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POET (POET Technologies) Cash And Cash Equivalents : $15.90 Mil (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is POET Technologies Cash And Cash Equivalents?

POET Technologies's quarterly cash and cash equivalents declined from Sep. 2024 ($41.78 Mil) to Dec. 2024 ($37.14 Mil) but then stayed the same from Dec. 2024 ($37.14 Mil) to Mar. 2025 ($15.90 Mil).

POET Technologies's annual cash and cash equivalents declined from Dec. 2022 ($9.23 Mil) to Dec. 2023 ($3.02 Mil) but then increased from Dec. 2023 ($3.02 Mil) to Dec. 2024 ($37.14 Mil).


POET Technologies Cash And Cash Equivalents Historical Data

The historical data trend for POET Technologies's Cash And Cash Equivalents can be seen below:

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POET Technologies Cash And Cash Equivalents Chart

POET Technologies Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Cash And Cash Equivalents
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.87 14.94 9.23 3.02 37.14

POET Technologies Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Cash And Cash Equivalents Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.43 21.26 41.78 37.14 15.90

POET Technologies Cash And Cash Equivalents Calculation

Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets on the balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper.


POET Technologies  (NAS:POET) Cash And Cash Equivalents Explanation

A high number means either:

1) The company has competitive advantage generating lots of cash

2) Just sold a business or bonds (not necessarily good)

A low stockpile of cash usually means poor to mediocre economics.

There are 3 ways to create large cash reserve.

1) Sell new bonds or equity to public

2) Sell business or asset

3) It has an ongoing business generating more cash than it burns (usually means durable competitive advantage)

When a company is suffering a short term problem, Buffett looks at cash or marketable securities to see whether it has the financial strength to ride it out.

Important: Lots of cash and marketable securities + little debt = good chance that the business will sail on through tough times.

Test to see what is creating cash by looking at past 7 yrs of balance sheets. This will reveal how the cash was created.


Be Aware

Depreciation estimates make the calculation of net income susceptible to management's accounting choices. These choices can be either overly aggressive or overly conservative.


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POET Technologies Business Description

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Address
120 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 1107, Toronto, ON, CAN, M4P 1E2
POET Technologies Inc is a design and development company offering high-speed optical engines, light source products, and custom optical modules to the artificial intelligence systems market and hyperscale data centers. Its integration solutions are based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel, patented platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. POET's Optical Interposer platform also solves device integration challenges across a broad range of communication, computing, and sensing applications. The company operates geographically in the United States, Canada, Singapore and China.