Lumentum Holdings Inc. Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Q1 FY2026 revenue reached 533.8 million dollars, up 58% year-over-year and marking the highest quarterly revenue in Lumentum’s history.
  • More than 60% of total revenue now comes from cloud and AI infrastructure markets.
  • Operating margins expanded over 1,500 basis points year-over-year.
  • Lumentum is transitioning reporting structure to a single segment and now discloses results by product type: components and systems.

Financial Performance (Non‑GAAP unless stated otherwise)

  • Revenue: 533.8 million dollars (up 18% sequentially; up 58% year-over-year).
  • Gross Margin: 39.4% (up 160 bps sequentially; up 660 bps year-over-year).
  • Operating Margin: 18.7% (up 370 bps sequentially; up 1,570 bps year-over-year).
  • EPS: 1.10 dollars.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: 127.6 million dollars.
  • Cash and short-term investments rose to 1.12 billion dollars, helped by 306 million dollars in net proceeds from a convertible notes transaction.
  • CapEx was 76 million dollars, primarily to expand capacity for cloud and AI demand.

Business Segment Breakdown

Components (Laser chips, subassemblies, line subsystems, wavelength management)
  • Revenue: 379.2 million dollars (up 18% sequentially; up 64% year-over-year).

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Operator: Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Lumentum Holdings First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Please also note today's event is being recorded for replay purposes. [Operator Instructions] At this time I would like to turn the conference call over to Kathy Ta, Vice President of Investor Relations. Ms. Ta, please go ahead. Kathryn Ta: Thank you, and welcome to Lumentum's First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Call. This is Kathryn Ta, Lumentum's Vice President of Investor Relations. Joining me today are Michael Hurlston, President and Chief Executive Officer; Wajid Ali, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Wupen Yuen, President, Global Business Units. Today's call will include forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding our future operating results, strategies, trends and expectations for our products and technologies that are being made under the safe harbor of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations, particularly the risks set forth in our SEC filings under Risk Factors and elsewhere. We encourage you to review our most recent filings with the SEC, particularly the risk factors described in our 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 28, 2025, and in our most recent 10-Q to be filed by Lumentum with the SEC. The forward-looking stateme

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