Corning CEO to Cramer: Deals with 2 unnamed hyperscalers 'larger' than $6B Meta pact

The investment story for Corning looks even sweeter in the wake of Jim Cramer's sit-down with CEO Wendell Weeks on "Mad Money" on Thursday night. One day after Corning's blockbuster optical partnership with Nvidia , Weeks shed some more light on the company's new supply agreements with two unnamed hyperscalers. Corning first disclosed these along with earnings last week, but details were light. Here's the comment from Weeks that caught our attention from Jim's interview: "Probably the biggest commercial arrangement ever in my career we just entered into with Nvidia, and then these other two major ones are larger than the Meta deal that's been public on, and I'm sure some of those customers will want to be more open about that over time." We knew they were about the same size as the Meta deal, which Corning went public with back in January, saying at the time it was worth up to $6 billion through 2030 to supply fiber optic cables for data centers. But to hear they are actually larger is, of course, encouraging. At the very least, it gives us a floor for these combined deals at about $12 billion. On Corning's April 28 earnings call, this is what Weeks had to say about the two new deals: "On our last call [in January], I shared that we were in the process of concluding other agreements of the same size and duration as the Meta agreement. We now have concluded two more large, long-term agreements with hyperscale customers. And they are each similar in size and duration. …