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nLIGHT's competitors and similar companies include MKS, Excelitas Technologies and Novanta.

	nLIGHT nLIGHT is a company that designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor lasers.	MKS MKS (formerly known as MKS Instruments) is a provider of instruments, subsystems, and process control solutions.	Excelitas Technologies Excelitas Technologies is a company that manufactures photonic products and components.	Novanta Novanta (formerly known as GSI Group) is a company that supplies technology solutions for industrial and healthcare OEMs.
Founding Date	Founding Date 2000	Founding Date 1961	Founding Date 2010	Founding Date 1968
Type	Type Public	Type Public	Type Private	Type Public
Tags	Tags Manufacturing & Industrial electronics fiber optic lasers semiconductors	Tags Manufacturing & Industrial electronic components electronics lasers semiconductors	Tags Manufacturing & Industrial electronic components electronics optics sensors	Tags Manufacturing & Industrial computer vision electronics healthtech lasers medical imaging
Locations	Locations Camas, US HQ Wien, AT Shanghai, CN Lohja, FI Torino, IT Anyang, KR Farmington Hills, US see more	Locations Andover, US HQ Purkersdorf, AT Rankweil, AT Wien, AT Minsk, BY Burlington, CA see more	Locations Pittsburgh, US HQ São Paulo, BR Kitchener, CA Mississauga, CA Montréal, CA Vaudreuil Dorion, CA Beijing, CN see more	Locations Bedford, US HQ Beijing, CN Shen Zhen Shi, CN Suzhou, CN Brno, CZ Přelouč, CZ Berlin, DE see more
Employees	Employees 80014% decrease	Employees 10,3002% increase	Employees 5,50018% decrease	Employees 3,000
Valuation ($)	Valuation ($) 628 m	Valuation ($) 7.1 b	Valuation ($) N/A	Valuation ($) 6.4 b
Financial
Revenue (est.)	Revenue (est.) $261.3m (FY, 2025)	Revenue (est.) $3.9b (FY, 2025)	Revenue (est.) N/A	Revenue (est.) $980.6m (FY, 2025)
Cost of goods	Cost of goods $183.4m (FY, 2025)	Cost of goods $2.1b (FY, 2025)	Cost of goods N/A	Cost of goods $545.3m (FY, 2025)
Gross profit	Gross profit $78m (FY, 2025)	Gross profit $1.8b (FY, 2025)	Gross profit N/A	Gross profit $435.3m (FY, 2025)
Net income	Net income ($23.5m) (FY, 2025)	Net income $295m (FY, 2025)	Net income N/A	Net income $53.8m (FY, 2025)
Operating ⚠
Backlog	Backlog $108.4m (FY, 2023)	Backlog N/A	Backlog N/A	Backlog $611.6m (FY, 2022)
Brands	Brands N/A	Brands N/A	Brands 12 (Jul, 2023)	Brands 18 (FY, 2022)
Facility Space, sq. ft.	Facility Space, sq. ft. 461.9 k (FY, 2023)	Facility Space, sq. ft. N/A	Facility Space, sq. ft. N/A	Facility Space, sq. ft. 1.3 m (FY, 2022)
Funding
Total funding raised	Total funding raised $ 203.4m	Total funding raised $ 997.8k	Total funding raised N/A	Total funding raised N/A