Lumentum Holdings Inc.
LITE · Technology · $77.5B mkt cap · FY2026 filings · · Shallow moat ·
Doesn't clear the bar
The five investor questions
2022–2026 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $1.7B to $3.0B, increasing; diluted EPS 2.68 to -92.96, decreasing.
Median gross margin 33.4% over 10y, variable.
Median ROIC 10.3%, above the 12% hurdle in 30% of years.
Net cash position — no leverage risk.
Owner earnings changed trend unclear over up to the ten most recent annual observations.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
- Not reported
- Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
- Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
- $874.92
- No price data
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.
Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 238% above the zero-growth estimate across 49 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Score records captured Sep 4, 2026.
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Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
15 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
Lumentum Holdings Inc. booked $3.0B of revenue in FY2026 in the Technology sector and kept 41.7% of it as gross profit — a solid-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −230.1% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.
Across the filed record, revenue grew from $770M (FY2013) to $3.0B (FY2026) — about 11.1% a year compounded over 13 years.
It earned 9.8% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2026. Across the full 14-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 3.0%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 10.3%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 34/100.
The balance sheet carried $1.6B of total debt in FY2026. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 100/100.
Put together: Balance-Sheet Safety is the strongest of the five filters (100/100) and Capital Allocation the weakest (24/100), which is how LITE lands at 48/100 — a Shallow moat.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
Exact FY and FY-1 financing invested-capital inputs are required.
The explained ROIC gaps have filed inputs but no meaningful positive invested-capital denominator. Other gaps mean the item is not in the filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Visual explainers
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Moat Score history
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- No moatchanged toShallow moatSep 4, 2026
- Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)tomoat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0tomoat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
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These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
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Technology context
#331 of 749 scored Technology companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Nearest peers by Moat Score
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Common questions about LITE
- Does Lumentum Holdings Inc. have an economic moat?
- Based on its FY2026 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) 48.3 out of 100 — a Shallow moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 50, pricing power 34, returns on capital 34, balance-sheet safety 100, capital allocation 24.
- How has LITE's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 17 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 48.3 out of 100 (shallow moat). Tier changes so far: No moat → Shallow moat on Sep 4, 2026. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.