Coherent (COHR): The Company That Owns the Whole Optical River

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A focused deep-dive on Coherent (COHR) — the world's largest vertically integrated photonics company, and one of the most unusual positions in the AI "light-wars." We learn how it works and why it sits where it sits: why the magic material is indium phosphide (InP) and the EML lasers that only it can make well; how Coherent owns almost the entire optical stack (wafer → laser → photonic chip → engine → module) instead of one rung; its crown jewel — one of the world's first/largest six-inch InP volume platforms (Sherman, TX + Sweden); why the shift to co-packaged optics (CPO) enhances it rather than hurting it (it feeds both the NVIDIA full-stack and Broadcom open-Ethernet camps); the validation stack (NVIDIA's ~$2B equity investment, a CHIPS Act letter of intent, and an "exceptionally large" CPO order); a quiet second engine in optical circuit switching (OCS); and the plain financials (~$6.6B revenue, ~38% gross margin, ~$75B market cap). Plus the honest counter-argument: a great business is not a safe stock at any price after a several-hundred-percent run, in a crowded, cyclical trade.

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