$GLW Optical Sales Up 36%. Three Hyperscale Deals Signed = BUY!Corning IncBATS:GLWConnectmyCurrencyMost people think of Corning as a glass company. 🪟 That framing is now dangerously out of date. Corning is the dominant supplier of optical fibre to AI data centres worldwide 🌐 and the AI infrastructure buildout is creating demand the company cannot fulfil fast enough. 🔥 The smart money has already noticed. Now the weekly chart is giving the entry. 📊 Q1 2026 core sales came in at $4.35 billion, up 18% year over year 📈, landing at the high end of guidance. This was the eighth consecutive quarter of year over year sales growth. 🏆 Optical Communications alone surged 36% to approximately $1.85 billion 💥 as hyperscalers and data centre operators continue to expand their networks at record pace. Core EPS hit $0.70, up 30% year over year. 💰 Net income grew 136% compared to Q1 2025. 🤯 Q2 2026 guidance calls for approximately $4.6 billion in revenue, up 14% year over year, with EPS growing approximately 25%. 🚀 The deal flow tells the real story. 🤝 Corning signed a multi year agreement worth up to $6 billion with Meta Platforms to supply optical fibre and connectivity solutions for AI data centres. 🏭 By Q1, two additional unnamed hyperscale customers had signed agreements of similar size and duration, each with guaranteed revenue commitments and capacity funding. 🔒 Then on May 6, Nvidia and Corning announced a multi year partnership to build three new optical manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas. 🇺🇸 Nvidia backed the deal with $500 million in pre funded warrant investments 💵 and received warrants for up to 18 million GLW shares, potentially injecting $3.2 billion in cash if exercised. 👀 The initiative is expected to increase Corning's US optical connectivity manufacturing capacity tenfold. ⚡ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang framed the partnership as the next phase of AI infrastructure expansion, beyond chips and into the optical systems connecting GPU clusters. 🧠 Corning's management raised their Springboard plan targets to $20 billion annualised revenue by end of 2026 📅, $30 billion by end of 2028, and $40 billion by 2030. 🎯 The 52 week range sits between $47.67 and $211.79. Mizuho has a $220 price target. 📊 The analyst consensus is Buy across 15 firms with an average target of $197.67 and a high target of $230. 🐂 The weekly chart has pulled back from the 52 week high of $211.79 into a clean demand zone at the 0.618 Fibonacci retracement. 📉 The setup is clean. The risk is defined. This is the entry. ✅ 🟢 Buy Zone ~ $141.26 area (0.618 Fibonacci Weekly) Weekly demand zone with Fibonacci confluence. Price has retraced from all time highs into a level where institutional buyers are active. 💰 Entry: $141.26 🛑 Stop: $131.87 (6.647% below entry) 🎯 Target: $262.87 (86% upside from entry) 📈 Risk/Reward Ratio: 12.95 📅 Next Earnings: 27 July 2026 💵 Dividend: $0.28 per share, ex date 29 May 2026 The fundamentals are accelerating. 🤖 The partnerships are confirmed. 🤝 The weekly chart is giving the entry. Let price come to the zone and let the trade do the work. 🚀 ⚠️ Not financial advice. Manage your risk.