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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $89.57 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $1.54B 21% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $6.57B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The AI line is the whole company and everything else is flat or shrinking. In the basis quarter the four non-Optical segments together produced $2,666m against $2,479m a year earlier - 7.5% growth - while Solar posted a segment net loss and Life Sciences and Emerging Growth Businesses fell 15% year over year into a $21m loss. Corning has never published a segment-level 2030 target, so the $40 billion rests on an Optical Communications line that would have to roughly triple. Meanwhile the buyback has stopped and first-half capex is up 46% year over year to $754m. Optical's own recent history shows the downside: carrier de-stocking took it from $1,125m in 2023 Q1 to $903m in 2023 Q4 in four quarters. This case runs Optical 1.5 points a quarter slower, Solar the same, margins two points lower, and exits at 13x on a 10% discount rate. It reaches a $29.9 billion run rate at the end of 2030 - short of the $30 billion 2028 milestone, let alone $40 billion.

Glass Innovations

Basis quarter$1.46B
Final quarter$1.54B
Implied CAGR+1%
Final revenue mix21%

Display glass for televisions, monitors and notebooks, plus Gorilla Glass cover materials and semiconductor-related glass - the former Display Technologies and Specialty Materials segments, combined effective Q1 2026. The most profitable segment at a 40.81% EBITDA margin and the most nearly flat at +1.4% year over year. Its job in the model is to be a large, stable, high-margin base, not a growth line.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $1.56B Reported
2025 Q4 $1.50B Reported
2026 Q1 $1.42B Reported
2026 Q2 $1.46B Reported
Display glassSpecialty and mobile consumer electronics cover materialsSemiconductor-related materials
Sequential growth +0.4%/qtr decaying toward +0.4% Deseasonalised trend. The four deseasonalised quarters to 2026 Q2 run 1454, 1522, 1517, 1454 - flat; 0.4%/qtr is the FY2024-FY2025 line.
Glass Innovations

Latest: $1.54B (2030Q4E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $1.33B
2024Q2 $1.51B
2024Q3 $1.56B
2024Q4 $1.49B
2025Q1 $1.41B
2025Q2 $1.44B
2025Q3 $1.56B
2025Q4 $1.50B
2026Q1 $1.42B
2026Q2 $1.46B
2026Q3E $1.53B
2026Q4E $1.44B
2027Q1E $1.38B
2027Q2E $1.49B
2027Q3E $1.56B
2027Q4E $1.47B
2028Q1E $1.40B
2028Q2E $1.51B
2028Q3E $1.58B
2028Q4E $1.49B
2029Q1E $1.42B
2029Q2E $1.53B
2029Q3E $1.61B
2029Q4E $1.51B
2030Q1E $1.44B
2030Q2E $1.56B
2030Q3E $1.64B
2030Q4E $1.54B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • The only vertical carrying seasonality. Ratio-to-centred-four-quarter-moving-average over 2023 Q1 - 2026 Q2 gives a 0.137 signal against a 0.067 largest window spread, and the two most recent Q3 windows agree at 1.054 and 1.055. The conservative factor set is used, which drops the 1.121 window of 2023 Q3 inflated by that year's display price increases.
  • With seasonality present the engine deseasonalises the basis quarter before the driver runs, so the 0.4% growthQoQ is a deseasonalised trend rate, not a sequential change. The basis quarter divides by the Q2 factor of 1.012.
  • This is the segment carrying a currency-basis discontinuity. Effective 1 April 2026 Corning replaced its constant-currency adjustment with an adjustment for hedged exposures and did not recast prior periods; it states the restatement would have raised prior-period growth rates for this segment and been immaterial elsewhere. Order of magnitude is roughly $50m on a $1,463m line, so the pre-2026 Q2 history here sits on a slightly different basis than the basis quarter.
  • The 2023 figures Corning reports for Display Technologies plus Specialty Materials sum exactly to the recast FY2024 Glass Innovations total (3,872 + 2,018 = 5,890), which is what proves the combination - but the other three segments were not recast to 2023, so the model's shared history window starts at 2024 Q1.
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