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3D printing company 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after market close. Here’s what you need to know.
3D Systems missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $111 million, down 3.3% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with full-year revenue guidance missing analysts’ expectations significantly and a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting 3D Systems’s revenue to decline 4.5% year on year to $98.31 million, improving from the 15.1% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.15 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.
Looking at 3D Systems’s peers in the industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Proto Labs’s revenues decreased 1.3% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 2%, and Stratasys reported a revenue decline of 5.6%, topping estimates by 1.1%. Proto Labs traded up 9.2% following the results while Stratasys was also up 13.2%.
Read our full analysis of Proto Labs’s results here and Stratasys’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the industrial machinery segment, with share prices up 9.9% on average over the last month. 3D Systems is up 16.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $3.75 (compared to the current share price of $2.36).
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