UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM 10‑K

 ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

FORM 10-K

xANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 20112014

OR

 TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from ____________to____________

Commission File No. 001-34220

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¨TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission file number 001-34220

3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION

(Exact nameName of Registrant as specifiedSpecified in our charter)Its Charter)

____________________________________________

DELAWARE

95‑4431352

(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

333 THREE D SYSTEMS CIRCLE
ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA

29730

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code): (803) 326‑3900

 

Delaware95-4431352
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

333 Three D Systems Circle

Rock Hill, SC 29730

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

(803) 326-3900

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Classeach class

Name of Each Exchangeeach exchange on Which Registeredwhich registered

Common stock, par value $0.001 per share

The New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:None

None__________________________

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨ No x

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨


Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website,Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).  Yes ¨ No ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,”filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.  (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filerx

Accelerated filer ¨

Non-accelerated filer  ¨        Smaller reporting company  ¨

                        (Do

Non-accelerated filer

(Do not check if smaller reporting company)

Smaller reporting company

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-212b‑2 of the Exchange Act.) Yes ¨ No x

The aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant on June 30, 20112014 was $839,190,936.$6,169,912,421. For purposes of this computation, it has been assumed that the shares beneficially held by directors and executive officers of the registrant were “held by affiliates.” This assumption is not to be deemed an admission by these persons that they are affiliates of the registrant.

The number of outstanding shares of the registrant’s common stock as of February 16, 201218, 2015 was 50,881,072.111,210,093.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement for its 20122015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K.

 

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3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION

Annual Report on Form 10-K10‑K for the


Year Ended December 31, 2011

Table of Contents2014

 

TABLE PART IOF CONTENTS

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Item 1.

Business2

Item 1A.PART I

Risk Factors12
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Item 1.    Business

Item 1A. Risk Factors

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Item 1B.

Unresolved Staff Comments

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Item 2.    Properties

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Properties21

Item 3.    Legal Proceedings

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Legal Proceedings.22

Item 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures

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PART II

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Item 5.

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters Issuance of Unregistered Securities and Issuer                                                   

Purchases of Equity Securities

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Item 6.

Selected Financial Data

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Item 7.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

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Item 7A.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

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Item 8.

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

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Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

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Item 9A.

Controls and Procedures

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Item 9A(T).9B. Other Information

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Controls and Procedures53

Item 9B.PART III

Other Information
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PART III

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Item 10.

Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

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Item 11.  Executive Compensation

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Executive Compensation54

Item 12.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and                                                                         

Related Stockholder Matters

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Item 13.

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence

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Item 14.

Principal Accounting Fees and Services

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PART IV

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Item 15.

Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

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PART I

 

Item 1.Business

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PART I

Item 1. Business

General

3D Systems Corporation (“3D Systems” or the “Company” or “we” or “us”) is a holding company incorporated in Delaware in 1993 that operates through subsidiaries in the United States,Americas and Asia Pacific region (“APAC”), as well as Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and weMiddle East (“EMEA”). We distribute our products in those areas as well as intoin other parts of the world. We are a leading global provider of 3D content-to-printprinting centric solutions, and are pioneering 3D printing for everyone. We provide the most advanced and comprehensive 3D design-to-manufacturing solutions, including 3D printers, print materials and on-demandcloud sourced custom parts services forparts. Our powerful digital thread, a seamless information exchange across design and manufacturing, empowers professionals and consumers alike. We alsoeverywhere to bring their ideas to life in material choices including plastics, metals, ceramics and edibles. Our leading healthcare solutions include end-to-end simulation, training and planning and printing of surgical instruments and devices for personalized surgery and patient specific medical and dental devices. Our democratized 3D digital design and inspection products provide creative content developmentseamless interoperability between additive and design productivity tools.subtractive manufacturing and incorporate the latest immersive computing technologies. Our expertly integrated solutionsproducts and services replace displace and complement traditional methods with improved results and reducereduced time to outcome. These solutions are used to rapidly design, create, communicate, plan, guide, prototype or produce functional parts, devices and assemblies, empowering our customers to manufacture the time and cost of designing new products.future. 

3D printers can print almost anything from smartphone and tablet covers, to finished jewelry and toys, from custom hearing aids, individualized prosthetics and orthodontics to functional airplane, unmanned aerial vehicles and car parts.

Over the past decade complete industries’ manufacturingthree decades, entire industries have transformed their design-to-manufacturing processes have been converted from traditional methods tousing 3D content-to-print solutions. Companies utilizing 3D printing technology have the freedom to create and Digital Manufacturing. Instead of investing in expensive toolingmanufacture precision products on demand, with no additional cost for mass production, incurring long lead-times and costly freight charges to ship products around the world,complexity or uniqueness. Customers can use 3D printing allows customers to mass customize and locally print what they need, when they need it, often in a more cost effective way, by eliminating expensive tooling and long lead times, while significantly reducing undesiredthe adverse environmental impacts ofthat are often associated with traditional manufacturing.

We pioneered 3D printing and Digital Manufacturingdigital manufacturing with the invention of Stereolithography over 25stereolithography (“SLA”) and the universally used .stl file format almost 30 years agoago. Subsequently, we developed selective laser sintering (“SLS”), multi-jet printing (“MJP”), film transfer imaging (“FTI”), color jet printing (“CJP”), direct metal printing (“DMP”) and subsequently developed Selective Laser Sintering, Multi-Jet Modeling and Film Transfer Imaging.plastic jet printing (“PJP”) 3D printing technologies. Over the past decade many companies enhanceddecades, our customers have strengthened their competitive advantage by embracing 3D printingour solutions to transformenhance and accelerate their new product designdevelopment cycles and, rapid prototyping activities andas our technology has advanced, a growing number of customers have also transitioned to new Direct Manufacturingdirect manufacturing of end use parts and custom products. Today, we continue to drive the adoption of large-scale custom manufacturing solutions, byincluding the printing of highly complex end use parts in a variety of aerospace, defense, transportationautomotive and healthcare usersapplications worldwide.

We At the same time, we are committed to democratizing access and accelerating adoption of our products and services for the benefit of professionals and consumers alike. We are3D printing solutions by extending the range of our affordable 3D printing solutions to the engineer’s desktop, classroom and living room. 

3D printers can print almost anything, from thepatient-specific medical devices to functional aerospace and automotive parts and entertainment industriesfrom personalized accessories and jewelry to middle school classroomscustomized toys, art and garage-entrepreneurs.

We partnered with multiple primary and secondary schools to equip children and young adults with tomorrow’s competitive and marketable Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics skills that are required to achieve and sustain our national competitive advantage. In partnership with educators, we developed support programs that create 3D labs in schools, elementary through university level. At the university level 3D labs are researching and developing new materials and new print processes, ranging from ceramics to chocolate, while at the elementary level children are learning how to create, connect and communicate in 3D as they see their ideas come to life as 3D printed models.

decor. Our portfolio of 3D printers is based onranges from less than $1,000 to over $1 million and includes several unique print engines that employ proprietary, additive layer printing processes designed to meet our customers’ most demanding design, prototyping, testing, tooling, production and productionmanufacturing requirements. Our principal print engines include stereolithography, or SLA®, printers, selective laser sintering, or SLS®, printers, multi-jet modeling, or MJM™, printers, film transfer imaging, or FTI printers, selective laser melting, or SLM printers, and plastic jet printers (“PJP”). We believe that our 3D printer solutions and services enable our customers to develop and manufacture better quality, higher functionality, new products faster and more economically than with traditional methods.

Our printers utilize a wide range of proprietary print materials that we develop, blend and market to print real parts. Our print materials are designed to replicate the performance of specific engineered plastics, composites and metals. We augment and complement our own portfolio of print materials with materials that we purchase from third parties under private label and distribution arrangements.

We also provide our customers content creation CADoffer proprietary software printer drivers and proprietary digital workflow preparation and management software tools that are embedded within our printers together with pre-sale and post-sale services, ranging from applications development and custom engineered production solutions to installation, warranty and maintenance services. services related to our products.  

Our printers utilize a wide range of proprietary print materials that we develop, blend and market. Our print materials range from real wax and plastic and composites to metal, nylon, and even edible materials. We augment and complement our own portfolio of engineered print materials with materials that we purchase from third parties under private label and distribution arrangements.

We also provide a comprehensive suite of on-demand printed parts servicessoftware and haptic and perceptual devices for creativity and design, including 3D digital design, scan-to-CAD, scan-to-print, reverse engineering, inspection, sculpting and medical modeling and simulation applications. Our products provide seamless integration for our customers’ entire workflow from 3D design to satisfy

fabrication. 

To satisfy our customers’ entire design-to-manufacturing requirements, offeringwe also provide custom manufacturing services via Quickparts®, our on-demand cloud printed parts services. Through Quickparts, we offer a broad range of precision plastic and metal parts capabilities produced from a wide range of 3D printing and traditional materials using a variety of additive and traditional manufacturing processes.processes and materials.

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For our healthcare customers we also offer virtual surgical planning and medical modeling services, digitizing scanners, and simulation products. Our healthcare digital thread provides seamless workflow with a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to go from the training room to the operating room, enabling personalized medicine and improved healthcare procedures and results.

Our expertly integrated 3D products and services provide a seamless workflow through 3D design and fabrication, transforming the manner in which our customers design, develop and manufacture. We continue to develop new products and services and have expanded our technology platform and 3D ecosystem through internal development efforts,developments, relationships with third parties and acquisitions. We maintain ongoing product development programs that are focused on providing our customers with an expandedthe most comprehensive portfolio of 3D content-to-print solutions targeting their entire design-to-manufacturing requirements from rapid prototyping services to on-site office, model-shop and production floor printers.solutions. We are focusing on developing aexpanding and enhancing our comprehensive menu of affordable to own and operate 3D printing centric solutions to address applications in the education, transportation, recreation, healthcare, consumer products and energy marketplaces, whichareas that we believe represent significant growth opportunities for our business.business, including the aerospace, automotive, healthcare, education, and consumer marketplaces.

Recent Developments

In rapid manufacturing applications, our printers are used to manufacture functional end-use parts that have the appearance and performance of high-quality injection-molded parts. Customers who adopt our rapid manufacturing solutions avoid the significant costs of complex set-ups and changeovers and eliminate the costs and lead times associated with conventional tooling methods or labor intensive craftsmanship. Rapid manufacturing enables our customers to produce optimized designs because they can design for function, unconstrained by normal design-for-manufacture considerations.

In rapid prototyping applications, our printers are used to quickly and efficiently generate product-concept models, functional prototypes to test form, fit and function, master patterns and expendable patterns for urethane and investment casting that are often used for evaluating product designs and short-run production.

In communication and design applications, our printers are used to produce presentation models, primarily for visualizing and communicating concepts, various design elements and other activities, including supply chain management and functional models.

In our consumer solutions applications, we provide our customers with intuitive, simple to use content creation and content download capabilities empowering our customers to design, create and make with coloring book simplicity.

We provide expertly integrated solutions consisting of printers, print materials, software tools and a variety of related on-demand parts and other customer services. Our extensive solutions portfolio enables us to offer our customers cost effective ways to transform the manner in which they design, develop and manufacture their products.

Recent Developments

On November 21, 2011,October 2014, we entered into a stock purchase$150.0 million five-year revolving, unsecured credit facility with PNC Bank as Administrative Agent, and certain other lenders. The agreement comprises a revolving loan facility that provides for advances in the initial aggregate principal amount of up to $150.0 million. Subject to certain terms and conditions contained in the agreement, the Company may, at its option and subject to customary conditions, request an increase in the aggregate principal amount available under the credit facility by an additional $75.0 million. 

In November 2014, we revealed several new products and design-to-manufacturing solutions at EuroMold 2014. The ProX 400 direct metal 3D printer is twice as fast as the ProX 300 and features a build area twice as large, and features several factory production enhancements. The ProXTM 800 enhances our SLA technology with new features for greater production efficiency, including revolutionary print head and material management systems, space-saving footprint and easy-to-use operator controls. The ProX 500 Plus builds on our existing ProX 500 by expanding the range of materials, increasing print speeds and providing a higher resolution output. We also introduced new high performance materials for the ProX 500 Plus: DuraForm® ProX GF, a glass-filled nylon material formulated for added stiffness and temperature resitance; DuraForm ProX AF+, an alloy-filled nylon with a realistic cast metal appearance, extreme tensile strength and high heat deflection properties; and DuraForm ProX EX, a Nylon material that provides exceptional impact strength, increased durability and remarkable flexibility. We also introduced new materials for the ProJet 1200 Micro-SLA 3D printer that expand applications for dental labs, jewelers, manufacturers, engineers and artists, adding FTX Cast, FTX Gold, FTX Silver, FTX Gray and FTX Clear. New materials showcased for the ProJet 5500X offer another level of versatility with tough, functional-grade, flexible elastomers in black and natural-translucent that result in parts that can be stretched, twisted, mashed and handled to withstand challenging applications without failure or tearing. We also introduced the Capture® Mini, a scan-based design and inspection system for small, precise parts, and 3DSPRINT™, a cloud and desktop-based platform that streamlines workflow by enabling collaboration, storage, access, file management, sharing and printing.

In November 2014, we entered into a definitive agreement to purchaseacquire all of the outstanding capital stockshares of Z Corporation,Cimatron Ltd. (“Cimatron”), a Massachusetts corporation (“Z Corp”),leading provider of integrated 3D CAD/CAM software products and Vidar Systems Corporation, a Virginia corporation (“Vidar”), from Contex Group A.S.solutions for up to $137 million in cash. This purchase price was subject to certain adjustments provided for in the stock purchase agreement, which included a provision that the seller would be entitled to retain any cash held by Z Corp and Vidar at the time of the closing except for an agreed upon amount to be included in no less than $6.6 million of working capital of Z Corp and Vidar that would be delivered to us at the closing of the acquisition. Completion of this transaction was subject to certain conditions set forth in the stock purchase agreement, and that agreement contained certain covenants, representations and warranties among the parties.manufacturing. We completed the closing underacquisition of Cimatron on February 9, 2015. The acquisition of Cimatron adds complementary technology, extends our sales coverage globally and multiplexes cross-selling opportunities.

In November 2014, we completed the stock purchase agreement on January 3, 2012acquisition of 70% of the outstanding shares of Robtec, creating 3D Systems Latin America. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Robtec is the largest Latin-American additive manufacturing service bureau and paid the $135.5 million purchase priceleading 3D printing and scanning products distributor in cash at that time, netthe region. With key operations in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico, and well-established printer and scanner distribution activities, the addition of cash received and subject to final closing adjustments. At the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K (“Form 10-K”), those final closing adjustments have not yet been completed, but we believe that they will not be material to our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.

Z Corp is a provider of personal and professional 3D printers, 3D scanners, proprietary print materials and services. Z CorpRobtec provides us with an additional print engine, Three Dimensional Printing Technology (“3DPT”)a strong Latin American presence and brings long-term relationships with leading aerospace and automotive companies, including Embraer, Siemens, Volkswagen, Fiat, CenPra, Visteon and Mercedes.

In January 2015, we announced the acquisition of botObjects and we launched the full-color Cube Pro C at CES. This is the first plastic jet printer that is capable of printing in full color. The Z Corp product line complementarily fits intoCube Pro C is part of our personalconsumer portfolio and professional printer categoriesis ideal for classroom, home and fillsthe engineer’s desktop. The acquisition of botObjects closed in December 2014.

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At the International Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in January, we also showcased our new Touch™ haptic 3D stylus, the Ekocycle™ Cube® 3D printer price points and doubles our reseller channel. Vidarthe CoCoJet™ 3D printer as well as apps, gaming platforms and a variety of lifestyle collections from fashion to food and entertainment. The Touch stylus comes with an OpenHaptics Software Developer Kit for digital design and virtual gaming and is an easy to use, powerful perceptual device that provides a provider of medical film scanners that digitize filmvirtual sculpting experience and is ideal for radiology, oncology, mammographydesigners, artists, students, gamers and dental applications. Vidar

provides ushobbyists. The Ekocycle prints in plastic from recycled post-consumer waste, and was launched in collaboration with a distribution channel of resellers that are specifically focused on healthcare, expanding our healthcare solutions portfolioThe Coca-Cola Company and reach.

Also on November 21, 2011, we completed the private placement of $152 million of 5.50% senior convertible notes due 2016. The net proceeds of these notes were used to pay the purchase price of the Z Corp and Vidar acquisition disclosed above and for general corporate purposes.will.i.am. We issued these notes under an indenture dated as of November 22, 2011 at a price of 98% of the $152 million aggregate principal amount. After deducting this original issue discount and commissions provided for on the placement of the notes, the net proceeds of this private placement amounted to $145.4 million These notes are senior unsecured obligations and rank equal in right of payment with all our existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness. They are also seniorleading the way in right of payment to any subordinated indebtednesspersonalized, edible 3D printing and previewed the CoCoJet 3D printer that we may incurare currently developing in collaboration with The Hershey Company, and launched a partnership with the Culinary Institute of America to advance 3D printing in the future. These notes are convertible into shares of our Common Stock at an initial conversion rate of 46.6021 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of notes, equivalent to an initial conversion rate of approximately $21.46 per share of Common Stock. Unless earlier repurchased, redeemed or converted, the notes will mature on December 15, 2016. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment in certain circumstances as more fully set forth in the indenture covering the notes.

In January 2012, we launched our first home 3D printer, the Cube, an affordable simple to use 3D printer for childrenculinary arts through education, exploration, and adults alike. Concurrently, we launched Cubify.com, a marketplace and meeting place where artists, designers, children and makers can sell their 3D designs and anyone can pay to download and 3D print them. Cubify.com provides a business model and platform for individuals and garage-entrepreneurs to access 3D design tools and printing resources, empowering startups to succeed and grow.

Products and Servicesexperimentation. 

Printers and Other Products

All ourProducts

We offer the most comprehensive range of 3D printers, employ one ofmaterials, perceptual devices, scanners, software and simulators within the above-mentioned print engines. additive manufacturing industry.

3D Printers

Our 3D printers converttransform digital data input from any format generated by 3D design software, CAD software, or 3D scanning and sculpting devices, to printed plastic or metal parts using our proprietaryintegrated, engineered plastic, metal, nylon, rubber, wax and composite print materials.    Production printers include our SLA®, SLS® and SLM printers.

Our professional printers category includes MJM printers and SLA® crossover printers. Personal printers include our FTI and PJP printers.

We develop, blend and market a wide range of proprietary print materials that replicate the performance of engineered plastics, composites and metals. We augment and complement our own portfolio of print materials with materials that we purchase from third parties under private label and distribution arrangements.

We provide our customers proprietary software tools and a library of content files. We also provide software embedded within our printers and design productivity software tools. In addition, we provide pre-sale and post-sale services, ranging from applications development to installation, warranty and maintenance services.

We provide a comprehensive suite of printed parts services through our on-demand custom parts services. Our on-demand custom parts services offer a broad range of precision plastic and metal parts service capabilities produced from a wide range of 3D printing and traditional materials using a variety of additive and traditional manufacturing processes.

Production 3D Printer Solutions

Customers use our production printers (SLA®, SLS®, SLM) to produce highly accurate geometries and/or very durable parts for applications in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, and healthcare solutions

SLA®Printers

Our stereolithography printers convert our proprietary, engineered print materials and composites into solid cross-sections, layer by layer, to print the desired fully fused objects. Our SLA®objects, employing one of our proprietary print engines, which are discussed in more detail below. We offer printers are capable of making multiple distinct parts at the same time, and are designed to produce highly accurate geometries in a wide range of sizes and shapes with a variety of material performance characteristics.

SLA® parts are known for their fine feature detail, resolution and surface quality. Product designers, engineers and marketers in many manufacturing companies throughout the world use our SLA® printers for a wide variety of applications, ranging from short production runs of end-use products to producing prototypes for automotive, aerospace and various consumer and electronic applications.Printers

Our SLA® printers are capable of rapidly producing tools, fixtures, jigs and end-use parts, including parts for dental, hearing aid, jewelry and motor-sports applications. They are also designed for uses such as building functional models that enable users to share ideas and evaluate concepts, perform form, fit and function tests on working assemblies and build expendable patterns for metal casting.

Our family of SLA®stereolithography 3D printers offers a wide range of capabilities, including size, speed, accuracy, throughput and surface finish in different formats and price points. Our iPro™ SLA® printers come in a variety of print formats and footprint sizes, from the desktop micro-SLA ProJet 1200 to our extra-large build volume ProX 950. Our SLA printers are designed to quickly and economically produce durable plastic parts with unprecedented surface smoothness, feature resolution, edge definition and tolerances that rival the accuracy of CNC-machined plastic parts.

Our iPro™ familySLA printers are used for a wide variety of SLA® printers includes the iPro™ 8000applications, ranging from automotive, aerospace to consumer and iPro 9000, production stereolithography printers capableentertainment and electronics to healthcare, including mass customization of printing ultra-high-definition parts made from our integrated portfolio of proprietary Accura® Plastics. We also offer the Viper™, a smaller format SLA® printer that delivers lower throughput, but is capable of printing precision ultra-high-resolution parts.orthodontics, hearing aids and surgical guides and kits.

SLS® Printers

SLS Printers

Our selective laser sintering 3D printers convert our proprietary,melt and fuse (sinter) powder-based, nylon and engineered plastic and composite print materials and composites by melting and fusing (sintering) these print materials into solid cross-sections, layer by layer, to produce finishedvery strong and durable parts. SLS® printers can create parts from a variety of proprietary engineered plastic powders and are capable of processing multiple parts in a single build session.

Customer uses of our SLS® printers include functional test models and end-use parts, which enableenables our customers to create customized parts economically without tooling. The combination of print materialsmaterials’ flexibility, part functionality and high throughput of our SLS® print engine makes it well suited for rapid manufacturing of durable partsparts. Our SLS printers are used for applications in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, packaging, industrial machinery and motor-sports applications.medical devices. 

DM Printers

Our family of SLS®direct metal printing 3D printers comesproduce chemically pure, fully dense metal parts, by sintering powders in a variety of print formatsdifferent metals materials and degreesceramic materials. Our DM printers can process a wide range of automationmaterials, including powders with very fine granularity (less than 10 microns), enabling outstanding surface finish and includes our line of sPro 60, 140 and 230 SLS® printers. Our SLS® production printers are designed to enable our customers to mass customize and produce high-quality, end-use parts, patterns, fixtures and tools consistently and economically from our proprietary engineered plastics, on site and on demand.

SLM Printers

resolution. We offer the Sinterstation® Pro SLM direct metal sintering printer through a private label arrangement with a third party supplier. These printers come in two print formats and are capable of producing fully-denseseveral sizes, including our recently introduced ProX 400, which features the largest build area in its class. Customers use our ProX direct metal parts from a variety of metal powders, including stainless steel, chrome cobalt, titaniumprinters for dental, medical, aerospace and tool steel.automotive applications.

Professional 3D Printer Solutions

Our professional printers are used in engineering and design environments for product development, architecture, marketing communication, higher education teaching and research and for custom manufacturing of advanced oral and orthopedic restorative devices, custom jewelry and mass customized toys, action figures and collectibles. Our range of professional printers is based on our proprietary MJM print engine and SLA® print engine.

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MJP Printers

Our professional printers convert digital 3D input data, one slice thickness at a time,multi-jet printing portfolio utilizes jetting head technology to print a solid part, one layer at a time.deliver high quality, accurate and tough parts in plastics, wax, and engineered materials. These printers offer superior finished surfaces, freedom of geometry creation, plug-and-play installation, point-and-print functionalitythe capability to print in ultra-fine resolution for precision parts and best-in-class part resolutionto print multiple materials in a variety of price pointssingle part. Our MJP printers come with a five-year print head warranty and print materials.

Our family of professional printers consists of several ProJet models, including the Projet 3000, Projet 3000Plus, Projet 5000 and Projet 6000, our first crossover 3D printer bringing SLA® print technology together with MJM utility and usability. Our professional printers are designed to print high-definition, functional and durable modelsparts for form, fit and function analysis, including certain models thatas well as patterns for casting. Our MJP printers are capable of ultra-fine resolutionused for precisionconsumer goods, industrial design, medical, dental and jewelry applicationsapplications.

Personal 3D Printer Solutions

CJP Printers

Our personal 3Dcolor jet printing solutions produce parts in plastic and ceramic-like materials using powder materials and binders. Our CJP printers print ready-to-use functionalproduce parts at home, school or office workstations. These kits and printers enable designers, engineers, hobbyists, do it yourselfers and students to imagine, design and print their ideas at their desks. Ourin pixel-by-pixel full color, in the full range of personalcolors. Our CJP printers is based on are ideal for MCAD, architecture, design communication, education, art, consumer goods and medical modeling applications.

FTI and PJP print engines.Printers

Our offering of personalfilm transfer imaging printers includes the ProJet 1000, ProJet 1500, 3DTouch and RapMan personal printers. These 3D printers utilize FTI and PJP technologies.

Our FTI personal 3D printersuse light curing technology to print durable plastic parts with a smooth surface finish and true to design detailed features.detail. Parts printed on these ProJet printers can be drilled, machined, painted and metal-plated after building and ProJet 1500 parts can be printed in six different colors. FTI printers are used in desktop printing and functional prototyping applications.

PJP Printers

Our PJP basedplastic jet printing 3D personal printers and kits utilize a proven, simple, clean and compact and quietplastic extrusion print engine technology designed for office, home and classroom use. Our PJP printers are designed and engineered to be simple, accurate and robustaffordable and some are equipped with up to three compact precision print heads for multi-color, multi-material printing with quick material changeovers and multiple print speed, accuracymodes available. PJP printers offer an easy to use interface, enabling fast, multi-color printing in a single build in PLA or ABS plastic or nylon. Our Cube 3D printer is certified kid-safe and fast material changeovers.offers a plug and play experience, including smart cartridges that include built in extruder nozzles for an easy and reliable consumer printing experience. Cube Pro offers a robust, climate controlled desktop 3D printer with a user friendly, intuitive experience. Our newest PJP printer, the Cube Pro C, is the first in its class to offer full color printing in PLA or ABS plastic. Our PJP printers are ideal for the engineer’s desktop as well as at home and in the classroom use.

Software

We offer proprietary software tools for an integrated, seamless digital workflow. We offer software packages and design tools for reverse engineering, inspection and haptic design packages, enabling our customers to open scan data directly in the CAD parametric environment, design in Voxel CAD and sculpt. We also offer intuitive packages designed for students and home users. With the acquisition of Cimatron in February 2015, a leading CAD/CAM provider, we now offer CAD and CAM software packages designed for the manufacturing industry. We also offer proprietary software and drivers embedded within our printers.

Other Products

We offer affordable 3D Print scanners and perceptual devices to democratize access to 3D content creation and enable seamless integration with our software and 3D printers. We offer scanners in a range of price points and capabilities from compact and ultra-precise professional scanners to affordable, intuitive scanners designed for the consumer and optimized for 3D printing. We also offer haptic devices that enable freeform sculpting and design, which are ideal for artists, designers and healthcare applications.

We also offer 3D virtual reality simulators for medical applications. These 3D simulators expand our healthcare digital thread to offer solutions from the training room all the way to the operating room. We also provide digitizing scanners for medical and mechanical applications.

Materials

As part of our integrated solutions approach, we blend, market,package and sell and distributeproprietary, consumable, engineered plastic, nylon, metal and metalcomposite materials and composites under several leading brand names for use in all our printers. We market our stereolithographySLA materials under the Accura® and RenShape® brands, brand, our selective laser sinteringSLS materials under the DuraForm, CastForm®, CastForm and LaserForm brands and materials for our professionalMJP, CJP, FTI and micro-SLA printers under the VisiJet® brand. We augment and complement our own portfolio of print materials with materials that we purchase from third parties under private label and distribution arrangements.

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With the exception of our direct metal printers, our currently offered printers have built-in intelligence that communicates vital processing and quality statistics in real time. For these printers, we furnish integrated print materials that are specifically designed for use in those printers and that are packaged in smart cartridges designed to enhance system functionality, up-time, materials shelf life and overall printer reliability, with the objective of providing our customers with a built-in quality management system.system and a fully integrated work flow solution.

We work closely with our customers to optimize the performance of our print materials in their applications. Our expertise in print materials formulation, combined with our process, software and equipment-designequipment design strengths, enableenables us to help our customers select the print material that best meets their needs and obtain optimal cost and performance results. We also work with third parties to develop different types and varieties of print materials designed to meet the needs of our customers.

SLA® Print Materials and Composites

Our family of proprietary stereolithography materials and composites offersWe offer a variety of plastic-like performance characteristics and attributes designed to mimic specific, engineered, thermoplastic materials.materials under the Accura® brand name. When used in our SLA® printers, our proprietary liquid resins turn into a solid surface one layer at a time, and through an additive building process, all the layers bond and fuse to make a solid part.

Our portfolio of Accura® and RenShape® stereolithography SLA print materials includesinclude general purpose as well as specialized materials and composites that offers customers the opportunity to choose the material that is best suitedare ideal for the partsfit and form testing, wind tunnel testing, casting, patterns and molds, show models that they intend to produce.and healthcare applications.  

To further complement and expand the range of materials we offer to our customers, we also distribute SLA® materials under recognized third-party brand names.

SLS® Print Materials and Composites

SLS Materials

Our family of proprietary selective laser sintering materials and composites includes a range of rigid plastic, elastomeric and metalnylon materials as well as various composites of these ingredients. Our SLS® printers have built-in versatility; therefore, the same printers can be used to process multiple materials.

Our DuraForm® laser sintering materials include CastForm and LaserForm proprietary SLS® materials. SLS® materials are used to create durable, functional end-use parts, prototypes and durable patterns as well as assembly jigs and fixtures. They are also used to produce flexible rubber-like parts, such as shoe soles, gaskets and seals;high-temperature resistant parts, patterns for investment casting;casting, functional tooling such as injection molding tool inserts;inserts, and end-use parts for customized rapidadvanced manufacturing applications.

Examples of rapid manufacturing parts produced by our customers using our SLS® printers include air ducts for military aircraft and engine cowling parts for unmanned aerial vehicles.

Product designers and developers from major automotive, aerospace and consumer products companies use DuraForm®SLS parts extensively as functional test models, including in harsh test environment conditions. Aerospace and medical companies use our SLS® printers to produce end-use parts directly, which enables them to create customized parts economically without tooling.  Parts made from DuraForm®

DMP Materials

Our direct metal printing materials include very fine metal and LaserFormceramic powders. These materials include ceramics, stainless steels, tool steels, super alloys, non-ferrous alloys, precious metals and alumina. Our DMP printers and materials are cost effectiveused for chemically pure, fully dense, fine feature detail printing of end use parts and patterns in aerospace, automotive and healthcare applications. Super alloys are commonly used in parts of gas turbine engines that are subject to high temperatures and require high strength, high temperature creep resistance, phase stability and oxidation and corrosion resistance. Non-ferrous metals include aluminum and titanium. Precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum and exotic or rare metals such as cobalt, mercury or tungsten can compete favorably with traditional manufacturing methods, especially where part complexity is high.also be processed.

VisiJet Print Materials

VisiJet® Print Materials

Our family of VisiJet® print materials includes part-buildingconsist of a wide range of plastic, composite and wax materials, and compatible disposable supportincluding durable materials that provide injection-molded like properties. VisiJet plastic materials are used in the modeling processdemanding, high end prototyping, casting and facilitate an easily melted support removal process. These print materials are sold to our customers packaged in proprietary smart cartridges designed for our personal and professional 3D printers. Our proprietarymanufacturing applications. VisiJet® print materials are ideal for study models and form, fit and function engineering studies. VisiJet®wax print materials and special dissolvable support materials are usedideal for direct casting applications such as custom jewelry manufacturing, dental crowns and bridge work and other casting and micro-casting applications.

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PJP Print Materials

Our family of print materials

Materials for use in theour PJP 3D Touch and RapMan includesprinters provide multi-color, durable, real plastic parts, including polylatic acid (PLA), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polypropylene (PP), high density polyethylene (HDPE), low density polyethylene (LDPE), and unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (uPVC)polyamide (Nylon). These print materials are packaged in proprietary smart cartridges and offer a variety of properties, including tough polymer materials strong enough for car bumpers tough and flexible polymers for face masks or containers, and chemical and solvent resistant materials for fuel tanks, snowboards and water pipes.biodegradable thermoplastics.

Services

Services

Warranty, Maintenance and Training Services

We provide a variety of customer services and local application support and field support on a worldwide basis for all our stereolithography and selective laser sintering 3D printers.products. For our personal3D printers and professional 3D printers,software, we provide these services and field support either directly or through a network of authorized resellers or other sources. We are continuing to build aexpand our reseller channel for our line of personalconsumer and professional 3D printers and software and to train our resellers to perform installation and maintenance services for thoseour printers.  We have also entered into arrangements with selected outside service providers to augment our service capabilities for each of our lines of equipment.

The services and field support that we provide includes installation of new printers at customers’ sites, printer warranties, several maintenance agreement options and a wide variety of hardware upgrades, software updates and performance enhancement packages.We also provide services to assist our customers and resellers in developing new applications for our technologies, to facilitate the use of our technology for the customers’ applications, to train customers on the use of newly acquired printers and to maintain our printers at customers’ sites.

New personal, professional and productionAll our 3D printers are sold with maintenance support that generally covers a warranty period ranging from 90 days to one year. We generally offer service contracts that enable our customers to continue maintenance coverage beyond the initial warranty period. These service contracts are offered with various levels of support and are priced accordingly. We employ customer-support sales engineers in North America, South America, in several countries in Europe and in parts of the Asia-PacificAsia Pacific region to support our worldwide customer base. As a key element of warranty and service contract maintenance, our service engineers provide regularly scheduled preventive maintenance visits to customer sites. We also provide training to our distributors and resellers to enable them to perform these services.

