Market Pulse44Neutral

Lumentum Holdings Inc.Opportunity Rank #251(LITE) Intrinsic Value & DCF Analysis (2026)

Sector: Technology

Current Price

$893.93

Last updated: Jun 23, 2026

Price vs Intrinsic Value

$893.93
Price
$112.87
Intrinsic Value
Overvalued by 87%MOS: $90.30

Fundamental Score

20/100
Bearish

Weighted across 6 signals

Narrative Score

68/100
Improving

-1 vs previous

Trend Score

73/100
Strong

As of 2026-06-22

The intrinsic value of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) is estimated at $112.87 per share based on a 10-year discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. At the current price of $893.93, the stock appears overvalued relative to its projected cash flow fundamentals. This estimate assumes a 7.01% long-term growth rate and a 10.07% discount rate, reflecting expected future free cash flow and cost of capital.

The intrinsic value of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) is estimated at $112.87 per share based on a 10-year discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. At the current price of $893.93, the stock appears overvalued relative to its projected cash flow fundamentals. This estimate assumes a 7.01% long-term growth rate and a 10.07% discount rate, reflecting expected future free cash flow and cost of capital.

Valuation Details

$112.87
-87.37% downside
20% margin of safety: $90.30
Years: 10Growth Rate: 7.01%
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Capital Efficiency

Average Quarterly ROIC
1.93%
Cost of Capital (estimated)11%
Value StatusUnderperforming Capital

The company is earning below its required return. This may indicate inefficient use of capital or excess cash that isn't being reinvested.

Complete historical ROIC is available with
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Fundamental Details

20/100
BearishWeighted across 6 signals
DCF Discount
87.4% premium to price
0
FCF Yield
0.9% trailing FCF yield
0
ROIC vs WACC
ROIC 1.9% vs WACC 11.0% (0.2x)
9
Net Debt / FCF
0.2x net debt to FCF
97
Buybacks
Share count growing
30
FCF CAGR (5Y)
0.7% 5Y FCF CAGR
25
Strengths: Net Debt / FCF. Concerns: DCF Discount, FCF Yield.

Narrative Details

68/100
Improving
-1 vs previous · +1 new driversVs 6-Month Baseline:Low (0th pct)Weighted across 5 recent drivers
Trend: Deteriorating downConfidence: 85%Updated: 4h ago
Sources: 147 (137 News · 10 Analyst)
Drivers(last 30 days)
121 news sentiment+1.5
10 regulatory scrutiny+0.2
3 upgrade headlines+0.1
3 earnings beat+0.0
10 analyst reiterations0.0

Trend Details

73/100
StrongAs of 2026-06-22308 daily bars used
6M Relative Strength vs SPY+168.3%
3M Relative Strength vs SPY+11.8%
21 EMA vs 50 EMA+3.0%
Price vs 21 EMA48 · -0.3%
Price vs 50 EMA63 · +2.6%
21 EMA vs 50 EMA73 · +3.0%
3M RS vs SPY88 · +11.8%
6M RS vs SPY100 · +168.3%
Distance from 52W High70 · -15.1%

Investment Coach

Updating... 12d ago
AVOIDConfidence: 81%
Thesis
Lumentum Holdings Inc. is significantly overvalued with its current price approximately 85.5% above the estimated fair value, supported by a weak fundamental score and returns trailing its cost of capital. Despite a stable and somewhat supportive narrative score, the company's financial health and valuation metrics suggest caution.
Key Risk
The primary risk is the company's continued inability to generate returns above its weighted average cost of capital, which could further depress its valuation.
Signals To Watch
  • Price moving to at least a mid-teens discount to fair value
  • Sustained improvement in ROIC versus WACC spread
  • Meaningful shifts in the narrative score direction
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Historical Growth Rates
Free Cash Flow- - -Trend CAGR: 7.01%5 Year CAGR (Adjusted): -2.93%

Free Cash Flow (in millions)

TTM20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012
$631$357$161$308$551$834$610$496$341$223$169$63$127$87$77

How Intrinziq Estimates Fair Value

Intrinziq estimates Lumentum Holdings Inc.'s intrinsic value using a discounted cash flow (DCF) model based on free cash flow trends and a market-based discount rate. The model projects future cash flows over ten years and discounts them using a market return assumption to estimate fair value.

Lumentum Holdings Inc.Technology

Lumentum Holdings Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, is a global leader in optical and photonic product manufacturing. The company's reach extends across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Lumentum operates through two principal business units: Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers. The OpComms segment develops and supplies components, modules, and subsystems essential for transmitting video, audio, and data across high-capacity fiber optic networks. Its offerings encompass a wide range of products, including tunable transponders, transceivers, and transmitter modules, alongside various tunable lasers, receivers, and modulators. Furthermore, this segment provides critical transport products such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), optical amplifiers, and optical channel monitors. A comprehensive suite of components is also available, featuring 980nm, multi-mode, and Raman pumps; switches; attenuators; photodetectors; gain flattening filters; isolators; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) filters; arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs); multiplex/de-multiplexers; and integrated passive modules. Distinctive innovations from this segment include the Super Transport Blade, which integrates multiple optical transport functions into a single unit; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs); directly modulated and electro-absorption modulated lasers; and advanced laser illumination sources for 3D sensing systems. OpComms serves key clientele in the telecommunications, data communications, consumer, and industrial markets. Conversely, the Commercial Lasers segment produces an array of laser technologies, such as diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode, and gas lasers. These are primarily utilized in original equipment manufacturer (OEM) applications. This segment's laser solutions cater to a broad spectrum of markets and uses, including sheet metal processing, general manufacturing, biotechnology, graphics and imaging, remote sensing, and precision machining.