Ciena (CIEN) Retained Earnings (2009 - 2026)

Ciena's (CIEN) quarterly Retained Earnings came in at -$38.7 million in Q1 2026, up 42.45% year-on-year from -$27.2 million in Q1 2025, and up 98.78% quarter-over-quarter from -$3.2 billion in Q4 2025.

Ciena (CIEN) Retained Earnings (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Ciena's Retained Earnings history runs 18 years deep, the most recent figure standing at -$38.7 million for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Retained Earnings rose 42.45% year-over-year to -$38.7 million in Q1 2026; TTM through Jan 2026 was -$38.7 million, a 42.45% increase from a year earlier, with the FY2025 full-year figure at -$3.2 billion, up 3.74% from the prior year.
  • Retained Earnings advanced to -$38.7 million in Q1 2026 per CIEN's latest filing, from -$3.2 billion in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Retained Earnings topped out at -$11.8 million in Q3 2023 and bottomed at -$3.7 billion in Q2 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Retained Earnings is -$40.2 million (2024), against an average of -$1.4 billion.
  • Biggest YoY gain for Retained Earnings was 99.65% in 2022; the steepest drop was 69124.19% in 2022.
  • Year by year, Retained Earnings stood at -$3.6 billion in 2022, then grew by 7.02% to -$3.4 billion in 2023, then advanced by 2.49% to -$3.3 billion in 2024, then rose by 3.74% to -$3.2 billion in 2025, then soared by 98.78% to -$38.7 million in 2026.
  • Per Business Quant, the three latest CIEN Retained Earnings figures stand at -$38.7 million (Q1 2026), -$3.2 billion (Q4 2025), and -$3.2 billion (Q3 2025).

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Retained Earnings (Qtr)
1 Cisco Systems 449.30 Bn 432.66 Bn 10.08 Bn -793.00 Mn
2 Motorola Solutions 70.39 Bn 69.50 Bn 1.36 Bn 2.60 Bn
3 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 62.74 Bn 57.90 Bn 9.10 Bn -2.77 Bn
4 Ciena 52.16 Bn 50.86 Bn 625.52 Mn -38.72 Mn
5 Lumentum Holdings 50.33 Bn 47.15 Bn 357.00 Mn 7.00 Mn
6 Nokia 48.77 Bn 41.46 Bn 9.86 Bn 2.11 Bn
7 Ubiquiti 32.13 Bn 31.76 Bn 370.71 Mn 1.18 Bn
8 Ericsson Lm Telephone 31.88 Bn 26.21 Bn 2.53 Bn -
9 AST SpaceMobile 16.51 Bn 16.51 Bn 3.67 Mn -1.02 Bn
10 Zebra Technologies 12.88 Bn 12.77 Bn 742.00 Mn 866.00 Mn

Historic Data

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Jan 31, 2026 -38.72 Mn
Nov 1, 2025 -3.17 Bn
Aug 2, 2025 -3.19 Bn
May 3, 2025 -39.60 Mn
Feb 1, 2025 -67.29 Mn
Nov 2, 2024 -3.29 Bn
Jul 27, 2024 -40.19 Mn
Apr 27, 2024 -21.73 Mn
Jan 27, 2024 -24.87 Mn
Oct 28, 2023 -3.38 Bn
Jul 29, 2023 -11.78 Mn
Apr 29, 2023 -39.75 Mn
Jan 28, 2023 -3.56 Bn
Oct 29, 2022 -3.63 Bn
Jul 30, 2022 -21.88 Mn
Apr 30, 2022 -3.70 Bn
Jan 29, 2022 -14.91 Mn
Oct 30, 2021 -3.79 Bn
Jul 31, 2021 -4.63 Mn
May 1, 2021 5.36 Mn