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$COHR — AVOID 📊
Coherent Corp.
🎯 Q1 FY26 | Rev $2B | EPS $1.41 vs $1.39 🟢
💡 The market expects continued hyper-growth and multiple expansion justified by AI/optical momentum. Our variant view is that the stock already discounts years of aggressive growth, and even if estimates are met, multiple compression toward sector peers (median 20x, high 47x) is likely. The tiny EPS beat does not change the overvaluation picture.
📉 Reward/Risk: 0.7:1
🏢 Business Quality: 7/10 - Leading provider of industrial and optical solutions with improving margins and a technology moat, but high cyclicality and integration risks from acquisitions temper the quality score.
📊 Valuation: rich - Based on EV/Sales (forward ~10x vs sector 3-5x), forward P/E 71x vs peer high of 47x, and historical P/E at 28th percentile (still extremely...
📊 Our read: AVOID. Full analysis →
https://stockduty.xyz/s/COHR0612
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