Stock · GLW · Technology
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1981 · Revenue 12 mo. $17B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Corning Incorporated operates in optical communications, display, specialty materials, automotive, and life sciences businesses in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Germany, and internationally.
Corning Incorporated operates in optical communications, display, specialty materials, automotive, and life sciences businesses in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Germany, and internationally. The company provides optical fibers and cables; and hardware and equipment products, such as cable assemblies, fiber optic hardware and connectors, optical components and couplers, closures, network interface devices, and other accessories for the telecommunications industry, businesses, governments, and individuals. It also offers glass substrates for flat panel displays, including liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes that are used in televisions, notebook computers, desktop monitors, tablets, and handheld devices. In addition, it manufactures products that offer material formulations for glass, glass ceramics, crystals, precision metrology instruments, and software, as well as glass wafers and substrates, tinted sunglasses, and radiation shielding products for markets, such as mobile consumer electronics, semiconductor equipment optics and consumables, aerospace and defense optics, radiation shielding products, sunglasses, and telecommunications components. Further, the company provides ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile, gasoline, and diesel applications, as well as technical glass and optic products and solutions for the interior and exterior of vehicles. Additionally, it offers laboratory products, including plastic vessels, liquid handling plastics, specialty surfaces, cell culture media, and serum, as well as general labware, and glassware and equipment under the Corning, Falcon, PYREX, and Axygen brands. It also offers polysilicon products and pharmaceutical glass tubing and vials. The company was formerly known as Corning Glass Works and changed its name to Corning Incorporated in April 1989. Corning Incorporated was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in Corning, New York.
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Summary
39.8 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1.3B (2025), it supports €14.1B. The remaining €68B of the market value assume it grows 24.6% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
24.6%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 23.7×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 10.2× to 20.9×, median 15.4×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
5 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, Net debt, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 13.52% | 14.60% | Rank 46 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 12.27% | 29.77% | Rank 23 |
| EBIT margin | 14.91% | 17.40% | Rank 46 |
| FCF margin | 9.04% | 18.54% | Rank 27 |
| Gross margin | 35.28% | 48.47% | Rank 25 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 19.14% | 12.70% | Rank 70 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 6.52% | 9.54% | Rank 39 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 22.85% | 14.07% | Rank 74 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 8.20% | 2.87% | Rank 79 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 1.75% | 2.64% | Rank 31 |
| FCF yield | 1.54% | 3.06% | Rank 27 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 6.41 | 5.18 | Rank 39 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 42.99 | 26.24 | Rank 29 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 11.19% | −0.59% | Rank 67 |
| Share price, 6 months | −42.74% | −4.46% | Rank 8 |
| Share price, 3 months | −30.81% | −5.84% | Rank 12 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −58.49% | −33.23% | Rank 9 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 0.49% | 1.65% | Rank 56 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.04% | −0.17% | Rank 66 |
| Dividend streak in years | 18 | 8 | Rank 91 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −1.79% | −1.57% | Rank 49 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 38.12% | 53.98% | Rank 28 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 2.33 | −0.20 | Rank 13 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.87 | 0.33 | Rank 20 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 74.27% | 50.37% | Rank 19 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 9.4 | 15.2% | $1.4B | 1.14B | −$1.4B |
| 2017 | 10.1 | 16.1% | $200.0M | 895M | $811.0M |
| 2018 | 11.3 | 14.0% | $677.0M | 941M | $3.6B |
| 2019 | 11.5 | 11.4% | $44.0M | 899M | $5.8B |
| 2020 | 11.3 | 4.5% | $803.0M | 772M | $6.0B |
| 2021 | 14.1 | 15.0% | $1.8B | 844M | $5.7B |
| 2022 | 14.2 | 10.1% | $1.0B | 857M | $6.1B |
| 2023 | 12.6 | 7.1% | $615.0M | 859M | $6.7B |
| 2024 | 13.1 | 8.7% | $974.0M | 869M | $6.3B |
| 2025 | 15.6 | 14.9% | $1.4B | 860M | $8.7B |
1 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Corning Incorporated mainly meets criteria in the Growth category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Corning Incorporated is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
1 of 7 rules met
2 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Corning Incorporated.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 57.2 | 35.1 |
| P/B ratio | 7.7 | 5.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 13.5% | 14.6% |
| Equity ratio | 38.1% | 54.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.87 | 0.33 |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 0.9% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| GLW | Corning Incorporatedthis page | |
| JBL | Jabil Inc. | High7.3 |
| FLEX | Flex Ltd | Low2.7 |
| APH | Amphenol Corporation | High6.4 |
| 2308.TW | Delta Electronics Inc | locked |
| 2317.TW | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | locked |
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