NEWS RELEASE


STRATASYS RELEASES SECOND QUARTER 2016 FINANCIAL RESULTS

Company reports $172.1 million in revenue

GAAP net loss of $18.5 million, or ($0.36) per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $6.2 million, or $0.12 per diluted share

Minneapolis & Rehovot, Israel, August 4, 2016 — Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq:SSYS), the 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, announced financial results for the second quarter of 2016.

Q2-2016 Financial Results Summary:

● Revenue for the second quarter of 2016 was $172.1 million.
 
● GAAP gross margins were 46.2% for the second quarter, compared to 45.5% for the same period last year.
 
● Non-GAAP gross margins were 55.9% for the second quarter, compared to 54.7% for the same period last year.
 
● GAAP operating loss for the second quarter was $17.1 million, compared to a loss of $33.5 million for the same period last year.
 
● Non-GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $10.2 million, compared to $3.7 million for the same period last year.
 
● GAAP net loss for the second quarter was $18.5 million, or ($0.36) per diluted share, compared to a loss of $22.9 million, or ($0.55) per diluted share, for the same period last year.
 
● Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter was $6.2 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $8 million, or $0.15 per diluted share, reported for the same period last year.
 
● The Company generated $6.9 million in cash from operations during the second quarter, and currently holds approximately $253.9 million in cash and cash equivalents.
 
● GAAP R&D expenses for the second quarter amounted to $24.4 million, representing 14% of net sales.
 
● GAAP EBITDA for the second quarter amounted to $6.9 million.
 
● Non-GAAP EBITDA for the second quarter amounted to $19.5 million.


“We were pleased to achieve further improvements in our operational performance during the second quarter,” said Ilan Levin, Chief Executive Officer of Stratasys. “Compared to the first quarter, we observed stronger margins and a substantial increase in non-GAAP operating profit. Our margins benefitted from a sales mix that favored our higher-end systems, including the recently launched J750, the industry’s most advanced full-color, multi-material 3D printer, as well as our ongoing efforts to improve operations, and reduce operating expenses.”

Recent Business Highlights:

● Announced the appointment of Ilan Levin, who has served and continues to serve as a member of the Stratasys board of directors and its Executive Committee, as Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2016.
 
● Announced the availability of GrabCAD Print, a new “design-to-print” workflow application powered by the GrabCAD software platform, designed to make 3D printing significantly easier, more intuitive and highly accessible. GrabCAD Print is currently available in free public beta in North America.
 
● Released several manufacturing-focused enhancements for the Company’s Fortus series of FDM 3D printers, including new sacrificial tooling capabilities; an acceleration kit for faster printing of large objects; and new aerospace designation for ULTEM 9085 that provides production traceability to facilitate aerospace compliance requirements.
 
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Announced a professional services and consulting offering through Stratasys Direct Manufacturing to help organizations implement and gain maximum value from a full spectrum of 3D printing technology solutions.


“We believe that our technological platforms and customer reach are unmatched within the industry and represent assets with significant potential for further development,” continued Levin. “The central principle of our strategy is meeting the needs of customers by further leveraging our core assets to cultivate new and more advanced capabilities for prototyping and manufacturing applications within key vertical markets. Providing enhanced additive manufacturing value to our customers is our number one priority.”


Financial Guidance:

Stratasys reiterated the following information regarding the Company’s prospective revenue and net income (loss) for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016:

● Revenue guidance of $700 to $730 million.
 
● GAAP net loss of $84.0 to $67.0 million, or ($1.60) to ($1.28) per diluted share.
 
● Non-GAAP net income of $9 to $23 million, or $0.17 to $0.43 per diluted share.

Stratasys provided the following additional information regarding the Company’s prospective performance and strategic plans for fiscal 2016:

● Gross margins in a range of 54% to 55%.
 
● Operating margins of 3% to 5%.
 
● Tax expense of $15 to $17 million, which includes the negative impact of the planned accounting treatment for tax valuation allowance.
 
● Capital expenditures are projected at $60 to $70 million, with approximately $45 million designated for completing the company’s new facility in Israel.

The Company is seeking an improvement in its operating structure in 2016 that will translate into improved operating profit compared to the prior year. Given the expected ongoing negative impact of not recording a tax benefit on U.S. tax losses on the Company non-GAAP net income, the Company believes that the rate of growth in its non-GAAP operating profit will be the best measure of performance.

