
< $SIVE | $SIVEF > at a ~$250M valuation looks like one of the most severe structural mispricing in the optical semi market.
$Lumentum(LITE.US) and $Coherent Corp.(COHR.US), have $45B+ valuations today:Largely because of their control over EMLs and VCSELs that they ship to -> InnoLight and Eoptolink. For current pluggable transceiver supercycles.I will keep hammering this home until markets understand:Sivers has replicated this exact, highly lucrative merchant-supplier model for the next paradigm: -> CPO and ELS.And also:-> Lasers that a massive manufacturer like Jabil is using for the current 1.6T upgrade cycle. Sivers saw architectures shifting away from EML and became the pure play supplier for CW.Current Cycle (Pluggables): LITE/COHR supply EML -> InnoLight/Eoptolink build modules -> $Alphabet(GOOGL.US), $Meta Platforms(META.US), $Microsoft(MSFT.US), $Amazon(AMZN.US) buy them.Next Cycle (CPO / ELS): Sivers supplies CW DFB -> $POET Tech(POET.US) Tech(POET.US), Ayar Labs -> flows to hyperscalers like $Amazon(AMZN.US), $Meta Platforms(META.US), $Microsoft(MSFT.US) and others. However, instead of building up mega fabs with yield/capacity ramp risk:They transitioned to an outsourced, fabless model for high-volume CW Lasers with Win Semi and effectively de-risked scaling. So why does it have a $250M valuation during the photonics supercycle?My opinion: 1. Nobody knows about it yet. 2. Many fund mandates prevents them from buying small caps in SwedenHowever, when you start looking at obscure upstream names in hyperscaler light supply chain:At the top for the light source sits $SIVE. A small $250M company among $Macom Tech(MTSI.US), $Lumentum(LITE.US), $Coherent Corp.(COHR.US), Sumitomo and the $10B-$40B+ incumbents. Again...A $250M company:Powers Jabil's 1.6T LRO optical transceivers modules. Jabil is massive. As well as Ayar, $POET Tech(POET.US) Tech(POET.US), Enablence/ $ONET and many other names now (that are not disclosed) for diversification.$SIVE found their way to scale as the lightsource of hyperscaler supply chains for future photonic architectures.And looks incredibly undervalued, relative to forward TAM expansion and ramp.Source: Serenity
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