Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated engages in display technologies, optical communications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences businesses worldwide. The company's Display Technologies segment offers glass substrates for liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes used in televisions, notebook computers, desktop monitors, tablets, and handheld devices. Its Optical Communications segment provides optical fibers and cables; and hardware and equipment products, including cable assemblies, fiber optic hardware and connectors, optical components and couplers, closures, network interface devices, and other accessories. This segment also offers its products to businesses, governments, and individuals. Its Specialty Materials segment manufactures products that provide material formulations for glass, glass ceramics, crystals, precision metrology instruments, software; as well as ultra-thin and ultra-flat glass wafers, substrates, tinted sunglasses, and radiation shielding products. This segment serves various industries, including mobile consumer electronics, semiconductor equipment optics and consumables; aerospace and defense optics; radiation shielding products, sunglasses, and telecommunications components. The company's Environmental Technologies segment offers ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile, gasoline, and diesel applications. The company's Life Sciences segment offers laboratory products comprising consumables, such as plastic vessels, liquid handling plastics, specialty surfaces, cell culture media, and serum, as well as general labware and equipment under the Corning, Falcon, Pyrex, and Axygen brands. The company was formerly known as Corning Glass Works and changed its name to Corning Incorporated in April 1989. Corning Incorporated was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in Corning, New York.

Corning Incorporated trades as GLW on NYSE. The company is classified in Technology / Hardware, Equipment & Parts and reports in USD.

The current profile places the business in Hardware, Equipment & Parts. This section is intended to summarize the operating segments, products, geographies, and main revenue lines from official filings.

Latest available fiscal data shows $15.63B of revenue and $1.60B of net income.

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Corning Incorporated can be compared against peers such as Autodesk, Inc., Celestica Inc., Fortinet, Inc., Infosys Limited, Keysight Technologies, Inc., Motorola Solutions, Inc..

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Current signals to investigate include market capitalization of $152.83B, beta of 1.16, and return on equity of +13.5%.

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GLW currently shows total debt of $10.22B and beta of 1.16. Missing data should be treated as a research gap, not as low risk.

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Company website: https://www.corning.com

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