“Over the past four years, since the merger of Stratasys and Objet, our company has undergone a major transformation, driven by initiatives that we believe are essential to our long-term success. Enhancing the value of additive manufacturing for our customers will require significant investments in time and other resources to fully develop. Operational efficiency and improved financial performance will remain a priority as we continue to execute our strategy. As CEO of Stratasys, I am excited about our future and I look forward to the challenge of building on our company’s legacy as the industry leader in additive manufacturing,” Levin concluded.

Non-GAAP earnings guidance excludes $59.0 million of projected amortization of intangible assets; $25.0 to $27.0 million of share-based compensation expense; $7.0 million in merger and acquisition related expense; $4.0 to $5.0 million in reorganization and other related costs; and includes $5.0 million in tax expenses related to non-GAAP adjustments. 


Stratasys Ltd. Q2 2016 Conference Call Details

The Company will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter financial results on Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

The investor conference call will be available via live webcast on the Stratasys Web site at www.stratasys.com under the "Investors" tab; or directly at the following web address: http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/8j9rqe4g.

To participate by telephone, the domestic dial-in number is (855) 319-2216 and the international dial-in is (503) 343-6033. The access code is 45898366.

Investors are advised to dial into the call at least ten minutes prior to the call to register. The webcast will be available for 90 days on the "Investors" page of the Stratasys Web site or by accessing the provided web address.

For more than 25 years, Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) has been a defining force and dominant player in 3D printing and additive manufacturing – shaping the way things are made. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel, the company empowers customers across a broad range of vertical markets by enabling new paradigms for design and manufacturing. The company’s solutions provide customers with unmatched design freedom and manufacturing flexibility – reducing time-to-market and lowering development costs, while improving designs and communications. Stratasys subsidiaries include MakerBot and Solidscape, and the Stratasys ecosystem includes 3D printers for prototyping and production; a wide range of 3D printing materials; parts on-demand via Stratasys Direct Manufacturing; strategic consulting and professional services; and the Thingiverse and GrabCAD communities with over 2 million 3D printable files for free designs. With more than 2,500 employees and 800 granted or pending additive manufacturing patents, Stratasys has received more than 30 technology and leadership awards. Visit us online at: www.stratasys.com or http://blog.stratasys.com/, and follow us on LinkedIn.

Stratasys is a registered trademark of Stratasys Ltd. and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The statements in this press release regarding Stratasys' strategy, and the statements regarding its projected future financial performance, including under the heading “Financial Guidance,” are forward-looking statements reflecting management's current expectations and beliefs. These forward-looking statements are based on current information that is, by its nature, subject to rapid and even abrupt change. Due to risks and uncertainties associated with Stratasys' business, actual results could differ materially from those projected or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: any failure to efficiently and successfully integrate the operations of Stratasys, Inc. and Objet Ltd. after their merger as well as MakerBot, Solid Concepts, Harvest and GrabCAD after their acquisition or to successfully establish and execute effective post-acquisition integration plans; changes in the overall global economic environment; the impact of competition and new technologies; changes in the general market, political and economic conditions in the countries in which Stratasys operates; any underestimates in projected capital expenditures and liquidity; changes in Stratasys’ strategy; changes in applicable government regulations and approvals; changes in customers’ budgeting priorities; lower than expected demand for Stratasys’ products and services; reduction in Stratasys’ profitability due to shifting in its product mix into lower margin products or shifting in its revenues mix significantly towards its AM services business; costs and potential liability relating to litigation and regulatory proceedings; and those factors referred to in Item 3.D “Key Information - Risk Factors”, Item 4, “Information on the Company”, and Item 5, “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects” in Stratasys’ Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2015, as well as in such Annual Report generally. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made throughout (i) the Form 6-K attaching Stratasys’ unaudited, condensed consolidated financial statements as of, and for the quarter and six months ended, June 30, 2016, and its review of its results of operations and financial condition for those periods, which has been furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on or about the date hereof, (ii) Stratasys’ 2015 Annual Report, and (iii) Stratasys’ other reports filed with or furnished to the SEC, which are designed to advise interested parties of the risks and factors that may affect its business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Any guidance and other forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof, and Stratasys undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.  


