Ciena said revenue for Q3 of fiscal 2025 increased 29.4%, or $277.1 million, to $1.2 billion, compared with $942.3 million in the prior-year period. The company said orders for its products and services significantly exceeded revenue, resulting in increased backlog.

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   Ciena said revenue for Q3 of fiscal 2025 increased 29.4%, or $277.1 million, to $1.2 billion, compared with $942.3 million in the prior-year period. The company said orders for its products and services significantly exceeded revenue, resulting in increased backlog.

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   Ciena said Optical Networking revenue for Q3 increased $208.7 million, citing increased sales of its 6500 Reconfigurable Line Systems, Waveserver system, and coherent pluggables. The company said these sales were primarily to cloud provider customers.

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   Ciena said gross profit for Q3 increased $99.1 million, but gross margin declined 160 basis points. Services gross margin fell to 43.8% from 50.7%, and the company cited increased costs related to delivering maintenance arrangements as a factor.

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   Ciena said cash from operations for the first 9 months of fiscal 2025 was $435.0 million. During the same period, cash outflows included share repurchases of $250.0 million and capital expenditures of $95.4 million.

Key figures

Quarter ended August 2, 2025

Revenue

$1.2B

Operating income

$74M

Net income

$50M

EPS

$0.35

Gross profit

$503M

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