$COHR (+0.46%)

🔹 Revenue: $1.53B (Est. $1.51B) 🟢; UP +16.4% YoY

🔹 EPS: $1.00 (Est. $0.92) 🟢

🔹 Record revenue driven by AI datacenter, communications, and industrial demand

Guidance (Q1):

🔹 Revenue: $1.46B–$1.60B (Est. $1.55B) 😕

🔹 EPS: $0.93–$1.13 (Est. $1.02) 😕

🔹 Gross Margin: 37.5%–39.5%

Other Metrics & Product Updates:

🔹 Gross Margin: 38.1% vs. 35.9% YoY

🔹 First revenue from 1.6T Datacom transceivers for AI datacenters

🔹 Initial shipments of Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) platform, expanding DC market by $2B+ by 2030

🔹 New diamond silicon carbide composite for AI datacenter cooling

🔹 Industry-first 600W excimer laser for high-temp superconductor tape in fusion energy applications

Strategic Moves:

🔹 Selling Aerospace & Defense business to Advent for $400M; proceeds to reduce debt, accretive to EPS

CEO Commentary:

🔸 “FY25 delivered 23% revenue growth and 191% EPS expansion, with strong momentum from AI datacenter demand.”

🔸 “The aerospace and defense divestiture sharpens our focus on core growth markets, positioning us for long-term profitable growth.”

$COHR (+0.46%)

- Revenue: $1.43B, +27% YoY

- GAAP EPS: $0.44, improved $0.82 YoY

- Non-GAAP gross margin: 38.2%, +363 bps YoY

CEO Jim Anderson: "We delivered strong growth in the December quarter on both a sequential and year-over-year basis, resulting in record revenue, driven by another quarter of strong AI-related Data Center demand as well as growth in our Telecom business."

🌱Revenue & Growth

- Networking: $815.9M, +56% YoY

- Materials: $243.5M, -4% YoY

- Lasers: $375.3M, +6% YoY

- Sequential revenue growth: +6.4% QoQ

💰Profits & Financials

- GAAP operating margin: 9.5% vs 2.8% YoY

- Non-GAAP operating margin: 18.5% vs 13.5% YoY

- Operating cash flow: $340.4M vs $266.0M YoY

- Cash and equivalents: $917.8M

📌Business Highlights

- Received CHIPS Act funding to increase Indium Phosphide production capacity

- First customer order for new Optical Circuit Switch based on digital liquid crystal technology

- First shipment of Excimer Laser Annealing system for Gen 8 OLED display fab

🔮Future Outlook

- Q3 FY25 revenue guidance: $1.39B-$1.48B

- Q3 Non-GAAP gross margin: 37%-39%

- Q3 Non-GAAP EPS guidance: $0.75-$0.95

Just bought $LOAR out of FOMO - it's a company that appears to have immense growth potential for both the defense and aerospace industries and I believe it is still under-regarded by retail investors.

At the moment it is really one of the few stocks, together with $COHR (+0.46%), for which I could consider unbalancing the portfolio with percentages greater than 3%.

Let me know if any of you have already checked it out.