Coherent Corp.
Coherent Corp. (COHR: NASDAQ) is a vertically integrated manufacturing company headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, with a global footprint spanning manufacturing, research and development, and sales facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The company's website is www.coherent.com. From the company’s description.
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What Coherent Corp. does
In the company’s own words
Coherent Corp. (COHR: NASDAQ) is a vertically integrated manufacturing company headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, with a global footprint spanning manufacturing, research and development, and sales facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The company's website is www.coherent.com.
Coherent develops, manufactures, and markets lasers, transceivers, optical and optoelectronic devices, modules, systems, and engineered materials for use in datacenter and communications applications as well as industrial markets. The company operates through two reportable segments: Datacenter & Communications and Industrial.
The Datacenter & Communications segment delivers differentiated components, modules, and subsystems leveraging compound semiconductor technology platforms. This segment produces transceivers, co-packaged optics, optical circuit switches, VCSELs, edge-emitting lasers, pump lasers, and other components for datacenter and communications applications. The segment addresses the rapid growth in AI and machine learning infrastructure, providing optical connectivity solutions supporting Ethernet, InfiniBand, NVIDIA NVLink, and other AI networking architectures.
The Industrial segment serves semiconductor and display capital equipment manufacturers, precision manufacturing customers, and instrumentation providers in life sciences and scientific research. This segment manufactures excimer lasers, solid-state lasers, CO2 lasers, laser systems, engineered materials, laser optics, thermoelectric components, and advanced ceramic and metal-matrix composite materials. Industrial applications include semiconductor inspection and processing, display manufacturing, medical device production, additive manufacturing, and scientific research instrumentation.
As of June 30, 2026, Coherent employed approximately 51,000 people globally, with roughly 47 percent women in the workforce. The company maintains approximately 44,582 employees in the Asia-Pacific region, 3,177 in Europe, and 3,719 in the Americas. Manufacturing represents 89 percent of the workforce, with research and development comprising 6 percent and sales, general and administrative functions comprising 5 percent.
Coherent's competitive advantages include vertical integration from materials through systems, deep technical expertise across photonics and semiconductor technologies, a broad portfolio of differentiated products, manufacturing scale capabilities, and a diverse global supply chain. The company holds approximately 3,160 issued patents and 1,280 pending patent applications globally.
Company details
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry (SIC)
- Lab & Analytical Instruments
- Headquarters
- SAXONBURG, PA
- Fiscal year end
- June
- CIK
- 820318
- SIC
- 3827
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2012–2026 · 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 Coherent Corp. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Coherent Corp.’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Coherent Corp.’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 1 issues of Coherent Corp.’s debt, $341.15M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 5.00%, maturing 2029 to 2029.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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