Ciena Corporation (CIEN)Â
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CIEN Insider Trading Activity
CIEN Median Price and Trade Amounts History Chart
Statistics of Insider Transactions
Amount of Insider Buys and Sells
Buys | $0 | 0 | 0 |
Sells | $9,987,525 | 42 | 100 |
Related Transactions
| Gage Brodie | SVP Global Products & Supply | 0 | $0 | 4 | $118,741 | $-118,741 |
| Kosaraju Sheela | SVP and General Counsel | 0 | $0 | 1 | $129,638 | $-129,638 |
| DiPerna Dino | SVP Global R&D | 0 | $0 | 4 | $412,058 | $-412,058 |
| Cumello Joseph | SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet | 0 | $0 | 9 | $760,487 | $-760,487 |
| Phipps Jason | SVP Global Sales and Marketing | 0 | $0 | 4 | $882,805 | $-882,805 |
| Claflin Bruce L. | director | 0 | $0 | 1 | $1.44M | $-1.44M |
| Rothenstein David M | SVP and Chief Strategy Officer | 0 | $0 | 10 | $2.01M | $-2.01M |
| SMITH GARY B | President, CEO | 0 | $0 | 11 | $4.62M | $-4.62M |
About Ciena Corporation
Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company's Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators. Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.
Insider Activity of Ciena Corporation
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Ciena Corporation have bought $0 and sold $9.99M worth of Ciena Corporation stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Ciena Corporation have bought $0 and sold $15.45M worth of stock each year.
There was no buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months.
The last purchase of 5,000 shares for transaction amount of $71,550 was made by MOYLAN JAMES E JR (SVP Finance, CFO) on 2014‑10‑13.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Ciena Corporation
| 2025-03-03 | Sale | SMITH GARY B | President, CEO | 6,800 0.0049% | $76.41 | $519,557 | -11.19% | |
| 2025-02-18 | Sale | SMITH GARY B | President, CEO | 6,800 0.0048% | $89.39 | $607,870 | -15.71% | |
| 2025-02-18 | Sale | Gage Brodie | SVP Global Products & Supply | 350 0.0002% | $90.16 | $31,556 | -15.71% | |
| 2025-02-03 | Sale | SMITH GARY B | President, CEO | 6,800 0.0047% | $84.86 | $577,071 | -4.87% | |
| 2025-01-15 | Sale | SMITH GARY B | President, CEO | 6,800 0.0048% | $85.29 | $579,982 | -1.16% | |
| 2025-01-15 | Sale | Kosaraju Sheela | SVP and General Counsel | 1,509 0.0011% | $85.91 | $129,638 | -1.16% | |
| 2025-01-15 | Sale | Gage Brodie | SVP Global Products & Supply | 350 0.0002% | $85.91 | $30,069 | -1.16% | |
| 2025-01-15 | Sale | DiPerna Dino | SVP Global R&D | 1,502 0.0011% | $85.91 | $129,037 | -1.16% | |
| 2025-01-06 | Sale | Claflin Bruce L. | director | 16,912 0.0119% | $84.96 | $1.44M | -0.86% | |
| 2025-01-02 | Sale | SMITH GARY B | President, CEO | 13,600 0.0097% | $83.66 | $1.14M | +0.70% | |
| 2025-01-02 | Sale | Phipps Jason | SVP Global Sales and Marketing | 5,648 0.0041% | $84.64 | $478,053 | +0.70% | |
| 2024-12-26 | Sale | DiPerna Dino | SVP Global R&D | 2,682 0.0019% | $87.64 | $235,050 | -4.72% | |
