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Cienavs.Credo Technology

CIEN vs CRDO · both in Data centers, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Servers, networking, optics and data center capacity that tie AI infrastructure together.

Ciena is about 1.3× larger than Credo Technology by market cap; Credo Technology trades at the lower P/E (105.0 vs 143.0); year to date, Ciena leads (+59.0% vs +54.7%).

Side by side

CIENCRDO
Market cap$62.7B$49.6B
Price$387.66$226.51
Today+4.2%+1.8%
Return YTD+59.0%+54.7%
Return 1Y+314.2%+95.2%
P/E143.0105.0
P/S11.337.2
P/B21.724.0

Data as of 2026-08-26 · updates daily after U.S. close

The two companies

CienaCIEN

NYSE · USA

Long-haul optical transmission, mostly between data centres.

Optical networking
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Credo TechnologyCRDO

NASDAQ · USA

Inside the rack, GPUs and switches are joined by active electrical cables and SerDes chips. That narrow gap is Credo's entire market.

ConnectivityAI hardware
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