We distribute spare parts on a worldwide basis to our customers, primarily from locations in the U.S., South America, EMEA and Europe.Asia Pacific.

We also offer upgrade kits for certain of our printers that enable our existing customers to take advantage of new or enhanced systemprinter capabilities; however, we have discontinued upgrade support for certain of our older legacy printers.

On-Demand Parts

Quickparts Services

We launched our rapid prototyping and printed parts service in October 2009. Through our on-demand custom parts service, we provide an extensive suite of customon-demand parts services through our 3Dproparts and Quickparts® branded global network of fulfillment facilities. 3Dproparts andOur Quickparts® are two leading custom parts service brands that offeroffers a broad range of precision plastic and metal parts service capabilities produced from a wide range of print3D printing and traditional materials using a variety of additive and traditional manufacturing processes. Customers may procure a complete range of precision plastic and metal parts services using a variety of finishing, molding and casting capabilities utilizing both traditional and additive processes.capabilities. In addition, preferred service providers and leading service bureaus can use our on-demand custom parts service as their comprehensive order-fulfillment center.

Consumer Services

In addition to our consumer 3D printers, we offer Cubify, our online hosting and publishing platform providing simple-to-use content creation tools, content downloads, cloud printing services and licensing arrangements and hosting for third parties. In addition to Cubify, we also provide consumer services related to the entertainment industry through our Gentle Giant brand. We are continuing to expand our on-demand custom parts service by bringing together a wide range of productionconsumer offerings, including partnerships and additive grade print materialsopen software development kit for developers and the latest additivedesigners, expanded content and traditional manufacturing systemsCubify exclusive designs, and apps to delivercreate and modify 3D digital data.

Software Services

In addition to our software products, we offer customers the broadest available rangepost sale software maintenance, which includes updates and software support for our design, reverse engineering and inspection software packages.

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Healthcare Services

We provide healthcare services through our Medical Modeling, LayerWise and Simbionix brands. We provide modeling and design services, including virtual surgical planning (VSP™), printing and finishing of precision plasticmedical study models and metal partsdevices, including surgical kits, implants and assemblies. Since October 2009, we have acquired twelveother personalized medical devices. We also provide service providers in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific, enhancingon our North American and European presence and expanding our local presence into Australia, the Benelux countries and China.surgical simulators sold through Simbionix.

Global Operations

We operate in North America,the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region,Asia Pacific regions, and distribute our products and services in those areas as well as to other parts of the world. Revenue in countries outside the U.S. accounted for 48.9%49.1%, 54.7%44.5% and 56.6%44.5% of consolidated revenue in the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, respectively.

In maintaining foreign operations, we expose our business is exposed to risks inherent in such operations, including currency fluctuations. Information on foreign exchange risk appears in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors”, Part II, Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” and Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” of this Form 10-K,10‑K, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

Financial information about geographic areas, including revenue, and long-lived assets, and cash balances, appears in Note 22 21to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data,” of this Form 10-K, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

Marketing and Customers

Our sales and marketing strategy focuses on an integrated approach that is directed toat providing 3D printingcontent-to-print solutions and services to meet a wide range of customer needs, including traditional prototyping, 3D printing and rapid manufacturing.needs. This integrated approach includes the sales and marketing of our parts service, either as an adjunct to a customer’s in-house useentire portfolio of additive technologies or to the much broader audience of users who do not have dedicated production or professional 3D printers.

products and services.

Our sales organization is responsible for the sale of all of our products and services on a worldwide basis and for the management and coordination of our growing network of authorized resellers. We sell someWith the exception of our online channels and direct Quickparts salespersons, we sell our products and services primarily through resellers who are supported by our directown experienced channel sales force and others through resellers. Our direct sales force consistsmanagers consisting of salespersons who work throughout North America, Europethe Americas, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific region.Asia Pacific.  Our application engineers provide professional services through pre-sales and post-sales support and assist existing customers so that they can take advantage of our latest print materials and techniques to improve part quality and machine productivity. This group also leverages our customer contacts to help identify new application opportunities that utilize our proprietary processes and access to our on-demand partsQuickparts printing service, 3Dproparts and Quickparts®.service. As of December 31, 2011,2014, our worldwide sales, application and service staff consisted of 171202 employees.

We sell production printers and our related print materials and services through our direct sales organization, which is supported by our dedicated sales, service and application engineers worldwide.

In certain areas of the world where we do not operate directly, we have appointed sales agents resellers and distributors who are authorized to sell our production printersproducts and the print materials used in themservices on our behalf. Certain of those agents resellers and distributors also provide services to customers in those geographic areas.

Our personal and professional printers and our related print materials and services are sold worldwide directly and through a network of authorized distributors and resellers who are managed and directed by a dedicated team of channel sales managers.

As a complement to our printers and print materials sales, we maintain our on-demand customQuickparts on demand parts service, a global network of parts printing service locations, branded as 3Dpropartswhich we sell through a direct sales team and QuickParts®. Our parts service is designedour online platform. In addition to provide our customersproviding a single source for all of their design-to-manufacturing needs. Through our on-demand parts service, we offer access to a widecomprehensive range of additiveservices to customers, Quickparts also provides relationship building and traditional manufacturing technologies, our full line of available print materials from plastics to metals and our project management and finishing capabilities through a powerful e-commerce platform with on-line quoting, plug-ins and secure ordering.

In 2011, as partlead generation for future sales of our products.

Our consumer solutions initiative, we added content, design productivity tools and design and curation services to our offerings through a series of acquisitions and internal developments. As we democratize access to affordableoriented 3D printers, and services, our target customer base has expanded to small companies, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts and consumers who are not professional CAD users. We provide this expanded audience access to simple and easy to use 3D printablescanners, software, content software and tools to capture and customize content for sharing and 3D printing through our personal 3D printers, Freedom of Creation and The3dStudio.com content, design and curation services and Alibre® design productivity tools. These products and services are distributedavailable online through multiple channels with an emphasis on web based online salesCubify and an inside sales team, complemented by specialized software resellersthrough retail stores and printer resellers.distributors as well as through our reseller channel.

Our customers include major companies and small and midsize businesses in a broad range of industries, including manufacturers of automotive, aerospace, computer, electronic, defense, education, consumer, energy and healthcare products. Purchasers of our printers include original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)(OEM’s), government agencies, universities and universities that generally use our printers for research activities, andother educational institutions, independent service bureaus that provide rapid prototyping and manufacturing services to their customers.individual consumers.  No single customer accounted for more than 10 percent of our consolidated revenue infor  the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 or 2009.2012.  

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Production and Supplies

We assemble our Cube and Cube Pro 3D printers, our ProJet 1000 through 7000 3D printers and other equipment at our Rock Hill, South Carolina facilities. Our ProJet x60 series of 3D printers are assembled at our Andover, Massachusetts location. Our Herndon, Virginia facility produces our Vidar digitizers as well as provides additional Cube 3D printers assembly. Our Simbionix branded 3D simulators are produced in our facility in Airport City, Israel. Our direct metals printers are produced in the U.S. and France.

We outsource certain production printer assembly and refurbishment activities to several selected design and engineering companies and suppliers. These suppliers also carry out quality control procedures on our printers prior to their shipment to customers. As part of these activities, these suppliers have responsibility for procuring the components and sub-assemblies that are used in our printers. This has reduced our need to procure or maintain inventories of raw materials, work-in-process and spare parts related to our equipment assembly and maintenance activities. We purchase finished printers from these suppliers pursuant to forecasts and customer orders that we supply to them. While the outsourced suppliers of our printers have responsibility for the supply chain of the components for the printers they assemble, the components, parts and sub-assemblies that are used in our printers are generally available from several potential suppliers.

We assemble our ProJet personal and professional 3D printers and other equipment at our Rock Hill, South Carolina facility, enabling us to better utilize our facility, plan production and lower costs. Our RapMan and 3DTouch printers are assembled at our facility in Clevedon, England.

We produce certain print materials at our facilities in Andover, Massachusetts; Barberton, Ohio; Marly, Switzerland and Rock Hill, South Carolina. We also have arrangements with third parties who blend to our specifications certain print materials that we sell under our own brand names. As discussed above, we also purchase print materials from third parties for resale to our customers.

Our equipment assembly and print materials blending activities and certain research and development activities are subject to compliance with applicable federal, state and local provisions regulating the storage, use and discharge of materials into the environment. We believe that we are in compliance, in all material respects, with such regulations as currently in effect and that continued compliance with them will not have a material adverse effect on our capital expenditures, results of operations or consolidated financial position.

Research and Development

The 3D printing industry is characterized byexperiencing rapid technological change. Consequently, we have an ongoing program of research and development programs to develop new printers and print materials and to enhance our product lines as well as to improve and expand the capabilities of our printers, print materials and related software and print materials. This includes allsoftware. These include significant technology platform developments for our print enginesproducts, materials and print materials.software. Our development efforts are often augmented by development arrangements with research institutions, customers, suppliers of material and hardware and the assembly and design firms that we have engaged to assemble our printers. WeFrom time to time, we also engage third party engineering companies and specialty print materials companies in specific development projects from time to time.projects.

In addition to our internally developed technology platforms, we have acquired products or technologytechnologies developed by others by acquiring business entities that held ownership rights to the technology.technologies. In other instances we have licensed or purchased the intellectual property rights of technologies developed by third parties through licensing agreements that may obligate us to pay a license fee or royalty, typically based upon a dollar amount per unit or a percentage of the revenue generated by such products. As noted below, the amount of such royalties was not material to our results of operations or consolidated financial position for the three-year period ended December 31, 2011.2014.

Research and development expenses were $14.3$75.4 million, $10.7$43.5 million and $11.1$23.2 million in 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, respectively.

We capitalized

No software development costs from acquisitions were capitalized in 2014. We capitalized $0.3 million of $7.9 million and $1.2 millionsoftware development costs from acquisitions in 2011 and 2010, respectively.2013. We did not capitalize any software development costs in 2009.2012. See Note 6 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property

We regard our technology platforms and materials as proprietary and seek to protect them through copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets. At December 31, 2011,2014 and 2013, we held 7251,061 and 973 patents worldwide.worldwide, respectively. At that date,December 31, 2014, we also had 257262 pending patent applications worldwide, including applications covering inventions contained in our recently introduced printers. The principal issued patents covering aspects of our various technologies will expireat varying times through the year 2027.

We are also a party to various licenses that have had the effect of broadening the range of the patents, patent applications and other intellectual property available to us.

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We have also entered into licensing or cross-licensing arrangements with various companies in the United States and in other countries that enable those companies to utilize our technologies in their products or that enable us to use their technologies in our products. Under certain of these licenses, we are entitled to receive, or we are obligated to pay, royalties for the sale of licensed products in the U.S. or in other countries. The amount of such royalties was not material to our results of operations or consolidated financial position for the three-year period ended December 31, 2011.

2014.

We believe that, while our patents and licenses provide us with a competitive advantage, our success depends primarily on our marketing, business development and applications know-how and on our ongoing research and development efforts. Accordingly, we believe the expiration of any of the patents, patent applications or licenses discussed above would not be material to our business or financial position.

Competition

We face competition from the development of new technologies or techniques not encompassed by the patents that we own or license and from the conventional machining, plastic moldingtechnologies.

Our competitors also include other suppliers of 3D printers, print materials and metal casting techniques discussed abovesoftware, including CAD design and from improvements to existing technologies,scanning software, as well as suppliers of forming manufacturing solutions such as Computer Numerical Control (“CNC”) machiningvacuum casting equipment. A number of companies currently sell print materials that compete with those we sell.  Numerous suppliers of these products operate both internationally and rotational molding.regionally, and many of them have well-recognized product lines that compete with us in a wide range of our product applications.

Competition for most of our 3D printers is based primarily on process know-how, product application know-how and the ability to provide a full range of products and services to meet customer needs. Competition is also based upon innovations in 3D printing, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing printers and print materials. Accordingly, our ongoing research and development programs are intended to enable us to maintain technological leadership. Certain of the companies producing competing products or providing competing services are well established and may have greater financial resources.resources than us.

Our principal competitors are also companies that manufacture machines that make, or use machines to make, models, prototypes, molds and small-volume to medium-volume manufacturing parts. These competitors include suppliers of CNC, suppliers of plastics molding equipment, including injection-molding equipment, suppliers of traditional machining, milling and grinding equipment, and businesses that use such equipment to produce models, prototypes, molds and small-volume to medium-volume manufacturing parts. These conventional machining, plastic molding and metal casting techniques continue to be the most common methods by which plastic and metal parts, models, functional prototypes and metal tool inserts are manufactured.manufactured today.

Our competitors also include other suppliers of stereolithography, laser sintering and other 3D printers and print materials as well as suppliers of alternative additive manufacturing solutions such as vacuum casting equipment. A number of companies currently sell print materials that compete with those we sell, and there are a wide number of suppliers of maintenance services for the equipment that we sell. Numerous suppliers of these products operate both internationally and regionally, and many of them have well-recognized product lines that compete with us in a wide range of our product applications.

Competition in the parts printing service business is highly fragmented, with most of the services suppliers operating on a local level.

We believe that our future success depends on our ability to enhance our existing products and services, introduce new products and services on a timely and cost-effective basis, meet changing customer needs, extend our core technologies to new applications and anticipate and respond to emerging standards, business models, service delivery methods and other technological changes.

EmployeesEmployees

At December 31, 2011,2014, we had 7142,136  full-time employees. Although some of our employees outside the U.S. are subject to local statutory employment and labor arrangements, none of our U.S. employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements. We have not experienced any material work stoppages and believe that our relations with our employees are satisfactory.

Available Information

Our website address iswww.3DSystems.com.The information contained on our website is neither a part of, nor incorporated by reference into, this Form 10-K. We make available free of charge through our website our Annual Reports on Form 10-K,10‑K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q,10‑Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K,8‑K,  amendments to those reports, and other documents that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file them with, or furnish them to, the SEC. In addition, the public may read and copy materials we file with the SEC at the SEC’s public reference room located at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Information on the operation of the public reference room can be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.

Several of our corporate governance materials, including our Code of Conduct, Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Executives and Directors, Corporate Governance Guidelines, the current charters of each of the standing committees of the Board of Directors and our corporate charter documents and by-laws are available on our website.

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Executive and Other Officers

The information appearing in the table below sets forth the current position or positions held by each of our officers and his or her age as of February 1,  2012.2015. All of our officers serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. There are no family relationships among any of our officers or directors.

 

Name and Current Position

Age as of
February 1, 2012

2015

Abraham N. Reichental

President and Chief Executive Officer

55

58

Charles W. Hull

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

72

75

Robert M. Grace, Jr.Theodore A. Hull

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

64

Damon J. Gregoire

SeniorExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

43

57

Mark W. Wright

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

50

David R. Styka

Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer

53

Kevin P. McAlea

Executive Vice President Production Printer Solutionsand Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare

53

56

Andrew M. Johnson

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

40

Cathy L. Lewis

Executive Vice President Globaland Chief Marketing Officer

60

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We have employed each of the individuals in the foregoing table, other than Mr. GregoireTheodore A. Hull, Mark W. Wright and Ms. LewisDavid R. Styka, for more than five years.

Mr. Gregoire joined us on April 25, 2007 asHull assumed the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Previously,Officer on November 4, 2014.  Mr. Hull’s career spans more than three decades of progressing financial leadership roles in high-tech companies and sector leaders including Cisco, Maxtor and IBM. Most recently, he was employedserved as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Fusion-io, a provider of advanced flash storage solutions, from December 2013 until the company's purchase by Infor Global Solutions, Inc., an international software company,SanDisk Corporation in July 2014. Mr. Hull served as Vice President, of Finance since 2006 with responsibility for its Datastream Systems and Customer Relationship Management division. Mr. Gregoire previously served as Corporate Controller of Datastreamat Cisco Systems, Inc., a software company,manufacturer of IP networking products and services, from 2005 until it was acquired by Infor Global Solutions, Inc. in March 2006. For more than three years prior2007 to 2005, September 2013. 

Mr. Gregoire served as DirectorWright assumed the role of Accounting and Financial Analysis of Paymentech, L.P., an international credit card processing company.

Ms. Lewis joined us asExecutive Vice President Global Marketingand Chief Operating Officer on October 15, 200927, 2014. Mr. Wright joins the Company after an 18-year career at EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 provider of web-based computing systems and was elected an officer of the company in May 2010. Since 2006 she was Chief Executive Officer of Desktop Factory, Inc., a venture financed technology start-up focused on the development and delivery of a low cost 3D printer. For more than three years prior to 2006, Ms. Lewisdata storage products. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President Marketing for IKON Office Solutions, a global office copying/printing/imagingof Business Development and related services company.Operations – Lenovo, since April 2014. He served as the Chief Operating Officer, Flash Product Division from October 2012 to April 2014, served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Operations, IIP Division from January to October 2012, Senior Vice President, Business Operations, Unified Storage Division from January 2011 to January 2012 and Vice President, Operations and Business Transformation, Unified Storage Division from 2008 to January 2011.

 

Item 1A.Risk Factors

Mr. Styka assumed the role of Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer on January 14, 2015. Mr. Styka joins the Company after serving as Vice President – Finance and Treasurer at Family Dollar Stores, Inc. a value retailer. At Family Dollar, Mr. Styka served as Vice President – Finance and Treasurer since April 2014, Vice President – Finance from March 2011 to April 2014, and Divisional Vice President – Tax and Inventory from July 2008 to March 2011. 

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements made in this Form 10-K that are not statements of historical or current facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include the cautionary statements and risk factors set forth below as well as other statements made in this Form 10-K that may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from historical results or from any future results or projections expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

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In addition to the statements set forth below that explicitly describe risks and uncertainties to which our business and our financial condition and results of operations are subject, readers are urged to consider statements in future or conditional tenses or that include terms such as “believes,” “belief,” “expects,” “intends,” “anticipates” or “plans” that appear in this Form 10-K to be uncertain and forward-looking. Forward-looking statements may include comments as to our beliefs, expectations and expectationsprojections as to future events and trends affecting our business. Forward-looking statements are based upon our beliefs, assumptions and current expectations concerning future events and trends, using information currently available to us, and are necessarily subject to uncertainties, many of which are outside our control. We assume no obligation, and do not intend, to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law. The factors stated under the heading “Cautionary Statements and Risk Factors” set forth below, as well as other factors, could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected or predicted in forward-looking statements.

If one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those reflected in or suggested by forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement that you read in this Form 10-K reflects our current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, financial condition, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or to individuals acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this discussion. You should specifically consider the factors identified in this Form 10-K, which would cause actual results to differ from those referred to in forward-looking statements.

Cautionary Statements and Risk Factors

The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only risks and uncertainties that we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem not to be material also may impair our business operations, results of operations and financial condition. If any of the risks described below or if any other risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem not to be material actually occurs, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected. In that event, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment in our common stock.

The risks discussed below also include forward-lookingforward‑looking statements that are intended to provide our current expectations with regard to those risks. There can be no assurance that our current expectations will be met, and our actual results may differ substantially from the expectations expressed in these forward-lookingforward‑looking statements.

We have made, and expect to continue to make, strategic acquisitions that may involve significant risks and uncertainties.  We may not realize the anticipated benefits of past or future acquisitions and integration of these acquisitions may disrupt our business and divert management.

We completed ten acquisitions in 2014. We also intend to continue to evaluate acquisition opportunities in the future in an effort to expand our business and enhance stockholder value. Acquisitions involve certain risks and uncertainties including:

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Difficulty in integrating newly acquired businesses and operations in an efficient and cost-effective manner, which may also impact our ability to realize the potential benefits associated with the acquisition;

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The risk that significant unanticipated costs or other problems associated with integration may be encountered;

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The challenges in achieving strategic objectives, cost savings and other anticipated benefits;

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The risk that our marketplaces do not evolve as anticipated and that the technologies acquired do not prove to be those needed to be successful in the marketplaces that we serve;

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The risk that we assume significant liabilities that exceed the limitations of any applicable indemnification provisions or the financial resources of any indemnifying party;

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The inability to maintain a relationship with key customers, vendors and other business partners of the acquired businesses;

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The difficulty in maintaining controls, procedures and policies during the transition and integration;

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The potential loss of key employees of the acquired businesses;

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The risk of diverting management attention from our existing operations;

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Difficulties in coordinating geographically disparate organizations and corporate cultures and integrating management personnel with different business backgrounds.

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The potential failure of the due diligence process to identify significant problems, liabilities or other challenges of an acquired company or technology;

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The risk that we incur significant costs associated with such acquisition activity that may negatively impact our operating results before the benefits of such acquisitions are realized, if at all;

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The risk of incurring significant exit costs if products or services are unsuccessful;

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The entry into marketplaces where we have no or limited direct prior experience and where competitors have stronger marketplace positions;

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The exposure to litigation or other claims in connection with our assuming claims or litigation risks from terminated employees, customers, former shareholders or other third parties; and

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The risk that historical financial information may not be representative or indicative of our results as a combined company.

We have experienced rapid and significant growth in our operations, both organically and from acquisitions, and we intend to continue to grow. The adaptation of our infrastructure to our growth will require, among other things, continued development of our financial and management controls and management information systems, management of our sales channel, continued capital expenditures, the ability to attract and retain qualified management personnel and the training of new personnel. We cannot be sure that our infrastructure, systems, procedures, business processes and managerial controls will be adequate to support the significant growth in our operations. Any delays in, or problems associated with, implementing, or transitioning to, new or enhanced systems, procedures, or controls to accommodate and support the requirements of our business and operations and to effectively and efficiently integrate acquired operations may adversely affect our ability to meet customer requirements, manage our product inventory, and record and report financial and management information on a timely and accurate basis. These potential negative effects could prevent us from realizing the benefits of an acquisition transaction or other growth opportunity. In that event, our competitive position, revenues, revenue growth, results of operations and liquidity could be adversely affected, which could, in turn, adversely affect our share price and shareholder value.

We face significant competition in many aspects of our business, which could cause our revenue and gross profit margins to decline. Competition could also cause us to reduce sales prices or to incur additional marketing or production costs, which could result in decreased revenue, increased costs and reduced margins.

We compete for customers with a wide variety of producers of equipment and software for models, prototypes, other three-dimensional objects and end-use parts as well as producers of print materials and services for this equipment. Some of our existing and potential competitors are researching, designing, developing and marketing other types of competitive equipment and software, print materials and services. Certain of these competitors may have financial, marketing, manufacturing, distribution and other resources substantially greater than ours.

We also expect that future competition may arise from the development of allied or related techniques for equipment and print materials that are not encompassed by our patents, from the issuance of patents to other companies that may inhibit our ability to develop certain products, and from improvements to existing print materials and equipment technologies.

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Some of our patents have recently expired and others will expire in coming years. Upon expiration of those patents, our competitors may introduce products using the technology previously protected by the expired patents, which products may have lower prices than those of our products. To compete, we may need to reduce our prices for those products, which could adversely affect our revenues, margins and profitability. Additionally, the expiration of our patents could reduce barriers to entry into additive manufacturing, which could result in the reduction of our sales and earnings potential. If competitors using technology previously protected by our expired patents were to introduce products of inferior quality, our potential customers may view the technology negatively, which would have an adverse effect on our image and reputation and on our ability to compete with systems using other additive fabrication technologies.

We intend to continue to follow a strategy of continuing product development to enhance our position to the extent practicable. We cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain our current position in the field or continue to compete successfully against current and future sources of competition. If we do not keep pace with technological change and introduce new products, we may lose revenue and demand for our products. We also incur significant costs associated with the investment in our product development in furtherance of our strategy that may not result in increased revenue or demand for our products and which could negatively affect our operating results.

We believe that our future success may depend on our ability to deliver products that meet changing technology and customer needs.

Our business may be affected by rapid technological change, changes in user and customer requirements and preferences, frequent new product and service introductions embodying new technologies and the emergence of new standards and practices, any of which could render our existing products and proprietary technology obsolete. Accordingly, our ongoing research and development programs are intended to enable us to maintain technological leadership. We believe that to remain competitive we must continually enhance and improve the functionality and features of our products, services and technologies. However, there is a risk that we may not be able to:

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Develop or obtain leading technologies useful in our business;

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Enhance our existing products;

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Develop new products, services and technologies that address the increasingly sophisticated and varied needs of prospective customers, particularly in the area of printer speeds and print materials functionality, and the developing consumer market;

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Respond to technological advances and emerging industry standards and practices on a cost-effective and timely basis; or

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Recruit or retain key technology employees.

Our balance sheet contains several categories of intangible assets totaling $841.1 million at December 31, 2014 that we could be required to write off or write down in the event of the impairment of certain of those assets arising from any deterioration in our future performance or other circumstances. Such write-offs or write-downs could adversely impact our future earnings and stock price, and our ability to obtain financing. 

At December 31, 2014, we had $589.5 million in goodwill capitalized on our balance sheet. Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 350, “Intangibles – Goodwill and Other,” requires that goodwill and some long-lived intangibles be tested for impairment at least annually. In addition, goodwill and intangible assets are tested for impairment at other times as circumstances warrant, and such testing could result in write-downs of some of our goodwill and long‑lived intangibles. Impairment is measured as the excess of the carrying value of the goodwill or intangible asset over the fair value of the underlying asset. A key factor in determining whether impairment has occurred is the relationship between our market capitalization and our book value. Accordingly, we may, from time to time, incur impairment charges, which are recorded as operating expenses when they are incurred and would reduce our net income and adversely affect our operating results in the period in which they are incurred.

As of December 31, 2014, we had $251.6 million of other intangible assets, net, consisting of licenses, patents, and other intangibles that we amortize over time. Any material impairment to any of these items would result in a non-cash charge and would not impact our cash position or cash flows, but such a charge could adversely affect our results of operations and stockholders’ equity and could affect the trading price of our common stock in the period in which they are incurred.

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As discussed below, we completed several business acquisitions during 2014, 2013 and 2012. The majority of the acquisitions have resulted in our recording additional goodwill on our consolidated balance sheet. This goodwill typically arises because the purchase price for these businesses reflects a number of factors including the future earnings and cash flow potential of these businesses, the multiples to earnings, cash flow and other factors, such as prices at which similar businesses have been purchased by other acquirers, the competitive nature of the process by which we acquired the business, and the complementary strategic fit and resulting synergies these businesses bring to existing operations.

For additional information, see Notes 6 and 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Estimates—Goodwill and other intangible and long-lived assets.”

Global economic, political and social conditions may harm our ability to do business, increase our costs and negatively affect our stock price.

We believeare subject to global economic, political and social conditions that we are emerging from a global recession in the United States, Europe and other regions of the world. The prospects for economic growth in the United States and other countries remain uncertain, and may cause customers to further delay or reduce technology purchases due to continued softness in the real estate and mortgage markets or other markets,economic downturns, volatility in fuel and other energy costs, difficulties in the financial services sector and credit markets, continuing geopolitical uncertainties and other macroeconomic factors affecting spending behavior. The global recession had an adverse impact on the sales of our products in 2009 leading to longer sales cycles, slower adoption of new technologies and increased price competition. Given the continued uncertainty concerning the pace of growth in the global economy, weWe face risks that may arise from financial difficulties experienced by our suppliers, resellers or customers, including:

 

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The risk that customers or resellers to whom we sell our products and services may face financial difficulties or may become insolvent, which could lead to our inability to obtain payment of accounts receivable that those customers or resellers may owe;

 

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The risk that key suppliers of raw materials, finished products or components used in the products that we sell may face financial difficulties or may become insolvent, which could lead to disruption in the supply of printers, print materials or spare parts to our customers; and

 

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The inability of customers, including resellers, suppliers and contract manufacturers to obtain credit financing to finance purchases of our products and raw materials used to build those products

The inability of customers, including resellers, suppliers and contract manufacturers to obtain credit financing to finance purchases of our products and raw materials used to build those products.

We may incur substantial costs enforcing or acquiring intellectual property rights and defending against third party claims as a result of litigation or other proceedings.

In connection with the enforcement of our own intellectual property rights, the acquisition of third-party intellectual property rights or disputes related to the validity or alleged infringement of third party intellectual property rights, including patent rights, we have been, are currently and may in the future be subject to claims, negotiations or complex, protracted litigation. Intellectual property disputes and litigation may be costly and can be disruptive to our business operations by diverting attention and energies of management and key technical personnel, and by increasing our costs of doing business. Although we have successfully defended or resolved past litigation and disputes, we may not prevail in any ongoing or future litigation and disputes.

Third party

Third-party intellectual property claims asserted against us could subject us to significant liabilities, require us to enter into royalty and licensing arrangements on unfavorable terms, prevent us from assembling or licensing certain of our products, subject us to injunctions restricting our sale of products, cause severe disruptions to our operations or the marketplaces in which we compete, or require us to satisfy indemnification commitments with our customers including contractual provisions under various license arrangements. In addition we may incur significant costs in acquiring the necessary third-party intellectual property rights for use in our products. Any of these could seriously harm our business.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights and confidential information, including our digital content, from third-party infringers or unauthorized copying, use or disclosure.

Although we defend our intellectual property rights and endeavor to combat unlicensed copying and use of our digital content and intellectual property rights through a variety of techniques, preventing unauthorized use or infringement of our rights is inherently difficult. If our intellectual property becomes subject to piracy attacks, they may harm our business.

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Additionally, we endeavor to protect the secrecy of our digital content, confidential information and trade secrets. If unauthorized disclosure of our trade secrets occurs, we could potentially lose trade secret protection. The loss of trade secret protection could make it easier for third parties to compete with our products by copying previously confidential features, which could adversely affect our revenue and operating margins. We also seek to protect our confidential information and trade secrets through the use of non-disclosure agreements. However there is a risk that our confidential information and trade secrets may be disclosed or published without our authorization, and in these situations it may be difficult and/or costly for us to enforce our rights.

We have made, and expect to continue to make, strategic acquisitions that may involve significant risks and uncertainties. We may not realize the anticipated benefits of past or future acquisitions and integration of these acquisitions may disrupt our business and divert management.

We completed twelve acquisitions in 2011, one of which was considered significant in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. We also completed the Z Corp and Vidar acquisitions in 2012 and we intend to continue to evaluate acquisition opportunities in the future in an effort to expand our business and enhance stockholder value. Acquisitions involve certain risks and uncertainties including:

Difficulty in integrating newly acquired businesses and operations in an efficient and cost-effective manner, which may also impact our ability to realize the potential benefits associated with the acquisition;

The risk that significant unanticipated costs or other problems associated with integration may be encountered;

The challenges in achieving strategic objectives, cost savings and other anticipated benefits;

The risk that our marketplaces do not evolve as anticipated and that the technologies acquired do not prove to be those needed to be successful in the marketplaces that we serve;

The risk that we assume significant liabilities that exceed the limitations of any applicable indemnification provisions or the financial resources of any indemnifying party;

The inability to maintain a relationship with key customers, vendors and other business partners of the acquired business;

The difficulty in maintaining controls, procedures and policies during the transition and integration;

The potential loss of key employees of the acquired businesses;

The risk of diverting management attention from our existing operations;

The potential failure of the due diligence process to identify significant problems, liabilities or other challenges of an acquired company or technology;

The risk of incurring significant exit costs if products or services are unsuccessful;

The entry into marketplaces where we have no or limited direct prior experience and where competitors have stronger marketplace positions;

The exposure to litigation or other claims in connection with our assuming claims or litigation risks from terminated employees, customers, former shareholders or other third parties; and

The risk that historical financial information may not be representative or indicative of our results as a combined company.

If we cease to generate net cash flow from operations and if we are unable to raise additional capital, our financial condition could be adversely affected.affected and we may not be able to execute our growth strategy.

In 2011, our unrestricted cash and short-term investments increased by $141.8 million to $179.1 million at December 31, 2011 from $37.3 million at December 31, 2010. The cash balance at December 31, 2011 included the $145.4 million net proceeds from senior convertible notes previously discussed, including the cash purchase price for the Z Corp and Vidar acquisitions that we paid on January 3, 2012.

During 2011, 2010 and 2009, net cash provided by operations was $27.7 million, $31.8 million and $7.7 million, respectively. We cannot assure you that we will continue to generate cash from operations or other potential sources to fund future working capital needs and meet capital expenditure requirements.

If we are unable to generate such cash flow, we may be required to adopt one or more alternatives, such as selling assets, restructuring or incurring additional debt or obtaining additional equity capital on terms that may be onerous or highly dilutive. Our ability to obtain additional capital or refinance ourany indebtedness will depend on, among other things, the capital markets, our financial condition at such time and the terms and conditions of any such financing or indebtedness. We may not be able to engage in any of these activities or engage in these activities on desirable terms, which could result in a default on our debt obligations.

During 20112014 we carried out twoone capital markets transactionstransaction and received $207.4$299.7 million of net proceeds from them.proceeds. We also entered into a revolving, unsecured credit facility with PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, and certain other lenders party thereto during 2014.  The Credit Agreement comprises a revolving loan facility that provides for advances in the initial aggregate principal amount of up to $150.0 million. From time-to-time we may seek access to additional external sources of capital to fund working capital needs, capital expenditures, acquisitions, and for other general corporate purposes. However, we cannot assure you that capital would be available from external sources such as bank credit facilities, debt or equity financings or other potential sources to fund any of those future needs.

The global financial crisis affecting the banking system and financial markets has resulted in a tightening of credit markets, lower levels of liquidity in many financial markets, and extreme volatility in fixed income, credit, currency and equity markets. As a consequence, credit markets tightened significantly such that the ability to raise new capital has become more challenging and more expensive.

