Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2015

Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2015: Finisar Corporation(FNSR)

Finisar Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets optical subsystems and components that are used to interconnect equipment in short-distance local area networks (LANs), storage area networks (SANs), longer distance metropolitan area networks (MANs), fiber-to-the-home networks, cable television networks, and wide area networks. Its optical subsystems primarily include transmitters, receivers, transceivers, and transponders. The company?s optical subsystems provides the fundamental optical-electrical interface for connecting the equipment used in building networks comprising switches, routers, and file servers in wireline networks, as well as antennas and base stations for wireless networks. It also offers products for switching network traffic from one optical wavelength to another across multiple wavelengths, known as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers. The company?s line of optical components principally comprises packaged lasers and photodetec t ors used in transceivers for LAN and SAN applications; and passive optical components used in building MANs. It sells its optical products to manufacturers of storage system, networking equipment, and telecommunication equipment or their contract manufacturers through direct sales force and distribution channels in the United States, Malaysia, the People?s Republic of China, and internationally. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By FinanceGuru]

  Finisar (FNSR) is a leading provider of optical subsystems and components for telecom and data communication applications. The stock has roughly doubled over the past year, fueled by a strong secular demand for optical equipment (driven by the build-out of high-speed LTE networks) coupled with a compelling market-share gain story. With the stock off slightl! y from its 52-week highs, it's worth taking a closer look at this market leader.

• [By Rex Crum]

  One of the day's biggest decliners was Finisar Corp. (FNSR) , which fell almost 22% to $19.71 a share. Late Thursday, the optical-communications equipment maker gave a weaker-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings, excluding one-time items, of 30 cents to 34 cents a share. Wall Street analysts had forecast Finisar to earn 41 cents a share.

• [By Garrett Cook]

  Shares of Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR) were down 22.44 percent to $19.58 after the company reported downbeat earnings for the fourth quarter and issued a weak profit forecast for the current quarter.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  Friday gave stock market investors some respite from losses earlier in the week, as major-market benchmarks managed to recover by around a quarter of a percent. Merger and acquisition activity helped bolster stocks in many different parts of the market, but concerns about the sustainability of the economic recovery held others back. Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR  ) , InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC  ) , and GNC Holdings (NYSE: GNC  ) were among the worst performers of the day.

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