Clearfield, Inc.
Clearfield, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLFD) designs, manufactures, and distributes fiber protection, fiber management, and fiber delivery solutions that enable rapid and cost-effective fiber-fed deployment across the broadband service provider industry, primarily throughout North America. The company's website is… From the company’s description.
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What Clearfield, Inc. does
In the company’s own words
Clearfield, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLFD) designs, manufactures, and distributes fiber protection, fiber management, and fiber delivery solutions that enable rapid and cost-effective fiber-fed deployment across the broadband service provider industry, primarily throughout North America. The company's website is www.seeclearfield.com.
The company serves a diverse customer base including community broadband providers, multiple system operators, large regional service providers, national carriers, and international customers across Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico. Clearfield's product portfolio includes the FieldSmart fiber management system featuring the Clearview Cassette, WaveSmart optical components, CraftSmart FiberFirst pedestals, access terminals, and the FieldShield fiber pathway and protection platform. The company also manufactures custom fiber assemblies and offers the ClearPass connector cleaning dust cap innovation.
Clearfield operates manufacturing facilities in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota and Tijuana, Mexico, where the latter operates under a Maquiladora arrangement. As of September 30, 2025, the company employed approximately 243 full-time employees in the United States, with approximately 160 office personnel and 83 manufacturing personnel, plus approximately 375 contracted personnel through the Mexico facility. The company holds 63 granted patents with multiple applications pending.
In November 2025, Clearfield completed the sale of its Nestor Cables business, which had been reported as a separate operating segment. Following this divestiture, the company now operates as a single reportable segment focused on fiber management, protection, and delivery products that accelerate fiber-based network deployment for residential homes, businesses, and network infrastructure in wireline and wireless access networks.
The company's competitive advantages include its modular product design philosophy, plug-and-play platform approach, quick-turn manufacturing capabilities, and focus on labor-lite solutions that reduce deployment costs and complexity. Clearfield competes against larger companies including Corning, CommScope, Amphenol, and Nokia, among others, competing primarily on functionality, price, quality, installation ease, and product innovation rather than on large-volume commodity offerings.
Company details
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Electronic Equipment
- Headquarters
- BROOKLYN PARK, MN
- Fiscal year end
- September
- CIK
- 796505
- SIC
- 3661
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Clearfield, Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Clearfield, Inc.’s weight in each
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