Coherent Inc (COHR) — the peer cohort

As of 2026-10-09 — scores re-bake nightly. Cohort = shared Closelooknet index membership first, then sector. Diary readings, not advice.

Coherent Inc ranks 16 of 16 in its cohort on the Closelooknet composite (38/100) — the cohort is led by Micron Technology Inc at 75/100.

Name	Composite	Momentum	Quality	Valuation	Signal	Off 52w high
COHR Coherent Inc	38	46	31	25	bear	31.3%
MU Micron Technology Inc	75	81	95	60	info	17.5%
TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing	71	75	87	65	watch	6%
SNDK Sandisk Corp	70	62	94	48	bear	31.6%
000660.KS SK Hynix Inc	69	37	94	73	neutral	43.7%
005930.KS Samsung Electronics Co Ltd	68	51	73	77	neutral	30%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation	66	78	94	34	info	5.3%
APH Amphenol Corporation	65	80	72	33	info	5.1%
ASML ASML Holding N.V. New York Registry Shares	64	71	84	20	watch	11.5%
DELL Dell Technologies Inc	64	98	53	43	neutral	3.8%
AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc	63	89	51	20	watch	5.7%
CRDO Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	61	59	82	12	watch	31.4%
ASM.AS ASM International NV	60	53	74	26	watch	17.8%
CGNX Cognex Corporation	60	63	61	23	bull	13.9%
IFCN.SW Inficon Holding	59	89	67	27	bull	5.2%
SHMXY Shimadzu Corp	57	56	47	84	info	22%

Scores are relative readings across the Closelooknet coverage universe — methodology in the company-scoring explainer. Signal lights come from the nightly signal board.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-09

Quick answers

Who are Coherent Inc's peers in the Closelooknet universe?

The cohort is drawn from shared Closelooknet index membership first, then sector: Micron Technology Inc (MU), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Sandisk Corp (SNDK), SK Hynix Inc (000660.KS), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), Amphenol Corporation (APH), ASML Holding N.V. New York Registry Shares (ASML) and others.

How does COHR score against its peers?

Coherent Inc's composite reads 38/100, ranking 16 of 16 in its cohort as of 2026-10-09; the cohort's highest composite is Micron Technology Inc at 75/100. Closelooknet scores are research diary readings, not ratings or advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where COHR appears in the diary — 33 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

Optical Interconnects — The Toll Nobody KeepsReport · 13 Aug 2026On Friday, Coherent fell 11.8% through its 50-day average on no numbers at all.
Portfolio Construction — Build a Barbell · Closelooknet Heresy IIIHeresy · 16 May 2026Live cohort as of May 2026: COHR · CRWV · GLW · INTC · IREN · LITE · MRVL · NBIS · NOK · SNPS.
Pattern 03 — NVIDIA Strategic Authority InvestmentReport · 12 May 2026Tier 2 typically appears bundled inside Tier 1 events: Lumentum's capacity-access rights, Coherent's purchase commitments, and IREN's 5 GW deployment partnership all rode in on the same 8-Ks as the equity investments.
Nvidia’s Equity Stakes — Follow the Wise Men, Pattern 03 PreviewWeekly Signal · 10 May 2026Coherent has moved from $50 in April 2025 to $335.26 today.

101 and glossary

Networking & Optical Interconnects: The Constraint After Compute101NVIDIA’s networking stack (acquired via Mellanox), Broadcom’s switching silicon, Marvell’s interconnect IP, and the optical transceiver ecosystem (Lumentum, Coherent, Fabrinet) all benefit from the same physical reality: at cluster scale…
Optical TransceiverGlossaryA device converting electrical signals to optical for fiber networking; LITE, COHR, and FN are pure-play beneficiaries.
Strategic Authority Investment: Reading the Jensen Huang Roadmap101Forward watchlist: LITE, COHR, FN (optical), MU (memory), VRT, GEV (power), PSTG, NTAP, WDC (storage).

Dailies

Jobs day — futures +0.3% before payrolls; Nike −8.7% after hours, Accenture holds +15.8%Morning 10 · 2 Oct 2026Accenture closed up 15.8%, Synopsys 12.8%, Fair Isaac 11.7%, Coherent 10.9% — the companies the market had filed under AI losers are the ones it bought.
Jobs-day rally fades — weak payrolls lift stocks at the open, then yields turn up and the Dow goes flatMidday 10 · 2 Oct 2026Chips lead: chip funds SOXX +2.4% and SMH +2.00%, AMD +2.83%, Broadcom +2.32%, Nvidia +1.52%; optics Coherent +4.02%, Lumentum +3.16%; Oracle +2.38%; software fund IGV flat (+0.14%)
AI comeback — Accenture +18%, Synopsys +8%, optics +9% while all three US indices slipMidday 10 · 1 Oct 2026AI hardware suppliers jump: Coherent $316.10 (+9.83%), Lumentum $1,057.23 (+8.85%); Arista +0.35%, Nvidia +0.35%, Broadcom −1.24%; in Tokyo, Lasertec +11.14% and Advantest +9.78%
Expiry Friday — the equipment names join at last: Applied +4.4%, Lam +5.2%, memory ETF over $58, 10-year back at 5%Midday 10 · 18 Sept 2026At midday on the September expiry they are joining: Applied Materials +4.4%, Lam Research +5.2%, KLA +2.7%, the three largest gainers in the group after four sessions of lagging the designs, with Coherent +4.9% and Broadcom +2.3%…
Day after the hike — yields fall and the lines are retaken: 10-year 4.95%, chips +3% over $505, S&P ETF above $757.83Midday 10 · 17 Sept 2026Chips, the design side wider: AMD +6.4% to $545.38, Micron +5.5% to $977.94, Broadcom +2.9% to $349.39, Nvidia +2.3% to $218.74, TSMC +2.1% to $425.93; memory ETF +4.4% to $57.63; optics pause — Lumentum −0.4% at $916, Coherent +1.2%
Rates — the Fed hikes and the 10-year closes above 5%: the belly sold, the relief unwound, chips back under $505Morning 10 · 17 Sept 2026Inside chips the day was not one story: optics and interconnect were bought hard — Lumentum +9.6%, Credo +7.4%, Coherent +6.9%, Astera Labs +6.6%, Soitec +13.4% in Paris — and the equipment names were sold again, Applied Materials −1.4%…
AI trade — sellers of compute sold, buyers bought: chips −5.6%, software +5%, SoftBank +7% in TokyoMorning 10 · 15 Sept 2026The $505 line is gone: semiconductor ETF $497.40, below Thursday’s $517.43 and 6.4% under its 50-day at $531.52; memory and storage led on the way down again — Micron −5.3%, SanDisk −5.0%; Corning −13.7%, Teradyne −13.3%, Coherent −12.7%…
Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000Morning 10 · 9 Sept 2026Intel +9.1% on another CPU price rise, AMD +5.9%, Broadcom +3.0%, and the optical names went vertical — Lumentum +11.0%, Corning +7.6% on an 80-million-mile fibre contract with Verizon, Coherent +7.1% — while Shopify, UiPath and Atlassian…

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