If our ability to generate cash flow from operations and our existing cash becomes inadequate to meet our needs, our options for addressing such capital constraints include, but are not limited to, (i) obtaining aadditional debt financing or increasing the limit on our current revolving credit facility, from bank lenders, (ii) accessing the public capital markets, or (iii) delaying certain of our existing development projects. If it became necessary to obtain additional debt financing it is likely that such alternatives in the current market environment would be on less favorable terms than we have historically obtained, which could have a materialan adverse impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

The lack of additional capital resulting from any inability to generate cash flow from operations or to raise equity or debt financing could force us to substantially curtail or cease operations and would, therefore, have a materialan adverse effect on our business and financial condition. Furthermore, we cannot assure you that any

necessary funds, if available, would be available on attractive terms or that they would not have a significantly dilutive effect on our existing stockholders. If our financial condition worsens and we become unable to attract additional equity or debt financing or enter into other strategic transactions, we could become insolvent or be forced to declare bankruptcy.bankruptcy and we would not be able to execute our growth strategy.

The variety of products that we sell could cause significant quarterly fluctuations in our gross profit margins, and those fluctuations in margins could cause fluctuations in operating income or loss and net income or loss.

We continuously work to expand and improve our product offerings, including our printers, printproducts, materials and services offerings, the number of geographic areas in which we operate and the distribution channels we use to reach various target product applications and customers. This variety of products, applications and channels involves a range of gross profit margins that can cause substantial quarterly fluctuations in gross profit and gross profit marginmargins depending upon the mix of product shipments from quarter to quarter. Additionally, the introduction of new products or services may further heighten quarterly fluctuations in gross profit and gross profit margins due to manufacturing ramp-up and start-up costs. We may experience significant quarterly fluctuations in gross profit margins or operating income or loss due to the impact of the mix of products, channels or geographic areas in which we sell our products from period to period. In some quarters, it is possible that resultsour financial performance could be below expectations of analysts and investors. If so, the price of our common stock may be volatile or decline.decline and our cost of capital may increase.

We believe that our future success may depend on our ability to deliver products that meet changing technology and customer needs.

Our business may be affected by rapid technological change, changes in user and customer requirements and preferences, frequent new product and service introductions embodying new technologies and the emergence of new standards and practices, any of which could render our existing products and proprietary technology and printers obsolete. Accordingly, our ongoing research and development programs are intended to enable us to maintain technological leadership. We believe that to remain competitive we must continually enhance and improve the functionality and features of our products, services and technologies. However, there is a risk that we may not be able to:

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Develop or obtain leading technologies useful in our business;

Enhance our existing products;

Develop new products and technologies that address the increasingly sophisticated and varied needs of prospective customers, particularly in the area of print materials functionality;

Respond to technological advances and emerging industry standards and practices on a cost-effective and timely basis; or

Recruit or retain key technology employees.

We derive a significant portion of our revenue from business conducted outside the U.S and are subject to the risks of doing business outside the U.S.

Approximately 50 percent

For the year ended 2014, 49.1% of our consolidated revenue is derived from customers in countries outside the U.S. There are many risks inherent in business activities outside the U.S. that, unless managed properly, may adversely affect our profitability, including our ability to collect amounts due from customers. While most of our operations outside the U.S. are conducted in highly developed countries, they could be adversely affected by:

 

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Unexpected changes in laws, regulations and policies of non-U.S. governments relating to investments and operations, as well as U.S. laws affecting the activities of U.S. companies abroad;

 

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Changes in regulatory requirements, including export controls, tariffs and embargoes, other trade restrictions, competition, corporate practices and data privacy concerns;

 

Political policies, political or civil unrest, terrorism or epidemics and other similar outbreaks;

Fluctuations in currency exchange rates;

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Political policies, political or civil unrest, terrorism or epidemics and other similar outbreaks;

 

Seasonal reductions in business activity in certain parts of the world, particularly during the summer months in Europe and extended holiday periods in various parts of the world;

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Fluctuations in currency exchange rates;

 

Limited protection for the enforcement of contract and intellectual property rights in some countries;

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Seasonal reductions in business activity in certain parts of the world, particularly during the summer months in Europe and extended holiday periods in various parts of the world;

 

Transportation delays;

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Limited protection for the enforcement of contract and intellectual property rights in some countries;

 

Difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations;

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Potentially longer sales cycles and payment cycles;

 

Operating in countries with a higher incidence of corruption and fraudulent business practices;

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Transportation delays;

 

Taxation; and

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Difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations;

 

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Operating in countries with a higher incidence of corruption and fraudulent business practices;

Other factors, depending upon the specific country in which we conduct business.

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Potentially adverse changes in taxation;  and

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Other factors, depending upon the specific country in which we conduct business.

These uncertainties may make it difficult for us and our customers to accurately plan future business activities and may lead our customers in certain countries to delay purchases of our products and services. More generally, these geopolitical, social and economic conditions could result in increased volatility in global financial markets and economies.

The consequences of terrorism or armed conflicts are unpredictable, and we may not be able to foresee events that could have an adverse effect on our market opportunities or our business. We are uninsured for losses and interruptions caused by terrorism, acts of war and similar events.

While the geographic areas outside the U.S. in which we operate are generally not considered to be highly inflationary, our foreign operations are sensitive to fluctuations in currency exchange rates arising from, among other things, certain intercompany transactions that are generally denominated, for example, in U.S. dollars rather than their respective functional currencies.

Moreover, our operations are exposed to market risk from changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates and commodity prices, which may adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. We seek to minimize these risks through regular operating and financing activities and, when we consider it to be appropriate, through the use of derivative financial instruments. We do not purchase, hold or sell derivative financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes.

We face significant competition in many aspects of our business, which could cause our revenue and gross profit margins to decline. Competition could also cause us to reduce sales prices or to incur additional marketing or production costs, which could result in decreased revenue, increased costs and reduced margins.

We compete for customers with a wide variety of producers of equipment for models, prototypes, other three-dimensional objects and end-use parts as well as producers of print materials and services for this equipment. Some of our existing and potential competitors are researching, designing, developing and marketing other types of competitive equipment, print materials and services. Many of these competitors have financial, marketing, manufacturing, distribution and other resources substantially greater than ours.

We also expect that future competition may arise from the development of allied or related techniques for equipment and print materials that are not encompassed by our patents, from the issuance of patents to other companies that may inhibit our ability to develop certain products, and from improvements to existing print materials and equipment technologies.19


We intend to continue to follow a strategy of continuing product development to enhance our position to the extent practicable. We cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain our current position in the field or continue to compete successfully against current and future sources of competition. If we do not keep pace with technological change and introduce new products, we may lose revenue and demand for our products.

We depend on our supply chain for components and sub-assemblies used in our 3D printers and other products and for raw materials used in our print materials. If these relationships were to terminate or be disrupted, our business could be disrupted while we locatelocated alternative suppliers and our expenses may increase.

We  have outsourced the assembly of certain of our printers to third party suppliers, we purchase components and sub-assemblies for our printers from third party suppliers, and we purchase raw materials that are used in our print materials, as well as certain of those print materials, from third party suppliers.

While there are several potential suppliers of the components, parts and sub-assemblies for our products, we currently choose to use only one or a limited number of suppliers for several of these components, including our lasers, print materials and certain jetting components. Our reliance on a single or limited number of suppliers involves many risks including:

 

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Potential shortages of some key components;

 

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Disruptions in the operations of these suppliers;

 

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Product performance shortfalls; and

 

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Reduced control over delivery schedules, assembly capabilities, quality and costs.

Reduced control over delivery schedules, assembly capabilities, quality and costs.

While we believe that we can obtain all the components necessary for our products from other manufacturers, we require any new supplier to become “qualified” pursuant to our internal procedures, which could involve evaluation processes of varying durations. We generally have our printers and other products assembled based on our internal forecasts and the supply of raw materials, assemblies, components and finished goods from third parties, which are subject to various lead times.  In addition, at any time, certain suppliers may decide to discontinue production of an assembly, component or raw material that we use. Any unanticipated change in the sources of our supplies, or unanticipated supply limitations, could increase production or related costs and consequently reduce margins.

If our forecasts exceed actual orders, we may hold large inventories of slow-moving or unusable parts, which could have an adverse effect on our cash flow, profitability and results of operations. Inversely, we may lose orders if our forecast is low and we are unable to meet demand.

We have engaged selected design and manufacturing companies to assemble certain of our production printers. In carrying out these outsourcing activities, we face a number of risks, including:

 

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The risk that the parties that we retain to perform assembly activities may not perform in a satisfactory manner;

 

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The risk of disruption in the supply of printers or other products to our customers if such third parties either fail to perform in a satisfactory manner or are unable to supply us with the quantity of printers or other products that are needed to meet then current customer demand; and

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The risk of insolvency of these suppliers, as well as the risks that we face, as discussed above, in dealing with a limited number of suppliers.

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Our operations could suffer if we are unable to supply us withattract and retain key management or other key employees.

Our success depends upon the quantitycontinued service and performance of printers that are neededour senior management and other key personnel. Our senior executive team is critical to meet then current customer demand;the management of our business and

The risk of insolvency of these suppliers, operations, as well as to the development of our strategy. The loss of the services of one or more members of our senior executive team could delay or prevent the successful implementation of our growth strategy, or our commercialization of new applications for our systems or other products, or could otherwise adversely affect our ability to manage our company effectively and carry out our business plan. Members of our senior management team may resign at any time. High demand exists for senior management and other key personnel (including scientific, technical and sales personnel) in the 3D printing industry, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to retain such personnel. We experience intense competition for qualified personnel. While we intend to continue to provide competitive compensation packages to attract and retain key personnel, some of our competitors for these employees have greater resources and more experience, making it difficult for us to compete successfully for key personnel. If we cannot attract and retain sufficiently qualified technical employees for our research and development and manufacturing operations, we may be unable to achieve the synergies expected from mergers and acquisitions that we may effect from time to time, or to develop and commercialize new products or new applications for existing products. Furthermore, possible shortages of key personnel, including engineers, in the regions surrounding our facilities could require us to pay more to hire and retain key personnel, thereby increasing our costs.

Our products and services may experience quality problems from time to time that can result indecreased sales and operating margin  and harm to our reputation.

We sell complex hardware and software products, materials and services that can contain design and manufacturing defects. Sophisticated software and applications, such  as those sold  by us, may contain “bugs” that can unexpectedly interfere with the software’s intended  operation. Defects may also occur  in components  and products we purchase from third parties.  There can  be  no assurance we will  be able  to detect  and fix all defects  in the hardware,  software, materials and services we sell. Failure  to  do  so could result  in lost revenue, significant warranty and other expenses and harm  to our reputation.

We may be subject to product liability claims, which could result in material expense, diversion of management time and attention and damage to our business reputation.

Products as complex as those we offer may contain undetected defects or errors when first introduced or as enhancements are released that, despite testing, are not discovered until after the product has been installed and used by customers. This could result in lost revenue, delayed marketplace acceptance of the product, claims from customers or others, damage to our reputation and business or significant costs to correct the defect or error.

We attempt to include provisions in our agreements with customers that are designed to limit our exposure to potential liability for damages arising from defects or errors in our products. However, the nature and extent of these limitations vary from customer to customer. Their effect is subject to a variety of legal limitations and it is possible that these limitations may not be effective as a result of unfavorable judicial decisions or laws enacted in the future.

The sale and support of our products entails the risk that we face, as discussed above,of product liability claims. Any product liability claim brought against us, regardless of its merit, could result in dealing with a limited numbermaterial expense, diversion of suppliers.management time and attention, damage to our business reputation and failure to retain existing customers or to attract new customers.

We face risks in connection with changes in energy-related expenses.

We and our suppliers depend on various energy products in processes used to produce our products. Generally, we acquire products at market prices and do not use financial instruments to hedge energy prices. As a result, we are exposed to market risks related to changes in energy prices. In addition, many of the customers and industries to whom we market our printersproducts and print materialsservices are directly or indirectly dependent upon the cost and availability of energy resources.

Our business and profitability may be materially and adversely affected to the extent that our or our customers’ energy-related expenses increase, both as a result of higher costs of producing, and potentially lower profit margins in selling, our products and print materialsservices and because increased energy costs may cause our customers to delay or reduce purchases of our printersproducts and print materials.

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We mayrely on our management information systems for inventory management, distribution, and other key functions. If our information systems fail to adequately perform these functions, or if we experience an interruption in their operation, our business and operating results could be subjectadversely affected.

The efficient operation of our business is dependent on our management information systems. We rely on our management information systems: to, among other things, effectively manage our accounting and financial functions, including maintaining our internal controls; to manage our manufacturing and supply chain processes; and to maintain our research and development data. The failure of our management information systems to perform properly could disrupt our business and product liability claims,development, which couldmay result in material expense, diversion of management timedecreased sales, increased overhead costs, excess or obsolete inventory, and attention and damage toproduct shortages, causing our business reputation.

Products as complex as thoseand operating results to suffer. Although we offer may contain undetected defects or errors when first introduced or as enhancements are released that, despite testing, are not discovered until aftertake steps to secure our management information systems, including our computer systems, intranet and Internet sites, email and other telecommunications and data networks, the product has been installed and used by customers. This could result in delayed marketplace acceptance of the product, claims from customers or others, damage to our reputation and business or significant costs to correct the defect or error.

We attempt to include provisions in our agreements with customers that are designed to limit our exposure to potential liability for damages arising from defects or errors in our products. However, the nature and extent of these limitations vary from customer to customer, their effect is subject to a variety of legal limitations, and it is possible that these limitationssecurity measures we have implemented may not be effective and our systems may be vulnerable to theft, loss, damage and interruption from a number of potential sources and events, including unauthorized access or security breaches, natural or man-made disasters, cyber-attacks, computer viruses, power loss, or other disruptive events. Our reputation and financial condition could be adversely affected if, as a result of unfavorable judicial decisionsa significant cyber event or laws enactedotherwise, our operations are disrupted or shut down; our confidential, proprietary information is stolen or disclosed; we incur costs or are required to pay fines in the future.connection with stolen customer, employee, or other confidential information; we must dedicate significant resources to system repairs or increase cyber security protection; or we otherwise incur significant litigation or other costs.

The sale and support of our products entails the risk of product liability claims. Any product liability claim brought against us, regardless of its merit, could result in material expense, diversion of management time and attention, damage to our business reputation and cause us to fail to retain existing customers or to fail to attract new customers.

Historically, ourOur common stock price has been and may continue to be volatile.

The market price of our common stock has experienced, and may continue to experience, considerable volatility. Between January 1, 20102013 and December 31, 2011,2014,  after giving effect to the two-for-onethree-for-two stock split in the nature of a 100%50% stock dividend that we distributed in May 2011,February 2013, the trading price of our common stock has ranged from a low of $5.25$28.38 per share to a high of $29.35$96.42 per share.

Numerous factors could have a significant effect on the price of our common stock, including those described or referred to in this “Risk Factors” section of this Form 10-K, as well as, among other things:

 

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Our perceived value in the securities markets;

 

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Overall trends in the stock market;

 

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Announcements of fluctuations in our operating results or the operating results of one or more of our competitors;

 

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The impact of changes in our results of operations, our financial condition or our prospects or on how we are perceived in the securities markets;

 

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Future sales of our common stock or other securities (including any shares issued in connection with our outstanding senior convertible notes or earn-out obligations for any past or future acquisition);

 

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Market conditions for providers of products and services such as ours;

 

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Changes in recommendations or earnings estimates by securities analysts; and

 

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Announcements of acquisitions by us or one of our competitors.

The number of shares of common stock issuable in a stock offering, the exercise of outstanding stock options, the issuance of restricted stock awards or the issuance of shares in connection with certain acquisitions or the conversion of the notes could dilute the ownership interest of existing stockholders and may affect the market price for our common stock.

We have an effective registration statement on Form S-3 under which, among other things, we may issue upadditional securities, from time to $175time, as necessary to provide flexibility to execute our growth strategy.  We raised net proceeds of approximately  $299.7 million and $272.1 million through issuances of securities. We issued $65.8 million of Common Stockcommon stock in 2011 in reliance upon this registration statement2014 and the remaining $109.2 million of securities covered by it may be issued until March 3, 2014, although we have no current intention to do so.2013, respectively.

Our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, authorizes our issuance of up to a total 120220.0 million shares of common stock, of which 63.3112.2 million shares have been issued or are otherwise currently reserved for issuance. Future issuances could have the effect of diluting our earnings per share as well as our existing stockholders’ individual ownership percentages and could lead to volatility in our common stock price.

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Additionally, subject to the limitations of our Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law, we are not restricted from issuing additional common stock, including securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, common stock. The issuance of additional shares of our common stock in connection with future acquisitions or other issuances of our common stock or convertible securities, including outstanding options, may dilute the ownership interest of our common stockholders.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock or other equity-related securities in the public market could depress the market price of our common stock and impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity or equity-linked securities. We cannot predict the effect that future sales of our common stock or other equity-related securities would have on the market price of our common stock.

Our business involves the use of hazardous materials, and we must comply with environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, which can be expensive and restrict how we do business. 

Our business involves the blending, controlled storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials. We and our suppliers are subject to federal, state and local as well as foreign laws and regulations governing the use, manufacture, storage, handling and disposal of these hazardous materials. Although we believe that the safety procedures utilized by us for handling and disposing of these materials comply with the standards prescribed by these laws and regulations, we cannot eliminate the risk of accidental contamination or injury from these materials. In the event of an accident, state, federal or foreign authorities may curtail the use of these materials and interrupt our business operations. If we are subject to any liability as a result of activities involving hazardous materials, our business and financial condition may be adversely affected and our reputation may be harmed.

Regulations related to conflict-free minerals may cause us to incur additional expenses and may create challenges with our customers. 

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act contains provisions to improve transparency and accountability regarding the use of “conflict” minerals mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo (the “DRC”) and adjoining countries. The SEC has established annual disclosure and reporting requirements for those companies who use “conflict” minerals sourced from the DRC and adjoining countries in their products. These requirements could adversely affect the sourcing, supply and pricing of materials used in our products. As there may be only a limited number of suppliers offering conflict-free minerals, we cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain these conflict-free minerals in sufficient quantities or at competitive prices. Compliance with these requirements may also increase our costs, including costs that may be incurred in conducting due diligence procedures to determine the sources of certain minerals used in our products and other potential changes to products, processes or sources of supply as a consequence of such verification activities. In addition, approximately 1.1 million shareswe may face challenges with our customers if we are unable to sufficiently verify the origins of common stock were issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options at December 31, 2011, all of which were fully vested and remained exercisable at that date.minerals used in our products.

Our Board of Directors is authorized to issue up to 5 million shares of preferred stock.

The Board of Directors is authorized to issue up to 5 million shares of preferred stock, none of which is currently issued or outstanding. The Board of Directors is authorized to issue these shares of preferred stock in one or more classes or series without further action of the stockholders and in that regard to determine the issue price, rights, preferences and privileges of any such class or series of preferred stock generally without any further vote or action by the stockholders. The rights of the holders of any outstanding series of preferred stock may adversely affect the rights of holders of common stock.

Our ability to issue preferred stock gives us flexibility concerning possible acquisitions and financings, but it could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our outstanding common stock. In addition, any preferred stock that is issued may have other rights, including dividend rights, liquidation preferences and other economic rights, senior to the common stock, which could have a materialan  adverse effect on the market value of our common stock.

Certain provisions of Delaware law contain anti-takeover provisions that may make it more difficult to effect a change in our control.

Certain provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law could delay or prevent an acquisition or change in control and the replacement of our incumbent directors and management, even if doing so might be beneficial to our stockholders by providing them with the opportunity to sell their shares, possibly at a premium over the then market price of our common stock. One of these Delaware laws prohibits us from engaging in a business combination with any interested stockholder (as defined in the statute) for a period of three years from the date that the person became an interested stockholder, unless certain conditions are met.

Certain provisions of our outstanding convertible notes could discourage an acquisition of us by a third party.

Certain provisions of the notes could make it more difficult or more expensive for a third party to acquire us or to carry out any other transaction that may effect a change in our control. Upon the occurrence of certain transactions constituting a fundamental change (as such term is defined in the indenture covering such notes), holders of the notes will have the right, at their option, to require us to repurchase all of the notes they hold or any portion of the principal amount of such notes in integral multiples of $1,000. We may also be required to issue additional shares of common stock upon conversion of such notes.

Our balance sheet contains several categories of intangible assets totaling $161.7 million at December 31, 2011 that we could be required to write off or write down in the event of the impairment of certain of those assets arising from any deterioration in our future performance or other circumstances. Such write-offs or write-downs could adversely impact our future earnings and stock price, our ability to obtain financing and affect our customer relationships.23


At December 31, 2011, we had $107.7 million in goodwill capitalized on our balance sheet. Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 350, “Intangibles — Goodwill and Other,” requires that goodwill and some

long-lived intangibles be tested for impairment at least annually. In addition, goodwill and intangible assets are tested for impairment at other times as circumstances warrant, and such testing could result in write-downs of some of our goodwill and long-lived intangibles. Impairment is measured as the excess of the carrying value of the goodwill or intangible asset over the fair value of the underlying asset. A key factor in determining whether impairment has occurred is the relationship between our market capitalization and our book value. Accordingly, we may, from time to time, incur impairment charges, which are recorded as operating expenses when they are incurred and would reduce our net income and adversely affect our operating results in the period in which they are incurred.

As of December 31, 2011, we had $54.0 million of other intangible assets, net, consisting of licenses, patents, and other intangibles that we amortize over time. Any material impairment to any of these items would result in a non-cash charge and would not impact our cash position or cash flows, but such a charge could adversely affect our results of operations and equity and could affect the trading price of our common stock in the period in which they are incurred.

As discussed below, we completed several business acquisitions during 2009, 2010 and 2011. The majority of the acquisitions have resulted in our recording additional goodwill on our consolidated balance sheet. This goodwill typically arises because the purchase price for these businesses reflects a number of factors including the future earnings and cash flow potential of these businesses; the multiples to earnings, cash flow and other factors, such as prices at which similar businesses have been purchased by other acquirers; the competitive nature of the process by which we acquired the business; and the complementary strategic fit and resulting synergies these businesses bring to existing operations.

We expect to record additional goodwill as a result of the Z Corp and Vidar acquisitions, but we have not determined the amount thereof at the date of this Form 10-K.

For additional information, see Notes 6 and 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Estimates — Goodwill and other intangible and long-lived assets.”

Changes in, or interpretation of, tax rules and regulations may impact our effective tax rate and future profitability.

We are a U.S. based, multinational company subject to taxation in multiple U.S. and foreign tax jurisdictions. Our future effective tax rates could be adversely affected by changes in statutory tax rates or interpretation of tax rules and regulations in jurisdictions in which we do business, changes in the amount of revenue or earnings in the countries with varying statutory tax rates, or by changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities.

In addition, we are subject to audits and examinations of previously filed income tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), and other domestic and foreign tax authorities. We regularly assess the potential impact of such examinations to determine the adequacy of our provision for income taxes and have reserved for potential adjustments that we expect may result from the current examinations. We believe such estimates to be reasonable; however, there is no assurance that the final determination of any examination will not have an adverse effect on our operating results and financial position.

 

Item 1B.Unresolved Staff Comments

We are subject to U.S. and other anti-corruption laws, trade controls, economic sanctions, and similar laws and regulations. Our failure to comply with these laws and regulations could subject us to civil, criminal and administrative penalties and harm our reputation.

Doing business on a worldwide basis requires us to comply with the laws and regulations of the U.S. government and various foreign jurisdictions. These laws and regulations place restrictions on our operations, trade practices, partners and investments. In particular, our operations are subject to U.S. and foreign anti-corruption and trade control laws and regulations, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and United Kingdom Bribery Act (the “Bribery Act”), export controls and economic sanctions programs, including those administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”), and the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). As a result of doing business in foreign countries and with foreign customers, we are exposed to a heightened risk of violating anti-corruption and trade control laws and sanctions regulations.

As part of our business, we may deal with state-owned business enterprises, the employees of which are considered foreign officials for purposes of the FCPA’s prohibition on providing anything of value to foreign officials for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business or securing any improper business advantage. In addition, the provisions of the Bribery Act  extend beyond bribery of foreign public officials and also apply to transactions with individuals that a government does not employ. Some of the international locations in which we operate lack a developed legal system and have higher than normal levels of corruption. Our continued expansion outside the U.S., including in developing countries, and our development of new partnerships and joint venture relationships worldwide, could increase the risk of FCPA, OFAC or Bribery Act violations in the future.

As an exporter, we must comply with various laws and regulations relating to the export of products and technology from the U.S. and other countries having jurisdiction over our operations. In the U.S., these laws include the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) administered by the DDTC, the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) administered by the BIS, and trade sanctions against embargoed countries and destinations administered by OFAC. The EAR governs products, parts, technology and software which present military or weapons proliferation concerns, so-called “dual use” items, and ITAR governs military items listed on the United States Munitions List. Prior to shipping certain items, we must obtain an export license or verify that license exemptions are available. Any failures to comply with these laws and regulations could result in fines, adverse publicity and restrictions on our ability to export our products, and repeat failures could carry more significant penalties. 

Violations of anti-corruption and trade control laws and sanctions regulations are punishable by civil penalties, including fines, denial of export privileges, injunctions, asset seizures, debarment from government contracts and revocations or restrictions of licenses, as well as criminal fines and imprisonment. We have established policies and procedures designed to assist our compliance with applicable U.S. and international anti-corruption and trade control laws and regulations, including the FCPA, the Bribery Act and trade controls and sanctions programs administered by OFAC, the DDTC and BIS, and have trained our employees to comply with these laws and regulations. However, there can be no assurance that all of our employees, consultants, agents or other associated persons will not take actions in violation of our policies and these laws and regulations, and that our policies and procedures will effectively prevent us from violating these regulations in every transaction in which we may engage or provide a defense to any alleged violation. In particular, we may be held liable for the actions that our joint venture partners take inside or outside of the United States, even though our partners may not be subject to these laws. Such a violation, even if our policies prohibit it, could have an adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, various state and municipal governments, universities and other investors maintain prohibitions or restrictions on investments in companies that do business with sanctioned countries, persons and entities, which could adversely affect our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations.

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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

 

Item 2.Properties

Item 2. Properties

We occupy an 80,000 square foot headquarters, and research and development and manufacturing facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina, which we lease pursuant to a lease agreement with Lex Rock Hill, LP. After its initial term ending August 31, 2021, the lease provides us with the option to renew the lease for two additional five-year terms as well as the right to cause Lex Rock Hill, LP, subject to certain terms and conditions, to expand the leased premises during the term of the lease, in which case the term of the lease would be extended. The lease is a triple net lease and provides for the payment of base rent of approximately $0.7 million annually from 20122014 through

2020, includingwith a  rent escalation in 2016 and $0.8 million inthrough 2021. Under the terms of the lease, we are obligated to pay all taxes, insurance, utilities and other operating costs with respect to the leased premises. ThePursuant to the terms of the lease, also grants us the right to purchase the leased premises and undeveloped land surrounding the leased premises on terms and conditions described more particularly in the lease. Wewe exercised the right to purchase the undeveloped land surrounding the leased premises in March 2011. We purchased this 11-acre parcel contiguous to our Rock Hill facility for future expansion and additional facility capacity to continue to expand in-house manufacturing activities for printers and print materials.

We

In addition, we own 35,000 square feet of office and printed parts service facilities inour Lawrenceburg, Tennessee at which we perform a broad range of printed parts services.

Weproduction facility and lease 30,000 square feet of office and printed parts service facilities in Seattle, Washington, which we utilize in our on-demand custom parts services. We lease approximately 22,000 square feet of office and printed parts service facilities in Pinerolo, Italy, which is used in our on-demand custom parts services and as a sales and service office. We lease an approximately 17,000 square foot office facility in Atlanta, GA, which is used in our on-demand parts services. We lease an 11,000 square foot advanced research and development facility in Valencia, California. We also lease a 13,000 square foot general-purpose facility in Marly, Switzerland at which we blend print materials and composites. We lease a 14,000 square foot facility in Richardson, TX, which is used in our consumer solutions services and software products. We leaseoffice and printed parts service facilities of approximately 21,000 square feet in Le Mans, France, which is used in our on-demand custom parts services and as a sales and service office. We also lease various sales and service offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, China and India as well as various other facilities used in our on-demand custom parts services inthroughout the U.S., Australia and the Netherlands.world. The table below summarizes those facilities greater than 10,000 square feet per location.  

 

Item 3.

Legal Proceedings.

Location

Square Feet

Primary Function

Rock Hill, South Carolina

200,000

Production and warehouse

Wilsonville, Oregon

79,900

Research and development

Andover, Massachusetts

57,600

Production and research and development and sales

Baja, Mexico

49,400

Quickparts services

Tulsa, Oklahoma

44,000

Quickparts services

Sao Paulo, Brazil

37,000

Quickparts services

Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

36,000

Quickparts services

Rock Hill, South Carolina

33,700

Production and warehouse

Riom, France

33,300

Production and research and development and sales

Turin, Italy

32,300

Quickparts services

Seoul, Korea

30,900

Research and development and sales

Barberton, Ohio

30,500

Production and research and development and sales

Seattle, Washington

29,400

Quickparts services

Leuven, Belgium

28,400

Quickparts services

Herndon, Virginia

27,000

Production and research and development and sales

Burbank, California

23,000

Production and research and development and sales

Golden, Colorado

22,400

Production and research and development and sales

High Wycombe, United Kingdom

22,300

Quickparts services

Cary, North Carolina

21,800

Research and development and sales

Le Mans, France

21,200

Quickparts services

Budel, Netherlands

19,900

Quickparts services

Langhorne, Pennsylvania

18,800

Quickparts services

Airport City, Israel

16,600

Production and research and development and sales

Marly, Switzerland

15,300

Production and research and development and sales

Gahanna, Ohio

13,300

Quickparts services

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

12,400

General and corporate

Valencia, California

11,000

Research and development

Atlanta, Georgia

10,900

Quickparts services

In 2008, DSM Desotech Inc. filed a complaint, which it has subsequently amended, in an action titledDSM Desotech Inc. v. 3D Systems Corporation and 3D Systems, Inc.in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Eastern Division) asserting that we engaged in anticompetitive behavior with respect to resins used in certain of our stereolithography machines. The complaint further asserted that we are infringing upon two of DSM Desotech’s patentsItem 3. Legal Proceedings

For information relating to stereolithography machines.

We filed answers to DSM Desotech’s complaint in which, among other things, we denied the material allegations of its complaint. In 2010, the Court issued a decision relatinglegal proceedings, see Note 22 to the construction of the claims of the patents-in-suit following a Markman hearing heldConsolidated Financial Statements contained in 2009. In that decision, the Court generally adopted the claim constructions that we proposed.

Fact discovery, including expert discovery, regarding the claims pending in this case concluded in 2011. We filed motions for summary judgment in December 2011 that seek rulings in our favor on all of DSM Desotech’s claims in the litigation. As of the datePart II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the Court has not yet ruled on those motions.10-K.

We understand that DSM Desotech estimates the damages associated with its claims to be in excess of $40 million. We intend to continue to vigorously contest all the claims asserted by DSM Desotech.

We have been pursuing patent infringement litigation against EnvisionTEC, Inc. and certain of its related companies since 2005. In this litigation, we asserted that EnvisionTEC infringed our patents covering various three-dimensional solid imaging products and methods for creating physical three-dimensional models of an object and have sought injunctive relief and damages. EnvisionTEC’s Perfactory machine and Vanquish machine (the Vanquish is now marketed as the PerfactoryXede and PerfactoryXtreme) are the two products accused of patent infringement.

In 2008 the Court issued Markman claim constructions that generally adopted the claim constructions we proposed. Following a subsequent jury trial and certain other proceedings, the Court issued a judgment, as amended through 2011, to the effect that EnvisionTEC’s Perfactory and Vanquish machines infringe certain claims of one of our patents and its Vanquish machines infringe certain claims of another of our patents.25


On October 13, 2011, EnvisionTEC’s motion to stay damages discovery was denied by the Court, and damages discovery is underway. We intend to pursue claims for damages against EnvisionTEC.

On October 17, 2011, EnvisionTEC filed a Notice of Appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit seeking judicial review of the Court’s judgment, and we filed a motion to dismiss that appeal on December 12, 2011. As of the date of this Form 10-K, the Court of Appeals has not yet ruled.

In 2010, MSK K.K., a Japanese company, filed a complaint against our Japanese subsidiary in the Tokyo District Court asserting, among other things, various contract claims associated with two laser sintering machines purchased from us in 2007.

The plaintiff is seeking damages in excess of the Japanese Yen equivalent of $2.1 million. Several hearings have been held in the Tokyo District Court with respect to these claims. We are vigorously contesting all of the claims asserted by MSK K.K.

We are also involved in various other legal matters incidental to our business. We believe, after consulting with counsel, that the disposition of these other legal matters will not have a material effect on our consolidated results of operations or consolidated financial position.Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

 

Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

PART II

 

Item 5.Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters, Issuance of Unregistered Securities and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

On May 26, 2011, we transferred the listing of our Common Stock to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the trading symbol “DDD.” Prior to that, our Common Stock was listed on The NASDAQ Global Market (“NASDAQ”) and traded under the symbol “TDSC.” The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the range of high and low prices of our common stock, $0.001 par value, as quoted on The NASDAQ Global Market and the NYSE, with tickers TDSC and DDD, respectively.ticker DDD. In addition, we completed a two-for-onethree-for-two stock split in the form of a 100%50% stock dividend, effective May 18, 2011,February 15, 2013, which is reflected in the prices in the table below.

