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Peer membership was fetched 2026-10-12.

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What the leading companies do

The first 4 companies below lead the ratings in this snapshot; equal ratings are ordered by ticker. Their company profiles describe different businesses even when they share the Materialise NV (MTLS) selection.

These are company descriptions, not estimates of revenue from this theme. Industry membership does not identify a pure-play business or establish how much sales depend on it. Open the company profile and examine segment disclosures before treating an overlapping classification as equivalent exposure.

1. Nano Dimension Ltd. American Depositary Shares (NNDM): 2 / 5

   Nano Dimension Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides industrial manufacturing solutions for design-to-manufacturing of electronics and mechanical parts in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its product groups include advanced hydraulic systems; resins; dental parts services; binder jetting products for metal and sandcasting; additively manufactured electronics; additive manufacturing digital light processing-based systems for industrial and health applications; surface-mount technology products; digital printing sub-components hardware and software; and desktop and industrial fused filament fabrication solutions. The company sells its products to aerospace, defense, automotive, electronics, medical, research, and academia, as well as government organizations. Nano Dimension Ltd. is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

2. Stratasys Inc (ISRAEL) (SSYS): 2 / 5

   Stratasys Ltd. provides connected polymer-based 3D printing solutions. It offers range of 3D printing systems, including polyjet printer, fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers, stereolithography printing systems, origin P3 printers, and selective absorption fusion printer for additive manufacturing, tooling, and rapid prototyping for various markets, such as automotive, aerospace, consumer products, and healthcare. The company provides 3D printing consumable materials comprising FDM, polyjet, and stereolithography materials for jigs and fixtures, investment casting, and injection mold or composite tooling applications; and other materials. It offers GrabCAD, an additive manufacturing platform to manage production-scale operations; and GrabCAD Print, a job programming software that enables features of 3D printing technologies, such as creating lightweight, structurally sound infills for FDM, and multi-material and color and material management for polyjet, as well as GrabCAD Print Pro. The company provides GrabCAD Print scheduling software to manage operations of printers, including tray packing and optimization, job estimation, system availability, scheduling, and monitoring via desktop, web or mobile devices; GrabCAD Streamline Pro subscription software, a workgroup software suite; GrabCAD IoT Platform that designed to manage 3D printing operations and optimize additive manufacturing productivity; and GrabCAD Community, an online community for professional engineers, designers, manufacturers, and students. It offers GrabCAD Software Development Kit to support system connectivity, compliance, and workflow automation; and Grab CAD Software Partner program for independent software vendors. The company sells its products through a network of resellers and independent sales agents worldwide. Stratasys Ltd. is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

3. 3D Systems Corporation (DDD): 1.5 / 5

   3D Systems Corporation provides 3D printing and digital manufacturing solutions in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Oceania. It operates through two segments, Healthcare Solutions and Industrial Solutions. The company offers 3D printing technologies, including stereolithography (SLA), selective laser sintering, direct metal printing, MultiJet printing, ColorJet printing, polymer extrusion, and extrusion and SLA based bioprinting. Its print materials include plastic, nylon, metal, composite, elastomeric, wax, polymeric dental materials, and biocompatible materials. The company also provides digital design tools, such as software, scanners, and haptic devices, as well as solutions for product design, simulation, mold and die design, 3D scan-to-print, reverse engineering, production machining, metrology, and inspection and manufacturing workflows. In addition, it offers software platforms, including 3D Sprint and 3DXpert, which are metal and polymer additive manufacturing solutions; and Oqton industrial manufacturing operating system. Further, the company provides maintenance and training services; advanced manufacturing services; software maintenance and cloud-software subscriptions; and precision healthcare solutions, such as design, planning, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, printing, and finishing of medical and dental devices, anatomical models, and surgical guides and tools. It serves companies, and small and midsize businesses in the medical, dental, automotive, aerospace, durable goods, government, defense, technology, jewelry, electronic, education, consumer goods, energy, biotechnology, and other industries through direct sales force, channel partners, and appointed distributors. 3D Systems Corporation was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

4. Velo3D, Inc. Common stock (VELO): 1.5 / 5

   Velo3D, Inc. produces and sells metal additive three dimensional printers in the Americas, Europe, and internationally. The company's printers enable the production of components for space rockets, jet engines, fuel delivery systems, and other metal parts, which it sells or leases to customers for use in their businesses. It also offers Flow, a proprietary software platform, which scans part designs for geometrical features; and Sapphire, Sapphire 1MZ, Sapphire XC, and Sapphire XC 1MZ printers. In addition, the company provides Assure, a quality control software platform that includes process metrologies; Flow Developer, a new version of print preparation software that turns traditional design files into print files; and Intelligent Fusion, an underlying manufacturing process that unifies and manages the information flow, sensor data, and the advanced printing technology for precision control of the entire print. Further, it offers Rapid Production Solutions to build resilient supply chains for production parts in different industries; and provides support services. The company serves small- and medium-sized enterprises to Fortune 500 companies in the space, aviation, defense, automotive, energy, and industrial markets. Velo3D, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Velo3D, Inc operates as a subsidiary of Arrayed Additive inc.

Valuation and company size within this selection

These summaries use the 4 displayed companies. Each company retains its own market observation date in the ratings table above. Medians are unweighted; they are not a sector index valuation.

Positive P/E and price-to-book values are summarized separately. Missing, zero and negative values are excluded from those medians, with the included count shown. A lower multiple alone does not establish better value: profitability, growth, debt and business mix can differ.

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Dates and coverage

Report dates range from 2025-12-31 to 2025-12-31. Market observations range from 2026-11-06 to 2026-11-06. These dates may differ across companies. Daily closes are not synchronized live quotes.

The selection includes 0 companies without a report, 0 with invalid latest rating metadata, 0 with older reports, 1 with missing required fundamentals and 0 with out-of-date market observations. Missing companies receive no substitute score.

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