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The past six months have seen several events significantly impact Cogent Communications' stock price. On May 4, 2026, Cogent's CEO conceded that customers were delaying the acceptance of wavelengths, leading to an approximate 29% drop in the stock price, closing at $16.37 per share, which was part of a broader issue where the company's optical wavelength business faced challenges with customer demand and backlog conversion. On June 29, 2026, Cogent announced the closing of the sale of 10 data center facilities for $225 million in cash, generating a GAAP gain of $130.7 million, a move aimed at reducing debt and improving the balance sheet. On August 6, 2026, Cogent Communications reported its Second Quarter 2026 results, with service revenue at $235.6 million, down 1.5% sequentially and 4.3% year-over-year, primarily due to a decline in acquired Sprint wireline revenue; however, Cogent's classic revenue grew 29% since the acquisition, and wavelength revenue increased by 63.8% year-over-year, and the company also approved a quarterly dividend of $0.02 per share and repurchased $138.8 million par value of its 2032 secured notes. On August 12, 2026, S&P Global Ratings downgraded Cogent Communications Group LLC's issuer credit rating to 'B-' from 'B' due to slower-than-expected growth in its Wavelength business and elevated leverage. From August to September 2026, multiple law firms issued alerts regarding a securities class action lawsuit filed against Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc., alleging that the company made materially false or misleading statements and failed to disclose adverse facts about its optical wavelength business, including that a significant portion of the purported orders in its backlog were unlikely to result in paid orders and that customer demand was misrepresented; these alleged disclosures led to a substantial decline in the stock price, with shares falling more than 80% from a high of over $86 in November 2024 to below $17 per share after the alleged corrective events, with key events cited in the lawsuit including a 98% cut in the quarterly dividend in November 2025, a refusal to provide a specific backlog figure in February 2026, and the CEO's concession in May 2026 about customers pushing out wavelength acceptance.