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 | Farsoon | $5,860 | +284 |
| 2 | Xometry | $4,786 | +166 |
| 3 | Bright Laser | $3,571 | -2 |
| 4 | Proto Labs | $1,698 | -15 |
| 5 | Stratasys | $783 | +40 |
| 6 | Velo3D | $687 | +163 |
| 7 | 3D Systems | $463 | +19 |
| 8 | Materialise | $341 | +6 |
| 9 | Nano Dimension | $347 | +16 |
| 10 | Titomic | $264 | -6 |
| 11 | 6K Additive | $94 | -2 |
| 12 | AML3D | $62 | -5 |
| 13 | Massivit | $23 | -1 |
| 14 | Aurora Labs | $20 | +1 |
| 15 | Sygnis | $9 | +1 |
| 16 | Freemelt | $4 | -1 |
| 17 | Steakholder Foods | $2 | +0 |
| TOTAL | $19,014 | +664 |
This week saw fairly flat results across the board, but as usual, there were some exceptions. Western markets were slightly up in general, while the Chinese markets were slightly down. Over the week, the leaderboard in total gained a healthy 3.6% in value.
At the top of the leaderboard, Farsoon continued its stratospheric push, gaining over five percent this week. They are so highly valued that this week’s gain exceeds the value of half of the companies on the leaderboard. The company seems to be riding on a general interest in aerospace and manufacturing in China, to which they do provide equipment. It’s curious that this sentiment doesn’t seem to carry into other 3D print companies that make similar equipment for similar industries. But that’s investors for you.
Bright Laser is one of those companies that is similar, but they gained only three percent this week and are valued quite a bit less than Farsoon. It seems that Farsoon is the favourite of investors lately.
Sygnis bumped up ten percent this week, with no official news driving the change. This is likely due to investors discovering the company, which is deeply involved in drone manufacturing. That’s a hot topic these days, and so it’s not surprising the drone move has boosted their valuation.
Velo3D boosted 31% this week, a huge gain. This is certainly due to continued interest in their defence contract announcements, which seem to attract a lot of attention these days. Combine that with previously announced good financials and new investors looking for opportunities, and you get a scenario where the valuation drifts upwards.
This is possibly the final leaderboard report before Creality appears on our list. The company has launched its IPO and is expected to begin trading on the 29th. If we have data, we’ll include it on the leaderboard. If not — and that’s possible because data feeds are notoriously fickle when changes of this type appear — Creality would appear the following week. They’re expected to be near the top of the leaderboard, based on IPO filing data.
Upcoming Changes
We’ve heard very little about companies intending to become publicly traded recently. This is due to the ongoing lack of investor interest in the technology. The technology’s reputation has suffered immensely in the investment community because of multiple large-scale investment failures in the past few years.
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.
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