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 1.4× larger than Credo Technology by market cap; Credo Technology trades at the lower P/E (101.8 vs 148.8); year to date, Ciena leads (+97.0% vs +79.2%).
Side by side
| CIEN | CRDO | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $65.2B | $48.1B |
| Price | $460.72 | $257.79 |
| Today | −0.4% | −3.0% |
| Return YTD | +97.0% | +79.2% |
| Return 1Y | +487.3% | +165.0% |
| P/E | 148.8 | 101.8 |
| P/S | 11.7 | 36.0 |
| P/B | 22.5 | 23.3 |
Data as of 2026-07-11 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
CienaCIEN
Leading in long-distance optical transmission — connecting data centers with each other (data center interconnect).
Full CIEN profile →Credo TechnologyCRDO
Specialist in high-speed connectivity: active electrical cables (AEC) and SerDes chips that connect GPUs and switches within the rack.
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