Corning Incorporated operates in optical communications, display, specialty materials, automotive, and life sciences businesses in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Germany, and internationally. The company provides optical fibers and cables; and hardware and equipment products, such as cable assemblies, fiber optic hardware and connectors, optical components and couplers, closures, network interface devices, and other accessories for the telecommunications industry, businesses, governments, and individuals. It also offers glass substrates for flat panel displays, including liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes that are used in televisions, notebook computers, desktop monitors, tablets, and handheld devices. In addition, it manufactures products that offer material formulations for glass, glass ceramics, crystals, precision metrology instruments, and software, as well as glass wafers and substrates, tinted sunglasses, and radiation shielding products for markets, such as mobile consumer electronics, semiconductor equipment optics and consumables, aerospace and defense optics, radiation shielding products, sunglasses, and telecommunications components. Further, the company provides ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile, gasoline, and diesel applications, as well as technical glass and optic products and solutions for the interior and exterior of vehicles. Additionally, it offers laboratory products, including plastic vessels, liquid handling plastics, specialty surfaces, cell culture media, and serum, as well as general labware, and glassware and equipment under the Corning, Falcon, PYREX, and Axygen brands. It also offers polysilicon products and pharmaceutical glass tubing and vials. 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 Inc. (GLW) Stock Price & Market Analysis
GLW · NYSE · Hardware, Equipment & Parts
$123.99
▼ -$10.93(-8.10%)4:03 PM ET - vs previous closeQuote as of Oct 22, 2026, 4:03 PM EDT
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- Oct 27, 2026Next earnings · Before market openConfirmed · Before market open · Last verified 2026-10-23
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Annual revenue
USD 15.63B
Sales for the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025. This is not trailing twelve-month revenue.
Revenue change
+19.1%
Change versus the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2024.
Net profit margin
10.2%
Net income divided by revenue for the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025. This is not the trailing margin.
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Corning Inc.
NYSE · GLW · US
Company overview as of Oct 22, 2026.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Hardware, Equipment & Parts
- Headquarters
- Corning, NY, United States
- Country
- US
- Founded
- 1851
- Employees
- 67,200
- CEO
- Mr. Wendell P. Weeks
- Exchange
- NYSE
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Demand is expanding
Supporting observation: 16.6%
Year-over-year growth in the latest quarter. This differs from the fiscal-year revenue change shown above. · 2026-06-30
Growth produces accounting profit
Supporting observation: 11.2%
Reported-period net margin. A positive figure supports accounting profitability, not cash generation. · 2026-10-22T20:15:19.565Z
The business generates cash after investment
Insufficient evidence: Unavailable
No comparable reported free cash flow was available. · 2026-06-30
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Operating measures
- Revenue
- $4.50Bquarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Gross margin
- 36.1%quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Operating margin
- 15.5%quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- EPS
- $0.64quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Operating cash / net income
- 3.07×quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- Revenue growth year over year
- 16.6%quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
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