Ciena (CIEN) Debt to Equity (2014 - 2026)

Ciena (CIEN) recorded quarterly Debt to Equity of $0.55 in Q1 2026, down 2.22% quarter-over-quarter from $0.56 in Q4 2025, and little changed on a YoY basis from $0.55 in Q1 2025.

Ciena (CIEN) Debt to Equity (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Ciena's Debt to Equity history runs 13 years deep, the most recent figure standing at $0.55 for Q1 2026.

  • In Q1 2026, Debt to Equity changed 0.37% year-over-year to $0.55; the TTM figure through Jan 2026 stood at $0.55 (changed 0.37% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was $0.56, up 2.58% from the prior year.
  • Debt to Equity was $0.55 for Q1 2026 at Ciena, down from $0.56 in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Debt to Equity ranged from a high of $0.56 in Q4 2025 to a low of $0.39 in Q4 2022.
  • Historically, Debt to Equity has averaged $0.53 across 5 years, with a median of $0.55 in 2024.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2024: Debt to Equity soared 75.55% in 2022, then retreated 3.2% in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Debt to Equity shows it stood at $0.39 in 2022, then jumped by 38.68% to $0.55 in 2023, then grew by 0.47% to $0.55 in 2024, then rose by 2.58% to $0.56 in 2025, then retreated by 2.22% to $0.55 in 2026.
  • The last three Debt to Equity figures came in at $0.55 (Q1 2026), $0.56 (Q4 2025), and $0.55 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Debt/Equity (Qtr)
1 Cisco Systems 480.96 Bn 464.32 Bn 10.08 Bn 0.64
2 Ciena 69.17 Bn 67.87 Bn 625.52 Mn 0.55
3 Motorola Solutions 68.03 Bn 67.17 Bn 1.36 Bn 3.50
4 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 65.63 Bn 60.79 Bn 8.25 Bn 0.87
5 Lumentum Holdings 61.32 Bn 58.15 Bn 357.00 Mn 1.10
6 Ubiquiti 34.34 Bn 33.97 Bn 370.71 Mn -
7 AST SpaceMobile 27.21 Bn 27.79 Bn -69.36 Mn 1.12
8 Applied Optoelectronics 13.45 Bn 13.01 Bn 43.92 Mn 0.04
9 Zebra Technologies 11.38 Bn 11.26 Bn 742.00 Mn 0.76
10 Viavi Solutions 10.76 Bn 10.75 Bn 234.10 Mn 0.29

Historic Data

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DateValue
Jan 31, 2026 0.55
Nov 1, 2025 0.56
Aug 2, 2025 0.55
May 3, 2025 0.55
Feb 1, 2025 0.55
Nov 2, 2024 0.55
Jul 27, 2024 0.54
Apr 27, 2024 0.54
Jan 27, 2024 0.53
Oct 28, 2023 0.55
Jul 29, 2023 0.53
Apr 29, 2023 0.54
Jan 28, 2023 0.55
Oct 29, 2022 0.39
Oct 30, 2021 0.22
Oct 31, 2020 0.27
Oct 31, 2019 0.31
Oct 31, 2018 106.97
Oct 31, 2017 0.27
Oct 31, 2016 -41.82