 

Year

 

Period

  High   Low 

2010

    

First Quarter

  $7.78    $5.25  

Second Quarter

  $8.35    $5.81  

Third Quarter

  $8.18    $5.55  

Fourth Quarter

  $17.15    $7.49  

2011

    

First Quarter

  $26.78    $13.38  

Second Quarter

  $29.35    $17.01  

Third Quarter

  $27.28    $13.67  

Fourth Quarter

  $20.00    $12.78  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year

Period

 

 

High

 

 

Low

2013

First Quarter

 

$

46.53 

 

$

29.16 

 

Second Quarter

 

 

50.22 

 

 

30.75 

 

Third Quarter

 

 

55.69 

 

 

44.87 

 

Fourth Quarter

 

 

92.93 

 

 

49.46 

2014

First Quarter

 

$

96.42 

 

$

56.81 

 

Second Quarter

 

 

59.80 

 

 

44.80 

 

Third Quarter

 

 

63.46 

 

 

46.37 

 

Fourth Quarter

 

 

44.54 

 

 

28.38 

As of February 16, 2012,18, 2015, our outstanding common stock was held by approximately 448879stockholders.tockholders of record. This figure does not reflect the beneficial ownership of shares held in the nominee name.

Dividends

We do not currently pay, and have not paid, any dividends on our common stock, and we currently intend to retain any future earnings for use in our business. Any future determination as to the declaration of dividends on our common stock will be made at the discretion of the Board of Directors and will depend on our earnings, operating and financial condition, capital requirements and other factors deemed relevant by the Board of Directors, including the applicable requirements of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which provides that dividends are payable only out of surplus or current net profits.

Thepayment of dividends on our common stock may be restricted by the provisions of credit agreements or other financing documents that we may enter into or the terms of securities that we may issue from time to time.  Currently, no such agreements or documents limit our declaration of dividends or payments of dividends.dividends, other than our $150 million five-year revolving, unsecured credit facility with PNC, which limits the amount of cash dividends that we may pay in any one fiscal year to $30.0 million.

Issuance of Unregistered Securities and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

As discussed above, during

On February 18, 2014, as part of the fourth quarterconsideration for the acquisition of 2011,the business and assets of Digital PlaySpace, Inc., we issued $1520.03 million aggregate principal amountunregistered shares of 5.50% Senior Convertible Notes due 20163D Systems Corporation common stock to Digital Playspace, Inc., which represented to us that it was an “Accredited Investor” as defined in a transaction exempt from registration underRegulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The notes were offered and sold only to persons who are both institutional accredited investors (within the meaning of Rule 501 of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and qualified institutional buyers (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act)amended, in reliance on athe private placement exemption from registration underoffering exemptions contained in Section 4(2) of the Securities Act.Act of 1933, as amended, and on Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was approximately $4.0 million, of which approximately $2.0 million was paid in cash and $2.0 million was paid in unregistered shares of the Company’s common stock.

On April 2, 2014, as part of the consideration for the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Medical Modeling Inc., we issued 0.3 million unregistered shares of 3D Systems Corporation common stock to the sellers of Medical Modeling Inc., each of whom represented to us that he was an “Accredited Investor” as defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in reliance on the private offering exemptions contained in Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and on Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was approximately $69.0 million, of which approximately $51.5 million was paid in cash and $17.5 million was paid in unregistered shares of the Company’s common stock.

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On August 6, 2014, as part of the consideration for the acquisition of certain assets of Bordner and Associates, Inc. d/b/a Laser Reproductions,  we issued 0.09 million unregistered shares of 3D Systems Corporation common stock to Bordner and Associates, Inc., which represented to us that it was an “Accredited Investor” as defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in reliance on the private offering exemptions contained in Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and on Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was approximately $17.5 million, of which approximately $13.1 million was paid in cash and $4.4 million was paid in unregistered shares of the Company’s common stock.

We did not repurchase any of our equity securities during the fourth quarter of 2011,year ended 2014, except for unvested restricted stock awards repurchased pursuant to our 2004 Incentive Stock Plan. See Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

For information regarding the securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans, see “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters – Equity Compensation Plans” under Item 12. Also see Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Stock Performance Graph

The graph below shows, for the five years ended December 31, 2011,2014, the cumulative total return on an investment of $100 assumed to have been made on December 31, 20062009 in our common stock. For purposes of the graph, cumulative total return assumes the reinvestment of all dividends. The graph compares such return with those of comparable investments assumed to have been made on the same date in (a) the NYSE Composite Index,  (b) the NASDAQ Composite — Total ReturnsS&P 500 Information Technology Index, and (c) the S&P 500 Information TechnologyMid-Cap 400 Index, which are published market indices with which we are sometimes compared.

Although total return for the assumed investment assumes the reinvestment of all dividends on December 31 of the year in which such dividends were paid, we paid no cash dividends on our common stock during the periods presented.

Our common stock is listed on the NYSE (trading symbol: DDD). In May 2011 we transferred the listing of our Common Stock from the NASDAQ where we traded under the symbol “TDSC” to the NYSE under the trading symbol “DDD.” Consequently, we have added the NYSE Composite Index to the performance graph below.

COMPARISON OF 5-YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*

Assumes Initial Investment of $100

December 2011

 

*  $100 invested on 12/31/09 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends. Fiscal year ending December 31.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12/09

12/10

12/11

12/12

12/13

12/14

3D Systems Corporation

 

$          100

$          279

$          255

$          944

$       2,465

$          872

NYSE Composite Index

 

100 
114 
110 
128 
161 
172 

S&P 500 Information Technology Index

 

100 
110 
113 
130 
166 
200 

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*

S&P 500 Mid-Cap 400 Index

$

100 invested on 12/31/06 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends. Fiscal year ending December 31.
127 
124 
147 
196 
215 

 

   12/06  12/07  12/08  12/09  12/10  12/11 

3D Systems Corporation

 $100.00   $96.75   $49.75   $70.81   $197.32   $180.41  

NYSE Composite Index

  100.00    120.20    71.61    96.97    121.78    129.42  

NASDAQ Composite — Total Returns Index

  100.00    110.65    66.42    96.54    114.07    113.17  

S&P 500 Information Technology Index

  100.00    116.30    66.12    106.95    112.04    114.74  

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

Item 6.Selected Financial Data

The selected consolidated financial data set forth below for the five years ended December 31, 2011 has2014 have been derived from our historical Consolidated Financial Statements. You should read this information together with Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, the notes to the selected consolidated financial data and our Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto for December 31, 20112014 and prior years included in this Form 10-K.

 

   Year ended December 31, 
   2011   2010   2009   2008  2007 
   (in thousands, except per share amounts) 

Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) Data:

         

Consolidated Revenue:

         

Printers and other products

  $66,665    $54,686    $30,501    $41,323   $58,178  

Materials

   70,641     58,431     50,297     62,290    61,969  

Services

   93,117     46,751     32,037     35,327    36,369  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

   230,423     159,868     112,835     138,940    156,516  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Gross profit(1)

   109,028     73,976     49,730     55,568    63,412  

Income (loss) from operations(1)

   34,902     20,920     3,073     (5,490  (5,117

Net income (loss)(2)(3)

   35,420     19,566     1,139     (6,154  (6,740

Net income (loss) available to common stockholders

   35,420     19,566     1,066     (6,154  (6,740

Net income (loss) available to common stockholders per share:

         

Basic

  $0.71    $0.43    $0.03    $(0.14 $(0.17

Diluted

  $0.70    $0.42    $0.03    $(0.14 $(0.17

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

         

Working capital

  $202,357    $42,475    $36,718    $35,279   $40,906  

Total assets

   462,974     208,800     150,403     153,002    167,385  

Current portion of long-term debt and capitalized lease obligations

   163     224     213     3,280    3,506  

Long-term debt and capitalized lease obligations, less current portion

   7,609     8,055     8,254     8,467    8,663  

Total stockholders’ equity

   254,788     133,119     104,697     102,234    104,769  

Other Data:

         

Depreciation and amortization

  $11,502    $7,520    $5,886    $6,676   $6,970  

Interest expense

   2,090     587     618     918    1,830  

Capital expenditures(4)

   2,870     1,283     974     5,811    946  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year ended December 31,

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

 

2011

 

2010

Consolidated Statement of Operations and Other Comprehensive Income Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidated Revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Products

 

$

283,339 

 

 

$

227,627 

 

 

$

126,798 

 

 

$

66,665 

 

 

$

54,686 

Materials

 

 

158,859 

 

 

 

128,405 

 

 

 

103,182 

 

 

 

70,641 

 

 

 

58,431 

Services

 

 

211,454 

 

 

 

157,368 

 

 

 

123,653 

 

 

 

93,117 

 

 

 

46,751 

Total

 

 

653,652 

 

 

 

513,400 

 

 

 

353,633 

 

 

 

230,423 

 

 

 

159,868 

Gross Profit 

 

 

317,434 

 

 

 

267,594 

 

 

 

181,196 

 

 

 

109,028 

 

 

 

73,976 

Income from operations

 

 

26,315 

 

 

 

80,861 

 

 

 

60,571 

 

 

 

34,902 

 

 

 

20,920 

Net income (a)

 

 

11,946 

 

 

 

44,119 

 

 

 

38,941 

 

 

 

35,420 

 

 

 

19,566 

Net income available to common stockholders

 

 

11,637 

 

 

 

44,107 

 

 

 

38,941 

 

 

 

35,420 

 

 

 

19,566 

Net income available to common stockholders per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted

 

$

0.11 

 

 

$

0.45 

 

 

$

0.48 

 

 

$

0.47 

 

 

$

0.28 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working capital

 

$

432,199 

 

 

$

416,399 

 

 

$

212,285 

 

 

$

202,357 

 

 

$

42,475 

Total assets

 

 

1,525,970 

 

 

 

1,097,856 

 

 

 

677,442 

 

 

 

462,974 

 

 

 

208,800 

Current portion of debt and capitalized lease obligations

 

 

684 

 

 

 

187 

 

 

 

174 

 

 

 

163 

 

 

 

224 

Long term debt and capitalized lease obligations, less current portion

 

 

8,905 

 

 

 

18,693 

 

 

 

87,974 

 

 

 

138,716 

 

 

 

8,055 

Total stockholders' equity

 

 

1,294,125 

 

 

 

933,792 

 

 

 

480,333 

 

 

 

254,788 

 

 

 

133,119 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

$

55,188 

 

 

$

30,444 

 

 

$

21,229 

 

 

$

11,093 

 

 

$

7,520 

Interest expense

 

 

1,227 

 

 

 

3,425 

 

 

 

12,468 

 

 

 

2,090 

 

 

 

587 

Capital expenditures (b)

 

 

22,727 

 

 

 

6,972 

 

 

 

3,224 

 

 

 

2,870 

 

 

 

1,283 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)

To conform to 2011, 2010

(a)

In 2014, 2013 and 2009 presentation, foreign exchange gain (loss) was reclassified for 2008 and prior years from product cost of sales to interest and other expenses, net. The amount of foreign exchange gain that was reclassified for each year is as follows: $401 in 2008 and $48 in 2007. This had the effect of decreasing gross profit and increasing the loss from operations in 2008 and 2007 by the respective amounts.

(2)In 2011 and 2010,2012, based upon our recent results of operations and expectation of continued profitability in future years, we concluded that it is more likely than not that a portion of our net U.S. deferred tax assets wouldwill be realized. In accordance with ASC 740, in 2011 and 20102012 we reversed $17,000 and $3,000, respectively, of thereleased valuation allowance applied to suchallowances associated with U.S. deferred tax assets resulting in a non-cash income tax benefitbenefits of $6,221 and $1,162, respectively.$5,372.

(3)

Our net loss for 2008 included a $1,185 tax benefit arising from the settlement of a tax audit for the years 2000 through 2005 with a foreign tax authority. This tax settlement reduced 2008 income tax expense by $1,185 as amounts owing under the settlement were less than amounts previously estimated. The settlement enabled us to recognize foreign tax loss carryforwards, resulting in a $911 increase in our foreign deferred tax asset.

(b)

(4)

Excludes capital lease additions.

 

Item 7.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis should be read together with the selected consolidated financial data and our Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto set forth in this Form 10-K. Certain statements contained in this discussion may constitute forward-lookingforward‑looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in any forward-looking statements, as discussed more fully in this Form 10-K. See “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Cautionary Statements and Risk Factors” in Item 1A.

The forward-looking information set forth in this Form 10-K is provided as of the date of this filing, and, except as required by law, we undertake no duty to update that information.

Overview

We are a leading global provider ofprovide the most advanced and comprehensive 3D content-to-printdigital design and fabrication solutions available today, including 3D printers, print materials and on-demandcloud-sourced custom parts services. We alsoparts. Our powerful ecosystem transforms entire industries by empowering professionals and consumers everywhere to bring their ideas to life using our vast material selection, including plastics, metals, ceramics and edibles.

Our leading personalized medicine capabilities include end-to-end simulation, training and planning, and printing of surgical instruments and devices for personalized surgery and patient specific medical and dental devices. Our democratized 3D digital design, fabrication and inspection products provide creative content development, design productivity toolsseamless interoperability and curationincorporate the latest immersive computing technologies. Our products and services and downloads. Our integrated solutions replace, displace and complementdisrupt traditional methods, deliver improved results and reduce the time and cost of designed new products by printing real parts directly from digital data. These solutions are used to rapidly design, communicate, prototype and produce functional parts, empoweringempower our customers to create with confidence. We derive our consolidated revenue primarily frommanufacture the sale of our printers, the related print materials and services, including revenue from our on demand parts services.future now.

Growth strategy

We are pursuing a growth strategy that focuses on four strategic initiatives:initiatives and near term significant growth opportunities in five key areas:

 

·Manufacturing;

·Metals;

·Medical;

·Materials; and

·Mainstreet.

Build

We anticipate the ongoing transition of 3D printing from the design and prototyping lab to the factory floor, and we plan to continue to invest in advanced manufacturing applications to enhance and accelerate that shift. In 2014, we launched several new industrial 3D printers with increased speeds, print capabilities, and build areas as well as introduced print materials with improved strength, temperature and durability, all geared towards demanding manufacturing and end-use part applications.

We are continuing development of our continuous, high speed fab-grade manufacturing printer platform with a modular, racetrack design and full color, photo-realistic polymer parts capabilities. This breakthrough product is designed for advanced manufacturing from consumer goods to automotive applications. 

In November 2014, we announced our acquisition of Cimatron, a leading CAD/CAM provider, to strengthen our 3D digital design and fabrication portfolio. The acquisition was completed on February 9, 2015. Cimatron adds designed-for-manufacturing CAD/CAM programs, expertise and resellers, which we intend to utilize across our portfolio of solutions and in the path to hybridization of additive and traditional manufacturing. 

During 2014, we also continued to expand our Quickparts service capabilities, expertise and global custom parts services;footprint, adding strategic acquisitions within the United States and Latin America.  

We enhanced our direct metal printing offering this year through internal developments, including the introduction of the ProX 400 direct metals printer, and the acquisition of LayerWise. LayerWise added a second proprietary printing technology and expanded the range of metals materials that we can use to print fully dense, chemically pure metal parts. We view metals as an open ended opportunity with immediate addressable markets within aerospace, automotive and healthcare.

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Accelerate

Healthcare is our fastest growing vertical and in 2014 we made significant investments in personalized medicine. Our acquisitions of Medical Modeling, Simbionix and LayerWise augmented our 3D printer penetration;healthcare portfolio and strengthened our capabilities in 3D printing enabled personalized surgery and patient specific medical and dental devices. These acquisitions expanded our healthcare digital thread from the training room to the operating room. We have appointed one of our senior executives to fully leverage these acquisitions through his expertise and leadership, to create a seamless workflow through the full range of personalized medicine opportunities.

 

Grow healthcare solutions revenue;We believe that continued development in print materials is critical to the continued advancement and penetration of 3D printing. To this end, we made significant advances in materials during 2014, including introducing ten new materials from plastics and flexible materials to high-performance and high temperature advanced materials. Along with new materials, we continue to add and enhance formulations and drive speed improvements, throughput and recyclability. In addition to internal research and development (“R&D”), we also acquired a specialties product line related to our materials business, providing us with vertical integration and a team of chemists and materials scientists to enable further 3D print materials innovation and advancement.

 

BuildWe believe that mainstreaming 3D printing and bringing it to mainstreet are important, both as a current market opportunity and to help drive awareness and longer term adoption of the technology. We have introduced plug and play consumer 3D printers, software, content productscreation tools and services.applications at lower price points with simple to use, intuitive formats along with curated collections of home, fashion, hobby and entertainment items. As part of this initiative, we are also partnering with educational organizations to bring 3D printers and curriculum to K-12 classrooms and labs, as well as libraries and museums. We believe that democratizing access to 3D printers will accelerate adoption and empowers today’s users with tomorrow’s design and manufacturing skills. 

We are working to accomplish our growth initiatives organically and, as opportunities present themselves,arise, through selective acquisitions, including those we have already completed. We expect to be able to support organic growth by leveraging our comprehensive toolkit oftechnology and solutions, in ordercore competencies and experienced management team to sell more products and services toscale our existing customer base.business model. As with any growth strategy, there can be no assurance that we will succeed in accomplishing our strategic initiatives.

Build Global Custom Parts Services.    As a supplement to our 3D print solutions, we believe that growing and expanding our custom parts services, through organic growth and acquisitions, will enable us to impart the latest technology to our customers months or years in advance of their ability to invest in new printers for their own use. We view this as an opportunity to introduce customers to the newest 3D additive production technologies and to build brand experience and customer loyalty with them. We also view it as a significant cross-selling and upselling opportunity from single parts all the way to production printers. In connection with this initiative, we launched our on-demand parts services in October 2009, earned $18.3 million of revenue related to our on-demand parts service in 2010 and built this service to $58.8 million of revenue in 2011.

Accelerate 3D Printer Penetration.    We believe that accelerating 3D printer penetration through channel expansion and new products will provide a growing installed base to enable higher revenue from recurring sales of print materials and services. With this objective in mind, we have developed an extensive portfolio of 3D

printers. We are continuing to expand our reseller channel for our personal and professional 3D printers and to train our resellers to perform installation and service for those printers. We exited 2011 with 167 resellers and $30.1 million of revenue from personal and professional printers, representing 35.9% growth over 2010 and $35.7 million of revenue from production printers, representing 10.1% growth over 2010. We expect additional growth from personal and professional printers as a result of our acquisition of Z Corp in January 2012.

Grow Healthcare Solutions Revenue.    We believe that, by leveraging our rapid manufacturing core competencies in healthcare solutions applications, we can grow revenue within this marketplace. For example, in 2011 healthcare solutions revenue, including sales of printers, print materials and services for hearing aid, dental, medical device and other health-related applications, accounted for 12.1%, or $27.9 million, of total revenue in 2011 and 13.5%, or $21.6 million, of our total revenue in 2010.

Build 3D Consumer Content Products and Services.    We believe that the affordability of our personal printers makes 3D consumer content critical to accelerated adoption. Recognizing the opportunity to deliver 3D content to an expanded audience, we have begun work to identify the tools and services required to deliver 3D content to consumers. We believe that the creation of content products and services could make affordable 3D printers more widely adopted and used by people of all ages and walks of life. We expect to build this capability through a combination of internal developments and acquisitions. Consumer products and services revenue was not material to our 2011 financial results.

We intend to accomplish growth in all areas of our growth strategy organically and, as opportunities present themselves, through selective acquisitions. As with any growth strategy, there can be no assurance that we will succeed in accomplishing our strategic initiatives.

Summary of 20112014 Financial Results

As discussed in greater detail below, revenue for 2011the year ended 2014 increased primarily due tofrom higher sales across all revenue categories.  Our revenue increased by 44.1%27.3% to $230.4$653.7 million in 2011 from $159.92014, compared to  $513.4 million in 2010, after having increased from $112.82013 and $353.6 million in 2009.2012. These results reflected growth in demand for 3D printers increased demandand materials as well as healthcare products and services.

We calculate organic growth by comparing this year’s total revenue for the period, excluding the revenue recognized from all acquired businesses that we have owned for less than twelve months, to last year’s total revenue for the period. Once we have owned a business for one year, the revenue is included in several key industries we serve, increased print materialorganic growth. Organic growth is calculated based on total revenue for the prior year period. In 2014, our organic growth was 7.2% for the fourth quarter and 13.3% for the full year. In 2013, our organic growth was 34.3% for the fourth quarter and 29.4% for the full year.

Healthcare revenue includes sales from a growing installed base,of products, materials, and higher serviceservices for health-related applications, including simulation, training and planning, and printing of surgical instruments and medical and dental devices for personalized medicine. For the fourth quarter of 2014, healthcare revenue from on-demand parts servicesgrew 96.0% and growth from acquisitions.

For 2011, healthcare solutions revenue accounted for $27.9$42.8 million, or 12.1%22.8%, of our total revenue compared to $21.8 million, or 14.1%, in 2013. For the year ended 2014, healthcare revenue grew 80.3% and includedaccounted for $129.3 million, or 19.8%, of our total revenue compared to $71.7 million, or 14.0%, in 2013.   

Consumer revenue includes sales of our Cube® series 3D printers and their related print materials, Sense 3D scanners and other products and services for hearing aid, dental, medical devicerelated to consumer products and other health-related applications,retail channels. For the fourth quarter of 2014, consumer revenue was $15.0 million, or 8.0% of our total revenue, compared to $21.6$8.9 million or 13.5%,5.8% of revenue, in 2010,the fourth quarter of 2013. For the year we announcedended 2014, consumer revenue was $43.8 million, or 6.7% of our growth initiative relatedtotal revenue, compared to healthcare solutions.$34.8 million or 6.8% of revenue, in 2013.

Our gross profit for 2011the year ended 2014 increased by 47.4%18.6%, to $109.0$317.4 million, from $74.0$267.6 million in 2010,2013, after increasing from $49.7$181.2 million in 2009.2012. Our higher gross profit for 2011the year ended 2014 arose primarily due to our higher level of revenue from an increase in sales.increases across products, materials, and services. Our gross profit margin percentage improveddecreased to 47.3%48.6% in 20112014 from 46.3%52.1% in 20102013 and 44.1%51.2% in 2009. Gross profit margin benefited from higher overhead absorption, higher print materials gross profit margin due2012, reflecting current sales mix and timing of sales, manufacturing ramp-up and transitions to a shift in the mix of materials with increased personalnew products and professional print materials revenue and the elimination of costs associated withnew product introduction of our V-Flash® personal printer, partially offset by increased sales of lower margin on-demand custom parts services and higher units of lower priced personal and professional 3D printers that accounted for a higher percentage of total sales.start-up costs. 

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Our total operating expenses for the year ended 2014 increased by $21.155.9%, to $291.1 million,  from $186.7 million in 2011 from 2010,2013,  reflecting higher SG&A expense,a $72.5 million, or 50.6%, increase in selling, general and administrative expenses, primarily due to acquisitionincreased sales and severancemarketing expenses, higher commissionsstaffing due to our expanding portfolio and staffing from our acquisitionsgrowing business and increased legalamortization expense. The increase also reflected a $31.9 million, or 73.4%, increase in research and development expenses associated with ongoing litigationrelated to our portfolio expansion, new products developments, and acquisitions. We expect to continue to manage expenses and drive down our costs where possible without impairing our ability to operate and service our customers.the addition of the engineering team in Wilsonville, Oregon.

For 2011, our

Our operating income improveddecreased by $14.0$54.6 million to $34.9$26.3 million in 2014, compared to operating income of $20.9$80.9 million in 20102013 and $3.1$60.6 million in 2009.2012. This was primarily due to higher revenue and the increase in ourlower gross profit noted above, partially offset bymargin and higher operating expenses including increased acquisitions expenses incurred during the fourth quarteras discussed in the amount of $2.5 million.more detail below.  

Our operatingnet income for 20112014 included $11.0$73.9 million of non-cash expenses, which primarily consisted of depreciation and amortization and stock-based compensation, and non-cash interest expense, compared to $7.9$51.4 million of non-cash expenses in 20102013, which primarily consisted of depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation and stock-based

compensation.a loss on convertible notes. The increase in non-cash expenses is primarily due to increased amortization from acquired intangibles as well asand an increase in stock-based compensation and non-cash interest expense related to our convertible notes issued in November 2011.compensation. 

A number of actions or events occurred in 20112014 that affected our liquidity and our balance sheet including the following:

 

Our unrestricted cash and cash equivalents increased by $141.8 million to $179.1 million at December 31, 2011 from $37.3 million at December 31, 2010. Our cash increase included $62.1 million of net proceeds from a public equity offering carried out in early 2011 and $145.4 million of net proceeds from the issuance of senior convertible notes in November 2011 discussed above. In January 2012, $135.5 million of the net proceeds of the notes was used to complete the acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar. See “Liquidity and Capital Resources” below.

·

Our unrestricted cash and cash equivalents decreased by $21.4 million to $284.9 million at December 31, 2014 from $306.3 million at December 31, 2013.  Our cash included $299.7 million of net proceeds from the issuance of common stock, offset by $345.4 million of cash paid for acquisitions. Cash at December 31, 2013 included $272.1 million of net proceeds from a public equity offering, partially offset by $162.3 million of cash paid for acquisitions. See “Liquidity and Capital Resources” below.  

 

·

During 2011,2014, we used $92.7$345.4 million of cash to acquire twelveten businesses including deferred purchase payments from prior acquisitions, to augment our printers business, on-demand parts servicesQuickparts, healthcare, metal, materials, and consumer solutions initiative.products and services. See “Liquidity and Capital Resources Cash Flow-Cash flow from investing activities. below.

 

·

Our working capital increased by $159.9$15.8 million from $42.5$416.4 million at December 31, 20102013 to $202.4$432.2 million at December 31, 2011, which included the cash for the Z Corp and Vidar acquisition from the senior convertible notes as discussed above.2014. See “Liquidity and Capital ResourcesWorking capital” below.

 

·

Among major components of working capital, accounts receivable, net of allowances, increased by $56.0 million from December 31, 2013 to December 31, 2014, primarily reflecting higher revenue from an increased portion of revenue categories sold on credit terms. Inventory at December 31, 2014, net of reserves, was $30.8 million higher than its December 31, 2013 level, primarily reflecting timing of orders and delivery of finished goods print materials and raw materials, which are ordered in large quantities. Accounts payable increased by $23.5 million primarily reflecting timing of orders and payments to vendors associated with inventory and printer assembly.

Among major components of working capital, accounts receivable, net of allowances, increased by $15.4 million from December 31, 2010 to December 31, 2011 primarily reflecting higher revenue and increased revenue from all revenue categories sold on credit terms. Inventory at December 31, 2011 was $1.5 million higher than its December 31, 2010 level, primarily reflecting timing of orders and delivery of finished goods print materials and raw materials, which are ordered in large quantities. Accounts payable decreased $0.6 million primarily reflecting timing of orders and payments to vendors associated with inventory and printer assembly.

Results of Operations for 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012

Table 1 below sets forth revenue and percentage of revenue by class of product and service.

Table 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2011 2010 2009 
(dollars in thousands)    

Printers and other products

  $66,665     28.9 $54,686     34.2 $30,501     27.0

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Products

 

$

283,339 

 

43.3 

%

 

$

227,627 

 

44.3 

%

 

$

126,798 

 

35.8 

%

Materials

   70,641     30.7    58,431     36.6    50,297     44.6  

 

 

158,859 

 

24.3 

 

 

 

128,405 

 

25.0 

 

 

 

103,182 

 

29.2 

 

Services

   93,117     40.4    46,751     29.2    32,037     28.4  

 

 

211,454 

 

32.4 

 

 

 

157,368 

 

30.7 

 

 

 

123,653 

 

35.0 

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

Totals

  $230,423     100.0 $159,868     100.0 $112,835     100.0

 

$

653,652 

 

100.0 

%

 

$

513,400 

 

100.0 

%

 

$

353,633 

 

100.0 

%

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

Consolidated revenue

Consolidated

On a consolidated basis, revenue for the year ended 2014 increased in 2011 due primarilyby $140.3 million, or 27.3%, compared to 2013, led by increased sales of printproducts and aided by increased sales of materials and on-demand custom parts service revenue from acquired and organic growth coupled with a 242% increaseservices as discussed in printer unit sales over 2010. Revenue increased in 2010 due to increased volume across all sales categories primarily from increased demand from printers and on-demand custom parts services. These changes are explained in greatermore detail in theRevenue by class of product and service andRevenue by geographic regionsections below.

Due to the relatively high list price of certain production and professional printers, our customers’ purchasing decisions may have long lead times; combined with the overall low unit volume of production printers sales in any particular period, the acceleration or delay of orders and shipments of a small number of printers from one

period to another can significantly affect revenue reported for our production printers for the period involved. Revenue reported for printer sales in any particular period is also affected by revenue recognition rules prescribed by generally accepted accounting principles.

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At December 31, 20112014 our backlog was approximately $8.3$46.5 million, compared to $7.6$28.6 million at December 31, 20102013 and $1.4$11.4 million at December 31, 2009. Due to2012. Production and delivery of our printers is generally not characterized by long lead times, backlog is more dependent on timing of customercustomers’ requested deliveries, the backlog at December 31, 2011 includes orders for production printers that amount to $1.0 million and three print materials orders that amount to $1.2 million. The December 2010 backlog included two large print materials orders placed at the end of 2010 for delivery in 2011 that amounted to $0.8 million. Additionally, on-demand partsdelivery. In addition, Quickparts services lead time and backlog depends on whether on-demand parts orders are for rapid prototyping or longer-range production runs. The December 31, 2014 backlog included a portion from each of our revenue categories, including $16.1 million of printer sales driven by demand for our design and manufacturing printers. The December 31, 2013 backlog included a portion from each of our revenue categories, but primarily consisted of $17.2 million of printer sales driven by demand for advanced manufacturing. The December 31, 2012 backlog included a portion from each of our revenue categories, including printer sales of $3.2 million. The backlog at December 31, 20112014 includes $4.8$13.4 million of on-demand partsQuickparts orders, compared to $1.9$8.4 million at December 31, 2010.2013 and $5.9 million at December 31, 2012.  

Revenue by class of product and service

2011

2014 compared to 20102013

Sales volumes of new products and services increased by $19.2 million in 2011, while the volume of core products and services sold increased by $49.4 million compared to 2010.

Table 2 sets forth the change in revenue by class of product and service for 20112014 compared to 2010.

Table 22013.

 

(dollars in thousands)  Printers and  Other
Products
  Materials  Services  Totals 

2010 Revenue

    $54,686      34.2 $58,431     36.6 $46,751     29.2 $159,868    100
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Change in revenue:

           

Volume:

           

Core products and services

   689    1.3    5,771     9.9    43,052     92.1    49,512    31.0  

New products and services

   13,660    25.0    3,708     6.3    1,856     4.0    19,224    12.0  

Price/Mix

   (3,504  (6.4  724     1.2             (2,780  (1.7

Foreign currency translation

   1,134    2.1    2,007     3.4    1,458     3.1    4,599    3.0  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net change

   11,979    21.9    12,210     20.9    46,366     99.2    70,555    44.1  
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

2011 Revenue

  $66,665    28.9 $70,641     30.7 $93,117     40.4 $230,423    100
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

Table 2 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Products

 

Materials

 

Services

 

Total

2013 Revenue

 

$

227,627 

 

44.3 

%

 

$

128,405 

 

25.0 

%

 

$

157,368 

 

30.7 

%

 

$

513,400 

 

100.0 

%

Change in revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Core

 

 

39,053 

 

17.2 

 

 

 

24,778 

 

19.3 

 

 

 

40,726 

 

25.9 

 

 

 

104,557 

 

20.4 

 

New

 

 

18,588 

 

8.2 

 

 

 

8,053 

 

6.3 

 

 

 

13,474 

 

8.6 

 

 

 

40,115 

 

7.8 

 

Price/Mix

 

 

(494)

 

(0.2)

 

 

 

(1,836)

 

(1.4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2,330)

 

(0.5)

 

Foreign currency translation

 

 

(1,435)

 

(0.6)

 

 

 

(541)

 

(0.4)

 

 

 

(114)

 

(0.1)

 

 

 

(2,090)

 

(0.4)

 

Net change

 

 

55,712 

 

24.6 

 

 

 

30,454 

 

23.8 

 

 

 

54,086 

 

34.4 

 

 

 

140,252 

 

27.3 

 

2014 Revenue

 

$

283,339 

 

43.3 

%

 

$

158,859 

 

24.3 

%

 

$

211,454 

 

32.4 

%

 

$

653,652 

 

100.0 

%

We earn revenuerevenues from the salessale of printers and other products, print materials and services. On a consolidated basis, revenue for 2011 increased by 44.1% to $230.4 million from $159.9 million for 2010 as a result of higher units volume of lower priced personal, professional and production printers and other products and increased demand for materials sales and on-demand parts services.

The $55.7 million increase in revenue from products compared to 2013 is driven by increased demand for design and manufacturing printers and other products for 2011 comparedadded healthcare products. Certain resellers may purchase stock inventory in the ordinary course of business. For the years ended 2014 and 2013, we estimate that revenue related to 2010 was primarily the result of higher sales of personal and professional printers.

Production printers, made up $35.7 million, or 54.3%,reseller inventory amounted to approximately 2% of total revenue, which was impacted by timing of sales, expansion of our reseller channel and the recent shift from a partially direct sales model to the reseller channel selling a majority of our products, which expanded the volume of transactions through the channel.

In addition to printers, the products category includes software products, perceptual and haptic devices, Vidar digitizers and Simbionix simulators. Software revenue for 2011, comparedcontributed $20.1 million and $20.6 million of products revenue in 2014 and 2013, respectively. 

Due to $32.4the relatively high price of certain professional printers and a corresponding lengthy selling cycle and relatively low unit volume of the higher priced professional printer sales in any particular period, a shift in the timing and concentration of orders and shipments from one period to another can affect reported revenue in any given period. Revenue reported in any particular period is also affected by timing of revenue recognition under rules prescribed by generally accepted accounting principles.

The $30.5 million or 59%, in 2010. This represented a 10% increase in production printer revenue over 2010.

Personal and professional printers, made up $30.1 million, or 45.7%, increasing from $22.3 million, or 41%, in 2010. This represented a 35% increase in personal and professional printers over 2010.

