CIENA Corp’s recently made public that its SVP and Chief Strategy Officer Rothenstein David M unloaded Company’s shares for reported $0.55 million on Jan 09 ’26. In the deal valued at $219.28 per share,2,500 shares were sold. As a result of this transaction, Rothenstein David M now holds 202,194 shares worth roughly $49.82 million.
Then, GALLAGHER PATRICK sold 11,618 shares, generating $2,642,486 in total proceeds. Upon selling the shares at $227.45, the Director now owns 50,184 shares.
Before that, Cumello Joseph sold 11,929 shares. CIENA Corp shares valued at $2,741,531 were divested by the SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet at a price of $229.82 per share. As a result of the transaction, Cumello Joseph now holds 49,475 shares, worth roughly $12.19 million.
Northland Capital downgraded its CIENA Corp [CIEN] rating to a Market perform from a an Outperform in a research note published recently. A number of analysts have revised their coverage, including BNP Paribas Exane’s analysts, who increased its forecast for the stock in mid October from “a Neutral” to “an Outperform”. Morgan Stanley also remained covering CIEN and has increased its forecast on October 10, 2025 with a “an Equal-weight” recommendation from previously “an Underweight” rating. Rosenblatt revised its rating on September 26, 2025. It rated CIEN as “a Buy” which previously was an “a Neutral”.
Price Performance Review of CIEN
On Tuesday, CIENA Corp [NYSE:CIEN] saw its stock jump 5.19% to $246.42. Over the last five days, the stock has lost -3.06%. CIENA Corp shares have risen nearly 199.60% since the year began. Nevertheless, the stocks have risen 5.37% over the past one year.
How much short interest is there in CIENA Corp?
A steep rise in short interest was recorded in CIENA Corp stocks on 2025-12-31, growing by 92668.0 shares to a total of 6.5 million shares. Yahoo Finance data shows the prior-month short interest on 2025-11-28 was 6.41 million shares. There was a rise of 1.43%, which implies that there is a positive sentiment for the stock.
The most recent change occurred on September 05, 2025 when Needham resumed its ‘”a Buy”‘ rating for the stock and retained the price target to $130.
