAPL-like levels, then hold or consider only a very selective position because the current valuation already embeds aggressive expectations; otherwise, avoid or underweight CIEN because the stock trades at a severe premium despite much weaker profitability and returns.
CIEN trades at a massive premium to the P/E-based implied price, with the current price of $422.46 versus an implied price of $30.98, or -92.7% downside. The gap is hard to justify on fundamentals because CIEN’s profitability and returns are far below AAPL’s even though its growth is higher.
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