| 2024-12-26 | Sale | Gage Brodie | SVP Global Products & Supply | 350 0.0002% | $87.64 | $30,674 | -4.72% | |
| 2024-12-16 | Sale | Rothenstein David M | SVP and Chief Strategy Officer | 3,500 0.0024% | $89.09 | $311,815 | -7.00% | |
| 2024-12-16 | Sale | Cumello Joseph | SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet | 1,289 0.0009% | $89.09 | $114,837 | -7.00% | |
| 2024-11-15 | Sale | Rothenstein David M | SVP and Chief Strategy Officer | 3,500 0.0024% | $68.99 | $241,465 | +23.83% | |
| 2024-11-15 | Sale | Cumello Joseph | SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet | 1,289 0.0009% | $68.99 | $88,928 | +23.83% | |
| 2024-10-15 | Sale | Rothenstein David M | SVP and Chief Strategy Officer | 3,500 0.0026% | $67.43 | $236,005 | +17.15% | |
| 2024-10-15 | Sale | Cumello Joseph | SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet | 1,289 0.001% | $67.43 | $86,917 | +17.15% | |
| 2024-10-01 | Sale | Phipps Jason | SVP Global Sales and Marketing | 2,200 0.0015% | $61.49 | $135,278 | +19.44% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| SMITH GARY B | President, CEO | 398549 0.2804% | $25.44M | 1 | 445 | <0.0001% |
| Rothenstein David M | SVP and Chief Strategy Officer | 192997 0.1358% | $12.32M | 0 | 167 | |
| Phipps Jason | SVP Global Sales and Marketing | 109878 0.0773% | $7.01M | 0 | 36 | |
| Kosaraju Sheela | SVP and General Counsel | 95745 0.0674% | $6.11M | 0 | 1 | |
| Claflin Bruce L. | director | 59347 0.0418% | $3.79M | 0 | 29 | |
| Gage Brodie | SVP Global Products & Supply | 49197 0.0346% | $3.14M | 0 | 5 | |
| DiPerna Dino | SVP Global R&D | 49105 0.0345% | $3.13M | 0 | 6 | |
| Cumello Joseph | SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet | 38197 0.0269% | $2.44M | 0 | 16 | |
| HJARTARSON GUDMUNDUR | SrVP and GM Broadband Access | 571880 0.4023% | $36.51M | 0 | 2 | |
| Locoh-Donou Francois | Chief Operating Officer | 282568 0.1988% | $18.04M | 0 | 38 | |
| NETTLES PATRICK H | director | 250701 0.1764% | $16M | 0 | 27 | |
| MOYLAN JAMES E JR | SVP Finance, CFO | 246967 0.1737% | $15.77M | 1 | 224 | +47.47% |
| O NEIL ROBERT A | VP Sales, Data Networking Grp | 231012 0.1625% | $14.75M | 0 | 20 | |
| SMITH ARTHUR D | Sr. VP, Chief Integration | 220460 0.1551% | $14.07M | 0 | 38 | |
| Morin Philippe | SVP, Global Sales & Field Ops | 215988 0.1519% | $13.79M | 0 | 32 | |
| Aquino Michael Gerald | SR VP. Global Field Operations | 152721 0.1074% | $9.75M | 0 | 24 | |
| FRODSHAM JAMES | SR. VP, Chief Strategy Officer | 128442 0.0904% | $8.2M | 0 | 79 | |
| Dodd James Richard JR | SVP, Global Marketing | 107334 0.0755% | $6.85M | 0 | 28 | |
| CASH HARVEY B | director | 97778 0.0688% | $6.24M | 0 | 7 | |
| McFeely Scott | SVP, Networking Platforms | 85054 0.0598% | $5.43M | 0 | 78 | |
| COLLIER JAMES | Sr. V.P. Worldwide Sales | 84334 0.0593% | $5.38M | 0 | 1 | |
| HAMILTON RICK | SVP, Software and Services | 77190 0.0543% | $4.93M | 0 | 31 | |
| ALEXANDER STEPHEN B | SVP, Chief Technology Officer | 70561 0.0496% | $4.5M | 0 | 234 | |
