Lumentum Holdings announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Cloud Light Technology.
Under terms of the merger agreement, Lumentum acquired Cloud Light with a transaction value of approximately $750 million, before certain adjustments. The transaction consideration was paid in cash from Lumentum’s balance sheet and the assumption and substitution of outstanding unvested Cloud Light options.
The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to Lumentum’s non-GAAP earnings per share and is expected to more than double Lumentum’s cloud data center infrastructure revenue in the 12-month period following the transaction close. The highly complementary combination squarely positions Lumentum as a leader in providing photonics to cloud operators, enabling more than a five-fold expansion in the company’s served opportunity inside of data centers. In the last twelve months, over 90 percent of Cloud Light’s more than $200 million in revenue was derived from 400G and higher speed products, and in their most recent quarter, over half of Cloud Light’s optical transceiver revenue was derived from 800G transceivers.
As previously announced, Lumentum will release its fiscal first quarter 2024 financial results tomorrow, Wednesday, November 8, 2023, before the market opens and host a conference call the same day at 5:30 a.m. PT/8:30 a.m. ET. During this call, Lumentum management will also provide an update on the Cloud Light transaction.
Alan Lowe, Lumentum President and CEO
I am excited to add Cloud Light’s high-speed optical transceiver products, differentiated technology, and talented team to Lumentum. Cloud operators have embraced this transaction, recognizing the enhanced customer value proposition it brings through leading-edge technology, a broader product portfolio, and strengthened supply chain security, all at a time when Artificial Intelligence is driving data center compute capacity to its limits.
