Ciena (CIEN) Q2 2025 10-Q Quarterly Report
Filed: Jun 5, 2025Period ending May 3, 2025
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Telephone & Telegraph ApparatusSEC EDGAR Ciena (CIEN) 10-Q quarterly report for Q2 2025, filed with SEC EDGAR on Jun 5, 2025 for the fiscal period ending May 3, 2025. This page provides AI-powered analysis including management discussion & analysis (MD&A), risk factor updates, and key quarterly financial data such as revenue and net income extracted from XBRL.
Ciena Q2 2025 10-Q Analysis
Management Discussion & Analysis
- • Total operating expenses $420.0M, up 7.0% YoY from $392.6M
- • R&D expense $214.9M, increased 10.0% YoY from $195.4M, 19.1% of revenue vs 21.5%
- • Selling & marketing $139.7M, up 12.6% YoY from $124.1M, 12.4% of revenue vs 13.6%
- • General & administrative $57.0M, up 14.9% YoY from $49.6M, 5.1% of revenue vs 5.4%
- • Significant asset impairments and restructuring costs down 87.6% to $1.9M from $15.7M
Risk Factors
- • New tariff impact risk from fiscal 2025, causing 190 bps product gross margin decline to 38.8% due to changed product mix
- • Most material cost pressure: 28.9% YoY COGS increase outpacing 23.6% revenue growth, driven by higher product and service delivery costs
- • Compliance risk: elevated costs from delivering maintenance arrangements reduced services gross margin by up to 330 bps
- • Market risk: product gross margin compressed 200 bps YoY to 40.6% reflecting competitive pricing and product mix shifts near term
- • Financial risk: Margin compression on services and products despite 16.5% and 12.8% revenue gains signals margin sustainability challenge
Ciena Q2 2025 Quarterly FinancialsXBRL
Revenue
$1.1B
▲ +23.6% YoY▲ +5.0% QoQ
Net Income
$9M
▲ +153.2% YoY▼ -79.9% QoQ
Gross Margin
40.2%
▼ -245bp YoY▼ -378bp QoQ
Operating Margin
2.9%
▲ +335bp YoY▼ -461bp QoQ
Net Margin
0.8%
▲ +265bp YoY▼ -336bp QoQ
EPS (Diluted)
$0.06
▲ +150.0% YoY▼ -80.6% QoQ
Operating Cash Flow
$157M
▲ +168.4% YoY▲ +51.3% QoQ
Source: XBRL data from Ciena Q2 2025 10-Q filing on SEC EDGAR. All figures in USD.
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