Use of non-GAAP financial measures

The non-GAAP data included herein, which exclude certain items as described herein, are non-GAAP financial measures. Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful information for investors and shareholders of our company in gauging our results of operations (x) on an ongoing basis after excluding merger and acquisition related expense and reorganization-related charges, and (y) excluding non-cash items such as stock-based compensation expenses, acquired intangible assets amortization, impairment of goodwill and other long-lived assets, changes in fair value of obligations in connection with acquisitions and the corresponding tax effect of those items, as well as, non-recurring changes of non-cash valuation allowance on deferred tax assets. These non-GAAP adjustments either do not reflect actual cash outlays that impact our liquidity and our financial condition or have a non-recurring impact on the income statement, as assessed by management. These non-GAAP financial measures are presented to permit investors to more fully understand how management assesses our performance for internal planning and forecasting purposes. The limitations of using these non-GAAP financial measures as performance measures are that they provide a view of our results of operations without including all items indicated above during a period, which may not provide a comparable view of our performance to other companies in our industry. Investors and other readers should consider non-GAAP measures only as supplements to, not as substitutes for or as superior measures to, the measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Reconciliation between results on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis is provided in a table below.

Stratasys Investor Relations
Shane Glenn, 952-294-3416
Vice President - Investor Relations
shane.glenn@stratasys.com


Stratasys Ltd.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands, except share data)
June 30, December 31,
2016       2015
(unaudited)
ASSETS
Current assets
       Cash and cash equivalents $      253,882 $       257,592
       Short-term bank deposits - 571
       Accounts receivable, net 113,327 123,215
       Inventories 125,686 123,658
       Net investment in sales-type leases 12,269 11,704
       Prepaid expenses 7,177 8,469
       Other current assets 21,465 21,864
 
              Total current assets 533,806 547,073
 
Non-current assets
       Goodwill 386,313 383,853
       Other intangible assets, net 222,324 252,468
       Property, plant and equipment, net 209,299 201,934
       Net investment in sales-type leases - long term 16,733 17,785
       Deferred income taxes and other non-current assets 31,102 11,243
 
              Total non-current assets 865,771 867,283
 
Total assets $ 1,399,577 $ 1,414,356
 
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities
       Accounts payable $ 42,866 $ 39,021
       Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 31,599 31,314
       Accrued compensation and related benefits 38,646 34,052
       Income taxes payable 4,616 11,395
       Obligations in connection with acquisitions 4,781 4,636
       Deferred revenues 51,974 52,309
 
              Total current liabilities 174,482 172,727
 
Non-current liabilities
       Obligations in connection with acquisitions - long term 4,349 4,354
       Deferred tax liabilities 11,910 16,040
       Deferred revenues - long-term 10,635 7,627
       Other non-current liabilities 36,747 22,428
 
              Total non-current liabilities 63,641 50,449
 
Total liabilities 238,123 223,176
 
Redeemable non-controlling interests 2,193 2,379
 
Equity
       Ordinary shares, NIS 0.01 nominal value, authorized 180,000 thousands
              shares; 52,218 thousands shares and 52,082 thousands shares
              issued and outstanding at June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively 141 141
       Additional paid-in capital 2,617,284 2,605,957
       Accumulated deficit (1,448,337 ) (1,406,706 )
       Accumulated other comprehensive loss (10,003 ) (10,774 )
              Equity attributable to Stratasys Ltd. 1,159,085 1,188,618
       Non-controlling interest 176 183
       
              Total equity 1,159,261 1,188,801
 
Total liabilities and equity $ 1,399,577 $ 1,414,356


Stratasys Ltd.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in thousands, except per share data)
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
2016       2015       2016       2015
(unaudited) (unaudited) (unaudited) (unaudited)
Net sales
      Products $         123,758 $         134,490 $       242,392 $       261,157
      Services 48,315 47,832 97,587 93,896
172,073 182,322 339,979 355,053
 
Cost of sales
      Products 61,413 67,666 118,351 166,037
      Services 31,128 31,748 60,927 60,020
  92,541 99,414 179,278 226,057
   
Gross profit 79,532 82,908 160,701 128,996
 
Operating expenses
      Research and development, net 24,366 25,506 49,481 52,744
      Selling, general and administrative 72,884 97,581 149,271 200,189
      Goodwill impairment - - - 150,400
      Change in the fair value of obligations in connection
      with acquisitions		 (587 ) (6,680 ) 140 (19,936 )
  96,663 116,407 198,892 383,397
    
Operating loss (17,131 ) (33,499 ) (38,191 ) (254,401 )
 
Financial income (expenses), net 932 (711 ) 1,112 (5,835 )
 
Loss before income taxes (16,199 ) (34,210 ) (37,079 ) (260,236 )
 
      Income taxes 2,454 (11,066 ) 4,745 (20,688 )
 
Net loss (18,653 ) (23,144 ) (41,824 ) (239,548 )
 
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interest (163 ) (213 ) (193 ) (329 )
 
Net loss attributable to Stratasys Ltd. $ (18,490 ) $ (22,931 ) $ (41,631 ) $ (239,219 )
 
