POET Technologies Has Consistently Chased Hype With Minimal Sales To Show For It (Archive, Full Access)
POET keeps chasing hot themes without delivering meaningful commercialization, revenues, or shareholder value.
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Elevator Pitch
- POET Technologies has repeatedly pivoted from solar to GaAs, LIDAR, 5G, and now AI photonics, yet has only negligible revenues and no meaningful commercialization record.
- Despite persistent cash burn and serial equity raises, POET trades well above both book value and net cash, implying a highly speculative valuation with little fundamental support.
- POET’s PFIC status for 2025 creates complex, potentially punitive U.S. tax reporting for investors, even as management plans a U.S. redomicile to eliminate PFIC risk from 2026 onward.
- The company’s large cash balance gives years of runway at current cash burn rates, but history suggests continued dilution risk if commercialization again disappoints.
- POET shares are trapped in a broad weekly trading range, with strong upside momentum facing a key resistance zone that could lead to choppy, sideways price action.
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