COHR
COHERENT CORP.Evidence as of 2026-09-02Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.4 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Constructive (+0.4 of a possible +2; was +0.4 before debate) · confidence high. Reported revenue rose across the three most recent fiscal quarters: fiscal Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-11-03) $ 1,581,378,000, fiscal Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-02-02) $ 1,685,629,000, and fiscal Q3 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-04) $ 1,805,641,000. Reported net income for those same periods was $ 226,349,000, $ 146,717,000, and $ 191,402,000 respectively.
Valuation and liquidity claims that survived show cash of $ 1,162,018,000 versus long-term debt of $ 3,222,224,000 as of 2026-06-30, implying net debt materially above cash on hand; trailing twelve‑month free cash flow was $ 80,198,000 (FCF per share $ 0.4084 on about 195,832,246 shares) while EBITDA was $ 677,324,000 versus operating income $ 100,270,000 and depreciation & amortization $ 577,054,000, pointing to large non‑cash charges. External coverage notes a 79% datacenter revenue mix, a reported $ 2,000,000,000 NVIDIA strategic investment, and mixed media valuations (a DCF cited $ 84 intrinsic vs. a market price of $ 272).
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue from contracts with customers in fiscal Q1 2026 (2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30, 3mo) was $1,581,378,000.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000820318-25-000019Revenue from contracts with customers in fiscal Q2 2026 (2025-10-01 to 2025-12-31, 3mo) was $1,685,629,000.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000820318-26-000006Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
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Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, COHR was a constituent of the IVV ETF with a reported weight of 0.12% of that fund.
ETF constituents · market dataMembership in IVV represents a factual source of passive investor exposure to COHR via that ETF; the reported 0.12% weight indicates the position is a small single-stock allocation within that fund.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Coverage highlights Coherent's 79% datacenter revenue mix and capacity expansion as drivers of recent growth while noting hyperscaler demand and execution as key risks.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-02Several outlets report that NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Coherent and entered a multiyear strategic arrangement on optics development.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-02Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
Cash on the balance sheet was $1,162,018,000 as of 2026-06-30 while long-term debt was $3,222,224,000 as of 2026-06-30, implying net debt materially above cash on hand.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeFree cash flow for the trailing twelve months was $80,198,000 (FCF per share $0.4084 based on 195,832,246 shares), which is small relative to the reported long-term debt.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Sequential quarterly revenue gains (fundamentals-0, fundamentals-1, fundamentals-2) together with recurring positive net income in the reported quarters (fundamentals-3, fundamentals-5) and a large trailing EBITDA (valuation-2) support a favorable read: top-line growth and operating cash generation coexist even after substantial non-cash D&A (valuation-3). Strategic validation from a major industry partner (news-1) and buy-side recognition in AI hardware coverage (news-2) reinforce that demand-side drivers and industry positioning are meaningful contributors to recent performance; media coverage emphasizing a datacenter mix and capacity expansion (news-0) ties the revenue profile to structural end-market demand. Additionally, sizeable net cash from operations relative to capex (valuation-4) and passive investor exposure via an IVV weighting (ownership-0, ownership-1) indicate both internal cash generation and external investor access, which together form a coherent bull case when judged on growth, cash-flow conversion, and strategic partnerships.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.32
20 surviving claims rest on 11 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 30% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The read is moderately fragile: 20 surviving claims rely on 11 distinct sources, so there is some breadth, but a single analyst contributed 30% of the surviving claims and the desk’s challenges had no attrition — both signs that the set of claims may overweight a few perspectives. Treat conclusions as informational: source concentration and low debate attrition reduce the independent corroboration backing these claims.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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What this was built from
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12 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.3 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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