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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Coherent (COHR)

Coherent posts Q2 revenue of $1.43 billion, up 27%; GAAP EPS $0.44 vs. loss a year earlier

Positive Impact 3 of 5 earnings Written later

Coherent Corp. reported fiscal second-quarter 2025 results for the quarter ended December 31, 2024, with revenue of $1.43 billion, up 27% from a year earlier, and GAAP diluted earnings of $0.44 per share, compared with a loss of $0.38 per share in the prior-year quarter. The company also gave third-quarter fiscal 2025 revenue guidance of $1.39 billion to $1.48 billion and non-GAAP EPS guidance of $0.75 to $0.95, and said it paid down $132 million of debt.

Key points

  • Q2 revenue was $1.43 billion, up 26.8% year over year and 6.4% sequentially from $1.35 billion.
  • GAAP diluted EPS was $0.44; non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.95, versus $0.27 a year earlier.
  • Q3 fiscal 2025 guidance: revenue of $1.39 billion to $1.48 billion; non-GAAP gross margin of 37% to 39%; non-GAAP EPS of $0.75 to $0.95.
  • The CFO said the company paid down $132 million of outstanding debt in the quarter.

The filing

CompanyCoherent (COHR)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECFeb 5, 2025, 4:05 PM ET
Accession number0001193125-25-020821

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:30 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on February 05, 2025.

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