Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week.
Publicly traded companies are required to post their financial reports, as well as appear on stock markets. From there we can calculate the total value of their company by multiplying the current stock price by the number of outstanding shares. This number is the market capitalization, and represents the current valuation of the company.
It’s a great number of compare companies, as the market capitalization can be leveraged to provide more capabilities for the company. Shares could, for example, be used as collateral for a loan. That and similar maneuvers could generate cash with which the company might undertake new projects.
In other words, “market cap”, as it is known, is quite important.
You might think it’s not important to monitor these companies each week, as their value is realized only when stocks are sold. However, events happen to companies occasionally that cause their value to rise and fall, and this weekly post is where we track such things.
Note that our list here does not include all major 3D print companies. Not all 3D print companies are publicly traded, and thus we cannot officially know their true size, such as EOS. Others, like HP or Siemens, have very large 3D printing divisions, but are part a much larger enterprises and we cannot know the true size of their 3D printing activities.
Let’s take a look at the 3D printing companies on this week’s list.
3D Printing Leaderboard
| RANK | COMPANY | CAP | CHG |
| 1 | Protolabs | $885 | +60 |
| 2 | Xometry | $742 | +49 |
| 3 | Stratasys | $621 | -20 |
| 4 | Nano Dimension | $543 | +36 |
| 5 | 3D Systems | $507 | +9 |
| 6 | Materialise | $337 | +11 |
| 7 | Desktop Metal | $161 | -17 |
| 8 | Titomic | $103 | -19 |
| 9 | Markforged | $79 | +1 |
| 10 | AML3D | $38 | +0 |
| 11 | Velo3D | $26 | +2 |
| 12 | Aurora Labs | $22 | -1 |
| 13 | Massivit | $16 | -1 |
| 14 | Freemelt | $11 | -0 |
| 15 | Steakholder Foods | $8 | -0 |
| 16 | Sygnis | $4 | -1 |
| TOTAL | $4,103 | +110 |
This week saw the 3D print companies diverge from the tech markets, which were down over the week. Instead, our leaderboard actually rose a very healthy 2.7%. However, it’s been down catastrophically for weeks now, so it might be the dead cat bounce.
Titomic fell a whopping 15% this week, but the company’s valuation has been extraordinarily volatile. It has seen mysterious rises in value over the past few months, and now the Australian metal 3D printer manufacturer is found in eighth spot on the leaderboard, ahead of notables such as Velo3D, and Markforged. This week’s drop is no doubt some profit taking by investors seeking to catch some of the wave.
Desktop Metal also fell, some nine percent. The company is in a strange spot as they are in the midst of a takeover bid by Nano Dimension. The deal has not closed yet, so Desktop Metal remains an independently tradable stock. Corresponding to the Desktop Metal loss, we also see a Nano Dimension rise this week. It may be that investors are seeing the value shift from one company to the other as we get closer to the closing date.
Did Nano Dimension’s rise this week enable them to catch Stratasys? Not quite, even though Stratasys fell by over three percent. Now the gap between the two rivals is only US$78M.
At the top of the leaderboard, both Xometry and Protolabs manufacturing services rose seven percent, showing market confidence in that business model.
Upcoming Changes
BigRep announced plans to go public via the SPAC approach, so we will soon see them appear on the leaderboard.
One company I’ve started to watch is ICON, the Texas-based construction 3D printer manufacturer. This privately-held company has been raising a significant amount of investment to the tune of almost half a billion dollars. At that level it is likely they will be discussing a transition to public markets at some point, which would certainly place them at or near the top of our leaderboard.
Another company that would seem logical to go public is VulcanForms, a manufacturing service using an advanced metal 3D printing process. They are currently privately valued at over US$1B, and going public could cause that to go even higher.
If you are aware of any other publicly-traded 3D print companies that should be on our leaderboard, please let us know!
Others In The Industry
While we’ve been following the public companies, don’t forget there are a number of private companies that don’t appear on any stock exchange. These privately-held companies likely have significant value, it’s just that we can’t know exactly what it is at any moment. The suspected bigger companies include EOS, Carbon and Formlabs.
Perhaps someday some of them will appear on our major players list.
Related Companies
Finally, there are a number of companies that are deeply engaged in the 3D print industry, but that activity is only a small slice of their operations. Thus it’s not fair to place them on the lists above because we don’t really know where their true 3D print activities lie.