Net loss per ordinary share attributable to Stratasys Ltd.
            Basic $ (0.35 ) $ (0.48 ) $ (0.80 ) $ (4.71 )
            Diluted (0.36 ) (0.55 ) (0.80 ) (4.77 )
 
Weighted average ordinary shares outstanding
            Basic 52,169 51,405 52,133 51,181
            Diluted 52,496 51,870 52,133 51,413


Stratasys Ltd.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results of Operations

(in thousands)

    Three Months Ended June 30,
2016 Non-GAAP 2016 2015     Non-GAAP     2015
GAAP Adjustments Non-GAAP GAAP Adjustments Non-GAAP
U.S. dollars and shares in thousands (except per share amounts)
Gross profit (1) $ 79,532     $ 16,715     $        96,247     $ 82,908 $ 16,816 $  99,724
Operating income (loss) (1,2)         (17,131 ) 27,332 10,201       (33,499 )           37,172 3,673
Net income (loss) attributable to
       Stratasys Ltd. (1,2,3) (18,490 )                  24,728 6,238 (22,931 ) 30,893 7,962
Net income (loss) per diluted share
attributable to Stratasys Ltd. (4)		 $ (0.36 ) $ 0.48 $ 0.12 $ (0.55 ) $ 0.70 $ 0.15
 
(1)   Acquired intangible assets amortization expense 10,510 12,301
Impairment charges of other intangible assets 1,779 -  
Non-cash stock-based compensation expense 729 1,797
Reorganization and other related costs 3,543   2,512
  Merger and acquisition and other expense 154 206
 16,715 16,816
 
(2) Acquired intangible assets amortization expense 3,621 5,684
Non-cash stock-based compensation expense 4,750 7,767
Change in fair value of obligations in
       connection with acquisitions		 (587 ) (6,680 )
Reorganization and other related costs 956 6,755  
Merger and acquisition and other expense 1,877 6,830
10,617 20,356
27,332   37,172
 
(3) Corresponding tax effect and other tax adjustments (2,604 ) (6,279 )
$ 24,728 $ 30,893    
 
(4) Weighted average number of ordinary
       shares outstanding- Diluted 52,496 53,238 51,870 52,705


Stratasys Ltd.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results of Operations

(in thousands)

    Six Months Ended June 30,
2016     Non-GAAP     2016     2015     Non-GAAP     2015
GAAP Adjustments Non-GAAP GAAP Adjustments Non-GAAP
U.S. dollars and shares in thousands (except per share amounts)
Gross profit (1) $    160,701 $         27,993 188,694 $     128,996 $       64,137 $      193,133
Operating income (loss) (1,2) (38,191 ) 52,345 14,154 (254,401 ) 257,298 2,897
  Net income (loss) attributable to
       Stratasys Ltd. (1,2,3) (41,631 ) 48,465 6,834 (239,219 ) 249,205 9,986
Net income (loss) per diluted share
attributable to Stratasys Ltd. (4)		 $ (0.80 ) $ 0.93 $       0.13 (4.77 ) 4.96 0.19
 
(1)   Acquired intangible assets amortization expense 20,924 27,206
Impairment of other intangible assets 1,779 29,782
Non-cash stock-based compensation expense 1,452 3,630
Reorganization and other related costs 3,321 2,512
Merger and acquisition and other expense 517 1,007
27,993 64,137
 
(2) Goodwill impairment - 150,400
Impairment of other intangible assets - 13,423
Acquired intangible assets amortization expense 7,382 12,140
Non-cash stock-based compensation expense 9,650 15,694  
Change in fair value of obligations in connection with  
acquisitions 140 (19,936 )
Reorganization and other related costs 1,461 6,756
Merger and acquisition and other expense 5,719 14,684
    24,352   193,161
52,345 257,298
(3) Corresponding tax effect and other tax adjustments (3,880 ) (8,093 )
 
$ 48,465 $ 249,205
(4) Weighted average number of ordinary
       shares outstanding- Diluted 52,133 53,201 51,413 52,524


Stratasys Ltd.

Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Forward Looking Guidance

Fiscal Year 2016

(in millions, except per share data)
GAAP net loss ($84) to ($67)
 
Adjustments
       Stock-based compensation expense $25 to $27
       Intangible assets amortization expense $59
       Merger and acquisition related expense $7
       Reorganization and other related costs $4 to $5
       Tax expense related to Non-GAAP adjustments ($5)
 
Non-GAAP net income $9 to $23
 
GAAP loss per share ($1.60) to ($1.28)
 
Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share $0.17 to $0.43