Revenue from print materials was aided by the improvement in production printer sales which are typically accompanied by significant initial materials purchases to charge up newof 3D printers and commence production, by the continued expansionincreased utilization of printers installed over the past periods and by increased materials sales from the acquisition of the RenShape® print materials. We acquired the RenShape® materials division from Huntsman in November 2011. See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

periods.  Sales of integrated materials increased 28.5% and represented 52%73.3% of total print materials revenue in 2011,for the year ended 2014, compared to 34% in 2010. Excluding the acquired Renshape® print materials revenue, integrated materials were 53% of total print materials revenue.70.6% for 2013.  

The $54.1 million increase in servicesservice revenue primarily reflects revenue from on-demand parts services, which was introduced in the fourth quarteraddition of 2009, partially offset by a decrease in sales of printer upgrades.Medical Modeling and Simbionix, coupled with growing Quickparts, consumer and software services.  Service revenue from on-demand custom parts was $58.8Quickparts increased 21.1% to $122.4 million, or 63.1%,57.9% of total service revenue, for 20112014, compared to $18.3.million, or 39.2%, of 2010 service revenue. Of the $58.8 million of on-demand parts services revenue, $32.1 million was from businesses acquired in 2011. For the fourth quarter of 2011, revenue from on-demand parts services was $18.7$101.1 million, or 26.7%64.2%, of total fourth quarterservice revenue in the 2013 period. Software services contributed $15.2 million of revenue in 2014 compared to $6.8$8.2 million or 13.3%, of total 2010 fourth quarter revenue.in 2013.

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In addition to changes in sales volumes, including the impact of revenue from acquisitions, there are two other primary drivers of changes in revenue from one period to another: the combined effect of changes in product mix and average selling prices, sometimes referred to as price and mix effects, and the impact of fluctuations in foreign currencies.

As used in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis, the price and mix effects relate to changes in revenue that are not able to be specifically related to changes in unit volume. Among these changes are changes in the product mix of our materials and our printers as the trend toward smaller, lower-priced printers has continued and the influence of new printers and materials on our operating results has grown.

2010

2013 compared to 20092012

Sales volumes of new products and services increased by $20.2 million in 2010, while the volume of core products and services sold increased by $30.8 million compared to 2009.

Table 3 sets forth the change in revenue by class of product and service for 20102013 compared to 2009.

Table 32012.

 

(dollars in thousands)  Printers and
Other Products
  Materials  Services  Totals 

2009 Revenue

  $30,501    27.0 $50,297    44.6 $32,037    28.4 $112,835    100
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Change in revenue:

         

Volume:

         

Core products and services

   6,192    20.3    10,890    21.7    13,749    42.9    30,831    27.3  

New products and services

   19,926    65.3    (1,476  (2.9  1,790    5.6    20,240    17.9  

Price/Mix

   (680  (2.2  (495  (1.0          (1,175  (1.0

Foreign currency translation

   (1,253  (4.1  (785  (1.6  (825  (2.6  (2,863  (2.5
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net change

   24,185    79.3    8,134    16.2    14,714    45.9    47,033    41.7  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

2010 Revenue

  $54,686    34.2 $58,431    36.6 $46,751    29.2 $159,868    100
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

As set forth in Table 1 and Table 3:3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Products

 

Materials

 

Services

 

Total

2012 Revenue

 

$

126,798 

 

35.8 

%

 

$

103,182 

 

29.2 

%

 

$

123,653 

 

35.0 

%

 

$

353,633 

 

100.0 

%

Change in revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Core

 

 

409,370 

 

322.9 

 

 

 

38,839 

 

37.6 

 

 

 

27,976 

 

22.6 

 

 

 

476,185 

 

134.7 

 

New 

 

 

89,574 

 

70.6 

 

 

 

4,546 

 

4.4 

 

 

 

5,430 

 

4.4 

 

 

 

99,550 

 

28.2 

 

Price/Mix

 

 

(397,719)

 

(313.7)

 

 

 

(16,793)

 

(16.3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(414,512)

 

(117.2)

 

Foreign currency translation

 

 

(396)

 

(0.3)

 

 

 

(1,369)

 

(1.3)

 

 

 

309 

 

0.2 

 

 

 

(1,456)

 

(0.5)

 

Net change

 

 

100,829 

 

79.5 

 

 

 

25,223 

 

24.4 

 

 

 

33,715 

 

27.2 

 

 

 

159,767 

 

45.2 

 

2013 Revenue

 

$

227,627 

 

44.3 

%

 

$

128,405 

 

25.0 

%

 

$

157,368 

 

30.7 

%

 

$

513,400 

 

100.0 

%

Revenue from printers and other products

On a consolidated basis, revenue for the year ended 2013 increased by $24.2$159.8 million, or 79.3%45.2%, compared to $54.72012, primarily due to increased sales of printers, coupled with acquired software revenue.

The $100.8 million for 2010 from $30.5 million for 2009 and increased to 34.2% of consolidated revenue in 2010 from 27.0% in 2009. The increase in revenue from printers and other products thatcompared to the year ended 2012 is primarily due to increased printer unit sales volume for 2010 compared to 2009 was primarily the result of higher volume with a shift in the mix of printers and other products toward lower priced personalyear ended 2013, driven by increased demand for consumer and professional printers. This

In addition to printers, the products category includes software products, perceptual and haptic devices and Vidar digitizers.  Software products contributed revenue of $20.6 million and $4.6 million in 2013 and 2012, respectively.

The $25.2 million increase was partially offset by a $0.7 million unfavorable effect of price and mix and a negative $1.3 million foreign currency translation impact.

Revenue from materials increased by $8.1 million, or 16.2%, to $58.4 million for 2010 from $50.3 million for 2009. Revenuein revenue from materials was aided by the improvement in production printer sales which are typically accompanied by significant initial materials purchases to charge up newof 3D printers and commence production, and the continued expansionincreased utilization of printers installed over the past periods. MaterialsSales of integrated materials increased 40.2% and represented 70.6% of total materials revenue

volume from our core products increased $10.9 million, partially offset by a $1.5 million decrease in materials from our new products. The combined effect of product mix and average selling prices decreased by $0.5 million. Foreign currency translation had a $0.8 million negative impact on materials revenue.

Revenue from services increased $14.7 million for 2010the year ended 2013, compared to 2009 and increased to 29.2% of consolidated revenue in 2010 from 28.4% in 2009 reflecting the effect of the62.6% for 2012.  

The increase in service revenue primarily reflects revenue from on-demand parts services, partially offset by a decrease in salesQuickparts, coupled with the addition of printer upgrades.software revenue. Service revenue from on-demand partsQuickparts was $101.1 million, or 64.2% of total service revenue, for the year ended 2013, compared to $79.2 million, or 64.1% of total service revenue for 2012. The addition of software services in 2013 contributed $8.2 million of revenue for the year. For the fourth quarter of 2013, revenue from Quickparts was $18.3 million.$28.4 million, compared to $21.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2012. 

Revenue by geographic region

2011

2014 compared to 20102013

All geographic regions experienced higher levels of revenue in 20112014 compared to 2010. This was principally due to continued economic recovery in 2011 and an increase in global R&D spendings, which we believe led to higher levels personal, professional and of production printer sales and print materials sales. Revenue from U.S. operations increased as a percentage of total revenue due to revenue related to increased acquisition activity in the U.S., including the acquisition of Quickparts. The continued volatility in foreign currencies led to increased positive impact of foreign currency translation for the European region, while a strengthening Japanese Yen resulted in a favorable foreign currency translation for the Asia-Pacific region.

2013.  Table 4 sets forth the change in revenue by geographic area for 20112014 compared to 2010:2013:

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Table 4

(dollars in thousands)  U.S.  Europe  Asia-Pacific  Total 

2010 Revenue

  $72,452    45.3 $65,539     41.0 $21,877     13.7 $159,868    100
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Change in revenue:

           

Volume:

   49,628    68.5    12,841     19.6    6,267     28.6    68,736    43.0  

Price/Mix

   (4,341  (6.0  1,302     2.0    259     1.2    (2,780  (1.7

Foreign currency translation

           3,642     5.6    957     4.4    4,599    2.8  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net change

   45,287    62.5    17,785     27.1    7,483     34.2    70,555    44.1  
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

2011 Revenue

  $117,739    51.1 $83,324     36.2 $29,360     12.7 $230,423    100
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

As shown in Table 4:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Americas

 

EMEA

 

Asia Pacific

 

Total

2013 Revenue

 

$

284,752 

 

55.4 

%

 

$

133,781 

 

26.1 

%

 

$

94,867 

 

18.5 

%

 

$

513,400 

 

100.0 

%

Change in revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume

 

 

51,791 

 

18.2 

 

 

 

57,067 

 

42.7 

 

 

 

35,814 

 

37.8 

 

 

 

144,672 

 

28.2 

 

Price/Mix

 

 

(2,534)

 

(0.9)

 

 

 

3,517 

 

2.6 

 

 

 

(3,313)

 

(3.5)

 

 

 

(2,330)

 

(0.5)

 

Foreign currency translation

 

 

(84)

 

0.0 

 

 

 

1,722 

 

1.3 

 

 

 

(3,728)

 

(3.9)

 

 

 

(2,090)

 

(0.4)

 

Net change

 

 

49,173 

 

17.3 

 

 

 

62,306 

 

46.6 

 

 

 

28,773 

 

30.4 

 

 

 

140,252 

 

27.3 

 

2014 Revenue

 

$

333,925 

 

51.1 

%

 

$

196,087 

 

30.0 

%

 

$

123,640 

 

18.9 

%

 

$

653,652 

 

100.0 

%

Revenue from U.S. operations in the Americas for the year ended 2014 increased by $45.2$49.1 million, or 62.5%17.3%, in 2011 to $117.7$333.9 million from $72.5$284.8 million in 2010.2013. This increase was due primarily to higher volume, coupled withpartially offset by the unfavorable combined effect of price and mix.

 

Revenue from non-U.S. operations outside the Americas for the year ended 2014 increased by $25.3$91.1 million, or 28.9%39.8%, to $112.7$319.7 million from $228.6 million in 2011 from $87.4 million in 20102013 and comprised 48.9% of consolidated revenue in 20112014 compared to 54.7%44.5% in 2010.2013. The increase in non-U.S. revenue from operations outside the U.S., excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, was 23.5%41.5% for the year ended 2014 compared to 46.4% in 2011.2013.  

 

Revenue from EuropeanEMEA operations increased by $17.8$62.3 million, or 27.2%46.6%, to $83.3$196.1 million in 20112014 from $65.5$133.8 million in 2010.2013. This increase was due primarily to a $12.8 million increase inhigher volume a $3.6 million favorable effect of foreign currency translation and a $1.3 million combined favorable impact of price and mix.

Revenue from Asia-Pacific operations increased by $7.5 million, or 34.2%, to $29.4 million in 2011 from $21.9 million in 2010. This increase was caused primarily by a $6.2 million increase in volume, a $1.0 million favorable foreign currency translation and $0.3 million favorable combined effect of price and mix.

mix and favorable impact of foreign currency translation.

2010Revenue from Asia Pacific operations increased by $28.7 million, or 30.4%, to $123.6 million in 2014 from $94.9 million in 2013. This increase was due primarily to higher volume, partially offset by the unfavorable combined effect of price and mix and the unfavorable impact of foreign currency translation.

2013 compared to 20092012

Each

All geographic regionregions experienced higher levels of revenue in 20102013 compared to 2009. This was principally caused by continued economic recovery in 2010, which we believe led to higher levels of production printer sales. The continued volatility in foreign currencies led to increased negative impact of foreign currency translation for the European region, while a strengthening Japanese Yen resulted in favorable foreign currency translation for the Asia-Pacific region.2012.  

Table 5 sets forth the change in revenue by geographic area for 20102013 compared to 2009.

Table 52012.

 

(dollars in thousands)  U.S.  Europe  Asia-Pacific  Total 

2009 Revenue

  $48,917     43.4 $48,740    43.2 $15,178     13.4 $112,835    100
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Change in revenue:

           

Volume:

   23,006     47.0    22,020    45.2    6,045     39.8    51,071    45.2  

Price/Mix

   529     1.1    (1,759  (3.6  55     0.4    (1,175  (1.0

Foreign currency translation

            (3,462  (7.1  599     3.9    (2,863  (2.5
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net change

   23,535     48.1    16,799    34.5    6,699     44.1    47,033    41.7  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

  

2010 Revenue

  $72,452     45.3 $65,539    41.0 $21,877     13.7 $159,868    100
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

  

Table 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Americas

 

EMEA

 

Asia Pacific

 

Total

2012 Revenue

 

$

196,414 

 

55.5 

%

 

$

100,687 

 

28.5 

%

 

$

56,532 

 

16.0 

%

 

$

353,633 

 

100.0 

%

Change in revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume

 

 

183,799 

 

93.6 

 

 

 

212,287 

 

210.8 

 

 

 

179,649 

 

317.8 

 

 

 

575,735 

 

162.8 

 

Price/Mix

 

 

(95,461)

 

(48.6)

 

 

 

(182,048)

 

(180.8)

 

 

 

(137,003)

 

(242.3)

 

 

 

(414,512)

 

(117.2)

 

Foreign currency translation

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,855 

 

2.8 

 

 

 

(4,311)

 

(7.6)

 

 

 

(1,456)

 

(0.4)

 

Net change

 

 

88,338 

 

45.0 

 

 

 

33,094 

 

32.8 

 

 

 

38,335 

 

67.9 

 

 

 

159,767 

 

45.2 

 

2013 Revenue

 

$

284,752 

 

55.4 

%

 

$

133,781 

 

26.1 

%

 

$

94,867 

 

18.5 

%

 

$

513,400 

 

100.0 

%

As shown in Table 5:

 

Revenue from U.S. operations in the Americas for the year ended 2013 increased by $23.5$88.4 million, or 48.1% in 201045.0%, to $72.5$284.8 million from $48.9$196.4 million in 2009.2012. This increase was due primarily to higher volume, coupled withpartially offset by the favorableunfavorable combined effect of price and mix.

 

Revenue from non-U.S.operations outside the U.S for the year ended 2013 increased by $23.5$71.4 million, or 36.8%45.4%, to $87.4$228.6 million from $157.2 million in 2010 from $63.9 million in 20092012 and comprised 54.7%44.5% of consolidated revenue in 20102013 compared to 56.6%44.5% in 2009.2012. The increase in non-U.S. revenue from operations outside the U.S., excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, was 41.2%46.4% for the year ended 2013 compared to 45.0% in 2010, primarily due to an increase in volume of $28.1 million combined with an unfavorable combined effect of price and mix of $1.7 million and unfavorable foreign currency impact of $2.9 million.2012. 

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Revenue from EuropeanEMEA operations increased by $16.8$33.1 million, or 34.5%32.8%, to $65.5$133.8 million in 20102013 from $48.7$100.7 million in 2009.2012. This increase was due primarily to $22.0 million increase inhigher volume, partially offset by a $3.5 million unfavorable effect of foreign currency translation as the U.S. Dollar weakened against the Euro and British Pound and a $1.8 million unfavorable combined effect of price and mix.

 

Revenue from Asia-PacificAsia Pacific operations increased by $6.7$38.4 million, or 44.1%67.9%, to $21.9$94.9 million in 20102013 from $15.2$56.5 million in 2009.2012. This increase was causeddue primarily to higher volume, partially offset by a $6.0 million increase in volume and a $0.6 million favorablethe unfavorable combined effect of foreign currency translation in the Asia-Pacific region.

price and mix.

Gross profit and gross profit margins

Gross profit margin improved in both 2011 and 2010.

Table 6 sets forth gross profit and gross profit marginmargins for our products and services.

Table 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

  2011 2010 2009 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

(dollars in thousands)  Gross
Profit
   Gross
Profit
Margin
 Gross
Profit
   Gross
Profit
Margin
 Gross
Profit
   Gross
Profit
Margin
 

Printers and other products

  $24,967     37.4 $21,352     39.0 $7,824     25.7

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Gross Profit

 

Gross Profit Margin

 

Gross Profit

 

Gross Profit Margin

 

Gross Profit

 

Gross Profit Margin

Products

 

$

101,681 

 

35.9 

%

 

$

101,838 

 

44.7 

%

 

$

54,276 

 

42.8 

%

Materials

   45,751     64.8    35,724     61.1    29,673     59.0  

 

 

116,526 

 

73.4 

 

 

 

94,581 

 

73.7 

 

 

 

70,418 

 

68.2 

 

Services

   38,310     41.1    16,900     36.1    12,233     38.2  

 

 

99,227 

 

46.9 

 

 

 

71,175 

 

45.2 

 

 

 

56,502 

 

45.7 

 

  

 

    

 

    

 

   

Total

  $109,028     47.3 $73,976     46.3 $49,730     44.1

 

$

317,434 

 

48.6 

%

 

$

267,594 

 

52.1 

%

 

$

181,196 

 

51.2 

%

  

 

    

 

    

 

   

On a consolidated basis, gross profit for 2011the year ended 2014 increased by $35.0$49.8 million, or 47%18.6%, to $109.0$317.4 million compared to $74.0$267.6 million and $49.7$181.2 million for 20102013 and 2009,2012, respectively. Gross profit margin for the year ended 2014 decreased 3.5 percentage points, from 52.1% in 2013 to 48.6% in 2014.The higherlower gross profit margin reflects improved overhead absorption due toa change in revenue mix with a higher sales from all revenue categories, increasedportion of revenue from higherlower margin products, both overall and within categories, as well as availability of new products and new product startup costs.

Products gross profit margin personal and professional materials and continued operational efficiencies. Gross profit marginwas $101.7 million for 2011 increased by 100 basis points from 46.3% in 2010 to 47.3% in 2011. Excluding acquisitions completed in 2011, gross profit margin was 49%the year ended 2014 compared to 46% in 2010 and gross profit margin excluding all acquisitions since 2009 was 52% in 2011 compared to 47% in 2010.

Printers and other products gross profit increased by 16.9% to $25.0$101.8 million in 2011 from $21.4 million in 2010, while2013 and the gross profit margin declineddecreased by 1.68.8 percentage points in 20112014 to 37.4%35.9%. This decrease inDespite the addition of higher margin healthcare products and the contribution of software, gross profit margin resulted from a shift indecreased due to sales mix towards lower gross profit margin personal, professionalcoupled with manufacturing expansion and production printers partially offset by the increased revenue from software which has higher gross profit margins.residual new product start-up costs.

Gross profit for materials improvedincreased by 28.1%23.2% to $45.8$116.5 million within 2014 and the gross profit margin increasing 3.7decreased 0.3 percentage points to 64.8%73.4% from 61.1%73.7% in 2010. This is2013, primarily due to the increase in sales volumemix of materials resulting in improved overhead absorption over higher revenue and a larger percentage of materials sales from higher gross profit margin integrated materials.sold during the year.

Gross profit for services increased by 126.7%39.4% to $38.3$99.2 million compared to $16.9$71.2 million in 2010, with2013,  while the gross profit margin increasing 5.0increased 1.7 percentage points to 41.1%46.9%. The improved gross profit is due to the increased revenue from on-demand parts services. The increase in gross profit margin for services is reflected a 16.8 percentage pointwas primarily due to the addition of higher margin healthcare services and an increase in on-demand parts serviceQuickparts gross profit margin, to 37.9%43.5% for the year ended 2014, compared to 21.1%42.9% in 2010 and a 0.7 percentage point increase of printer services margin to 46.5% in 2011 compared to 45.8% in 2010.2013.

Operating expenses

As shown in Table 7,the table below, total operating expenses increased by $21.1$104.4 million, or 39.7%55.9%, to $74.2$291.1 million for 2011the year ended 2014, after increasing to $53.1$186.7 million for 20102013 from $46.7$120.6 million for 2009, but decreased2012, and increased to 32.1%44.5% of revenue compared to 33.2%36.4% and 41.4%34.1% in 20102013 and 2009,2012, respectively. This increase consists of $17.5$72.5 million of higher selling, general and administrative expenses and $3.6$31.9 million of higher research and development expenses, both of which are discussed below.

During 2012, we expect to incur additional acquisition, restructuring and severance costs in the range of $2.0 million to $2.5 million, primarily during the first quarter, driven by the completion of the Z Corp. and Vider acquisitions and related integrations.

Table 7

 

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2011  2010  2009 
(dollars in thousands)  Amount   %
Revenue
  Amount   %
Revenue
  Amount   %
Revenue
 

SG&A

  $59,795     26.0 $42,331     26.5 $35,528     31.5

R&D

   14,331     6.2    10,725     6.7    11,129     9.9  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $74,126     32.2 $53,056     33.2 $46,657     41.4
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

Selling, general, and administrative costs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Amount

 

% Revenue

 

Amount

 

% Revenue

 

Amount

 

% Revenue

Selling, general and administrative expenses

 

$

215,724 

 

33.0 

%

 

$

143,244 

 

27.9 

%

 

$

97,422 

 

27.5 

%

Research and development expenses

 

 

75,395 

 

11.5 

 

 

 

43,489 

 

8.5 

 

 

 

23,203 

 

6.6 

 

Total operating expenses

 

$

291,119 

 

44.5 

%

 

$

186,733 

 

36.4 

%

 

$

120,625 

 

34.1 

%

2011

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2014 compared to 20102013

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $17.5$72.5 million, or 41.3%50.6%, to $59.8$215.7 million for the year ended 2014, from $143.2 million in 2011 from $42.3 million in 2010. As a percentage of revenue, selling, general and administrative expenses were 26.0% and 26.5% in 2011 and 2010, respectively.

2013. The $17.5$72.5 million increase in selling, general and administrative expenses in 20112014 was primarily due to increased sales and marketing expenses and higher staffing due to our expanding portfolio and included a $6.8 $34.9 million increase in salary, benefits and contract labor costs. The majority of that was related to increased commissions on higher revenues and operating costs, for newly acquired businesses. SG&A expenses were also impacted byan $18.7 million increase in amortization expense, a $1.6$3.7 million increase in bad debt expense, a $1.4$2.5 million increase in litigation costs andconsulting fees, a $0.8$2.1 million increase in marketing costs. In addition, SG&A included $3.7expenses, a $1.5 million of acquisitionincrease in legal expense and severance expenses, primarily from fourth quarter acquisition activity.a $1.2 million increase in occupancy expense.

Depreciation and amortization increased $24.8 million, to $11.1$55.2 million for the year ended 2014, from $30.4 million in 2011 from $7.5 million in 2010.2013. The increasesincrease in depreciation and amortization in 20112014 and 2010 were2013 is primarily due to intangible assets from acquired businesses and additional capital equipment placed in serviceservice.  

Research and intangiblesdevelopment expenses increased by 73.4%, to $75.4 million for the year ended 2014, from acquired businesses.$43.5 million in 2013. The $31.9 million increase in 2014 was primarily driven by a $17.7 million increase in R&D salary and compensation expenses primarily due to talent expansion, a $4.8 million increase in supplies and materials in support of our accelerated new product developments and investments, a $2.2 million increase in outside consulting and outsourcing services and a $1.9 million increase in depreciation and amortization.

2010

2013 compared to 20092012

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $6.8$45.8 million, or 19.1%47.0%, to $42.3$143.2 million for the year ended 2013, from $97.4 million in 2010 from $35.5 million in 2009 after decreasing by $10.4 million in 2009. As a percentage of revenue, selling, general and administrative expenses were 26.5% and 31.5% in 2010 and 2009, respectively.

2012. The $6.8$45.8 million increase in selling, general and administrative expenses in 20102013 was primarily due todriven by support of concentrated new product launches, channel expansion and training and included a $4.7$16.8 million increase in salary, benefits and contract labor costs. The majority of that was related to increased commissions on higher revenues and operating costs, for newly acquired businesses. Additionally, SG&A expenses were impacted by a $2.2$7.9 million increase in litigation costs andamortization expense, a $0.5$5.0 million increase in marketing expense, a $3.4 million increase in occupancy costs, partially offset by a $0.5$2.6 million lower franchise taxincrease in travel expenses, a $1.9 million increase in bad debt expense, due to recognizing franchise tax credits.a $1.2 million increase in operating supplies expense and a $1.0 million increase in consultant fees.

Depreciation and amortization increased $9.2 million, to $7.5$30.4 million for the year ended 2013, from $21.2 million in 2010 from $5.9 million in 2009.2012. The increase in depreciation and amortization in 2010 was2013 and 2012 is primarily due to intangible assets from acquired businesses and additional capital equipment placed in service and intangibles acquired from on-demand parts service acquisitions.service.

Research and development expenses

Research and development expenses increased by 33.6%87.4%, to $14.3$43.5 million for the year ended 2013, from $23.2 million in 2011 from $10.7 million in 2010.2012. The $3.6$20.3 million increase in 20112013 was primarily driven by an $8.1 million increase in supplies and materials in support of our accelerated new product developments and investments, a $7.2 million increase in R&D salary and compensation expenses primarily due to talent expansion and a $2.0 million increase in R&D compensation expenses primarily due to new product development and investment in consumer solutions, a $1.0 million increase in materials and a $0.3 million increase in outside consulting services and contract labor and vendor and outside processing. In 2010, research and development expenses decreased 3.6% to $10.7 million from $11.1 million in 2009. The decrease in 2010 was principally due to a $0.3 million decrease in outside consulting services and a $0.1 million decrease in vendor and outside processing.outsourcing services.

Income from operations

Operating income increased $14.0decreased $54.6 million, to $34.9 in 2011$26.3 million for the year ended 2014, compared to $20.9$80.9 million in 20102013 and $3.1$60.6 million in 2009.2012. The increasedecrease in operating income was primarily due to increased operating expenses that more than offset the increased revenue in all categories, which led to improved overhead absorption, partially offset by increased operating expenses.and gross profit. See “Gross profit and gross profit margins” and “Selling, general and administrative costs” above.

The following table sets forth operating income from operations by geographic area for 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009.

Table 82012.

 

(dollars in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

Income (loss) from operations:

      

United States

  $19,045    $10,946    $(2,635

Germany

   1,509     935     278  

Other Europe

   6,645     1,935     1,279  

Asia-Pacific

   7,152     6,356     3,636  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Subtotal

   34,351     20,172     2,558  

Inter-segment elimination

   551     748     515  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   34,902    $20,920    $3,073  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Table 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Income (loss) from operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

(24,663)

 

$

43,743 

 

$

37,743 

Germany

 

 

2,749 

 

 

302 

 

 

1,305 

Other EMEA

 

 

9,181 

 

 

7,849 

 

 

5,415 

Asia Pacific

 

 

40,131 

 

 

30,499 

 

 

16,528 

Subtotal

 

 

27,398 

 

 

82,393 

 

 

60,991 

Inter-segment elimination

 

 

(1,083)

 

 

(1,532)

 

 

(420)

Total

 

$

26,315 

 

$

80,861 

 

$

60,571 

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With respect to the U.S.,Americas, in 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, the changes in operating income (loss) by geographic area reflected the same factors relating to our consolidated operating income that are discussed above.

As most of our operations outside the U.S. are conducted through sales and marketing subsidiaries, the

The changes in operating income in our operations outside the U.S.Americas in each of 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012 resulted primarily from changes in sales volume, transfer pricing and foreign currency translation.

Interest and other expenses, net

Interest and other expenses,  net,  which consistsconsisted primarily of interest and other expense and foreign exchange gain or loss,  amounted to  $2.5$8.9 million of net expense for 2011. Interestthe year ended 2014, compared to $16.9 million for 2013 and $17.3 million for 2012. For the year ended 2014, interest and other expense, net, amounted toprimarily consisted of $5.7 million of foreign exchange loss, $3.2 million of other expense and $1.2 million for both 2010of interest expense; partially offset by $1.3 million of interest and 2009. other income.

For 2011,the year ended 2013, interest and other expense, net included $2.1$3.4 million of interest expense, $0.4including $2.7 million of other expense and $0.1 million of foreign exchange loss; partially offset by $0.1 million of interest and other income, compared to $0.9 million interest and other expense and $0.3 million foreign exchange loss for 2010. For 2009, interest and other expense, net included $1.1 million of interest and other expense and $0.1 million of foreign exchange loss. The 2011 increase resulted from lower interest income on investments in 2011 and increased interest expense related to the 5.50% senior convertible notes, issued in November 2011 which amounted$14.1 million of other expense, primarily related to $1.3loss on conversion of convertible notes; partially offset by $1.4 million of interest expense for 2011.and other income, including a gain that was deferred in a prior year and recognized upon settlement of a long-term note receivable, and $0.8 million of foreign exchange loss. 

ProvisionsProvision for income taxes

We recorded a $3.0$5.4 million benefitprovision for income taxes for the year ended 2014 and a $19.9 million and $4.3 million provision for income taxes in 2011. We recorded $0.2 million2013 and $0.8 million of provisions for income taxes in 2010 and 2009,2012, respectively. In 2011,2014, this benefitexpense primarily reflects a $6.2$1.7 million benefit due to $17.0 million release of valuation allowances associated with U.S. deferred tax assets, partially offset by $1.6expense and $3.7 million of tax expense in foreign jurisdictions. In 2010,2013, this provisionexpense primarily reflected $1.3reflects an $18.4 million U.S. tax expense and $1.5 million of tax expense in foreign jurisdictions,jurisdictions. In 2012, this expense primarily reflects a $6.2 million expense related to the use of U.S. net operating losses against which the valuation allowance had been released during 2011; $2.8 million of tax expense in foreign jurisdictions; partially offset by a $1.2$5.4 million benefit due to a $3.0 millionthe release of valuation allowances associated with U.S. deferred tax assets.

In 2009 these provisions primarily reflect tax expense associated with income taxes in foreign jurisdictions.

During the second quarter of 2011,2014 and 2013, based upon our recent results of operations and expected profitability in the future, we concluded that it is more likely than not that a portion ofall our U.S. net deferred tax assets will be realized. As a result, in accordance with ASC 740, no valuation allowances have been recorded for 2014 and 2013. During 2012, based upon our results of operations and expected profitability in the future, we concluded that it is more likely than not that the remainder of our current U.S. deferred tax assets would be realized. As a result, in accordance with ASC 740, during 20112012 we reversed $17.0$5.4 million of the valuation allowance appliedrelated to the U.S.$12.4 million of reserves, accruals and tax credits and to $7.6 million of net deferredoperating losses for state income tax assets.purposes. The reversal of the valuation allowance resulted in a non-cash income tax benefit of $6.2$5.4 million, which resulted in a benefit of $0.12$0.10 per share.  During 2010, we reversed $3.0 million of the valuation allowance applied to the U.S. net deferred tax assets. The reversal of the valuation allowance resulted in a non-cash income tax benefit of $1.2 million, which resulted in a benefit of $0.03 per share.

 

In conjunction with our ongoing review of our actual results and anticipated future earnings, we periodically reassess the possibility of releasing more of the valuation allowance currently in place on U.S. deferred tax assets. Based upon this assessment, a further release of the valuation allowance may occur during 2012 or in subsequent years. The required accounting for the release could involve significant tax amounts and would impact earnings in the quarter in which it was deemed appropriate to release the reserve. At December 31, 2011, the U.S. valuation allowance was approximately $8.8 million compared to $34.6 million at December 31, 2010.

The decrease in the valuation allowance against the net U.S. deferred income tax assets resulted primarily from the increase in our domestic net operating income, an increase in the amount of deferred income tax liabilities, including $7.2 million related to the senior convertible notes, and from the release of a portion of the valuation allowance against U.S. net deferred tax assets.

In 2009 these provisions primarily reflect tax expense associated with income taxes in foreign jurisdictions.

In 2011 and 2010, we utilized U.S. net operating loss carryforwards, which had had a full valuation allowance against them, to eliminate any U.S. federal income taxes and to significantly reduce U.S state taxes. These U.S. net operating loss carryforwards which had full valuation allowances against them were recognized in full in 2012. Their use does not impact income tax expense and income tax rate in 2013 or 2014.

Absent the use of these net operating loss carryforwards, income tax expense would have been $5.1$10.8 million and $6.7 million, respectively, and the income tax rate would have been 15.6% and 33.9%, respectively.24.9% for the year ended 2012. Absent the combined impact of the use of these net operating loss carryforwards and the release of the valuation allowances in 2011 and 2010,2012, income tax expense would have been $11.3$16.2 million and $7.8 million, respectively, and the income tax rate would have been 34.8% and 39.3%, respectively.37.3%.

Our $3.0$5.4 million benefit ofexpense for income taxes in 2011 increasedfor the year ended December 31, 2014 decreased from 20102013 principally due to the $6.2 million favorable impact from the release of valuation allowances associated withdecreased U.S. deferred tax assets.income in 2014.

Our $0.2$19.9 million provisionexpense for income taxes in 2010 decreased2013 increased from 20092012 principally due to the $1.2 million favorable impactincreased U.S. income in 2013 and to there being no tax benefit from the release of valuation allowances associated with U.S. deferred tax assets. This decrease was partially offset by a $0.5 million increase in tax expense due to increased foreign income.

A substantial portion of our deferred income tax assets results from availableutilizing net operating loss carryforwards against which valuation allowance had been released in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Certain of these net operating loss carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes begin to expire in 2012, and certain of them begin to expire in later years for foreign and U.S. federal income tax purposes.2012.  

See

For further discussion, see Note 2120 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Net income; net income available to 3D Systems common stockholders

In 2011 we generated

Net income was $11.9 million, $44.1 million and $38.9 million, for the years ended 2014, 2013 and 2012.     

The principal reasons for our lower net income of $35.4in 2014, which are discussed in more detail above, were a $49.8 million compared to net income of $19.6 milliondecrease in 2010 and net income of $1.1 million in 2009. The 2011 increase is attributed to increased revenue and gross profit partially offset by an increase inand $104.4 million higher operating expenses as described above.a result of higher sales and marketing and R&D expense in support of concentrated new product launches and channel expansion and training.

