In early trading on Monday, shares of Honeywell International topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 7.5%.  Year to date, Honeywell International registers a 42.2% gain.

And the worst performing S&P 500 component thus fa

S&P 500 Movers: SNDK, HONIV  

In the latest look at the underlying components of the S&P 500 ordered by largest market capitalization, Ciena Corp (Symbol: CIEN) has taken over the #202 spot from Aon plc (Symbol: AON), according to The Online Investor.  

	Market capitalization is an important data point

Ciena Moves Up In Market Cap Rank, Passing Aon 

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Quanta Services, Inc. (Symbol: PWR), where a total of 6,576 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 657,600 underlying shares.  That amounts to about 78.4

Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: PWR, LLY, CIEN

In trading on Friday, shares of Ciena Corp (Symbol: CIEN) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $390.45, changing hands as high as $393.92 per share.  Ciena Corp shares are currently trading up about 3.3% on the day.  The chart below shows the one year performance of CIE

Ciena Breaks Above 200-Day Moving Average - Bullish for CIEN

Optical networking stocks ripped higher on Thursday after Wall Street grew bullish on the next generation of data center networking.

Coherent, Lumentum, and Ciena stocks surge on bullish Wall Street call

Bullish analyst calls piled up all week on one optical networking name, and now the stock is surging while its closest peers barely budge. Here is what the sell-side sees that the market is only starting to price in.

Ciena Climbs 6% After a Week of Bullish Analyst Calls; Arista Ticks Up, Cisco Holds Steady

Ciena Corporation, a network technology company, provides hardware, software, and services for various network operators in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and India. It operates through Networking Platforms, Platform Software and Services, Blue Planet Automation Software and Services, and Global Services segments. The Networking Platforms segment consists optical networking, routing, and switching products and services. This segment products include the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver modular interconnect system, the 6500 Reconfigurable Line System, and coherent pluggable transceivers; and the 3000 family of service delivery platforms and the 5000 family of service aggregation, as well as the 8100 Coherent Routing platforms and virtualization software. The Platform Software and Services segment offers navigator network control suite; and software subscription services, consulting, network migration and integration, installation and upgrade support services, and technical support solutions. The Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment inventory management, orchestration, route optimization and analysis, and unified assurance and analytics software; and sells subscription, installation, support, consulting, and design services related to the Blue Planet automation platform. The Global Services segment provides services for advisory and enablement, implementation, and maintenance, support, and learning activities. Ciena Corporation was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Fulton, Maryland.

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