Cienavs.HPE
CIEN vs HPE · 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 and HPE are similar in size by market cap; HPE trades at the lower P/E (41.8 vs 148.8); year to date, HPE leads (+102.1% vs +97.0%).
Side by side
| CIEN | HPE | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $65.2B | $65.1B |
| Price | $460.72 | $48.54 |
| Today | −0.4% | −1.2% |
| Return YTD | +97.0% | +102.1% |
| Return 1Y | +487.3% | +128.0% |
| P/E | 148.8 | 41.8 |
| P/S | 11.7 | 1.7 |
| P/B | 22.5 | 2.6 |
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).
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise builds supercomputers (Cray) and AI servers and has strengthened its networking arm with the acquisition of Juniper.
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