POET Stock — POET Technologies Inc.

POET Technologies Inc. (POET)

Updated October 16, 2026.

POET is a Stock. Total return is -45.7% over the past 18.3 years, 752.7 points behind SPY at 707.0%.

POET Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells photonic integrated semiconductor products and services, including photonic integrated circuits, optical engines, and optical transceiver modules for data center AI, telecommunications, 5G, edge computing, and sensing applications globally. The company does not currently have an established distribution schedule. POET serves markets ranging from high-speed data interconnects to medical imaging and LIDAR systems, with a strategic collaboration focused on photonic integration for AI optical networks.

POET performance versus SPY

Price and return data through 2026-10-16.

Total return is -45.7% over the past 18.3 years, 752.7 points behind SPY at 707.0%. Over the past year its total return — price change plus distributions reinvested — is -28.2%. Its deepest 1-year drawdown was 73.6%.

POET key facts

Asset type

Stock

Asset class

Equity

Inception date

06/25/2008

Distribution frequency

None

Last close

$5.43 (as of 2026-10-16)

Market cap

$939,705,418

Average volume

11835077.0

Beta

0.836

Payout ratio

0.0%

EPS

$-0.69

How Dividend Vision calculates yield and returns

Distribution rate (the posted rate) uses calculation basis unavailable. Issuer rates can use a different denominator and date, including ex-date NAV. Trailing-12-month yield is the sum of split-adjusted cash distributions with ex-dates in the last 12 months, divided by the published price. It lags a recent raise or cut. Total return uses split-adjusted close with distributions reinvested on the ex-dividend date (a modeling convention, not the cash-settlement date) from the first stored bar on or after inception through the latest bar, compared with the same window on the benchmark. That is the security's total return, not your personal gain/loss.

Yield and safety methodology · Distribution rate methodology · Distribution Safety Score methodology

Sources and review

Primary sources: prices and distributions from Dividend Vision, derived from vendor EOD data.

Reviewed by Bert Sweet, CEO and Co-owner of Dividend Vision. Methodology: Distribution Safety Score.

POET risks and drawbacks

Total return has trailed SPY over the available window. The deepest 1-year drawdown on record here is 73.6%.

Who may consider POET — and who may not

It is a weaker fit for investors who need monthly cash flow (POET does not currently distribute); investors whose main goal is matching SPY total return. This is educational context, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

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