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Corning Inc — Intrinsic Value & Fair Price

GLW
NYSETechnologyHardware, Equipment & PartsCIK 0000024741corning.comAbout GLW
Last close · Oct 16, 2026132.06−6.37 (−4.60%)
Market cap$113.8B
Model value · DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y
37.00
Corning closed at $132.06 — overvalued by 257% vs model.
20.42the model's range91.42

DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y leads for profitable growth — positive operating income and three years of positive free cash flow. From a five-year discounted cash flow.

Other models
5.54 – 221.34
Wall St. target
175.00 25% below
Above model, 1y
20 of 20 days

Price and model value

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Daily close

Dividends

Quarterly · as of Oct 16, 2026
Yield, trailing 12 months
0.85%
Past 2 years
low 0.44%high 2.91%
Dividends per share, a year at a time
$0.94Aug ’21$1.05Aug ’22$1.11Aug ’23$1.12Aug ’24$1.12Aug ’25$1.12TTM
Dividends / free cash flow, FY2025
70.7%
Raised
—
Growth, 5 yrs
3.6% a year
Last change
+3.7% · Feb 2023
Every payment, with ex-dates · latest $0.28, paid Sep 29, 2026

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How it is valued

Valued asProfitable Growth
Moderate growth (~11% recent)Moderate margins (10% net margin)Highly cyclical earnings
What growth the price implies: the reverse DCF

Key figures

FY2025
P/E
71.4×
EV / EBITDA
32.8×
FCF yield
1.2%
Dividend yield, TTM
0.85%
Beta
1.12
Cost of capital (WACC)
9.14%
Full financials

Analyst actions

third-party, quoted
10-05UBS · target201.00
09-30Bernstein · target140.00
09-15Mizuho Securities · target180.00
08-03Truist Securities · “Buy” from “Hold”upgrade
Ratings, targets and estimates

Comparable companies

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About Corning

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.

CEO
Wendell Weeks
Headquarters
Corning, NY
Employees
67,200
IPO
1981-12-31
Full company profile

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