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 | $5,845 | +463 |
| 2 | Xometry | $5,518 | +179 |
| 3 | Bright Laser | $4,465 | -28 |
| 4 | Shining 3D | $2,459 | 0 |
| 5 | Proto Labs | $2,198 | +71 |
| 6 | Creality | $1,679 | +6 |
| 7 | Stratasys | $781 | +7 |
| 8 | 3D Systems | $616 | +3 |
| 9 | Velo3D | $520 | +98 |
| 10 | Materialise | $398 | -4 |
| 11 | Nano Dimension | $344 | +3 |
| 12 | Titomic | $188 | -17 |
| 13 | 6K Additive | $95 | +1 |
| 14 | AML3D | $40 | -2 |
| 15 | Aurora Labs | $19 | -3 |
| 16 | Massivit | $17 | -1 |
| 17 | Sygnis | $7 | -0 |
| 18 | Freemelt | $5 | +0 |
| 19 | Steakholder Foods | $4 | +3 |
| TOTAL | $25,198 | +778 |
This week was relatively quiet, especially compared to last week. Major exchanges burbled up or down less than a point, so there weren’t any general trends pushing valuations higher or lower. Let’s save that for a future week.
That said, there were some dramatic changes on individual companies this week.
Farsoon extended their lead at the top of the board, adding almost nine percent to their valuation this week. Why? It turns out they released their financials this week, and they reported a revenue increase of 42.3%, year over year. In addition, their profit grew 115.8%. That’s quite significant, and evidently was enough for investors to push the valuation skyward.
The other major Chinese player is Bright Laser, which was flat this week. But then again, they didn’t release their financials.
Velo3D grew more than 23% this week, somehow. Their Q2 earnings were unusually good as to what inventors usually see from the company. Their revenue reached US$20.7M, and that is up 52.3%. They also raised their forecast for 2026 to be in the US$65-75M range, about US$5M more than their previous forecast. With a US$31M backlog of orders, and US$91.1M in cash, they are looking very good. It’s not surprising their valuation has gone up substantially.
Aurora Labs crashed with a near 15% decline in value this week. That is actually quite unsurprising, given their bump the other week. In a small cap stock such as this, investors often rush to cash out when the value is high. That seems to be what happened this week to Aurora Labs.
Titomic fell about eight percent this week, in spite of an announcement of a military application. However, if you read the actual release, you’ll see this:
“Titomic USA successfully supported EOS Defense Systems USA by providing rapid manufacturing modifications for a critical component supporting a U.S. Government defense production program. The work enabled accelerated delivery of an important production article while demonstrating Titomic’s ability to rapidly respond to urgent defense manufacturing requirements.”
Does that mean they helped fix a part? They didn’t mention anything about the value of this activity, so perhaps it is not surprising that investors ignored that news and cashed out.
Finally, at the bottom of the leaderboard, Steakholder Foods jumped a massive 282%. That sounds enormous, but the company’s valuation recently has been only a million or two, so we’re looking at a relatively small amount in total.
The reason for the jump? The company received a US$3.5M private placement to expand their edible 3D printed product line, with up to US$10.5M available in the future. They also consolidated their stock inventory, doing a reverse 1-3 stock split. The new funds essentially boosted the company’s value accordingly — they now have more in the bank.
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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