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Corning Incorporated (GLW) Stock Profile & Financial OverviewCorning Incorporated

Listed on NYSE • Technology / Hardware, Equipment & Parts
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GLW Company Overview & Business Description

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.

Key Information

Symbol: GLW
CEO: Wendell P. Weeks
Exchange: NYSE
CIK: 0000024741
SEC Filings: View SEC →

Current Trend for GLW

An assessment of the current trend environment for GLW, based on the latest closing price data and intended to describe the market context heading into the next trading session.

As of 2025-12-24, the current trend for GLW is a Sideways Consolidation (Range-Bound Environment).

The weekly trend is in a consolidation regime, which automatically downgrades the daily signal to sideways conditions. This environment favors short-term mean-reversion rather than trend-following.

  • The weekly context is non-trending (sideways), which typically caps the duration and magnitude of daily trend moves.
  • Price is currently trending at a healthy distance, sitting 1.15 ATR away from the adaptive KAMA baseline.
  • The market is maintaining a healthy 'Higher-High, Higher-Low' sequence, confirming buyer control.

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Adaptive Trend Model · Daily & Weekly (2025-12-24 ET)

This model uses an adaptive trend algorithm based on daily and weekly price data to identify whether a stock is in an uptrend, downtrend, or consolidation over a multi-week to multi-month horizon. Compared with traditional moving-average systems, it filters short-term noise more effectively, captures trend continuation more reliably, and provides a stronger basis for position sizing and risk-management decisions such as stop-loss and take-profit levels.

As of 2025-12-24, GLW in a non-directional consolidation; Long-term trend is bullish.

Trend Strength: GLW last closed at 89.66, trading 0.3 ATR below the adaptive KAMA baseline (90.58). Technical Classification: Non-Directional / Range-Bound.

Trend Score: Technical Score: 35/100. Classification: Sideways. Alignment: Indeterminate. Logic: Price action is range-bound or lacking sufficient slope for trend confirmation.

SuperTrend Risk: Structural Support: Adaptive SuperTrend at 78.00. This level serves as the calculated invalidation point for the current upward structure.

Risk Skew: Multi-timeframe risk skew is currently assessed as Non-Directional. Price is oscillating within a low-momentum range. Risk is two-sided, favoring mean-reversion strategies over trend-following.

Key Levels: Key technical references: Spot 89.66, KAMA 90.58.

GLW Real-Time Stock Price & Market Data (Updated: Dec 23 12:51 PM EST)

Price
89.12
Change
0.72
Change %
0.81%
Open
88.08
Previous Close
88.4
High
89.74
Low
87.84
Volume
1,513,682
Market Cap
76,407,963,648
EV/EBITDA
24.59

GLW Shares Outstanding, Float, Short Interest & Ownership (Updated: Dec 23 12:51 PM EST)

Shares Outstanding
857,360,396
FloatShares
786,388,102
Float Ratio
91.72%
Shares Short
12,580,925
Short Percent Of Float
The percent of float shares currently sold short. Reflects market sentiment and risk of a short squeeze.
1.66%
Short Ratio
Days needed to cover all short positions. Indicates short-selling pressure.
1.73 trading days
Held Percent Insiders
8.22%
Held Percent Institutions
75.98%