What Happened?
Shares of 3D printing company 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) jumped 11.1% in the morning session after the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 financial results that surpassed revenue expectations and offered strong forward guidance.
The 3D printing company posted revenue of $106.3 million, which grew from the prior quarter and came in ahead of Wall Street's forecasts. This growth was driven by a successful ramp-up of new printer system sales and higher materials consumption. However, the results were mixed, as the company reported a non-GAAP loss of $0.13 per share, which was wider than analysts had anticipated. Despite the miss on profitability, investors focused on the upbeat outlook. The company's revenue guidance for the next quarter, at a midpoint of $92.5 million, was surprisingly good and topped consensus estimates.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
3D Systems’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 71 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for 3D Systems and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.
The biggest move we wrote about over the last year was 7 months ago when the stock gained 30.3% on the news that the company reported strong third quarter results with operating profits and earnings per share exceeding Wall Street's estimates.
Revenue for the quarter fell 16.3% year-over-year to $94.84 million, narrowly missing Wall Street's expectations. However, investors looked past the sales decline and focused on the company's profitability. 3D Systems posted an adjusted loss of $0.07 per share, which was significantly better than the consensus analyst estimate of a $0.16 loss per share. Furthermore, its adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), a measure of operational performance, was a loss of $5.3 million, beating estimates by over 60%.
Despite ongoing challenges, including negative free cash flow and long-term revenue declines, the strong bottom-line outperformance suggested to investors that the company's cost management efforts are yielding positive results.
3D Systems is up 17.4% since the beginning of the year, but at $2.17 per share, it is still trading 42.6% below its 52-week high of $3.78 from October 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of 3D Systems’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $83.51.
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