POET Technologies Inc. (POET)Technology | Semiconductors | Toronto, Canada | NasdaqCM
6.32 USD
-0.09
(-1.404%) ⇩
(Oct. 13, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
|
Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 6:15 a.m. EDT
The fundamental reality here is stark: the company is burning cash with negative operating margins and negative free cash flow, trading at a valuation that defies traditional logic. While the revenue growth metric looks impressive, it is meaningless without profitability, and the balance sheet offers no cushion against continued losses. The stock has recently rallied nearly 100% year-over-year, yet the market remains skeptical, evidenced by the negative earnings estimates and the lack of analyst coverage. However, the options market tells a different story. There is a distinct 'lottery ticket' mentality driving the price. Traders are placing massive bets on a sudden, explosive move to the upside (strikes at 40x current price), while simultaneously hedging against a drop to the 5.0 range. This divergence suggests that while the business fundamentals are broken, there is a specific, high-risk catalyst—perhaps a strategic deal or a regulatory approval—that could instantly re-rate the entire enterprise. Until that catalyst materializes, the stock remains a speculative vehicle with no intrinsic value floor, making it unsuitable for standard investment strategies. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoTheta ✓ | 0.077614 |
| MSTL | 0.078998 |
| AutoETS | 0.085859 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.085861 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 35% |
| H-stat | 0.27 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.673 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.55 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 0.92 |
| Revenue per Share | 0.013 |
| Market Cap | 1,093,727,104 |
| Forward P/E | -37.18 |
| Beta | 0.84 |
| Website | https://www.poet-technologies.com |
As of Oct. 10, 2026, 6:15 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning for a binary event rather than a steady trend. Call Open Interest is heavily concentrated at strikes significantly above the current price (10.0, 12.0, 40.0), creating a massive 'wall' of resistance that suggests a speculative bet on a massive re-rating or catalyst. Conversely, Put Open Interest is dense just below the current price (5.0, 7.0), indicating a defensive floor or a hedge against a drop to the 5.0 level. The skew in implied volatility shows extreme fear of a crash to 1.0, but the volume is overwhelmingly on the upside side, suggesting traders are buying deep out-of-the-money calls hoping for a sudden surge.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.2917127 |
| Address1 | 120 Eglinton Avenue East |
| Address2 | Suite 1107 |
| All Time High | 26.1 |
| All Time Low | 0.72 |
| Ask | 6.24 |
| Ask Size | 4 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 8,622,210 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 10,200,395 |
| Average Volume | 10,200,395 |
| Average Volume10Days | 8,622,210 |
| Beta | 0.836 |
| Bid | 6.22 |
| Bid Size | 3 |
| Book Value | 4.898 |
| City | Toronto |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Country | Canada |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 6.32 |
| Current Ratio | 24.455 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,790,726,400 |
| Day High | 6.37 |
| Day Low | 6.13 |
| Debt To Equity | 0.92 |
| Display Name | POET |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,786,624,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,794,486,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,794,486,600 |
| Ebitda | -58,383,840 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.0 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | -5.225 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 178.078 |
| Enterprise Value | 305,038,240 |
| Eps Current Year | -0.23 |
| Eps Forward | -0.17 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -0.69 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NCM |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 15 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | 416 322 5075 |
| Fifty Day Average | 7.9194 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -1.5994 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.20195974 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -29.17127 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 20.81 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -14.49 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.69629985 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 3.87 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 2.4500003 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.633075 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 3.87 - 20.81 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,214,400,600,000 |
| Float Shares | 172,336,107 |
| Forward Eps | -0.17 |
| Forward P E | -37.17647 |
| Free Cashflow | -36,494,488 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqCM |
| Full Time Employees | 80 |
| Fullday Change | 0.03999996 |
| Fullday Change Percent | 0.6329108 |
| Fullday Price | 6.36 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Gross Margins | 1.0 |
| Gross Profits | 1,712,950 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.00068000006 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.20493001 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 173,058,088 |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Industry Disp | Semiconductors |
| Industry Key | semiconductors |
| Ipo Expected Date | 2,022-03-14 |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 1 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Last Split Date | 1,646,006,400 |
| Last Split Factor | 1:10 |
| Long Business Summary | POET Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products and services for commercial applications in the United States, Canada, the rest of North and South America, Europe, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and the rest of Asia. The company offers photonic integrated packaging solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a platform that allows the integration of electronic and photonic devices onto a single chip using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. Its products include photonic integrated circuits, optical engines, optical transceiver modules, and light source products. The company serves the data center AI, light source, and telecommunications markets; 5G interconnect markets, such as PON and GPON, as well as edge computing for machine-to-machine communications; and sensing markets, including LIDAR, Optical Coherence Tomography for medical devices, and virtual reality systems. The company has a strategic collaboration with Lumilens Inc. for the development of wafer-level photonic integration for AI optical networks. The company was formerly known as Opel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to POET Technologies Inc. in June 2013. POET Technologies Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. |
| Long Name | POET Technologies Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 1,093,727,104 |
| Market State | PRE |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_22757751 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,777,600 |
| Net Income To Common | -75,723,544 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 1,349,853,086 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 1 |
| Open | 6.21 |
| Operating Cashflow | -35,448,060 |
| Operating Margins | -35.42654 |
| Phone | 416 368 9411 |
| Pre Market Change | 0.03999996 |
| Pre Market Change Percent | 0.6329108 |
| Pre Market Price | 6.36 |
| Pre Market Time | 1,791,966,389 |
| Previous Close | 6.41 |
| Price Eps Current Year | -27.478262 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 1.2903227 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 638.505 |
| Profit Margins | 0.0 |
| Quick Ratio | 24.407 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | -0.0899997 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | -1.40405 |
| Regular Market Day High | 6.37 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 6.13 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 6.13 - 6.37 |
| Regular Market Open | 6.21 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 6.41 |
| Regular Market Price | 6.32 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,791,921,600 |
| Regular Market Volume | 8,103,390 |
| Return On Assets | -0.07959 |
| Return On Equity | -0.16886 |
| Revenue Growth | 1.123 |
| Revenue Per Share | 0.013 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.17502642 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Shares Outstanding | 173,058,088 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.1402 |
| Shares Short | 24,261,987 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,788,134,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 22,239,486 |
| Short Name | POET Technologies Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.14029999 |
| Short Ratio | 3.02 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | ON |
| Symbol | POET |
| Target High Price | 14.75 |
| Target Low Price | 14.75 |
| Target Mean Price | 14.75 |
| Target Median Price | 14.75 |
| Total Cash | 796,341,888 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 4.602 |
| Total Debt | 7,797,859 |
| Total Revenue | 1,712,950 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -0.69 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 8.36765 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -2.0476499 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.24471027 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 8,103,390 |
| Website | https://www.poet-technologies.com |
| Zip | M4P 1E2 |