What Happened?
Shares of 3D printing company 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) jumped 30.3% in the afternoon session after 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.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
3D Systems’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 75 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 3 months ago when the stock dropped 25.8% on the news that the company reported disappointing first quarter 2025 results: its revenue, EPS, and EBITDA missed Wall Street's estimates significantly. Revenue declined, largely tied to a drop in materials sales in the dental market, where customers cut orders to manage inventory. Looking ahead, management pulled full-year guidance, citing uncertainty in customer budgets and global tariff risks. Overall, this was a weaker quarter.
3D Systems is down 29.4% since the beginning of the year, and at $2.26 per share, it is trading 52.1% below its 52-week high of $4.72 from February 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of 3D Systems’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $375.42.
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