David Moadel
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Corning’s open-ended $2B at-the-market equity offering with Goldman Sachs sent GLW down 12%, pulling Coherent and Lumentum 11% and 9% lower.
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Weekend AI lab commentary calling for slower frontier development hit NVIDIA’s optical supply chain, sending Fabrinet down 6% on sector sympathy alone.
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Shares of Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) are down 12% to $145.61 in Monday afternoon trading after the company disclosed a $2 billion at-the-market equity distribution program. The selloff makes Corning the worst performer in the S&P 500 today, and it’s dragging a tight cluster of artificial intelligence (AI) optical connectivity peers sharply lower alongside it. Barron’s flagged the move as the day’s worst in the S&P 500, adding that company-specific dilution is a distinct driver on top of any sector sympathy.
Coherent (NYSE:COHR) stock is down 11% to $273.30, Lumentum (NASDAQ:LITE) stock is falling 9% to $843, and Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) stock is sliding 6% to $389.69. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is down 0.2%, so Corning stock is falling many multiples harder than the broad market and every optics peer beside it.
Today’s decline caps a violent reversal in a name that had ridden hyperscaler capital spending on optical interconnects hard, with Corning up 67.2% year to date heading into the session. The session blends a company-specific dilution event at Corning with a sector selloff hitting the entire optics group at once.
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$2 Billion At-the-Market Program Sparks Selloff, according to Corning
Corning disclosed in a Friday regulatory filing that it entered an equity distribution agreement to sell common stock through an at-the-market program raising up to $2 billion. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is the exclusive sales agent under the agreement. Corning stated net proceeds would go toward general corporate purposes, drawing on a shelf registration filed earlier this year.
