Compare · ASTS vs LITE
ASTS vs LITE
Side-by-side comparison of AST SpaceMobile Inc. (ASTS) and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- ASTS operates in Consumer Discretionary, while LITE operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
- LITE is the larger of the two at $63.93B, about 1.9x ASTS ($34.43B).
- Over the past year, ASTS is up 146.4% and LITE is up 947.5% - LITE leads by 801.0 points.
- ASTS has been more active in the news (19 items in the past 4 weeks vs 14 for LITE).
- LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 19 for ASTS).
- Company
- AST SpaceMobile Inc.
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Price
- $87.97-0.91%
- $857.80+4.40%
- Market cap
- $34.43B
- $63.93B
- 1M return
- +6.60%
- -18.51%
- 1Y return
- +146.41%
- +947.46%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2019
- News (4w)
- 19
- 14
- Recent ratings
- 19
- 25
AST SpaceMobile Inc.
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. operates space-based cellular broadband network for mobile phones. Its SpaceMobile network is being designed to provide connectivity at 4G/5G speeds on land, at sea, and in flight. The company is based in Midland, Texas.
Lumentum Holdings Inc.
Lumentum Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells optical and photonic products in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates in two segments, Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers (Lasers). The OpComms segment offers components, modules, and subsystems that enable the transmission and transport of video, audio, and data over high-capacity fiber optic cables. It offers tunable transponders, transceivers, and transmitter modules; tunable lasers, receivers, and modulators; transport products, such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, amplifiers, and optical channel monitors, as well as components, including 980nm, multi-mode, and Raman pumps; and switches, attenuators, photodetectors, gain flattening filters, isolators, wavelength-division multiplexing filters, arrayed waveguide gratings, multiplex/de-multiplexers, and integrated passive modules. This segment also provides Super Transport Blade, which integrates optical transport functions into a single-slot blade; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; directly modulated and electro-absorption modulated lasers; and laser illumination sources for 3D sensing systems. It serves customers in telecommunications, data communications, and consumer and industrial markets. The Commercial Lasers segment offers diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode, and gas lasers for use in original equipment manufacturer applications. It serves customers in markets and applications, such as sheet metal processing, general manufacturing, biotechnology, graphics and imaging, remote sensing, and precision machining. Lumentum Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Latest ASTS
- Director Wibergh Johan covered exercise/tax liability with 208 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.72% to 28,793 units (SEC Form 4)
- AST SpaceMobile Announces Launch Date for BlueBird Satellites 8, 9, and 10
- Chief Technology Officer Yao Huiwen sold $3,854,800 worth of shares (40,000 units at $96.37) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 54% to 34,750 units (SEC Form 4)
- Starfighters Space Joins Russell 3000 as Specialized Aerospace Platform Gains Broader Visibility
- Chief Executive Officer Avellan Abel Antonio covered exercise/tax liability with 32,754 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.04% to 78,542,209 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Operating Officer Gupta Shanti B. covered exercise/tax liability with 21,275 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 412,747 units (SEC Form 4)
- CFO and CLO Johnson Andrew Martin covered exercise/tax liability with 16,377 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 549,428 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Accounting Officer Bernal Maya covered exercise/tax liability with 2,621 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 115,368 units (SEC Form 4)
- President Wisniewski Scott covered exercise/tax liability with 16,377 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 729,596 units (SEC Form 4)
- Capital Floods Into Space Stocks As STARLAUNCH And Hypersonic Programs Move Toward Commercial Scale
Latest LITE
- Director Harris Isaac Hosojiro sold $1,416,115 worth of shares (1,416 units at $1,000.08) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 17% to 6,984 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Harris Isaac Hosojiro sold $3,440,000 worth of shares (4,000 units at $860.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 32% to 8,400 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- SEC Form 8-K filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Director Small Ian sold $4,300,419 worth of shares (4,954 units at $868.07), decreasing direct ownership by 19% to 21,008 units (SEC Form 4)
- REX Shares Launches T-REX 2X ASTS (ASUP) & 2X LITE (LITU) ETFs
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen covered exercise/tax liability with 3,741 shares and sold $3,062,180 worth of shares (3,210 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 81,488 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- Officer Retort Vincent covered exercise/tax liability with 3,299 shares and sold $3,036,423 worth of shares (3,183 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 7% to 89,563 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding obligation)
- SVP, GENERAL COUNSEL Kim Jae covered exercise/tax liability with 1,416 shares and sold $1,356,517 worth of shares (1,422 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 32,333 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. covered exercise/tax liability with 5,438 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 124,417 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax