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Earnings Estimates Moving Higher for AXT (AXTI): Time to Buy?

AXT Slides Before Lumentum and Coherent Report Earnings This Week.

Quick Read AXT has surged 351% YTD but is pausing as traders de-risk ahead of Lumentum's closely watched earnings after tonight's close. Coherent, up 76% YTD, plans to double internal InP wafer output by year-end 2026, a direct demand signal for AXT substrates. Lumentum has beaten EPS four straight quarters, with past beats averaging a 7% day-of gain and 15% one-week gain. It sounds nuts, but SoFi1 is giving new Active Invest users up to $3,000 in stock for a limited time, and all it takes is a $50 deposit to get started.2 See for yourself (Sponsor) Shares of AXT (NASDAQ:AXTI) are drifting lower midday Tuesday, changing hands near $74 and roughly flat on the session. The relatively calm day follows a whip saw previous week that saw shares spike and then drop nearly 17% yesterday. Overall, AXT has rebounded from trading down to $36.97 on July 29th's close.Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock.com Looking further back, shares have surged 351% year to date. Traders across the optical complex appear to be de-risking ahead of Lumentum (NASDAQ:LITE) earnings after the close. Optical Complex Pauses Ahead of Lumentum AXT's move so far this week appears to be a sentiment tell rather than a reaction to its own results. AXT supplies indium phosphide (InP) substrates that feed directly into the silicon photonics and high-speed transceiver supply chain that Lumentum and Coherent (NYSE:COHR) sell into. When Lumentum reports tonight, its commentary on 800G modules, optical circuit switches, and co-packaged optics will set the tone for anyone tied to AI datacenter optical connectivity, and that includes AXT's core InP business. The setup into tonight is loaded. Lumentum guided fiscal Q4 revenue to $960 million to $1.01 billion with non-GAAP EPS of $2.85 to $3.05 and operating margin of 35.0% to 36.0%. CEO Michael Hurlston flagged an OCS backlog above $400 million and an incremental multi-hundred-million-dollar co-packaged optics order. SoFi Active Invest is offering a limited-time promotion. Open an account, fund it with $50 or more, and you could receive up to $3,000 in complimentary stock for Active Invest accounts. See for yourself by clicking here now. (Sponsor)LITE Earnings Explorer — 24/7 Wall St. Reaction risk cuts both ways. Lumentum has beaten EPS estimates four consecutive quarters, yet last quarter shares still closed down 5% on the day of the print despite the beat, with an intraday range of $902 to $1,014. Over the last five reports, beats have delivered an average day-of move of +7% and a one-week average gain of +15%. That is the whipsaw AXT holders are staring down midday. Story Continues Peers Trade Mixed, Coherent Reports Tomorrow Coherent shares also fell 14% yesterday. Wall Street commentary yesterday threw cold water on the potential transceiver ban out of China. Reuters reported on August 5th that the Trump Administration was looking to limit future optical transceivers from the country. That would be good news for domestic companies like Coherent, Lumentum, and Applied Optoelectronics. So, any Wall Street commentary that media reports of the ban are more the Trump Administration negotiating in public before a September summit with President Xi would lead to selling pressure on these names. A ban is far more complicated for AXT, so those same reports would seem to be positive for the company. Yet, AXT shares fell 17% yesterday. A transceiver ban would provide complications for AXT because the company relies on export licenses from China for its InP sales. If the U.S. were to ban Chinese optical transceivers, China could retaliate by limiting InP exports from the country. All major optical stocks have been on a tear this year. Coherent is up 76% year to date, and Lumentum is up 121%. Against those runs, AXT's 351% YTD move stands out, and small pullbacks around sector catalysts are unsurprising after that kind of parabolic rally. Coherent's own fiscal Q4 earnings lands tomorrow after the close, per confirmed company timing. Its guid

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In trading on Monday, the VanEck Oil Service ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.6% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Helmerich & Payne, up about 11.9% and shares of Patterson-uti Energy, up about 9.6% on the day. And underperforming other ETFs today is the Invesco Semiconductors ETF, down about 2.7% in Monday afternoon trading. Among components of that ETF with the weakest showing on Monday were shares of AXTI, lower by about 13.1%, and shares of Nlight, lower by about 6.9% on the day. VIDEO: Monday's ETF Movers: OIH, PSI The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

Best-Performing Leveraged Single-Stock ETFs of Last Week

Wall Street was upbeat last week, with the S&P 500 surging about 3.6%, the Dow Jones adding about 3%, the Nasdaq Composite soaring about 5.2% (helped by a rebound in semiconductor stocks) and the Russell 2000 advancing about 3.5%. The major indexes advanced for a second straight week. All three large-cap indexes posted their strongest weekly gains since April, as quoted on CNBC. TheiShares Semiconductor ETF SOXX, meanwhile, gained more than 7% during the week. Stocks Rally As Jobs Data Eases Rate-Hike Fears U.S. stocks rallied Friday after a weaker-than-expected July jobs report eased concerns that the Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates soon. Investors interpreted the labor-market weakness as giving the Fed more room to hold rates steady despite sticky inflation. Weak Jobs Report Eases Fed Concerns The July nonfarm payrolls report showed a decline of 23,000 jobs, sharply missing economists' expectation for an increase of 83,000, per CNBC. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1% from 4.2%, although the labor-force participation rate dropped to its lowest level in more than five years. Following the report, most fed funds futures traders expected the Fed to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% at its September meeting. A day earlier, traders had been pricing in a 55% probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike, per the same CNBC source. The weaker labor-market data helped ease concerns about rising yields and inflation, two key risks for equities. Software stocks outperformed late last week as recent earnings helped ease concerns that artificial intelligence could disrupt the industry. Hormuz Outlook Improving? Investors awaited a potential agreement between the United States and Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had indicated earlier in the week that a deal could be reached soon. United States Brent Oil Fund LP BNO lost 1.6% last week. For now, improving prospects for a resolution have reduced market anxiety. However, renewed tensions or a delay in reopening the key shipping route could quickly revive concerns over oil prices, inflation and market volatility. Best-Performing Single-Stock ETFs of Last Week Against this backdrop, below we highlight the top-performing single-stock ETF areas of last week. Redwire-Leveraged ETFs T-REX 2X Long RDW Daily Target ETF RDWU – Up 148.9% Space firm Redwire Corp RDW added 62.4% last week due to upbeat earnings. The company reported a quarterly loss of $0.09 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.18 and a loss of $0.39 per share recorded a year ago. Redwire posted revenues of $117.07 million for the quarter ended June 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 11.14%. This compares with year-ago revenues of $61.76 million. Story Continues AXT-Leveraged ETFs T-REX 2X Long AXTI Daily Target ETF AXTU – Up 133.6% Leverage Shares 2X Long AXTI Daily ETF AXTL – Up 130.8% AXT Inc. AXTI is the manufacturer and distributor of high-performance compound semiconductor substrates. The stock surged 55.4% last week. The stock has also been gaining lately on earnings strength. In late July, AXTreported second-quarter 2026 non-GAAP earnings of 19 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 7 cents by 171.43%. The company had recorded a loss of 15 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. Revenues surged 164.8% year over year to $47.6 million and surpassed the consensus mark of $34 million by 39.41%. Coherent-Heavy ETFs Tradr 2X Long COHR Daily ETF COHX – Up 115.0% Leverage Shares 2X Long COHR Daily ETF COHH – Up 115.1% Coherent Corp COHR shares added 48.5% last week. Coherent stock surged 13.4% on Friday itself to $379.13, thanks to massive demand for AI datacenter optical components, high Wall Street price targets and favorable macroeconomic conditions. Based on short-term price targets offered by 19 analysts, the average price target for Coherent comes to $394.00. The forecasts range from a low of $230.0

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