Growth Metrics

Nlight (LASR) Return on Sales (2017 - 2025)

Nlight (LASR) has disclosed Return on Sales for 9 consecutive years, with 0.06% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales rose 47.0% to 0.06% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.09%, a 22.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.09%, up 22.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.06% for Q4 2025 at Nlight, up from 0.1% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.06% in Q2 2025 to a low of 0.53% in Q4 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.19% and a median of 0.16% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: decreased -27bps in 2022, then skyrocketed 47bps in 2025.
  • Nlight's Return on Sales stood at 0.13% in 2021, then crashed by -208bps to 0.4% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 36bps to 0.26% in 2023, then crashed by -107bps to 0.53% in 2024, then soared by 89bps to 0.06% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LASR's Return on Sales are 0.06% (Q4 2025), 0.1% (Q3 2025), and 0.06% (Q2 2025).