On September 24, Corning fell 3.08% in pre-market trading, trading at $149.73/share, with turnover of approximately $1.999 million.

On the macro front, U.S. September composite PMI surged to 58.4 — the highest since July 2021 — reigniting inflation concerns and pushing the 10-year Treasury yield above 5%. Market expectations for a Fed rate hike in October jumped from 55% to nearly 70%, triggering a broad selloff across U.S. equities. The three major indexes fell sharply in the prior session, with the Nasdaq declining over 1%, and optical communications and storage chip stocks bearing the brunt of the downturn.

At the company level, lingering equity dilution concerns continued to pressure the stock. Corning previously announced a stock placement agreement with Goldman Sachs for up to $2 billion, which had triggered a sharp selloff of over 13%. While the stock had partially recovered — aided by a Verizon multi-billion-dollar fiber supply deal and the ECOC 2026 AI optical interconnect showcase with Qualcomm and Lumentum — the dilution overhang remains unresolved. Within the Electronic Components sector, Coherent fell 3.26% and Vishay Intertechnology dropped 1.99%, reflecting broad sector weakness.

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