The principal reasons for our higher net income in 2011, which are discussed in more detail above,2013 were a $70.6$159.8 million increase in revenue and a $35.0an $86.4 million increase in gross profit, partially offset by $21.0$66.1 million higher operating expenses as a result of higher commissions, operating costssales and marketing and R&D expense in support of acquired companiesconcentrated new product launches and acquisition expenses.channel expansion and training.

The principal reasons for our higher net income in 2010, which are discussed in more detail above, were a $47.0 million increase in revenue and a $24.2 million increase in gross profit, partially offset by $6.4 million higher operating expenses as a result of higher commissions and operating costs of acquired companies.

Net income available to common stockholders was $35.4$11.6 million for 2011, $19.62014, $44.1 million for 20102013 and $1.1$38.9 million for 2009.2012.  On a per share basis, our basic net income per share available to the common stockholders was $0.71 in 2011 and our diluted net income per share available to common stockholders was $0.70. In 2010, our basic net income per share available to$0.11, $0.45 and $0.48 in 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively.  

For the common stockholders was $0.42years ended 2013 and our diluted net income per share available to common stockholders was $0.42. This is an improvement over our net income per share available to the common stockholders, on both a basic and diluted basis, of $0.03 per share for 2009.

The calculation of diluted income per share excludes options with an exercise price that exceeds2012, the average market priceoutstanding diluted shares calculation excluded shares that may have been issued upon conversion of shares during the period, sinceoutstanding senior convertible notes because the effect of their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive resulting in a reductionan increase to the net earnings per share. The average outstanding diluted shares calculation also excludes shares that may be issued upon conversion of the outstandingAll senior convertible notes because their conversion price exceededwere converted in 2014.

In February 2013, we announced a three-for-two stock split, in the market priceform of the shares at December 31, 2011.a stock dividend. Trading began on a split-adjusted basis on February 25, 2013.

See Note 18

For further discussion, see Notes 17 and 24 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Other Financial Information

In addition to our results determined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) discussed above, management believes non-GAAP financial measures, which adjust net income and earnings per share are useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance.

We use non-GAAP financial measures of adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share to supplement our Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements presented on a GAAP basis to facilitate a better understanding of the impact that several significant, strategic acquisitions had on our financial results.

These non-GAAP financial measures have not been prepared in accordance with GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies and they are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgments by our management about which costs, expenses and other items are excluded from our GAAP financial statements in determining our non-GAAP financial measures. We have sought to compensate for these limitations by analyzing current and expected future results on a GAAP basis as well as a non-GAAP basis and also by providing GAAP measuresfinancial statements as required in our public disclosures andas well as reconciliations of our non-GAAP financial measures of adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share to our GAAP financial statements.

The presentation of our non-GAAP financial measures which adjust net income and earnings per share are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. TheThese non-GAAP financial measures are meant to supplement, and be viewed in conjunction with, GAAP financial measures. We urge investors to review the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures included below, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

Our non-GAAP financial measures which adjust net income and earnings per share are adjusted for the following:

Stock-basedNon-cash stock-based compensation expenses. We exclude the tax-effected stock-based compensation expenses from non-GAAP measuresour operating expenses primarily because they are non-cash.

Amortization of intangibles. We exclude the tax-effected amortization of intangible assets.assets from our cost of sales and operating expenses. The increase in recent periods is primarily in connection with acquisitions of businesses.

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Acquisition and severance expenses. We exclude the tax-effected charges associated with the acquisition of businesses and the related severance expenses from our operating expenses.

Non-cash interest expenses. We exclude tax-effected, non-cash interest expenses, primarily related to the amortization costs associated with our outstanding senior convertible notes.notes, from interest and other expenses, net.  

Releases of valuation allowanceLoss on deferred tax assets.convertible notes. We exclude the tax-effected, non-cash benefitloss on conversion of releasesconvertible notes, from interest and other expenses, net.

Net (gain) loss on litigation and tax settlements. We exclude the tax-effected, net gain or loss on acquisitions and litigation settlements from other expenses, net.

Reconciliation of portions of the valuation allowance on deferred tax assets.

Reconciliation ofNon-GAAP Financial Measures to GAAP Financial Measures to Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Table 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

(Dollars in thousands, except per share)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

GAAP net income

 

$

11,637 

 

$

44,107 

 

$

38,941 

Cost of sales adjustments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of intangibles

 

 

281 

 

 

250 

 

 

193 

Operating expense adjustments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of intangibles

 

 

39,193 

 

 

20,448 

 

 

11,259 

Acquisition and severance expenses 

 

 

7,994 

 

 

7,057 

 

 

4,982 

Non-cash stock-based compensation expense

 

 

32,793 

 

 

13,495 

 

 

4,613 

Other expense adjustments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-cash interest expense

 

 

225 

 

 

973 

 

 

3,489 

Loss on convertible notes

 

 

1,806 

 

 

11,275 

 

 

6,295 

Net (gain) loss on litigation and tax settlements

 

 

 

 

2,457 

 

 

(1,296)

Tax effect (a) 

 

 

(18,810)

 

 

(16,327)

 

 

(610)

Non-GAAP net income

 

$

75,119 

 

$

83,735 

 

$

67,866 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-GAAP basic earnings per share

 

$

0.70 

 

$

0.85 

 

$

0.84 

(a) Tax effect is calculated quarterly, based on the actual tax rate for each quarter.

 

   Year Ended December 31, 
(dollars in thousands, except per share)  2011  2010  2009 

GAAP net income

   35,420    19,566    1,066  

Stock-based compensation

   2,637    1,406    1,190  

Amortization of intangibles(a)

   5,050    1,939    1,541  

Acquisition and severance expenses(b)

   3,664    646    156  

Non-cash interest expense

   400          

Release of valuation allowance on deferred tax assets

   (6,221  (1,162    
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Non-GAAP adjusted earnings

   40,950    22,395    3,953  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Non-GAAP adjusted basic earnings per share(a)

  $0.82   $0.49   $0.09  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per share(c)

  $0.81   $0.48   $0.09  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

(a)

Represents amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 of which $237, $475 and $839, respectively, is included in cost of sales and the remaining $4,813, $1,464 and $351, respectively, is included in operating expenses.

(b)

Represents acquisition and severance expenses. Expenses for 2011 include $3,664 of acquisition and severance expenses. Expenses for 2010 and 2009 include $646 and $156, respectively, of acquisition and severance expenses.

(c)

Assumes in each period that the number of shares of common stock used in the calculation of earnings per share was unchanged from those presented in our consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our cash flow from operations and the net proceeds from capital markets transactions in 2011 has2014 have enabled us to continue to execute our growth strategies, including our acquisitions in 2011.2014. During 2011,2014, we generated $27.7$51.1 million of cash from operations and utilized $92.7$345.4  million of cash to fund acquisitions.

 

Operating cash flow, a key source of our liquidity, was $27.7$51.1 million in 2011, a decrease2014, an increase of $4.1$25.9 million, or 12.9%103.0%, as compared to 2010. In 2010, cash provided by operations was $31.8 million.$25.2 million in 2013.

 

Unrestricted cash and cash equivalents increaseddecreased by $141.8$21.4 million to $179.1$284.9 million at December 31, 20112014 from $37.3$306.3 million at December 31, 20102013 and $24.9$155.9 million at December 31, 2009. The cash at December 31, 2011 included $145.4 million net proceeds from senior convertible notes, of which $135.5 million was used to complete the acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar on January 3, 2012. During 2011, we also

We completed a common stock offeringofferings that resulted in $299.7 million,  $272.1 million and $106.9 million of net proceeds of $62.1 million.in 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

 

Acquisitions constituted a $92.7$345.4 million use of cash in 2011,2014, including the completion of twelveten acquisitions, as compared to $19.2a $162.3 million use of cash in 2013 for eleven acquisitions and a $183.7 million use of cash for the completion of sevennine acquisitions in 2010.2012.

 

Our net working capital increased by $159.9$15.8 million to $202.4$432.2 million at December 31, 2011, which included the net proceeds2014 from the senior convertible notes issuance which was subsequently used to complete the purchase of Z Corp and Vidar, from $42.5$416.4 million at December 31, 2010.2013.

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SeeFor further discussion, see Cash flow andLease obligations below.

We have an effective registration statement on Form S-3 under which, among other things, we may issue upadditional securities from time to $175 million of securities.time as necessary to provide flexibility to execute our growth strategy.  We issued $65.8approximately 6.0 million shares of Common Stock in 2011 in reliance upon this registration statement and the remaining $109.2 million of securities covered by it may be issued until March 3, 2014, although we have no current intention to do so.

During 2011, we completed a common stock, offering that resultedresulting in $62.1net proceeds of approximately $299.7 million in 2014 and approximately 8.6 million shares of cash, net and we competed a private placement of 5.5% Senior Convertible Notes due 2016 that resultedcommon stock, resulting in $145.4approximately $272.1 million of cash, net.in 2013.

We have relied upon our unrestricted cash, cash flow from operations, and capital markets transactions and borrowings from financial institutions to meet our cash requirements for working capital, capital expenditures and acquisitions. However, it is possible that we may need to raise additional funds to finance our activities beyond the next twelve months or to consummate significant acquisitions of other businesses, assets, products or technologies. If needed, we may be able to raise such funds through the sales of equity or debt securities to the public or selected investors, by borrowing from financial institutions, selling assets or restructuring debt. There is no assurance, however, that funds will be available from these sources in the amounts or on terms acceptanceacceptable to us.

Even though we may not need additional funds, we may still elect to sellissue additional equity or debt securities or enter into a credit facility for other reasons.  If we raise additional funds by issuing equity or convertible debt securities, the ownership percentages of existing shareholders would be reduced.  In addition, the equity or debt securities that we may issue may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of our common stock.

Cash equivalents comprise funds held in money market instruments and are reported at their current carrying value, which approximates fair value due to the short term nature of these instruments. We strive to minimize our credit risk by investing primarily in investment grade, liquid instruments and limit exposure to any one issuer depending upon credit quality.

A summary of the components of liquidity is shown below in Table 9.

Table 910.

 

   December 31, 
(dollars in thousands)  2011   2010 

Cash and cash equivalents

  $179,120    $37,349  

Working capital

  $202,357    $42,475  

Total stockholders’ equity

  $254,788    $133,119  

Table 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31,

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

284,862 

 

$

306,316 

Working capital

 

$

432,199 

 

$

416,399 

Stockholders’ equity attributable to 3D Systems Corporation

 

$

1,292,918 

 

$

932,646 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flow

A summary of the components of cash flows is shown below in Table 10.

Table 1011.

 

(dollars in thousands)  2011  2010  2009 

Net cash provided by operating activities

  $27,660   $31,844   $7,734  

Net cash used for investing activities

   (95,709  (20,774  (5,243

Net cash provided by financing activities

   209,975    1,041    273  

Effect of foreign currency exchange rates on cash

   (155  325    (15
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

  $141,771   $12,436   $2,749  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Table 11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Cash provided by operating activities

 

$

51,111 

 

$

25,184 

 

$

51,530 

Cash used in investing activities

 

 

(375,441)

 

 

(173,757)

 

 

(187,654)

Cash provided by financing activities

 

 

308,582 

 

 

298,696 

 

 

112,640 

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash

 

 

(5,706)

 

 

334 

 

 

223 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

$

(21,454)

 

$

150,457 

 

$

(23,261)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cash flow from operations

2011

2014 compared to 20102013

For the year ended December 31, 2011,2014, we generated $27.7$51.1 million of net cash from operating activities. This change in cash primarily consisted of our $35.4$11.9 million net income, $11.0$73.9 million of non-cash charges that were included in our net income and $18.7$34.8 million of cash used in net changes in operating accounts.

The principal changes in non-cash items that favorably affected operating cash flow included $11.5$55.2 million of depreciation and amortization expense, $2.6$32.8 million of stock-based compensation, expense, partially offset by $5.1a $24.6 million deferred tax benefit.

Changes in working capital that resulted in a source of cash included the following:

 

a $0.9 million increase in customer deposits;

·

a $23.5 million increase in accounts payable;

·

a $16.1 million increase in accrued liabilities;

·

an $11.0 million increase in other operating assets and liabilities;

·

an $8.7 million increase in deferred revenue; and

·

a $1.9 million increase in customer deposits.

 

a $0.5 million increase in deferred revenue.

Customer deposits increased as a result of an increase in printer orders received near the end of the year. Deferred revenue increased as a result of warranties associated with increased sales of printers.

Changes in working capital that resulted in a use of cash included the following:

 

a $12.1

·

a $56.0 million increase in accounts receivable, net;

·

a $30.8 million increase in inventory; and

·

a $9.2 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets.

Accounts receivable, net increased as a result of the record revenues for 2014 and days sales outstanding increased to 83 days in 2014 from 79 days in 2013. With a greater portion of our revenue mix shifting to resellers and retailers, as part of our planned business model evolution, a larger portion of our sales are transacted on standard credit terms. The effect of this shift in our business model was exacerbated by the combined effect or the timing and concentration of orders during the last month of the quarter as a result of increasing demand, which has driven increases in both accounts receivable net;and days sales outstanding.

 

a $3.5 million decrease in accounts payable; and

a $2.6 million increase in inventory.

Inventories increased primarily due to our expanding product portfolio, acquired inventory, timing of new product launches and the timing of orders and delivery of finished goods materials and raw materials, which are purchased in large quantities. Accounts

The increase in accounts payable decreased as a result ofis primarily related to the normal timing of orders and payments to vendors. Accounts receivable increased as a result of the record revenues for 2011 and the increase in days sales outstanding to 67 days in 2011 from 64 days in 2010.our scheduled expense payments.

2010

2013 compared to 20092012

For the year ended December 31, 2010,2013, we generated $31.8$25.2 million of net cash from operating activities. This change in cash primarily consisted of our $19.6$44.1 million net income, $7.9$51.4 million of non-cash charges that were included in our net income and $4.4$70.4 million of cash provided byused in net changes in operating accounts.

The principal changes in non-cash items that favorably affected operating cash flow included $7.5$30.4 million of depreciation and amortization expense, $1.4$11.3 million loss on conversion of stock-based compensation expense,convertible notes, partially offset by $1.2$9.9 million deferred tax benefit.

Changes in working capital that resulted in a source of cash included the following:

 

a $10.4 million increase in accounts payable;

·

a $7.6 million increase in accounts payable; 

·

a $7.5 million increase in deferred revenue; and

·

a $1.9 million increase in customer deposits.

 

a $2.5 million increase in accrued liabilities; and

a $2.2 million increase in deferred revenue.

Accounts payable increased as a result of higher payables from increased purchases of machines and print materials associated with higher revenues, increased litigation costs and vendor payables associated with the acquisitions in 2010. Accrued liabilities increased primarily due to higher accrued payroll and liabilities for earnouts related to acquired companies. Deferred revenue increased as a result of warranties associated with increased sales of machines.

Changes in working capital that resulted in a use of cash included the following:

 

·

a  $43.7 million increase in accounts receivable, net;

·

a  $30.9 million increase in inventory; 

·

a  $6.5 million increase in accrued liabilities;

·

a $4.6 million increase in other operating assets and liabilities; and

a $5.7 million increase in inventory; and

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·

a  $1.8 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets.

Accounts receivable, net increased as a $7.5 million increaseresult of the record revenues for 2013 and days sales outstanding increased to 79 days in accounts receivable.

2013 from 72 days in 2012. Inventories increased primarily due to the implementation of new product launches and the timing of orders and delivery of finished goods materials and raw materials, which are purchased in large quantities. Accounts receivable increased as a result of the record revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 and an increase in days sales outstanding from 60 days in 2009 to 64 days in 2010.

Cash flow from investing activities

Net cash used in investing activities in 2011for the year ended 2014 increased to $95.7$375.4 million, from $20.8$173.8 million in 2010.2013. In 20112014, this consisted of $92.7$345.4 million related to acquisitions, and $3.0$22.7 million of net purchases of property and equipment, $6.6 million in minority investments of less than 20% made through 3D Ventures, our venture investment initiative, in promising enterprises that we believe will benefit from or be powered by our technologies,and $0.8 million of additions to license and patent costs. See Notes 3, 5 and 6 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Net cash used in investing activities in 2010 increasedfor the year ended 2013 decreased to $20.8$173.8 million, from $5.2$187.7 million in 2009.2012. In 20102013, this consisted of $19.2$162.3 million related to acquisitions, and $1.6$7.0 million of net purchases of property and equipment, and$1.6 million of additions to license and patent costs and $4.7 million in 2009 this consistedminority investments of $4.1less than 20% made through 3D Ventures, partially offset by $1.9 million related to acquisitions and $1.2 million related to purchasesof proceeds from the disposition of property and equipment and additions to license and patent costs.equipment. 

Capital expenditures were $2.9$22.7 million in 2011, $1.32014, $7.0 million in 20102013 and $1.0$3.2 million in 2009.2012. Capital expenditures in 20112014, 2013 and 20102012 primarily consisted of expenditures for tooling and printers associated with our new product development efforts, and leasehold improvements and equipment to support our on-demand custom parts service.Quickparts service and leasehold improvements.  

As discussed below, we completed 22 businessthirty acquisitions during 2009, 20102014, 2013 and 2011.2012. The majority of the acquisitions have resulted in the recording of goodwill. This goodwill typically arises because the purchase price for these businesses reflects a number of factors including the future earnings and cash flow potential of these businesses; the multiples to earnings, cash flow and other factors at which similar businesses have been purchased by other acquirers; the competitive nature of the process by which we acquired the business; and the complementary strategic fit and resulting synergies these businesses bring to existing operations. See Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

2011

2014 acquisitions

We acquired twelveten businesses in 20112014 for cash consideration of $87.4$345.4 million, net of cash acquired, with an additional $3.0$24.6 million of consideration paid in the form of common stock, net of cash acquired.stock. Five of the acquisitions were related to on-demandexpanding our global Quickparts custom parts services, fourtwo of the acquisitions were related to accelerating our healthcare initiative, two of the acquisitions were related to building our 3D consumer and retail products and services, and one acquisition was related to our materials business. See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

2013 acquisitions

We acquired eleven businesses in 2013 for cash consideration of $162.3 million, net of cash acquired, with an additional $13.1 million of consideration paid in the form of common stock. Four of the acquisitions were related to accelerating our 3D printer penetration through new products and materials, three of the acquisitions were related to building our 3D consumer and retail products and services, two of the acquisitions were related to expanding our global Quickparts custom parts services and two acquisitions were related to reinventing the engineers’ desktop.

2012 acquisitions

We acquired nine businesses in 2012 for cash consideration of $183.7 million, net of cash acquired, with an additional $7.7 million of consideration paid in the form of common stock. Two of the acquisitions were related to Quickparts custom parts services, three were building blocks for our consumer growth initiative, and threetwo acquisitions were related to our printers business.business, one was related to healthcare solutions and one was related to our 3D authoring solutions initiative. In addition, we made deferred purchase payments of $3.7$0.4 million in connection with acquisitions completed in 2010. See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.2011.

2010 acquisitions

We acquired seven businesses in 2010 for consideration of $17.9 million, net of cash acquired. Six of the acquisitions were related to on-demand custom parts services and one acquisition was related to personal 3D printers. In addition, in 2010 we made deferred payments of $1.3 million in connection with the 2009 acquisitions. See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

2009 acquisitions

We acquired three businesses in 2009 for consideration of $4.1 million, net of cash acquired. Two of the acquisitions were related to our on-demand custom parts services, and one acquisition was related to personal 3D printers.

Recent acquisition developments

As discussed above, subsequent to our 2011 year end, we utilized $135.5 million of cash in connection with the acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar.

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See Notes 3 and 25 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Statements for a discussion of our recent acquisitions.

Cash flow from financing activities

As previously discussed, we have an effective registration statement on Form S-3 under which, among other things, we may issue up to $175.0

We completed equity offerings netting $299.7 million, $272.1 million and $106.9 million of securities. We issued $65.8 million of Common Stock in 2011 in reliance upon this registration statement and the remaining $109.2 million of securities covered by it may be issued until March 3, 2014, although we have no current intention to do so. Subject to the limitations of our Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law, we are not restricted from issuing additional common stock, including securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, common stock.

In early 2011, we completed an equity offering netting $62.1 million in proceeds after deducting related expenses. In November 2011, we issued $152.0 million in senior convertible notes due 2016 in a private placement, netting $145.4 million in proceeds after deducting related expenses, of which $135.5 million was subsequently paid to completefor the acquisition of Z Corpyears ended 2014, 2013 and Vidar on January2012, respectively. See Note 3 2012. See Notes 3 and 25 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Net cash provided by financing activities increased to $210.0$308.6 million for the year ended 2014 from $298.7 million in 2011 from $1.0 million in 2010.2013. Net cash provided by financing activities in 20092012 was $0.3$112.6 million. The increase in 20112014 cash provided by financing activities primarily resulted from the previously discussed$299.7 million of net proceeds offrom the common stock issuance and $7.7 million of share-based payment arrangements. The 2013 cash provided by financing activities primarily resulted from the $272.1 million of net proceeds offrom the convertible notescommon stock issuance and $26.0 million of tax benefits from $2.8share-based payment arrangements. The 2012 cash provided by financing primarily resulted from the $106.9 million of net proceeds from the common stock issuance and $4.4 million of stock-based compensation proceeds.

The cash provided by financing activities

Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

We did not have any off balance sheet arrangements in 2010 resulted primarily from higher stock option exercise activity.existence at December 31, 2014.

Contractual Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

Our principal commitments at December 31, 20112014 consisted of the stock purchase agreement (the “stock purchase agreement”) to purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Z Corp and Vidar as discussed above, the capital leaseslease on our Rock Hill facility, operating leases, deferred purchase price and earnouts on acquisitions and purchase obligations, which are discussed in greater detail below. Tables 1112 and 1213 below summarize our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2011.

Future contractual payments at December 31, 2011 are set forth below.

Table 112014.

 

   Year Ending December 31, 
(dollars in thousands)  2012   2013–2014   2015–2016   Later Years   Total 

Capitalized lease obligations

  $696    $1,391    $1,389    $11,052    $14,528  

Non-cancelable operating leases

   2,517     2,364     1,361     488     6,730  

Purchase obligations

   10,940                    10,940  

Deferred purchase price on acquisitions

   639     781               1,420  

Earnouts on acquisitions

   745     1,117               1,862  

Acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar

   135,488                    135,488  

Principal of senior convertible notes

             152,000          152,000  

Interest on senior convertible notes

   12,340     25,905     27,179          65,424  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $163,365    $31,558    $181,929    $11,540    $388,392  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Acquisition obligationsTable 12

As discussed above, in November 2011, we entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire Z Corp and Vidar. See “Recent Developments” and Notes 3 and 25 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Years Ending December 31,

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2015

 

2016-2017

 

2018-2020

 

Later Years

 

Total

Capitalized lease obligations

 

$

1,112 

 

$

2,223 

 

$

2,238 

 

$

9,252 

 

$

14,825 

Non-cancelable operating leases

 

 

10,006 

 

 

15,609 

 

 

10,269 

 

 

7,531 

 

 

43,415 

Purchase obligations

 

 

56,620 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

56,620 

Earnouts on acquisitions

 

 

185 

 

 

8,970 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9,155 

Total

 

$

67,923 

 

$

26,802 

 

$

12,507 

 

$

16,783 

 

$

124,015 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debt and lease obligations

Debt

As discussed above, inDebt

In November 2011, we issued $152.0 million of 5.50% senior convertible notes due 2016 inDecember 2016. The notes were issued with an aggregate principal amounteffective yield of $152.05.96% based upon an original issue discount at 98.0%. The net proceeds from the issuance of these notes, after deducting original issue discount and capitalized issuance costs of $6.6 million, amounted to $145.4 million. These notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 5.50% per annum, payable June 15

and December 15 of each year while they are outstanding, beginning June 15, 2012. The net proceeds of the notes were used to fund the acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar and for general corporate purposes. See Recent Developments above

During the third quarter of 2014, the remaining $12.5 million of outstanding notes were converted, reflecting a loss of $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, compared to losses of $11.3 million and Notes 3$7.0 million, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 25 to2012. As of December 31, 2014, there is no outstanding balance for the Consolidated Financial Statements.notes.

In October 2014, we entered into a $150.0 million five-year revolving, unsecured credit facility with PNC Bank, as Administrative Agent, and certain other lenders. The Notes have anagreement comprises a revolving loan facility that provides for advances in the initial conversion rate of 46.6021 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which amounts to a conversion price of $21.46 per common share. Upon conversion, the Company has the option to pay cash or issue Common Stock, or a combination thereof. The Notes are convertible at the option of the holders at any time. The aggregate principal amount of these Notes then outstanding matures on December 15, 2016, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased in accordance with the terms of the Notes.

The Notes contain a number of covenants covering, among other things, payment of notes, reporting, maintenance of existence and payment of taxes. Failureup to comply with these covenants, or any other event of default, could result in acceleration of the principal amount and accrued and unpaid interest on the notes. We were in compliance with all covenants as of December 31, 2011. See Note 11 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. The Notes are senior in right of payment (as defined in the Notes Agreement).

Leases

On February 8, 2006, we entered into a lease agreement with KDC-Carolina Investments 3, LP (now Lex Rock Hill, LP) pursuant to which KDC constructed and leased to us an approximately 80,000 square foot building in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Under the terms of this lease, KDC agreed to lease the building to us for an initial 15-year term following completion. We took occupancy of the building in November 2006. See Note 12 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

After its initial term, the lease provides us with the option to renew the lease for two additional five-year terms as well as the right to cause KDC, subject$150.0 million. Subject to certain terms and conditions contained in the agreement, the Company may, at its option and subject to expandcustomary conditions, request an increase in the leased premisesaggregate principal amount available under the credit facility by an additional $75.0 million. As of December 31, 2014, there is no outstanding balance on the credit facility.

Leases

Our capitalized lease obligations include lease agreements that we entered into during the term of the lease, in which case the term of the lease would be extended. The lease is a triple net lease and provides for the payment of base rent of approximately $0.7 million in 2012 through 2020, including a rent escalation in 2016, and $0.8 million in 2021. Under the terms of the lease, we are obligated to pay all taxes, insurance, utilities and other operating costs2006 with respect to our Rock Hill facility and lease agreements assumed in the leased premises.LayerWise acquisition.

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In accordance with ASC 840, “Leases,” we are considered an owner of the property. Therefore,properties, therefore, we have recorded $7.8$9.4 million and $8.3$7.5 million at December 31, 20112014 and 2010,2013, respectively, as building in our consolidated balance sheet with a corresponding capitalized lease obligation in the liabilities section of the consolidated balance sheet. See Note 12 to the  Consolidated Financial Statements.

Our outstanding capitalized lease obligations at December 31, 20112014 and December 31, 20102013 were as follows:

Table 1213

 

(dollars in thousands)  2011   2010 

Capitalized lease obligations:

    

Current portion of capitalized lease obligation

  $163    $224  

Capitalized lease obligation, less current portion

   7,609     8,055  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $7,772    $8,279  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Capitalized lease obligations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current portion of capitalized lease obligations

 

$

529 

 

$

187 

Capitalized lease obligations, long term portion

 

 

8,905 

 

 

7,277 

Total capitalized lease obligations

 

$

9,434 

 

$

7,464 

 

Capitalized lease obligations of $7.8$9.4 million at December 31, 2011 decreased2014 increased from $8.3$7.5 million at December 31, 20102013 due to the acquired $2.3 million of capital lease obligations in connection with the LayerWise acquisition in the third quarter of 2014, primarily due toconsisting of sale and leasebacks on laser-melting machines internally produced by LayerWise and used in their business, partially offset by scheduled payments of principal on capital lease installments and the purchase of expansion land, previously leased from our landlord, KDC Developments, in 2011.installments.

We lease certain other facilities under non-cancelable operating leases expiring through 2023.2024. The leases are generally on a net-rent basis, under which we pay taxes, maintenance and insurance. We expect leases that expire to be renewed or replaced by leases on other properties.  Rental expense for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012 was $2.7$10.4 million, $2.0$6.9 million and $1.7$5.0 million, respectively.

Other contractual commitments

As of December 31, 2011, we have

The Company has supply commitments for first quarter of 2012 printer assemblyassemblies that total $10.9$56.6 million compared to $9.3and $41.1 million at December 31, 2010.2014 and 2013, respectively.

For certain

Certain of our acquisitions, we are obligated for the payment of deferred purchase price totaling $1.4 million. Certain of the acquisition purchase agreements contain earnout provisions under which the sellers of the acquired businesses can earn additional amounts. The total amount of liabilities recorded for these earnouts is $1.9$9.2 million at December 31, 20112014 compared to $3.3$5.6 million at December 31, 2010.2013. See Note 3 for details of acquisitions and related commitments.

The minority interest shareholders of a certain subsidiary have the right to require the Company to acquire their ownership interest under certain circumstances pursuant to a contractual arrangement and the Company has a similar call option under the same contractual terms. The amount of consideration under the put and call rights is not a fixed amount, but rather is dependent upon various valuation formulas and on future events, such as revenue and gross margin performance of the subsidiary through the date of exercise, as described in Note 22.  Management estimates, assuming that the subsidiary owned by the Company at December 31, 2014, performs over the relevant future periods at their forecasted earnings levels, that these rights, if exercised, could require the Company, in future periods, to pay approximately $8.9 million to the owners of such rights to acquire such ownership interests in the relevant subsidiary. This amount has been recorded as redeemable noncontrolling interests on the balance sheet at December 31, 2014.

Indemnification

In the normal course of business we periodically enter into agreements to indemnify customers or suppliers against claims of intellectual property infringement made by third parties arising from the use of our products. Historically, costs related to these indemnification provisions have not been significant. We are unable to estimate the maximum potential impact of these indemnification provisions on our future results of operations.

To the extent permitted under Delaware law, we indemnify our directors and officers for certain events or occurrences while the director or officer is, or was, serving at our request in such capacity, subject to limited exceptions. The maximum potential amount of future payments we could be required to make under these indemnification obligations is unlimited; however, we have directors and officers insurance coverage that may enable us to recover future amounts paid, subject to a deductible and to the policy limits.

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We do not utilize any “structured debt,” “special purpose” or similar unconsolidated entities for liquidity or financing purposes.

Financial instruments

We conduct business in various countries using both the functional currencies of those countries and other currencies to effect cross border transactions. As a result, we are subject to the risk that fluctuations in foreign exchange rates between the dates that those transactions are entered into and their respective settlement dates will result in a foreign exchange gain or loss. When practicable, we endeavor to match assets and liabilities in the same currency on our balance sheet and those of our subsidiaries in order to reduce these risks. We also, when we consider it to be appropriate, enter into foreign currency contracts to hedge exposures arising from those transactions.

We do not hedge for trading or speculative purposes, and our foreign currency contracts are generally short-term in nature, typically maturing in 90 days or less. We have elected not to prepare and maintain the documentation to qualify for hedge accounting treatment under ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging,” and therefore, we recognize all gains and losses (realized or unrealized) in interest and other income (expense),expense, net in our Consolidated Statements of Income and Other Comprehensive Income.

Changes in the fair value of derivatives are recorded in interest and other income (expense),expense, net, in our Consolidated Statements of Income and Other Comprehensive Income. Depending on their fair value at the end of the reporting period, derivatives are recorded either in prepaid and other current assets or in accrued liabilities in our Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The total impact of foreign currency related items on our Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income were losseswas a loss of $5.7 million in 2014, a loss of $0.8 million in 2013, and a gain of $0.1 million $0.3 million, and $0.1 million for 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.in 2012.

Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Estimates

The discussion and analysis of our results of operations and financial condition set forth in this Form 10-K is based on our Consolidated Financial Statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make critical accounting estimates that directly impact our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

Critical accounting estimates are estimates that meet two criteria:

 

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The estimates require that we make assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain at the time the estimates are made; and

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There exist different estimates that could reasonably be used in the current period, or changes in the estimates used are reasonably likely to occur from period to period, both of which would have a material impact on our results of operations or financial condition.

 

There exist different estimates that could reasonably be used in the current period, or changes in the estimates used are reasonably likely to occur from period to period, both of which would have a material impact on our results of operations or financial condition.

On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates, including those related to stock-based compensation, revenue recognition, the allowance for doubtful accounts, income taxes, inventories, goodwill and other intangible and long-lived assets and contingencies. We base our estimates and assumptions on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

The following paragraphs discuss the items that we believe are the critical accounting policies most affected by significant management estimates and judgments. Management has discussed and periodically reviews these critical accounting policies, the basis for their underlying assumptions and estimates and the nature of our related disclosures herein with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

Revenue recognition

Revenue

Net revenue is derived primarily from the sale of printers and related products and print materials is recognized upon shipment orservices. The following revenue recognition policies define the manner in which we account for sales transactions.

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We recognize revenue when services are performed, provided that persuasive evidence of a salessale arrangement exists, both titledelivery has occurred or services are rendered, the sales price or fee is fixed or determinable and risk of loss have passed to the customer and collectioncollectability is reasonably assured. Persuasive evidenceRevenue generally is recognized net of aallowances for returns and any taxes collected from customers and subsequently remitted to governmental authorities. We sell our products through our direct sales arrangement exists upon executionforce and through authorized resellers. We recognize revenue on sales to resellers at the time of a written sales agreement or a signed purchase order that constitutes a fixed and legally binding commitment betweensale when the reseller has economic substance apart from us, and we have completed our obligations related to the buyer. In instances where sales are made to an authorized reseller, the same criteria cited above is applied to determine the recognition of revenue. The reseller’s creditworthiness is evaluated prior to such sale. The reseller takes ownership of the related printers, products or materials and payment is not dependent upon the reseller’s sale to an end user.

