Lumentum
Prices as of 2026-08-29 03:16 UTC. Updates live in your browser.
Base 50, components added, then compressed onto a 2-98 scale. The formula is published and identical on every page.
Market sentiment history
Trading sessions only, so each step is one market day against the one before it. Free history covers the last 30 days; scores are recorded after every US close.
What the score is reading for LITE
At the Friday 28 August close, LITE scored 52, fifth of the 34 names here. The two inputs furthest above the board's median that session — not simply the largest, which is what separates LITE from any other name that had a good day — were relative strength at +7.1 and trend at +3.2. Pulling the other way was momentum at -11.9 — the day's move against the previous close.
Across the 20 sessions recorded since 30 July, LITE has scored between 25 and 87, and that 52 sits in the lower half of that range. Net across the window it is up 12 points, and the largest single-session move was a rise of 55 points on 26 August.
Figures, not reasons. Every number above is the formula's own output for Lumentum or a score this site published on a named day; the score describes how the price behaved and has no view on why.
X mentions
Posts on X carrying $LITE, counted by this site directly against the X API over Thursday 27 August, retweets excluded. Weekdays only - weekend counts are collected but run around half a weekday across the whole board, so they are withheld rather than charted beside trading days.
This measures how much Lumentum is being talked about, not whether the talk is positive. Across the whole board, post volume has no relationship with the direction of a day's move - the numbers are here. It sits beside the sentiment score rather than inside it. Full X mentions board →
What Lumentum does
Builds optical transceivers and laser components for datacentre interconnect, having pivoted from a telecom-weighted business toward cloud demand.
What moves LITE
- 800G transceiver ramp
- Manufacturing capacity expansion
- Telecom segment recovery
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Common questions
What is driving the shift from telecom to datacentre optics?
AI clusters consume far more optical modules per site than carrier networks, and replace them faster as link speeds advance.
What is Lumentum's market sentiment score right now?
LITE currently scores 52 out of 100, which reads as neutral. The score combines six weighted, price-based inputs: momentum, relative strength against the complex, trend against its moving averages, volume, volatility and drawdown from the 52-week high. The full breakdown is shown above.
Where does LITE sit in the AI supply chain?
Lumentum is grouped under optical & networking. The interconnect layer. Once a model spans thousands of accelerators, the switches and optics between them become the bottleneck.