“Net Cash Used in Investing Activities During the six months ended June 30, 2026, net cash used in investing activities was $6.2 million, which was driven by net capital expenditures of $7.0 million, offset by the net proceeds from maturities and sales of mark…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
nLIGHT, Inc.
LASR
Market read
nLIGHT, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 2 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 55.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- Gross margin rose 2 percentage points to 33.1%; the company says product mix, pricing, competition, and new products can change gross profit.
- Company attributes increase in Advanced Development revenue to progress on existing research and development contracts.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if LASR's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 1 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 2 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 55.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- The operating loss narrowed by 8.9M.
- Operating cash flow moved from negative to positive in the comparable period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Gross margin rose 2 percentage points to 33.1%; the company says product mix, pricing, competition, and new products can change gross profit.
- Company attributes increase in Advanced Development revenue to progress on existing research and development contracts.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +31.6% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +22.9 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +21.6 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Diluted shares increased 4.3% in the latest annual period.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Demand and volume has repeated adverse evidence across 3 filings.
No credible peer-relative valuation comparison is available yet.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
40.34Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Interest expense Three Months Ended June 30, Change 2026 2025 $ % Interest expense $ (204) $ (388) $ 184 (47.4)% Six Months Ended June 30, Change 2026 2025 Amount % Interest expense $ (504) $ (436) $ (68) 15.6% The changes in interest expense for the three an…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
“The increases in Advanced Development revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, compared to the same periods in 2025, were driven by progress on existing research and development contracts.”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
“All of the restructuring charges recorded in 2026 were attributable to the Laser Products segment.”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Peer-relative valuation withheld
Jodie found no industry-matched filing peers suitable for a valuation comparison. It will not substitute broader financial-sector names.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for LASR. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-05-08 against the comparable filing from 2025-05-09.
What improved
- Revenue increased 55.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- The operating loss narrowed by 8.9M.
- Operating cash flow moved from negative to positive in the comparable period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“Sales, General and Administrative Three Months Ended March 31, Change 2026 2025 $ % Sales, general, and administrative $ 15,091 $ 12,035 $ 3,056 25.4 % The increase in sales, general and administrative expense for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to the same period in 2025 was primarily due to an increase in stock-based compensation of $3.9 million and an increase in employee compensation, partially offset by a higher allocation of costs from sales, general and administrative to development projects, and decrease in bad debt recoveries.”
“Net Cash Used in Investing Activities During the three months ended March 31, 2026, net cash used in investing activities was $1.4 million, which was driven by net capital expenditures of $2.1 million, offset by the net proceeds from maturities and sales of marketable securities of $0.7 million.”
“Most of our Development contracts have historically been structured as cost plus fixed fee due to the technical complexity of the research and development services, but we also perform work under fixed price contracts where gross margin can change from period to period based on the estimated cost of the project at completion.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind LASR
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
COHRCoherent Corp.competitorFeb 27, 2026 ▾
“We compete with companies that offer semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and other laser products such as IPG Photonics, Coherent, BWT Ltd., Raycus Fiber Laser Technologies, and Trumpf GmbH + Co.”
IPGPIPG Photonics CorporationcompetitorFeb 27, 2026 ▾
“We compete with companies that offer semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and other laser products such as IPG Photonics, Coherent, BWT Ltd., Raycus Fiber Laser Technologies, and Trumpf GmbH + Co.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
LASR is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group Semiconductor Lasers. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 2 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for LASR; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.