POET (POET) closed at $5.52 on Oct 19, 2026, up 1.7% on the day. The stock is down 29.2% over the past month, down 34.1% over three months, down 12.8% year to date and down 27.0% over the past year. It trades 62.7% below its 52-week high of $14.79 and 42.6% above its 52-week low of $3.87. The close sits below its 50-day moving average ($7.67) and below its 200-day moving average ($8.35).
NextPick tracks POET in its Optical Modules basket alongside LITE, COHR, MTSI, FN and AAOI. As of Oct 19, 2026, the basket's money-flow score is -33 (outflow), and the basket is down 17.6% over five sessions. Over the past month POET ranks 6th of 6 basket members by price change.
No — the Oct 19, 2026 close of $5.52 is 33.9% below the 200-day average of $8.35.
POET closed 62.7% below its 52-week high of $14.79.
NextPick groups POET with LITE, COHR, MTSI, FN and AAOI in its Optical Modules basket.
POET Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products and services for commercial applications in the United States, Canada, the rest of North and South America, Europe, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and the rest of Asia. The company offers photonic integrated packaging solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a platform that allows the integration of electronic and photonic devices onto a single chip using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. Its products include photonic integrated circuits, optical engines, optical transceiver modules, and light source products. The company serves the data center AI, light source, and telecommunications markets; 5G interconnect markets, such as PON and GPON, as well as edge computing for machine-to-machine communications; and sensing markets, including LIDAR, Optical Coherence Tomography for medical devices, and virtual reality systems. The company has a strategic collaboration with Lumilens Inc. for the development of wafer-level photonic integration for AI optical networks. The company was formerly known as Opel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to POET Technologies Inc. in June 2013. POET Technologies Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
