Coherent Corp Stock Price, News & Analysis

Coherent (NYSE: COHR) will present research and demonstrations at SPIE BiOS & Photonics West in San Francisco, Jan 17–22, 2026. Company speakers will cover laser architectures, specialty materials, fiber lasers, and fusion-energy optics across multiple sessions. Exhibit: Booth 4805 Jan 20–22 for product demos and technical discussions.

Attalon (former Aerospace & Defense business of Coherent, NYSE: COHR) launched as an independent defense technology company on Jan. 13, 2026 after acquisition by Advent International. The company named John Bergeron, a 35-year aerospace and defense executive, as President and CEO to lead a focused strategy on precision optics, directed energy & advanced lasers, and precision coatings. Attalon says the rebrand enables faster, purpose-built investment in mission-critical optical and directed-energy systems for air, space, and ground domains. Attalon will debut its brand and capabilities at Photonics West, Jan. 20-22, 2026, Booth #5412.

Coherent (NYSE: COHR) launched the WaveShaper 1000A Sharp, a programmable optical filter with 5 GHz resolution optical bandwidth, about two times finer resolution than prior programmable filters and designed to generate extremely steep filter slopes for advanced photonics and optical-network applications.

The product is positioned to help designers emulate cascaded ROADM filtering, optimize transmission in meshed networks, and select spectral lines for microwave photonics, terahertz spectroscopy, and metrology. The benchtop instrument integrates with Coherent's WaveAnalyzer family, is orderable now, shipping immediately, and will be shown at Photonics West (Booth 4805).

Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) appointed Mary Jane Raymond to its Board of Directors, effective December 11, 2025, bringing the Board to eight members.

Ms. Raymond has over three decades of public company finance and governance experience, including service as Chief Financial Officer of Coherent from 2014–2024 when Coherent reported revenue exceeding $5.8 billion. She held senior finance, risk management and M&A roles at Hudson Global, Dun & Bradstreet, Lucent Technologies and Cummins, and since 2019 has been an independent director and Audit Committee member at Veeco Instruments (NASDAQ: VECO).

Company leadership cited her governance, finance, internal control, M&A and operational capabilities as reasons for the appointment; Ms. Raymond said she looks forward to contributing to Comtech’s ongoing progress.

Coherent (NYSE: COHR) announced a next-generation 300mm silicon carbide (SiC) platform on Dec. 3, 2025 to address rising thermal-efficiency demands in AI datacenter infrastructure.

The company said it adapted its proven 200mm expertise to develop 300mm conductive SiC substrates that offer low resistivity, low defect density, high homogeneity, and improved thermal management. Coherent plans to ramp the platform in high volumes and also advance the technology for AR/VR devices and power electronics, enabling more devices per wafer and lower cost per chip.

Coherent (NYSE: COHR) announced the Axon FP, a compact, air-cooled, rack-mountable femtosecond laser with a fiber-delivered, collimated output designed for multiphoton microscopy and related applications. Available in 920nm and 1064nm configurations, Axon FP delivers over 1W of femtosecond pulse power and integrates fast power modulation and adjustable dispersion pre-compensation into a single, self-contained unit. The fiber-delivered design removes complex alignment and external optics, aims to reduce setup time and system costs, and supports portable, shared use across lab setups. Axon FP debuts at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Nov 15–19, 2025.

Coherent (NYSE: COHR) on Nov. 10, 2025 introduced the EDGE CUT20 OEM Cutting Solution, combining the new CUT20 laser cutting head with the EDGE FL20 fiber laser to target high-performance sheet-metal cutting.

Key features: the CUT20 supports laser powers up to 20 kW, MZ functionality for independent Z-axis focus and magnification (spot-size) control in real time, integrated SmartQD process monitoring for pierce/loss-of-cut/burn detection at the fiber connector, and an EDGE FL platform offering back-reflection resilience, modular scalability, and field-replaceable components. Coherent said the design eases OEM integration via a compact FPGA-based architecture and will be shown at Photonix Japan 2025 in Tokyo.

Coherent (NYSE: COHR) reported Q1 FY2026 revenue of $1.58B, up 17% year-over-year (19% pro forma after the sale of the Aerospace & Defense business). GAAP gross margin was 36.6% (+249 bps Y/Y) and GAAP diluted EPS was $1.19. On a non-GAAP basis gross margin was 38.7% and non-GAAP EPS was $1.16 (+$0.49 Y/Y). The company paid down $400M of debt and refinanced debt to lower interest expense. Q2 FY2026 guidance: revenue $1.56B–$1.70B, non-GAAP gross margin 38%–40%, and non-GAAP EPS $1.10–$1.30.

Coherent (NYSE: COHR) entered a definitive agreement to sell its materials processing tools product division to Bystronic, with expected closing in early 2026 subject to customary conditions. The unit employs approximately 400 people and generates about $100 million in annual sales. Proceeds will be used to reduce debt and are described as immediately accretive to EPS. Management framed the sale as part of a portfolio review to sharpen focus on core growth markets and products.