POET Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products and services for commercial applications in the United ...
POET Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: POET) is a public semiconductor technology company focused on opto-electronic and photonic integration—an area aimed at improving the bandwidth, energy efficiency, and form factor of data communication systems. The company’s core approach is built around the POET Optical Interposer™, a platform that supports seamless integration of ...POET Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: POET) is a public semiconductor technology company focused on opto-electronic and photonic integration—an area aimed at improving the bandwidth, energy efficiency, and form factor of data communication systems. The company’s core approach is built around the POET Optical Interposer™, a platform that supports seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices onto a single chip via advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. In practical terms, this means POET is not only developing individual components, but also packaging/integration solutions intended to connect photonic functionality with conventional electronics in a scalable semiconductor fabrication workflow.
From a products and services perspective, POET develops photonic integrated packaging solutions and also designs and develops photonic integrated circuits and optical engines based on its Optical Interposer platform. This “platform” orientation is important because it can reduce engineering fragmentation: customers can leverage a common integration substrate concept while specific designs are adapted for different end markets (for example, connectivity for data center systems versus optical links for telecom/5G architectures, or optical solutions for sensing).
The company’s commercial targeting includes data center interconnect use cases, telecommunications markets (including passive optical network and GPON-related interconnects), and 5G interconnect and edge computing contexts, such as machine-to-machine communications. POET also addresses sensing markets such as LIDAR, optical coherence tomography for medical devices, and optical systems used in virtual reality—each of which depends on reliable photonic performance and manufacturable integration.
POET has also indicated strategic collaboration activity, including work with Lite-On Technology Corporation to develop optical modules for AI applications. Such collaborations can affect cost and bill-of-materials (BOM) structure by shifting some packaging/module supply and design/qualification effort into partner ecosystems, while allowing POET’s interposer technology to be utilized as a key enabling layer.
Financially, as a technology company investing in development and manufacturing readiness, performance is often influenced by R&D intensity, prototype-to-volume transition, and the timing of commercialization and customer design wins. The provided trailing-twelve-month profitability metrics show losses and negative margins, which is consistent with early-stage or scaling-phase semiconductor technology development where costs (engineering, qualification, and production ramp) can exceed near-term revenue.
Key people include Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, who serves as Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. With headquarters in Toronto, Canada, POET operates as a semiconductor design and development firm serving global markets including the United States, Canada, Singapore, and China.
YoYYoY means Year-over-Year. It compares the latest annual value with the previous annual value to show long-term trend strength.
QoQQoQ means Quarter-over-Quarter. It compares the latest quarter with the immediately previous quarter to show short-term momentum changes.
RevenueThe total money that came through the front door from selling things, before paying a single bill. Think of it as the grand total of every credit card swipe from customers. (YoY compares this year to last year's performance, while QoQ compares the current three months to the previous three).
$1.1M
+2494.6%
+13.2%
Net IncomeThe absolute bottom line. If the company paid every single supplier, employee, banker, and tax collector, this is the actual money left in their pocket at the end of the day.
$-63.0M
-11.1%
+8.1%
Gross MarginThe basic markup. If they sell a $100 pair of sneakers, this percentage tells you how much of that price tag is profit right after paying for the rubber and shoelaces, but before paying for things like store rent or TV commercials.
+100.0%
0.0%
+11.1%
Operating MarginThe 'day job' efficiency score. Out of every dollar a customer spends, this shows how many cents the company keeps after making the product AND paying for all the everyday corporate overhead (like salaries, marketing, and keeping the lights on).
-3150.5%
+95.7%
+0.2%
Net MarginThe final take-home percentage. When you strip away every conceivable cost, tax, and interest payment, this is the exact number of cents the company truly gets to keep from every dollar in sales.
-5857.8%
+95.7%
+18.9%
Free Cash FlowThe holy grail of corporate cash. It's the spendable, physical money left over after the business pays for its daily operations AND buys the big, expensive upgrades (like new factories or servers) it needs to survive. This is the 'free' money they can use to pay dividends or buy back stock.
$-33.4M
-10.3%
-34.8%
FCF MarginThe ultimate cash conversion rate. It shows how good the company is at turning regular sales directly into cold, hard, spendable cash. A high percentage means the business is an absolute cash-printing machine.
-3106.3%
+95.7%
-19.1%
Debt / EquityThe financial risk gauge. It compares how much of the company's empire was built using borrowed money (loans) versus the owners' own money (shareholders). A high number means they are heavily leveraged and playing a riskier game; a low number means they are playing it safe.
3.8%
-89.0%
-41.2%
Current RatioThe 12-month survival check. It simply compares the cash they have right now (plus things they can quickly turn into cash) against the immediate bills they absolutely must pay this year. A score above 1 means they have enough in the wallet to cover the upcoming bills without panicking.
2.19x
+90.6%
-30.9%
Total AssetsThe absolute size of the company's empire. It bundles together absolutely everything of value they own—from the cash in the register and the inventory in the warehouse, to the software patents in the vault and the factories on the ground.