We enter into sales arrangements that may provide for multiple deliverables to a customer. Sales of our printers may include ancillary equipment, a software license, aprint materials, warranty on the equipment, training and installation. We identify all goods and/or services that are to be delivered separately under a sales arrangement and allocate revenue to each deliverable based on relative fair values. Fair values are generally established based oneither vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) or if VSOE is not determinable then we use best estimated selling price (“BESP”) of each deliverable. We establish VSOE of selling price using the pricesprice charged for a deliverable when sold separately by us. In general, revenues are separated between printersseparately. The objective of BESP is to determine the price at which we would transact a sale if the deliverable was sold regularly on a stand-alone basis. We consider multiple factors including, but not limited to, market conditions, geographies, competitive landscape, and other products, training services, maintenance servicesentity-specific factors such as internal costs, gross margin objectives and installation services. The allocated revenue for each deliverablepricing practices when estimating BESP. Consideration in a multiple element arrangement is then recognized ratably basedallocated to the elements on a relative fair values ofsales value basis using either VSOE or BESP for all the components of the sale, consistent within the scope of FASB ASU 2009-13. Revenue from training, installation and maintenance services is recognized at the time of performance. Revenue from training, installation and maintenance that is not under a maintenance contract is recognized after the services are complete.elements. We also evaluate the impact of undelivered items on the functionality of delivered items for each sales transaction and, where appropriate, defer revenue on delivered items when that functionality has been affected.  Functionality is determined to be met if the delivered products or services represent a separate earnings process.

We provide end-users with

Hardware

In general, revenues are separated between printers and other products, print materials, training services, maintenance under a warranty agreementservices and installation services. The allocated revenue for up to one year and defer a portioneach deliverable is then recognized based on relative fair values of the components of the sale, consistent within the scope of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 605 Revenue Recognition.

Under our standard terms and conditions of sale, title and risk of loss transfer to the customer at the time product is shipped to the customer and revenue is recognized accordingly, unless customer acceptance is uncertain or significant obligations remain. We defer the estimated revenue associated with post-sale obligations that are not essential to the functionality of the delivered items, and recognize revenue in the future as the conditions for revenue recognition are met.

Software

We also market and sell software tools that enable our customers to capture and customize content using our printers, as well as reverse engineering and inspection software. The software does not require significant modification or customization. We apply the guidance in ASC 985-605, Software-Revenue Recognition (“ASC 985”) in recognizing revenue when software is more than incidental to the product or service as a whole based on fair value using vendor-specific objective evidence. Revenue from perpetual software licenses is recognized either upon delivery of the product or delivery of a key code which allows the customer to access the software. In instances where software access is provided for a trial period, revenue is not recognized until the customer has purchased the software at the expiration of the trial period. We use the residual method to allocate revenue to software licenses at the inception of the license term when VSOE of fair value for all undelivered elements, such as maintenance, exists and all other revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.  In instances in which customers purchase post sale support, it is considered a separate element from the related printer salesoftware and is deferred at the time of sale based on the relative fair value of those services. After the initial warranty period, the Company offers these customers optional maintenance contracts. Deferred maintenance revenue is recognized ratably, on a straight-line basis, over the period of the contract.and subsequently amortized in future periods.

On-demand printed parts sales are included within services revenue and revenue is recognized upon shipment or delivery of the parts, based on the terms of the sales arrangement.

We also sell equipment with embedded software to our customers. The embedded software is not sold separately, it is not a significant focus of the marketing effort and we do not provide post-contract customer support specific to the software or incur significant costs that are within the scope of the FASB Accounting Standards

Codification (“ASC”) 985, “Software.”ASC 985. Additionally, the functionality that the software provides is marketed as part of the overall product. The software embedded in the equipment is incidental to the equipment as a whole such that ASC 985 is not applicable. Sales of these products are recognized in accordance with ASC 605.25, “Multiple-Element Arrangements.”

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Services

Printers include a warranty under which we provide maintenance for periods up to one year, as well as training, installation and non-contract maintenance services. We defer this portion of the revenue at the time of sale based on the relative fair value of these services. Deferred revenue is recognized ratably according to the term of the warranty. Costs associated with our obligations during the warranty period are expensed as incurred. After the initial warranty period, we offer these customers optional maintenance contracts. Deferred maintenance revenue is recognized ratably, on a straight-line basis, over the period of the contract, and costs associated with these contracts are recognized as incurred. Revenue from training, installation and non-contract maintenance services is recognized at the time of performance.

Quickparts sales are included within services revenue and revenue is recognized upon shipment or delivery of the parts, based on the terms of the sales arrangement. 

Terms of sale

Shipping and handling costs billed to customers for equipment sales and sales of print materials are included in product revenue in the Consolidated Statementconsolidated statements of Incomeincome and Comprehensive Income.other comprehensive income. Costs we incur that are associated with shipping and handling are included in product cost of sales in the Consolidated Statementconsolidated statements of Incomeincome and Comprehensive Income.other comprehensive income.

Credit is extended, and creditworthiness is determined, based on an evaluation of each customer’s financial condition. New customers are generally required to complete a credit application and provide references and bank information to facilitate an analysis of creditworthiness. Customers with a favorable profile may receive credit terms based on that profile that differ from our general credit terms. Creditworthiness is considered, among other things, in evaluating our relationship with customers with past due balances.

Our terms of sale generally require payment within 30 to 60 days after shipment of a product, although we also recognize that longer payment periods are customary in some countries in whichwhere we transact business. To reduce credit risk in connection with printersprinter sales, we may, depending upon the circumstances, require significant deposits prior to shipment and may retain a security interest in a system sold until fully paid. In some circumstances, we may require payment in full for our products prior to shipment and may require international customers to furnish letters of credit. For maintenance services, we either bill customers on a time-and-materials basis or sell customers service agreements that are recorded as deferred revenue and provide for payment in advance on either an annual or other periodic basis.

Allowance for doubtful accounts

In evaluating the collectability of our accounts receivable, we assess a number of factors, including a specific client’scustomer’s ability to meet its financial obligations to us, such as whether a customer declares bankruptcy. Other factors include the length of time the receivables are past due and historical collection experience. Based on these assessments, we record a reserve for specific customers as well as a general reserve based on our historical experience for bad debts. If circumstances related to specific customers change, or economic conditions deteriorate such that our past collection experience is no longer relevant, our estimate of the recoverability of our accounts receivable could be further reduced from the levels provided for in the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Our estimate for the allowance for doubtful accounts related to trade receivables is based on two methods. The amounts calculated from each of these methods are combined to determine the total amount reserved.

First, we evaluate specific accounts where we have information that the customer may have an inability to meet their financial obligations (for example, aging over 90 days past due or bankruptcy). In these cases, we use our judgment, based on available facts and circumstances, and record a specific reserve for that customer against amounts due to reduce the receivable to the amount that is expected to be collected. These specific reserves are re-evaluated and adjusted as additional information is received that impacts the amount reserved.

Second, a general reserve is established for all customers based on historical collection and write-off experience.

Our estimate of the allowance for doubtful accounts for financing receivables is determined by evaluating specific accounts for which the borrower is past due more than 90 days, or for which it haswe have information that the borrower may be unable to meet its financial obligations (for example, bankruptcy). In these cases, we  use judgment, based on the available facts and circumstances, and record a specific reserve for that borrower against amounts due to reduce the outstanding receivable balance to the amount that is expected to be collected. If there are any specific reserves, they are re-evaluated and adjusted as additional information is received that impacts the amount reserved.

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We also provide an allowance account for returns and discounts. This allowance is evaluated on a specific account basis. In addition, we provide a general reserve for all customers that have not been specifically identified based on historical experience.

Our bad debt expense increased to $1.7$8.7 million in 20112014 from $0.1$5.0 million in 20102013 and $0.9$3.0 million in 2009.2012. The higher expense in 20112014 was due to an increase in balances due from customers over 90 days past due.higher receivables related to increased revenue.    

Our allowance for doubtful accounts increased to $3.0$10.3 million, or 6.1% of outstanding accounts receivable, at December 31, 20112014 from $2.0$8.1 million, or 6.2% of outstanding accounts receivable, at December 31, 2010. This change resulted primarily from an increase in receivables2013. Our accounts receivable over 90 days past due.due increased to 16.7% in 2014 from 9.1% in 2013. We believe that our allowance for doubtful accounts is a critical accounting estimate because it is susceptible to change and dependent upon events that may or may not occur and because the impact of recognizing additional allowances for doubtful accounts may be material to the assets reported on our balance sheet and in our results of operations.

Income taxes

We and our domestic subsidiaries file a consolidated U.S. federal income tax return. Our non-U.S. subsidiaries file income tax returns in their respective local jurisdictions. We provide for income taxes on those portions of our foreign subsidiaries’ accumulated earnings that we believe are not reinvested indefinitely in their businesses.

We account for income taxes under the asset and liability method. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and tax benefit carryforwards. Deferred income tax liabilities and assets at the end of each period are determined using enacted tax rates.

We record deferred income tax assets arising from temporary differences between recorded net income and taxable net income when and if we believe that future earnings will be sufficient to realize the tax benefit. We provide a valuation allowance for those jurisdictions and on those deferred tax assets where the expiration date of tax benefit carryforwards or the projected taxable earnings indicate that realization is not likely.

Under the provisions of ASC 740, “Income Taxes,” (“ASC 740”) a valuation allowance is required to be established or maintained when, based on currently available information and other factors, it is more likely than not that all or a portion of a deferred income tax asset will not be realized. ASC 740 provides that an important factor in determining whether a deferred income tax asset will be realized is whether there has been sufficient income in recent years and whether sufficient income is expected in future years in order to utilize the deferred income tax asset.

During the second quarter of 2011, based on our recent results of operations and our expected profitability in the future, we concluded that it is more likely than not that a portion of our U.S. net deferred tax asset will be realized. See Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

We believe that our estimate of deferred income tax assets and our maintenance of a valuation allowance against such assets are critical accounting estimates because they are subject to, among other things, an estimate of future taxable income in the U.S. and in other non-U.S. tax jurisdictions, which are susceptible to change and dependent upon events that may or may not occur, and because the impact of our valuation allowance may be material to the assets reported on our balance sheet and in our results of operations. We intend to continue to assess our valuation allowance in accordance with the requirements of ASC 740.

The determination of our income tax provision is complex because we have operations in numerous tax jurisdictions outside the U.S. that are subject to certain risks that ordinarily would not be expected in the U.S. Tax regimes in certain jurisdictions are subject to significant changes, which may be applied on a retroactive basis. If this were to occur, our tax expense could be materially different than the amounts reported.

We periodically estimate the probable tax obligations using historical experience in tax jurisdictions and our informed judgment. There are inherent uncertainties related to the interpretation of tax regulations in the jurisdictions in which we transact business. The judgments and estimates made at a point in time may change based on the outcome of tax audits, as well as changes to, or further interpretations of, regulations. Income tax expense is adjusted in the period in which these events occur, and these adjustments are included in our Consolidated Statements of Income and Other Comprehensive Income. If such changes take place, there is a risk that our effective tax rate may increase or decrease in any period.

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Inventories

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value, cost being determined predominantly on the first-in, first-out method. Reserves for inventories are provided based on historical experience and current product demand. Our inventory reserve was $2.5$6.7 million at December 31, 20112014, compared with $2.2$4.3 million at December 31, 2010.2013.  We evaluate the adequacy of these reserves quarterly. Our determination of the allowance for inventory reserves is subject to change because it is based on management’s current estimates of required reserves and potential adjustments.

We believe that the allowance for inventory obsolescence is a critical accounting estimate because it is susceptible to change and dependent upon events that may or may not occur and because the impact of recognizing additional obsolescence reserves may be material to the assets reported on our balance sheet and in our results of operations.

Goodwill and other intangible and long-lived assets

We evaluate long-lived assets other than goodwill for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. If the estimated future cash flows (undiscounted and without interest charges) from the use of an asset are less than the carrying value, a write-down would be recorded to reduce the related asset to its estimated fair value.

The annual impairment testing required by ASC 350, “Intangibles Goodwill and Other,” (“ASC 350”) requires us to use our judgment and could require us to write down the carrying value of our goodwill and other intangible assets in future periods. As required by ASC 350, we have allocated goodwill to identifiable geographic reporting units, which are tested for impairment using a two-step process detailed in that statement. See Notes 6 and 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. The first step requires comparing the fair value of each reporting unit with our carrying amount, including goodwill. If that fair value exceeds the carrying amount, the second step of the process is not required to be performed and no impairment charge is required to be recorded. If that fair value does not exceed the carrying amount, we must perform the second step, which requires an allocation of the fair value of the reporting unit to all assets and liabilities of that unit as if the reporting unit had been acquired in a purchase business combination and the fair value of the reporting unit was the purchase price. The goodwill resulting from that purchase price allocation is then compared to the carrying amount with any excess recorded as an impairment charge.

Goodwill set forth on the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 20112014 arose from acquisitions carried out in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009, and in years prior to 2007.Goodwill arising from acquisitions prior to 2007 was allocated to geographic reporting units based on the percentage of SLS® printers then installed by geographic area. Goodwill arising from acquisitions since 2009 was allocated to geographic reporting units based on geographic dispersion of the acquired companies’ sales or capitalization at the time of their acquisition.

Pursuant to the requirements of ASC 350, we are required to perform a valuation of each of our three geographic reporting units annually, or upon significant changes in our business environment. We conducted our annual impairment analysis in the fourth quarter of 2011.2014. To determine the fair value of each reporting unit we utilized discounted cash flows, using five years of projected unleveraged free cash flows and terminal EBITDA earnings multiples. The discount rates used for the analysis reflected a weighted average cost of capital based on industry and capital structure adjusted for equity risk premiums and size risk premiums based on market capitalization. The discounted cash flow valuation uses projections of future cash flows and includes assumptions concerning future operating performance and economic conditions and may differ from actual future cash flows. We also considered the current trading multiples of comparable publicly-traded companies and the historical pricing multiples for comparable merger and acquisition transactions that have occurred in the industry. Under each fair value measurement methodology considered, the fair value of each reporting unit exceeded its carrying value; accordingly, no goodwill impairment adjustments were recorded on our Consolidated Balance Sheet.

The control premium that a third party would be willing to pay to obtain a controlling interest in 3D Systems Corporation was considered when determining fair value. In addition, factors such as the performance of competitors were also considered.

Management concluded that there was a reasonable basis for the excess of the estimated fair value of the geographic reporting units over its market capitalization.

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The estimated fair value of the three geographic reporting units incorporated judgment and the use of estimates by management. Potential factors requiring assessment include a further or sustained decline in our stock price, variance in results of operations from projections, and additional acquisition transactions in the industry that reflect a lower control premium. Any of these factors may cause us to re-evaluate goodwill during any quarter throughout the year. If an impairment charge werewas to be taken for goodwill it would be a non-cash charge and would not impact our cash position or cash flows,flows; however such a charge could have a material impact to equity and the Consolidated Statement of Income and Comprehensive Income.

There was no goodwill impairment for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 or 2009.2012.

We will evaluate the fair value of long-lived assets in accordance with ASC 360, “Property, Plant and Equipment” if events transpire to indicate potential impairment.  No impairment loss was recorded for the periods presented.

Determining the fair value of a reporting unit, intangible asset or a long-lived asset is judgmental and involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions. Management bases its fair value estimates on assumptions that it believes are reasonable but are uncertain and subject to changes in market conditions.

Stock-based compensation

ASC 718, “Compensation Stock Compensation,” (“ASC 718”) requires the recognition of the fair value of stock-based compensation. Under the fair value recognition provisions of ASC 718, stock-based compensation is estimated at the grant date based on the fair value of the awards expected to vest and recognized as expense ratably over the requisite service period of the award. See Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Contingencies

We account for contingencies in accordance with ASC 450, “Contingencies.”“Contingencies” (“ASC 450”). ASC 450 requires that we record an estimated loss from a loss contingency when information available prior to issuance of our financial statements indicates that it is probable that an asset has been impaired or a liability has been incurred at the date of the financial statements and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Accounting for contingencies such as legal matters requires us to use our judgment.

Non-GAAP Measures

In addition to our results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we usemanagement uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, which adjust net income and earnings per share, in assessing our operating performance. Management believes these non-GAAP financial measures of adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share serve as useful measures in evaluating the overall performance of our business.

Our management regularly

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to supplement our Consolidated Financial Statements presented on a GAAP basis to facilitate a better understanding of the impact that several significant, strategic acquisitions had on our ongoing financial results.results and other non-cash factors. 

These non-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies and they are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgments by our management about which costs, expenses and other items are excluded from our GAAP financial statements in determining our non-GAAP financial measures. We have sought to compensate for these limitations by analyzing current and expected future results on a GAAP basis as well as a non-GAAP basis and also by providing GAAP measures as required in our public disclosures and reconciliations of our non-GAAP financial measures to our GAAP financial statements.

The presentation of non-GAAP financial information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the directly comparable financial performance or liquidity measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures are meant to supplement, and be viewed in conjunction with, GAAP financial measures. We urge investors to review the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures included below, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

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As discussed in detail above, we report non-GAAP financial measures which adjust both net income and earnings per share by excluding the impact of acquisition and severance expenses, intangible amortization, non-cash interest expense, non-cash stock-based compensation, loss on convertible notes and releases of valuation allowancesnet gain or loss on deferredlitigation and tax assets.settlements. We provide the required reconciliation of GAAP net income and earnings per share to non-GAAP adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share.  SeeOther Financial Informationabove.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 2 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report for recently issued accounting standards, including the expected dates of adoption and expected impact to our Consolidated Financial Statements upon adoption.

 

Item 7A.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Item 7A.    Quantitative

and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

We are exposed to market risk from fluctuations in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, and commodity prices, which may adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. We seek to minimize these risks through regular operating and financing activities and, when we consider it to be appropriate, through the use of derivative financial instruments. We do not purchase, hold or sell derivative financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes.purposes.

Interest rates

Our exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to our cash and cash equivalents.equivalents and revolving credit facility. We seek to minimize the risk to our cash and cash equivalents by investing cash in excess of our operating needs in short-term, high-quality instruments issued by highly creditworthy financial institutions, corporations or governments. With the amount of cash and cash equivalents and revolving credit facility that we maintained at December 31, 2011,2014, a hypothetical interest rate change of 1 percentage point, or 100 basis points, would have a $1.8$1.3 million effect on our financial position and results of operations.

From time to time, we may use derivative financial instruments, including interest rate swaps, collars or options, to manage our exposure to fluctuations in interest rates. At December 31, 2011,2014, we had no such financial instruments outstanding.

Foreign exchange rates

We transact business globally and are subject to risks associated with fluctuating foreign exchange rates. Approximately 50%49.1% of our consolidated revenue is derived from sales outside of the U.S. See “Business—Global Operations” above. This revenue is generated primarily from the operations of our foreign sales subsidiaries in their respective countries and surrounding geographic areas and the operations of our research and production subsidiary in Switzerland, and is denominated in each subsidiary’s local functional currency although certain sales are denominated in other currencies, including U.S. Dollars, Euros or Japanese Yen, rather than the local functional currency. These subsidiaries incur most of their expenses (other than intercompany expenses) in their local functional currencies. These currencies include the Euro, Australian Dollar,Dollars, Brazilian Real, British Pound,Pounds, Chinese Yuan, Euros, Indian Rupee,  Israeli Shekel, Japanese Yen, Mexican Peso, South Korean Won,  Swiss FrancFrancs and Japanese Yen.Uruguayan Peso.

The geographic areas outside the U.S. in which we operate are generally not considered to be highly inflationary. Nonetheless, these foreign operations are sensitive to fluctuations in currency exchange rates arising from, among other things, certain intercompany transactions that are generally denominated in U.S. Dollarsdollars rather than in their respective functional currencies. Our operating results, as well as our assets and liabilities, are also subject to the effects of foreign currency translation when the operating results, assets and liabilities of our foreign subsidiaries are translated into U.S. Dollarsdollars in our Consolidated Financial Statements.

We and our subsidiaries conduct business in various countries using both the functional currencies of those countries and other currencies to effect cross border transactions. As a result, we and our subsidiaries are subject to the risk that fluctuations in foreign exchange rates between the dates that those transactions are entered into and their respective settlement dates will result in a foreign exchange gain or loss. When practicable, we

endeavor to match assets and liabilities in the same currency on our U.S. balance sheet and those of our subsidiaries in order to reduce these risks. We also, when we consider it appropriate, enter into foreign currency contracts to hedge exposures arising from those transactions.

We do not hedge for trading or speculative purposes, and our foreign currency contracts are generally short-term in nature, typically maturing in 90 days or less. We have elected not to prepare and maintain the documentation to qualify for hedge accounting treatment under ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging,” and therefore, we recognize all gains and losses (realized or unrealized) in interest and other income (expense),expense, net in our Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income.

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As noted above, we may use derivative financial instruments, including foreign exchange forward contracts and foreign currency options, to fix or limit our exposure to currency fluctuations.  We do not hedge our foreign currency exposures in a manner that would entirely eliminate the effects of changes in foreign exchange rates on our consolidated net income or loss.loss.

At December 31, 20112014, a hypothetical change of 10% in foreign currency exchange rates would cause approximately a $11.3 $32.0million change in revenue in our Consolidated Statement of Income and Comprehensive Income assuming all other variables were held constant.

Commodity prices

We use various commodity raw materials and energy products in conjunction with our printer assembly and print materials blending processes. Generally, we acquire such components at market prices and do not use financial instruments to hedge commodity prices. As a result, we are exposed to market risks related to changes in commodity prices of these components. At December 31, 2011,2014, a hypothetical 10% change in commodity prices for raw materials would cause approximately a $3.3 $1.0million change to cost of sales in our Consolidated Statement of Income and Comprehensive Income.

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

Item 8.Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Our Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes, together with the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm thereon, are set forth below on pages F-1 through F-45F-40 are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

Not applicable.

 

Item 9A.Controls and Procedures

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“the Exchange Act”)) are controls and procedures that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, in a manner to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

As of December 31, 2011,2014, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act.”)) pursuant to Rules 13a-1513a-15(e) and 15d-1515d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. These controls and procedures were designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, in a manner to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Based on this evaluation,

including an evaluation of the rules referred to above in this Item 9A, management has concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 20112014 to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, in a manner to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.Act. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of our principal executive and principal financial officers to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

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Our internal control over financial reporting is supported by written policies and procedures that pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets, provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and that our receipts and expenditures are being made and recorded only in accordance with authorizations of our management and provide reasonable assurance regarding the prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.

In connection with the preparation of this Form 10-K, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 20112014 based on the criteria established in Internal Control — Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013 (“COSO”). Our assessment included an evaluation of the design of our internal control over financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Based on this evaluation, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2011.2014.  

Because of its inherent limitations, a system of internal control over financial reporting can provide only reasonable assurance and may not prevent or detect misstatements. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risks that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions and that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

BDO USA, LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm who audited our Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Form 10-K, has issued a report on our internal control over financial reporting, which is included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K.

Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act) during the quarter ended December 31, 20112014 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 9B. Other InformationItem 9A(T).

Controls and Procedures

Not applicable.

     

Item 9B.

None.

Other Information

None.

PART III

 

Item 10.Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

The information required in response to this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for our 20122015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the captions “Election of Directors,” “Corporate Governance Matters,” “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance,” “Corporate Governance Matters — Matters—Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics,” “Corporate Governance Matters — Matters—Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee,” and “Corporate Governance Matters — Matters—Audit Committee.” Such information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 11.Executive Compensation

Item 11. Executive Compensation

The information in response to this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for our 20122015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the captions “Director Compensation,” “Executive Compensation,” “Corporate Governance Matters — Matters—Compensation Committee,” and “Executive Compensation — Compensation—Compensation Committee Report.” Such information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 12.Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

Except as set forth below, the information required in response to this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for our 20122015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the caption “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management.” Such information is incorporated herein by reference.

Equity Compensation Plans

The following table summarizes information about the equity securities authorized for issuance under our compensation plans as of December 31, 2011.2014. For a description of these plans, please see Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

(number of securities in thousands)

Plan Category

  Number of securities
to be issued upon
exercise of

outstanding options,
warrants and rights
   Weighted average
exercise price of
outstanding
options,
warrants and  rights
   Number of  securities
remaining

available for
future issuance
under equity
compensation plans
 

Equity compensation plans approved by stockholders

   387    $4.03     2,217  

Equity compensation plans not approved by stockholders

   689     3.61       
  

 

 

     

 

 

 

Total

   1,076    $3.76     2,217  
  

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

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Item 13.

Certain Relationships

(Dollars in thousands)

Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding stock options, warrants and Related Transactionsrights

Weighted average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and Director Independencerights

Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans

Plan Category

Equity compensation plans approved by stockholders

$

377 

Equity compensation plans not approved by stockholders

Total

$

377 

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence

The information required in response to this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for our 20122015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the captions “Corporate Governance Matters — Matters—Director Independence” and “Corporate Governance Matters Related Party Transaction Policies and Procedures.” Such information is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services

 

Item 14.

Principal Accounting Fees and Services

The information in response to this Item will be set forth in our Proxy Statement for our 20122015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the caption “Fees of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.” Such information is incorporated herein by reference.

PART IV

 

PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

Item 15.Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

 

(a)(3)

Exhibits

The following exhibits are included as part of this filing and incorporated herein by this reference:

2.1

3.1

Acquisition Agreement, dated October 12, 2010, by and among 3D Systems Corporation, 3D Systems Italia, Mr. Francesco Giorgio Buson and Glas S.S. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to Form 8-K filed on October 12, 2010.)
2.2Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2011, by an among 3D Systems Corporation, 3D Systems SA, Huntsman Advanced Materials Americas LLC, and Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbH. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to Form 8-K filed on November 1, 2011.)
2.3Stock Purchase Agreement, dated November 21, 2011, by and among 3D Systems Corporation, 3D Systems, Inc., Contex Group A/S, and Ratos AB. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to Form 8-K filed on November 22, 2011.)
3.1

Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Form 8-B8‑B filed on August 16, 1993, and the amendment thereto, filed on Form 8-B/8‑B/A on February 4, 1994.)

3.2

Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation filed on May 23, 1995. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-2/S‑2/A, filed on May 25, 1995.)

3.3

Certificate of Designation of Rights, Preferences and Privileges of Preferred Stock. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A8‑A filed on January 8, 1996.)

3.4

Certificate of Designation of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on May 2, 2003. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on May 7, 2003.)

3.5

Certificate of Elimination of Series A Preferred Stock filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on March 4, 2004. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.6 of Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K10‑K for the year ended December 31, 2003, filed on March 15, 2004.)

3.6

Certificate of Elimination of Series B Preferred Stock filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on June 9, 2006. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on June 9, 2006.)

3.7

Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation filed with Secretary of State of Delaware on May 19, 2004. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q10‑Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2004, filed on August 5, 2004.)

3.8

Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation filed with Secretary of State of Delaware on May 17, 2005. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q10‑Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005, filed on August 1, 2005.)

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3.9

Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on October 7, 2011.  (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Form 8-K filed on October 7, 2011.)

3.10

Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series A Preferred Stock, filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on December 9, 2008. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 9, 2008.)

3.11

Certificate of Elimination of Series A Preferred Stock filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on November 14, 2011.  (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Form 8-K filed on November 15, 2011.)

3.12

Amended and Restated By-Laws.

Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on May 21, 2013. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.23.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 1, 2006.May 22, 2013.)

(a)(3)

Exhibits

3.13

4.1*

3D Systems Corporation 1996 Stock Incentive Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Appendix A to Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed on March 30, 2001.)
4.2*Form of Incentive Stock Option Contract for Executives pursuant to the 1996 Stock Incentive Plan.

Amended and Restated By‑Laws. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.63.1 of the Registrant’s AnnualCurrent Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000,8‑K, filed on March 16, 2001.February 17, 2015.)

4.3*

4.1*

Form of Non-Statutory Stock Option Contract for Executives pursuant to the 1996 Stock Incentive Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 of Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000, filed on March 16, 2001.)
4.4*Form of Employee Incentive Stock Option Contract pursuant to the 1996 Stock Incentive Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 of Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, filed on March 30, 2000.)
4.5*Form of Employee Non-Statutory Stock Option Contract pursuant to the 1996 Stock Incentive Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.9 of Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, filed on March 30, 2000.)
4.6*3D Systems Corporation 1996 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Appendix B to Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed on March 30, 2001.)
4.7*Form of Director Option Contract pursuant to the 1996 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, filed on March 30, 2000.)
4.8*3D Systems Corporation 2001 Stock Option Plan. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on June 11, 2001.)
4.9*

Amended and Restated 2004 Incentive Stock Plan of 3D Systems Corporation (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Amendment No.1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed May 20, 2009.)

4.10*

4.2*

Amended and Restated 2004 Incentive Stock Plan of 3D Systems Corporation (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed February 5, 2015.)

4.3*

Form of Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement for Employees. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8,S‑8, filed on May 19, 2004.)

4.11*

4.4*

Form of Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement for Officers. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8,S‑8, filed on May 19, 2004.)

4.12*

4.5*

Form of Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on February 5, 2015.)

4.6*

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Purchase Agreement. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on February 5, 2015.)

4.7*

Restricted Stock Plan for Non-EmployeeNon‑Employee Directors of 3D Systems Corporation. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8,S‑8, filed on May 19, 2004.)

4.13*

4.8*

Amendment No. 1 to Restricted Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q10‑Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005, filed on August 1, 2005.)

4.14*

4.9*

Form of Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement for Non-EmployeeNon‑Employee Directors. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8,S‑8, filed on May 19, 2004.)

4.15

4.10

Rights Agreement dated as of December 9, 2008 between the Registrant and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 9, 2008.)
4.16First Amendment , dated as of November 14, 2011, to Rights Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2008, between 3D Systems Corporation and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Form 8-K filed on November 15, 2011.)
4.17

Indenture, dated as of November 22, 2011, by and between 3D Systems Corporation and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Form 8-K filed on November 22, 2011.)

(a)(3)

Exhibits

4.11

Specimen Common Stock Certificate. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-182065) filed on June 12, 2012.)

10.1

10.1

Patent License Agreement dated December 16, 1998 by and between 3D Systems, Inc., NTT Data CMET, Inc. and NTT Data Corporation. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.56 to Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K10‑K for the year ended December 31, 1998, filed on March 31, 1999.)

10.2

Lease Agreement dated February 8, 2006 between the Registrant and KDC-Carolina Investments 3, LP. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on February 10, 2006.)

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10.3

10.3

First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated August 7, 2006 between the Registrant and KDC-Carolina Investments 3, LP. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on August 14, 2006.)

10.4

Second Amendment to Lease Agreement effective as of October 6, 2006 to Lease Agreement dated February 8, 2006 between 3D Systems Corporation and KDC-Carolina Investments 3, LP. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on October 10, 2006.)

10.5

Third Amendment to Lease Agreement effective as of December 18, 2006 to Lease Agreement dated February 8, 2006 between 3D Systems Corporation and KDC-Carolina Investments 3, LP. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on December 20, 2006.)

10.6

Fourth Amendment to Lease Agreement effective as of February 26, 2007 to Lease Agreement dated February 8, 2006 between 3D Systems Corporation and KDC-Carolina Investments 3, LP. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on March 1, 2007.)

10.7

Fifth Amendment to Lease Agreement effective as of March 17, 2011 to Lease Agreement dated February 8, 2006 between 3D Systems Corporation and KDC-Carolina Investments 3, LP.  (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 8-K filed on March 18, 2011.)

10.8*

Employment Letter Agreement, effective September 19, 2003, by and between Registrant and Abraham N. Reichental. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on September 22, 2003.)

10.9*

Agreement, dated December 17, 2003, by and between Registrant and Abraham N. Reichental. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.43 to Registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1,S‑1, filed on January 21, 2004.)

10.10*

First Amendment to Employment Agreement, dated July 24, 2007, by and between Registrant and Abraham N. Reichental. (Incorporated(Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q10‑Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2007, filed on August 6, 2007.)

10.11*

Charles W. Hull consulting arrangement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on July 29, 2010.)

10.12*

Kevin P. McAlea severance arrangement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on July 29, 2010.)

14.1

10.13*

Transition Agreement, dated March 28, 2014, by and between 3D Systems Corporation and Damon Gregoire.  (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on March 31, 2014.)

10.14

Credit Agreement, dated as of October 10, 2014, among 3D Systems Corporation, the Guarantors party thereto, PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent,  PNC Capital Markets LLC, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and the other lender’s party thereto. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 14, 2014.)

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14.1

Code of Conduct, as amended effective as of November 30, 2006 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8‑K, filed on December 1, 2006.)

14.2

3D Systems Corporation Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Executives and Directors. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14.2 of the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K10‑K for the year ended December 31, 2003, filed on March 15, 2004.)

21.1

Subsidiaries of Registrant.

23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm dated February 23, 2012.26, 2015.

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31.1

Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-OxleySarbanes‑Oxley Act of 2002, dated February 23, 2012.

26, 2015.

(a)(3)

Exhibits

31.2

31.2

Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-OxleySarbanes‑Oxley Act of 2002, dated February 23, 2012.26, 2015.

32.1

Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-OxleySarbanes‑Oxley Act of 2002, dated February 23, 2012.26, 2015.

32.2

Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-OxleySarbanes‑Oxley Act of 2002, dated February 23, 2012.26, 2015.

