Stock price history — POET Technologies
As of: 2026-04-29 (last close 2026-04-28: $8.03)
Data source: Yahoo Finance via
companies/poet/data/STOCK_PRICE_DATA.json(current snapshot ✓) andcompanies/poet/data/price_history.json(full daily history). The price-history JSON is auto-refreshed at each/refreshcycle.Confidence legend: ✓ verified-primary · ◐ partial / aggregator · ⚠ inferred / estimate
1. Snapshot (2026-04-28 close)
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Last close | $8.03 ✓ |
| Prior close | $7.95 ✓ |
| Day’s open / high / low | $7.54 / $8.84 / $7.54 ✓ |
| Day’s volume | 80,807,700 ✓ |
| 20-day avg volume | ~5,000,000 ⚠ (aggregator; pre-most-recent-spike) |
| 52-week high | $15.50 ✓ |
| 52-week low | $3.78 ✓ |
| 52w peak-to-trough range | 4.10× (310% peak vs. trough) |
| 52w high : current | 1.93× (i.e., spot is 48% off 52w high) |
| Beta (vs. SPY) | ~3.0 ⚠ aggregator |
| 30-day volatility (annualized) | (not captured in current data; high inferred) ⚠ |
Read. 2026-04-28 trading volume (80.8M shares) is ~16× the 20-day average — indicating a major news / event-driven trading day. The day’s range ($7.54–$8.84) is wide (~17% intraday range), consistent with high-volatility microcap behavior. The KB does not yet have catalyst attribution for 2026-04-28; refresh open. ⚠
2. 52-week price action characterization
POET’s 52-week range of $3.78 to $15.50 is a 310% peak-to-trough spread — extreme even for the microcap-photonics cohort. The $15.50 high was reached during a strong 2025 AI-photonics cohort rally, while the $3.78 low likely traced an early-2025 trough before the optical-engine sampling milestones began.
Key inflection points (analyst-traced from raise cadence ⚠)
| Approximate period | Price range | Likely catalyst (analyst inference ⚠) |
|---|---|---|
| ~Apr–May 2025 | $3.78 area | 52w trough; pre-AI-cohort rally |
| Jun–Aug 2025 | $5–$8 range | AI-photonics rally; May 22 + Jul 17 PIPEs absorbed |
| Sep–Oct 2025 | $7–$10 range | Pre-Q3 earnings build; Oct 7 PIPE absorbed |
| ~Oct–Nov 2025 | $15.50 peak ⚠ | 52w high — likely tied to specific 1.6T optical engine milestone or AI-cohort euphoria peak |
| Nov 2025–Jan 2026 | $7–$10 range | Compression post-peak; Oct 28 + Jan 23 raises absorbed |
| Feb–Apr 2026 | $7–$9 range | Stable post-20-F filing band |
| 2026-04-28 | $8.03 close | Current; high-volume trading day |
⚠ Specific catalyst-to-price-spike attribution requires line-by-line review of POET 6-K press releases against price-history.json daily-bar data. The full attribution sweep is in the catalysts refresh queue.
3. Volatility and the “microcap-photonics” profile
Beta ~3.0 (per aggregator) implies POET trades roughly 3× the volatility of the broader market. This is structurally consistent with:
- Microcap liquidity profile — average daily volume ~5M shares against a market cap of $1.23B implies relatively thin float-weighted turnover.
- No-cash-flow valuation — pre-revenue stocks with serial-dilution profiles show wide trading ranges as price discovery cycles between raise / catalyst / dilution-absorption phases.
- AI-thematic cohort — POET trades alongside the AI-narrative microcap cohort (NVTS, ALMU, ONDS), which collectively show beta 2.5–3.5 in 2025–2026.
Implications for thesis-pricing
- Position sizing matters. A 3× beta means standard correlation-based portfolio risk inputs underestimate POET’s contribution to portfolio variance. Position-sizing should reflect this.
- Catalyst leverage is high. A material design-win disclosure could trigger 25–50% single-day moves; conversely, dilution / failed-milestone disclosure could compress similarly.
- Mean reversion is unreliable. With no anchoring valuation multiple, POET’s price has no “fair value gravity” — price discovery is narrative-driven, not multiple-driven.
4. Multi-year context (longer history available in price_history.json)
POET’s listing history extends back over a decade on NASDAQ + (formerly) TSXV. Key historical phases (analyst summary ⚠):
- Pre-2016: Pre-DenseLight acquisition; predecessor company OPEL Technologies → POET Technologies rename.
- 2016–2019: DenseLight Singapore subsidiary period; owned-fab strategy.
- 2019–2023: Fab-light pivot; Optical Interposer R&D phase; price languished sub-$5 most of this period ⚠.
- 2024: AI-photonics narrative inflection; 1.6T-engine roadmap framing emerges.
- 2025: Capital raise cadence accelerates; price rallies to $15.50 peak in Q4 2025.
- 2026 YTD: Compression to $7–9 range; serial-dilution narrative + short-interest expansion offset bull-case milestones.
Multi-year price history is captured in
companies/poet/data/price_history.json(~352KB) — analyst-grade narrative annotation for pre-2024 catalysts is in the refresh queue ⚠.
5. TSXV delisting (2025-08-27) — structural price-discovery shift
POET delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) effective August 27, 2025, per the November 2025 F-3ASR (acc. 0001493152-25-025394). This eliminated dual-trading arbitrage and concentrated all price discovery on NASDAQ:POET. Implications:
- Liquidity concentration: All trading volume now flows through NASDAQ; no Canadian-side fragmentation.
- No CAD-priced trading: Canadian investors holding POET via Canadian brokers now trade NASDAQ-listed shares with FX exposure. This may have reduced Canadian retail-investor participation modestly. ⚠
- Reporting alignment: POET’s regulatory disclosures continue under both SEC (US) and Canadian provincial securities regulators (POET is incorporated under Ontario law; National Instrument 55-104 SEDI obligations persist for insider trades).
6. Forward catalyst calendar (per thesis)
| Catalyst | Expected window | Price implication |
|---|---|---|
| H1 2026 6-K interim financial statements | Aug–Sep 2026 | Confirms operating burn trajectory; balance sheet refresh |
| 1.6T Optical Engine sampling → qualification | Q2–Q4 2026 | Bull catalyst if customer-named |
| Blazar Light Source first revenue disclosure | Q3 2026–H1 2027 | High-volatility data point |
| Annual investor call / FY2026 20-F | Mar 2027 | Annual narrative reset |
| Hypothetical hyperscaler design-win | Any time | Loadbearing bull catalyst — short cover potential |
| Hypothetical further capital raise | Any time stock holds >$8 | Bear catalyst — confirms serial-dilution thesis |
Sources
companies/poet/data/STOCK_PRICE_DATA.json— current-day snapshot (2026-04-28 close $8.03; 52w range $3.78–$15.50). ✓companies/poet/data/price_history.json— full daily price history (~352KB). ✓companies/poet/data/price_snapshot.json— Yahoo Finance snapshot wrapper.- POET F-3ASR (Nov 2025, acc. 0001493152-25-025394) — TSXV delisting disclosure.
Cross-references
- Short interest history — short positioning that has correlated with raise cadence
- Share count + dilution — share count progression underlying market-cap math
- Recent capital raises — raise cadence
- Forward catalysts — full thesis catalyst inventory