LUMN vs NOVT Comparison

With 450,000 route miles of fiber, Lumen Technologies is one of the United States' largest telecommunications carriers serving global enterprises. Its merger with Level 3 in 2017 and divestiture of much of its incumbent local exchange carrier, or ILEC, business in 2022 has shifted the company's operations away from its legacy consumer business and toward enterprises (now about 75% of revenue). Lumen offers businesses a full menu of communications services, providing colocation and data center services, data transportation, and end-user phone and internet service. On the consumer side, Lumen provides broadband and phone service across 37 states, where it has 4.5 million broadband customers.

Novanta Inc manufactures photonic and motion-control components for original equipment manufacturers in the medical equipment and industrial technology markets. The firm operates in three segments: Precision Medicine and Manufacturing, Medical Solutions, and Robotics and Automation. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Medical Solutions segment that designs, manufactures, and markets a range of medical-grade technologies, including medical insufflators, pumps, and related disposables; visualization solutions; and wireless technologies. The firm generates the majority of its revenue from the United States and Europe.