| OBRIEN JUDITH M | 68341 0.0481% | $4.36M | 1 | 9 | <0.0001% | |
| Starke Marcus H | SVP, Chief Marketing Officer | 67695 0.0476% | $4.32M | 0 | 5 | |
| Rowny Michael J | director | 54743 0.0385% | $3.49M | 2 | 1 | +32.59% |
| STEVENSON RUSSELL B JR | SR. VP, GENERAL COUNSEL | 46102 0.0324% | $2.94M | 0 | 3 | |
| GALLAGHER PATRICK | director | 41457 0.0292% | $2.65M | 0 | 23 | |
| BRADLEY STEPHEN P | director | 40000 0.0281% | $2.55M | 1 | 0 | +14.14% |
| CHINNICI JOSEPH R | SR VP FINANCE, CFO | 30164 0.0212% | $1.93M | 0 | 11 | |
| PETRIK ANDREW C | VP, CONTROLLER | 25365 0.0178% | $1.62M | 0 | 110 | |
| NEVENS THOMAS MICHAEL | director | 12732 0.009% | $812,810.88 | 0 | 10 | |
| DAVIS DON H JR | director | 10000 0.007% | $638,400.00 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| DILLON JOHN R | director | 9200 0.0065% | $587,328.00 | 5 | 0 | +7.71% |
Historical Insider Profitability vs. Competitors
$13,423,831 | 81 | 0.41% | $1.1B | |
$10,238,140 | 62 | 8.33% | $4.08B | |
$5,062,592 | 47 | 5.38% | $1.4B | |
$8,145,809 | 43 | 11.52% | $1.93B | |
$261,571,248 | 39 | 16.45% | $1.27B | |
$159,920,223 | 39 | 48.35% | $2.58B | |
$7,677,965 | 30 | 5.11% | $14.33B | |
$3,487,777 | 25 | -1.57% | $726.73M | |
$2,122,609 | 22 | 11.26% | $1.22B | |
$4,059,035 | 20 | -0.51% | $1.07B | |
$255,678,112 | 19 | 20.72% | $69.77B | |
Ciena Corporation (CIEN) | $291,116 | 12 | 6.39% | $9.07B |
$1,959,320 | 12 | 8.46% | $11.91B | |
$2,638,124 | 12 | 4.12% | $240.69B | |
$3,792,039 | 8 | 18.34% | $7.49B | |
$403,000 | 3 | 9.82% | $8.35B | |
$488,307 | 3 | -7.13% | $2.43B | |
$2,280,440 | 2 | 7.20% | $19.3B | |
$1,003,680 | 1 | 23.70% | $20.52B |
CIEN Institutional Investors: Active Positions
| Increased Positions | 295 | +55.98% | 19M | +12.93% |
| Decreased Positions | 230 | -43.64% | 21M | -14.42% |
| New Positions | 125 | New | 4M | New |
| Sold Out Positions | 54 | Sold Out | 4M | Sold Out |
| Total Postitions | 592 | +12.33% | 141M | -1.49% |
CIEN Ownership Change vs Market
Institutional Investor Ownership
| Fmr Llc | $1.71M | 15.06% | 21.53M | -129,320 | -0.6% | 2024-12-31 |
| Blackrock, Inc. | $1.36M | 11.96% | 17.1M | +950,030 | +5.88% | 2024-12-31 |
| Vanguard Group Inc | $1.22M | 10.71% | 15.32M | +139,941 | +0.92% | 2024-12-31 |
| Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss Llc | $416,702.00 | 3.66% | 5.24M | +17,447 | +0.33% | 2024-12-31 |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc /Md/ | $368,103.00 | 3.24% | 4.63M | +3M | +195.93% | 2024-12-31 |
| State Street Corp | $364,770.00 | 3.21% | 4.58M | +144,791 | +3.26% | 2024-12-31 |
| Jpmorgan Chase & Co | $353,221.00 | 3.1% | 4.44M | +4M | +401.65% | 2024-12-31 |
| Bnp Paribas Asset Management Holding S.A. | $304,774.00 | 2.68% | 3.83M | -474,546 | -11.02% | 2024-12-31 |
| Bank Of America Corp /De/ | $256,774.00 | 2.26% | 3.23M | +49,996 | +1.57% | 2024-12-31 |
| Thrivent Financial For Lutherans | $207,982.00 | 1.83% | 2.61M | -102,205 | -3.76% | 2024-12-31 |