101.INS

XBRL Instance Document

101.SCH

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Scheme Document

101.CAL

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

101.DEF

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

101.LAB

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

101.PRE

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

 

*Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

*Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on our behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

3D SYSTEMS CORPORATION

 

By:

3D Systems Corporation

By:

/s/ ABRAHAM N. REICHENTAL

Abraham N. Reichental

President and Chief Executive Officer

Date:

February 26, 2015

Date: February 23, 2012

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

Title

Title

Date

/S/    ABRAHAMs/ ABRAHAM N. REICHENTALREICHENTAL

Abraham N. Reichental

Chief Executive Officer, President and

Director (Principal Executive Officer)

February 23, 2012

26, 2015

/S/     DAMON J. GREGOIRE

Damon J. GregoireAbraham N. Reichental

(principal executive officer)

Senior

/s/ THEODORE A. HULL

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and

Accounting Officer)

February 23, 2012

26, 2015

/S/    CHARLES W. HULL

Charles W.Theodore A. Hull

(principal financial officer)

/s/ CHARLES W. HULL

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology

Technology February 26, 2015

Charles W. Hull

Officer and Director

February 23, 2012

/Ss/ DAVID R. STYKA

Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer

February 26, 2015

David R. Styka

(principal accounting officer)

/s/ G. WALTER LOEWENBAUM,WALTER LOEWENBAUM, II

Chairman of the Board of Directors

February 26, 2015

G. Walter Loewenbaum, II

Chairman of the Board of DirectorsFebruary 23, 2012

/S/    JIMs/ JIM D. KEVERKEVER

Director

February 26, 2015

Jim D. Kever

DirectorFebruary 23, 2012

/S/    KEVINs/ KEVIN S. MOOREMOORE

Director

February 26, 2015

Kevin  S. Moore

DirectorFebruary 23, 2012

/S/    DANIELs/ DANIEL S. VAN RIPERVAN RIPER

Director

February 26, 2015

Daniel S. Van Riper

DirectorFebruary 23, 2012

/S/    WILLIAMs/ WILLIAM E. CURRANCURRAN

Director

February 26, 2015

William E. Curran

DirectorFebruary 23, 2012

/S/    KARENs/ KAREN E. WELKEWELKE

Director

February 26, 2015

Karen E. Welke

Director

/s/ PETER H. DIAMANDIS

Director

February 23, 201226, 2015

Peter H. Diamandis

/s/ WILLIAM D. HUMES

Director

February 26, 2015

William D. Humes

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3D Systems Corporation

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements


and Consolidated Financial Statement Schedule

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting FirmF-1


REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholders and Board of Directors

3D Systems Corporation

Rock Hill, South Carolina

We have audited 3D Systems Corporation and its subsidiaries’ (the “Company”) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011,2014, based on criteria established in Internal Control Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in (the COSO criteria). 3D Systems Corporation’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying “Item 9A, Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.” Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, 3D Systems Corporation did maintain, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011,2014, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of 3D Systems Corporation and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 20112014 and 2010,2013, and the related consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 20112014  and our report dated February 23, 201226, 2015  expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ BDO USA, LLP

BDO USA, LLP

Charlotte, North Carolina

February 23, 2012

26, 2015

F-2


REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of


3D Systems Corporation


Rock Hill, South Carolina

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of 3D Systems Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 and the related consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2011.2014. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the Consolidated Financial Statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of 3D Systems Corporation and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 20112014 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011,2014, based on criteria established inInternal Control — Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the COSO Criteria)in (COSO) and our report dated February 23, 201226, 2015 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ BDO USA, LLP

BDO USA, LLP

Charlotte, North Carolina

February 23, 2012

26, 2015

F-3


3D Systems Corporation


Consolidated Balance Sheets


As of December 31, 20112014 and 20102013

(in thousands, except par value)  2011  2010 
ASSETS  

Current assets:

   

Cash and cash equivalents

  $179,120   $37,349  

Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $3,019 (2011) and $2,017 (2010)

   51,195    35,800  

Inventories, net of reserves of $2,542 (2011) and $2,205 (2010)

   25,283    23,811  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

   2,241    1,295  

Current deferred income taxes

   3,528    1,874  

Restricted cash

   13    11  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total current assets

   261,380    100,140  

Property and equipment, net

   29,594    27,669  

Intangible assets, net

   54,040    18,275  

Goodwill

   107,651    58,978  

Long-term deferred income taxes

   3,195      

Other assets, net

   7,114    3,738  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total assets

  $462,974   $208,800  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY  

Current liabilities:

   

Current portion of capitalized lease obligation

  $163   $224  

Accounts payable

   25,911    26,556  

Accrued liabilities

   16,816    17,969  

Customer deposits

   3,398    2,298  

Deferred revenue

   12,735    10,618  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

   59,023    57,665  

Long-term portion of capitalized lease obligation

   7,609    8,055  

Convertible senior notes, net

   131,107      

Other liabilities

   10,447    9,961  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total liabilities

   208,186    75,681  

Commitments and contingencies

         

Stockholders’ equity:

   

Preferred Stock, authorized 5,000 shares, none issued

         

Common stock, $0.001 par value, authorized 120,000 (2011) and 60,000 shares (2010); 50,975 (2011) and 46,948 (2010) issued

   51    23  

Additional paid-in capital

   274,542    186,252  

Treasury stock, at cost; 324 shares (2011) and 268 shares (2010)

   (214  (189

Accumulated deficit

   (22,531  (57,925

Accumulated other comprehensive income

   2,940    4,958  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total equity

   254,788    133,119  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total liabilities and equity

  $462,974   $208,800  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

3D Systems Corporation

Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income

Years Ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009

(in thousands, except per share amounts)  2011  2010  2009 

Revenue:

    

Products

  $137,306   $113,117   $80,798  

Services

   93,117    46,751    32,037  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total revenue

   230,423    159,868    112,835  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cost of sales:

    

Products

   66,589    56,041    43,301  

Services

   54,806    29,851    19,804  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total cost of sales

   121,395    85,892    63,105  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Gross profit

   109,028    73,976    49,730  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

    

Selling, general and administrative

   59,795    42,331    35,528  

Research and development

   14,331    10,725    11,129  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

   74,126    53,056    46,657  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Income from operations

   34,902    20,920    3,073  

Interest and other expense, net

   2,456    1,181    1,160  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Income before income taxes

   32,446    19,739    1,913  

Provision for (benefit of) income taxes

   (2,974  173    774  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net income

   35,420    19,566    1,139  

Less: net income attributable to non-controlling interest

           73  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net income available to 3D Systems common stockholders

  $35,420   $19,566   $1,066  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income:

    

Unrealized (loss) on pension obligation

   (275  (65  (57

Foreign currency translation gain (loss)

   (1,743  406    (35
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Comprehensive income available to 3D Systems common stockholders

  $33,402   $19,907   $974  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net income available to 3D Systems common stockholders per
share — basic

  $0.71   $0.42   $0.02  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net income available to 3D Systems common stockholders per
share — diluted

  $0.70   $0.42   $0.02  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

3D Systems Corporation

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

Years Ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009

(in thousands, except par value) Equity Attributable to 3D Systems’ Stockholders  Equity
Attributable to
Non-controlling
Interest
  Total
Equity
 
 Common Stock  Treasury Stock  Accumulated
Deficit
  Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income
  Total
3D Systems’
Stockholders’
Equity
   
 Shares  Par
Value
$0.001
  Additional
Paid-in
Capital
  Shares  Amount      

Balance at December 31, 2008

  22,424   $22   $176,180    59   $(120 $(78,557 $4,709   $102,234   $   $102,234  

Exercise of stock options

  15    (a)   84                    84        84  

Issuance (repurchase) of restricted stock, net

  335    1    228    15    (14          215        215  

Stock compensation expense

      (a)   1,190                    1,190        1,190  

Net income

                      1,066        1,066    73    1,139  

Foreign currency translation adjustment

                          (35  (35      (35

Loss on pension plan — unrealized

                          (57  (57      (57
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2009

  22,774   $23   $177,682    74   $(134 $(77,491 $4,617   $104,697   $73   $104,770  
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Exercise of stock options

  79    (a)   1,128                    1,128        1,128  

Issuance (repurchase) of restricted stock, net

  160    (a)   141    60    (55          86        86  

Issuance of stock for acquisitions

  461    (a)   5,895                    5,895        5,895  

Stock compensation expense

      (a)   1,406                    1,406        1,406  

Net income

                      19,566        19,566        19,566  

Acquisition of non-controlling interest

                                  (73  (73

Foreign currency translation adjustment

                          
406
  
  
406
  
      
406
  

Loss on pension plan — unrealized

                          (65  (65      (65
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2010

  23,474   $23   $186,252    134   $(189 $(57,925 $4,958   $133,119   $   $133,119  
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Exercise of stock options

  306    (a)   2,536                 2,536        2,536  

Issuance (repurchase) of restricted stock, net

  253    (a)   253    190    (25          228        228  

Stock-based compensation expense

  8     2,637                    2,637        2,637  

Issuance of common stock

  1,495    2    62,052                    62,054        62,054  

Issuance of stock for acquisitions

  110    (a)   3,042                    3,042        3,042  

Common stock dividend

  25,329    26                (26                

Issuance of convertible notes

          17,770                    17,770        17,770  

Net income

                      35,420        35,420        35,420  

Foreign currency translation adjustment

                          (1,743  (1,743      (1,743

Loss on pension plan — unrealized

                          (275  (275      (275
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2011

  50,975   $51   $274,542    324   $(214 $(22,531 $2,940   $254,788   $   $254,788  
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

(a)Amounts not shown due to rounding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31,

 

December 31,

(in thousands, except par value)

 

2014

 

2013

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

284,862 

 

$

306,316 

Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $10,300 (2014) and $8,133 (2013)

 

 

168,441 

 

 

132,121 

Inventories, net

 

 

96,645 

 

 

75,148 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

 

15,769 

 

 

7,203 

Current deferred income tax asset

 

 

14,973 

 

 

6,067 

Total current assets

 

 

580,690 

 

 

526,855 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

81,881 

 

 

45,208 

Intangible assets, net

 

 

251,561 

 

 

141,709 

Goodwill

 

 

589,537 

 

 

370,066 

Long term deferred income tax asset

 

 

816 

 

 

548 

Other assets, net

 

 

21,485 

 

 

13,470 

Total assets

 

$

1,525,970 

 

$

1,097,856 

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current portion of debt and capitalized lease obligations

 

$

684 

 

$

187 

Accounts payable

 

 

64,378 

 

 

51,729 

Accrued and other liabilities

 

 

44,219 

 

 

28,430 

Customer deposits

 

 

6,946 

 

 

5,466 

Deferred revenue

 

 

32,264 

 

 

24,644 

Total current liabilities

 

 

148,491 

 

 

110,456 

Long term portion of capitalized lease obligations

 

 

8,905 

 

 

7,277 

Convertible senior notes, net

 

 

 

 

11,416 

Long term deferred income tax liability 

 

 

30,679 

 

 

19,714 

Other liabilities

 

 

34,898 

 

 

15,201 

Total liabilities

 

 

222,973 

 

 

164,064 

Redeemable noncontrolling interests

 

 

        8,872

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.001 par value, authorized 220,000 shares; issued 112,233 (2014) and 103,818 (2013)

 

 

112 

 

 

104 

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

1,245,462 

 

 

866,552 

Treasury stock, at cost: 709 shares (2014) and 600 shares (2013)

 

 

(374)

 

 

(286)

Accumulated earnings

 

 

72,124 

 

 

60,487 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

 

(24,406)

 

 

5,789 

Total 3D Systems Corporation stockholders' equity

 

 

1,292,918 

 

 

932,646 

Noncontrolling interests

 

 

1,207 

 

 

1,146 

Total stockholders’ equity

 

 

1,294,125 

 

 

933,792 

Total liabilities, redeemable noncontrolling interests and stockholders’ equity

 

$

1,525,970 

 

$

1,097,856 

Accumulated other comprehensive income of $2,940 consists of a cumulative unrealized loss on pension plan of $194 and foreign currency translation gain of $3,134.

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

F-4


3D Systems Corporation


Consolidated Statements of Cash FlowsIncome and Comprehensive Income


Years Ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012

 

(in thousands)  2011  2010  2009 

Cash flows from operating activities:

    

Net income

  $35,420   $19,566   $1,139  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

    

Provision for (benefit of) deferred income taxes

   (5,140  (1,235  309  

Depreciation and amortization

   11,502    7,520    5,886  

Provisions for bad debts, net

   1,731    102    909  

Stock-based compensation

   2,637    1,406    1,190  

Loss on disposition of property and equipment

   256    91    194  

Changes in operating accounts:

    

Accounts receivable

   (12,090  (7,456  1,430  

Inventories

   (2,608  (5,693  2,436  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

   45    1,366    (371

Accounts payable

   (3,457  10,433    (4,395

Accrued liabilities

   141    2,505    617  

Customer deposits

   857    1,677    (529

Deferred revenue

   525    2,188    (1,106

Other operating assets and liabilities

   (2,159  (626  25  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

   27,660    31,844    7,734  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

    

Purchases of property and equipment

   (2,870  (1,283  (974

Proceeds from disposition of property and equipment and other assets

   174    6    52  

Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash assumed

   (92,677  (19,195  (4,098

Additions to license and patent costs

   (336  (302  (223
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

   (95,709  (20,774  (5,243
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

    

Proceeds from convertible notes

   148,960          

Convertible notes capitalized costs

   (3,594        

Proceeds from issuance of common stock

   62,054          

Proceeds from exercise of stock options and restricted stock

   2,764    1,214    298  

Repayment of long-term debt and capital lease obligations

   (221  (216  (195

Repayment of short-term borrowings

           (3,085

Restricted cash

   12    43    3,255  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

   209,975    1,041    273  

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash

   (155  325    (15
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

   141,771    12,436    2,749  

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period

   37,349    24,913    22,164  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period

  $179,120   $37,349   $24,913  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Products

$

442,198 

 

$

356,032 

 

$

229,980 

Services

 

211,454 

 

 

157,368 

 

 

123,653 

Total revenue

 

653,652 

 

 

513,400 

 

 

353,633 

Cost of sales:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Products

 

223,991 

 

 

159,628 

 

 

105,286 

Services

 

112,227 

 

 

86,178 

 

 

67,151 

Total cost of sales

 

336,218 

 

 

245,806 

 

 

172,437 

Gross profit

 

317,434 

 

 

267,594 

 

 

181,196 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling, general and administrative

 

215,724 

 

 

143,244 

 

 

97,422 

Research and development

 

75,395 

 

 

43,489 

 

 

23,203 

Total operating expenses

 

291,119 

 

 

186,733 

 

 

120,625 

Income from operations

 

26,315 

 

 

80,861 

 

 

60,571 

Interest and other expense, net

 

8,928 

 

 

16,855 

 

 

17,292 

Income before income taxes

 

17,387 

 

 

64,006 

 

 

43,279 

Provision for income taxes

 

5,441 

 

 

19,887 

 

 

4,338 

Net income 

 

11,946 

 

 

44,119 

 

 

38,941 

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests

 

(309)

 

 

(12)

 

 

Net income attributable to 3D Systems Corporation

$

11,637 

 

$

44,107 

 

$

38,941 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pension adjustments, net of taxes: $515 (2014), $78 (2013) and $316 (2012)

$

(1,135)

 

$

(168)

 

$

(714)

Foreign currency translation gain (loss) attributable to 3D Systems Corporation

 

(29,183)

 

 

1,968 

 

 

1,640 

Liquidation of non-US entity

 

 

 

173 

 

 

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(30,318)

 

 

1,973 

 

 

926 

Comprehensive income (loss)

 

(18,681)

 

 

46,080 

 

 

39,867 

Foreign currency translation (gain) loss attributable to noncontrolling interests

 

123 

 

 

(50)

 

 

Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to 3D Systems Corporation

$

(18,558)

 

$

46,030 

 

$

39,867 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income per share available to 3D Systems common stockholders — basic and diluted

$

0.11 

 

$

0.45 

 

$

0.48 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

F-5


3D Systems Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
Years Ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock

 

Treasury Stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(In thousands, except par value)

Shares

 

Par Value $0.001

 

Additional Paid In Capital

 

Shares

 

Amount

 

Accumulated Earnings

 

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

Total 3D Systems Corporation Stockholders' Equity

 

Equity Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests

 

Total Stockholders' Equity

Balance at December 31, 2011

50,975 

 

$

51 

 

$

274,542 

 

324 

 

$

(214)

 

$

(22,531)

 

$

2,940 

 

 

254,788 

 

$

 

 

254,788 

Exercise of stock options

1,055 

 

 

 

 

3,903 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,904 

 

 

 

 

3,904 

Tax benefits from share-based payment arrangements

 

 

 

 

1,514 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,514 

 

 

 

 

1,514 

Issuance (repurchase) of restricted stock, net

524 

 

 

 

 

524 

 

31 

 

 

(26)

 

 

 

 

 

 

499 

 

 

 

 

499 

Issuance of common stock

4,151 

 

 

 

 

106,885 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

106,889 

 

 

 

 

106,889 

Issuance of stock for 5.50% senior convertible notes

2,845 

 

 

 

 

60,079 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

60,082 

 

 

 

 

60,082 

Issuance of stock for acquisitions

294 

 

 

(a)

 

7,672 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,672 

 

 

 

 

7,672 

Stock-based compensation expense

11 

 

 

 

 

5,118 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,118 

 

 

 

 

5,118 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38,941 

 

 

 

 

38,941 

 

 

 

 

38,941 

Pension adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(714)

 

 

(714)

 

 

 

 

(714)

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,640 

 

 

1,640 

 

 

 

 

1,640 

Balance at December 31, 2012

59,855 

 

$

60 

 

$

460,237 

 

355 

 

$

(240)

 

$

16,410 

 

$

3,866 

 

$

480,333 

 

$

 

$

480,333 

Tax benefits from share-based payment arrangements

 

 

 

 

26,038 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26,038 

 

 

 

 

26,038 

Issuance (repurchase) of restricted stock, net

1,001 

 

 

 

 

947 

 

68 

 

 

(46)

 

 

 

 

 

 

902 

 

 

 

 

902 

Issuance of stock for 5.50% senior convertible notes

4,675 

 

 

 

 

80,749 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

80,754 

 

 

 

 

80,754 

Common stock split

30,867 

 

 

31 

 

 

(177)

 

177 

 

 

 

 

(30)

 

 

 

 

(176)

 

 

 

 

(176)

Issuance of stock for acquisitions

293 

 

 

 

 

13,131 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13,131 

 

 

 

 

13,131 

Issuance of stock for equity raise

7,112 

 

 

 

 

272,069 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

272,076 

 

 

 

 

272,076 

Stock-based compensation expense

15 

 

 

 

 

13,558 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13,558 

 

 

 

 

13,558 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

44,107 

 

 

 

 

44,107 

 

 

12 

 

 

44,119 

Noncontrolling interest for business combinations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,084 

 

 

1,084 

Pension adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(168)

 

 

(168)

 

 

 

 

(168)

Liquidation of non-US entity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

173 

 

 

173 

 

 

 

 

173 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,918 

 

 

1,918 

 

 

50 

 

 

1,968 

Balance at December 31, 2013

103,818 

 

$

104 

 

$

866,552 

 

600 

 

$

(286)

 

$

60,487 

 

$

5,789 

 

$

932,646 

 

$

1,146 

 

$

933,792 

Tax benefits from share-based payment arrangements

 

 

 

 

7,653 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,653 

 

 

 

 

7,653 

Issuance (repurchase) of restricted stock, net

1,152 

 

 

 

 

1,983 

 

109 

 

 

(88)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,896 

 

 

 

 

1,896 

Issuance of stock for 5.50% senior convertible notes, net of taxes

877 

 

 

 

 

12,133 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12,134 

 

 

 

 

12,134 

Issuance of stock for acquisitions

436 

 

 

 

 

24,625 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24,625 

 

 

 

 

24,625 

Issuance of stock for equity raise

5,950 

 

 

 

 

299,723 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

299,729 

 

 

 

 

299,729 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

 

 

32,793 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32,793 

 

 

 

 

32,793 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11,637 

 

 

 

 

11,637 

 

 

309 

 

 

11,946 

Noncontrolling interests for business combinations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(125)

 

 

(125)

Pension adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,135)

 

 

(1,135)

 

 

 

 

(1,135)

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(29,060)

 

 

(29,060)

 

 

(123)

 

 

(29,183)

Balance at December 31, 2014

112,233 

 

$

112 

 

$

1,245,462 

 

709 

 

$

(374)

 

$

72,124 

 

$

(24,406)

(b)

$

1,292,918 

 

$

1,207 

 

$

1,294,125 

(a)

Amounts not shown due to rounding.

(b)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss of $24,406 consists of a cumulative unrealized loss on pension plan of $2,211 and a foreign currency translation loss of $22,195.

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

F-6


3D Systems Corporation
Consolidated Financial Statements of Cash Flows
Years Ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

 

2013

 

 

2012

Cash flows from operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income 

$

11,946 

 

$

44,119 

 

$

38,941 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefit of deferred income taxes

 

(24,555)

 

 

(9,892)

 

 

(661)

Depreciation and amortization

 

55,188 

 

 

30,444 

 

 

21,229 

Non-cash interest on convertible notes

 

224 

 

 

974 

 

 

3,876 

Provision for bad debts

 

8,699 

 

 

4,961 

 

 

3,039 

Stock-based compensation

 

32,793 

 

 

13,558 

 

 

5,118 

(Gain) loss on the disposition of property and equipment

 

(227)

 

 

1,128 

 

 

(674)

Deferred interest income

 

 

 

(1,018)

 

 

Loss on conversion of convertible debt

 

1,806 

 

 

11,275 

 

 

7,021 

Changes in operating accounts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable

 

(55,977)

 

 

(43,684)

 

 

(19,246)

Inventories

 

(30,754)

 

 

(30,893)

 

 

(12,225)

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

(9,235)

 

 

(1,780)

 

 

(794)

Accounts payable

 

23,482 

 

 

7,620 

 

 

(238)

Accrued liabilities

 

16,071 

 

 

(6,495)

 

 

7,567 

Customer deposits

 

1,921 

 

 

1,904 

 

 

(1,336)

Deferred revenue

 

8,686 

 

 

7,526 

 

 

1,164 

Other operating assets and liabilities

 

11,043 

 

 

(4,563)

 

 

(1,251)

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

51,111 

 

 

25,184 

 

 

51,530 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and equipment

 

(22,727)

 

 

(6,972)

 

 

(3,224)

Additions to license and patent costs

 

(753)

 

 

(1,648)

 

 

(729)

Proceeds from disposition of property and equipment

 

 

 

1,882 

 

 

Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash assumed

 

(345,361)

 

 

(162,318)

 

 

(183,701)

Other investing activities

 

(6,600)

 

 

(4,701)

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

(375,441)

 

 

(173,757)

 

 

(187,654)

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from issuance of common stock

 

299,729 

 

 

272,076 

 

 

106,889 

Tax benefits from share-based payment arrangements

 

7,653 

 

 

26,038 

 

 

1,514 

Proceeds from exercise of stock options and restricted stock, net

 

1,896 

 

 

902 

 

 

4,400 

Cash disbursed in lieu of fractional shares related to stock split

 

 

 

(176)

 

 

Restricted cash

 

 

 

13 

 

 

Repayment of capital lease obligations

 

(696)

 

 

(157)

 

 

(163)

Net cash provided by financing activities

 

308,582 

 

 

298,696 

 

 

112,640 

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash

 

(5,706)

 

 

334 

 

 

223 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

(21,454)

 

 

150,457 

 

 

(23,261)

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period

 

306,316 

 

 

155,859 

 

 

179,120 

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period

$

284,862 

 

$

306,316 

 

$

155,859 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash interest payments

$

888 

 

$

1,584 

 

$

9,113 

Cash income tax payments

 

15,602 

 

 

5,642 

 

 

3,506 

Transfer of equipment from inventory to property and equipment, net (a) 

 

5,891 

 

 

4,886 

 

 

4,057 

Transfer of equipment to inventory from property and equipment, net (b) 

 

944 

 

 

612 

 

 

1,924 

Stock issued for acquisitions of businesses

 

24,625 

 

 

13,131 

 

 

7,672 

Notes redeemed for shares of common stock

 

12,134 

 

 

80,754 

 

 

60,082 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

F-7


(a)

Inventory is transferred from inventory to property and equipment at cost when the Company requires additional machines for training or demonstration or for placement into Quickparts locations.

(b)

In general, an asset is transferred from property and equipment, net into inventory at its net book value when the Company has identified a potential sale for a used machine.

Note 1 Basis of Presentation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of 3D Systems Corporation and all majority-owned subsidiaries and entities in which a controlling interest is maintained (the “Company”).

A non-controlling interest in a subsidiary is considered an ownership interest in a majority-owned subsidiary that is not attributable to the parent. The Company includes noncontrolling interest as a component of total equity in the Consolidated Balance Sheets and the net income attributable to noncontrolling interests are presented as an adjustment from net income used to arrive at net income attributable to 3D Systems Corporation in the consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income.

Investments in non-consolidated affiliates (20-50 percent owned companies and joint ventures) are accounted for using the equity method.

Investments through which we are not able to exercise significant influence over the investee and which we do not have readily determinable fair values are accounted for under the cost method.

All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The Company’s annual reporting period is the calendar year.

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements. Actual results may differ from these estimates and assumptions.

The Company’s Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split, affected in the form of a 100% stock dividend, which was paid on May 18, 2011 to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 9, 2011. The Company’s stockholders received one additional share of common stock for each share of common stock owned. This did not change the proportionate interest that a stockholder maintained in the Company. All shares and per share amounts set forth in the report, including earnings per share and the weighted average number of shares outstanding for basic and diluted earnings per share for each respective period have been adjusted to reflect the two-for-one stock split.

All amounts presented in the accompanying footnotes are presented in thousands, except for per share information.

The Company has evaluated subsequent events from the date of the consolidated balance sheet through the date of the filing of this Form 10-K. During this period, the Company closed the acquisition of Z Corporation and Vidar Systems. See Note 25 for a description of subsequent events.

Note 2 Significant Accounting Policies

Use of Estimates

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires the Company to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates, including, among others, those related to the allowance for doubtful accounts, income taxes, inventory reserves, goodwill, other intangible assets, contingencies and revenue recognition. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue

Net revenue is derived primarily from the sale of printers and related products and print materials is recognized upon shipment orservices. The following revenue recognition policies define the manner in which the Company accounts for sales transactions.

The Company recognizes revenue when services are performed, provided that persuasive evidence of a salessale arrangement exists, both titledelivery has occurred or services are rendered, the sales price or fee is fixed or determinable and risk of loss have passed to the customer and collectioncollectability is reasonably assured. Persuasive evidenceRevenue generally is recognized net of aallowances for returns and any taxes collected from customers and subsequently remitted to governmental authorities. The Company sells its products through its direct sales arrangement exists upon executionforce and through authorized resellers. The Company recognizes revenue on sales to resellers at the time of a written sales agreement or signed purchase order that constitutes a fixed and legally binding commitment betweensale when the reseller has economic substance apart from Company, and the buyer. In instances where sales are madeCompany has completed its obligations related to an authorized reseller, the same criteria cited above are applied to determine the recognition of revenue. The reseller’s creditworthiness is evaluated prior to such sale. The reseller takes ownership of the related printers, products or print materials and payment is not dependent upon the reseller’s sale to an end user.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

F-8


 

The Company enters into sales arrangements that may provide for multiple deliverables to a customer. Sales of printers may include ancillary equipment, print materials, a software license, a warranty on the equipment, training and installation. The Company identifies all goods and/or services that are to be delivered separately under a sales arrangement and allocates revenue to each deliverable based on relative fair values. Fair values are generallyeither vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) or if VSOE is not determinable then the Company uses best estimated selling price (“BESP”) of each deliverable. The Company established based onVSOE of selling price using the pricesprice charged for a deliverable when sold separately byseparately. The objective of BESP is to determine the Company. In general, revenues are separated between printersprice at which the Company would transact a sale if the deliverable was sold regularly on a stand-alone basis. The Company considers multiple factors including, but not limited to, market conditions, geographies, competitive landscapes, and other products, print materials, training services, maintenance servicesentity-specific factors such as internal costs, gross margin objectives and installation services. The allocated revenue for each deliverablepricing practices when estimating BESP. Consideration in a multiple element arrangement is then recognized ratably basedallocated to the elements on a relative fair values ofsales value basis using either VSOE or BESP for all the components of the sale, consistent within the scope of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2009-13. Revenue from training, installation and non-contract maintenance services is recognized at the time of performance.elements. The Company also evaluates the impact of undelivered items on the functionality of delivered items for each sales transaction and, where appropriate, defers revenue on delivered items when that functionality has been affected.  Functionality is determined to be met if the delivered products or services represent a separate earnings process.

Hardware

In general, revenues are separated between printers and other products, print materials, training services, maintenance services and installation services. The allocated revenue for each deliverable is then recognized based on relative fair values of the components of the sale, consistent within the scope of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 605 Revenue Recognition.

Under the Company’s standard terms and conditions of sale, title and risk of loss transfer to the customer at the time product is shipped to the customer and revenue is recognized accordingly, unless customer acceptance is uncertain or significant obligations remain. The Company provides end-usersdefers the estimated revenue associated with maintenance under a warranty agreement for uppost-sale obligations that are not essential to one year and defers a portionthe functionality of the delivered items, and recognizes revenue in the future as the conditions for revenue recognition are met.

Software

The Company also markets and sells software tools that enable our customers to capture and customize content using our printers, as well as reverse engineering and inspection software. The software does not require significant modification or customization. The Company applies the guidance in ASC 985-605, Software-Revenue Recognition in recognizing revenue when software is more than incidental to the product or service as a whole based on fair value using vendor-specific objective evidence. Revenue from perpetual software licenses is recognized either upon delivery of the product or delivery of a key code which allows the customer to access the software. In instances where software access is provided for a trial period, revenue is not recognized until the customer has purchased the software at the expiration of the trial period. The Company uses the residual method to allocate revenue to software licenses at the inception of the license term when VSOE of fair value for all undelivered elements, such as maintenance, exists and all other revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied. In instances in which customers purchase post sale support, it is considered a separate element from the related printer salesoftware and is deferred at the time of sale based on the relative fair value of those services. After the initial warranty period, the Company offers these customers optional maintenance contracts. Deferred maintenance revenue is recognized ratably, on a straight-line basis, over the period of the contract.and subsequently amortized in future periods.

On-demand printed parts sales are included within services revenue and revenue is recognized upon shipment or delivery of the parts, based on the terms of the sales arrangement.

The Company also sells equipment with embedded software to its customers. The embedded software is not sold separately, it is not a significant focus of the marketing effort and the Company does not provide post-contract customer support specific to the software or incur significant costs that are within the scope of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 985, “Software”.ASC 985. Additionally, the functionality that the software provides is marketed as part of the overall product. The software embedded in the equipment is incidental to the equipment as a whole such that ASC 985 is not applicable. Sales of these products are recognized in accordance with ASC 605.25, “Multiple-Element Arrangements.”

Services

Printers include a warranty under which the Company provides maintenance for periods up to one year, as well as training, installation and non-contract maintenance services. The Company defers this portion of the revenue at the time of sale based on the relative fair value of these services. Deferred revenue is recognized ratably according to the term of the warranty. Costs associated with our obligations during the warranty period are expensed as incurred. After the initial warranty period, the Company offers these customers optional maintenance contracts. Deferred maintenance revenue is recognized ratably, on a straight-line basis, over the period of the contract, and costs associated with these contracts are recognized as incurred. Revenue from training, installation and non-contract maintenance services is recognized at the time of performance.

Quickparts printed parts sales are included within services revenue and revenue is recognized upon shipment or delivery of the parts, based on the terms of the sales arrangement. 

F-9


Terms of sale

Shipping and handling costs billed to customers for equipment sales and sales of print materials are included in product revenue in the consolidated statementsConsolidated Statements of incomeIncome and other comprehensive income.Other Comprehensive Income. Costs incurred by the Company associated with shipping and handling are included in product cost of sales in the consolidated statementsConsolidated Statements of incomeIncome and other comprehensive income.Other Comprehensive Income.

Credit is extended, and creditworthiness is determined, based on an evaluation of each customer’s financial condition. New customers are generally required to complete a credit application and provide references and bank information to facilitate an analysis of creditworthiness. Customers with a favorable profile may receive credit terms that differ from the Company’s general credit terms. Creditworthiness is considered, among other things, in evaluating the Company’s relationship with customers with past due balances.

The Company’s terms of sale generally require payment within 30 to 60 days after shipment of a product, although the Company also recognizes that longer payment periods are customary in some countries where it transacts business. To reduce credit risk in connection with printer sales, the Company may, depending upon the circumstances, require significant deposits prior to shipment and may retain a security interest in a system sold until fully paid. In some circumstances, the Company may require payment in full for its products prior to shipment and may require international customers to furnish letters of credit. For maintenance services, the Company either bills customers on a time-and-materials basis or sells customers service agreements that are recorded as deferred revenue and provide for payment in advance on either an annual or other periodic basis.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Investments with original maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase are considered to be cash equivalents. The Company’s policy is to invest cash in excess of short-term operating and debt-service requirements in such cash equivalents. These instruments are stated at cost, which approximates market value because of the short maturity of the instruments. The Company places its cash with high qualityhighly creditworthy financial institutions, corporations or governments, and believes its risk of loss is limited; however, at times, account balances may exceed international and U.S. federally insured limits.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

The Company’s estimate of the allowance for doubtful accounts related to trade receivables is based on two methods. The amounts calculated from each of these methods are combined to determine the total amount reserved.

First, the Company evaluates specific accounts for which it has information that the customer may be unable to meet its financial obligations (for example, bankruptcy). In these cases, the Company uses its judgment, based on the available facts and circumstances, and records a specific reserve for that customer against amounts due to reduce the outstanding receivable balance to the amount that is expected to be collected. These specific reserves are re-evaluatedreevaluated and adjusted as additional information is received that impacts the amount reserved.

Second, a reserve is established for all customers based on percentages applied to aging categories. These percentages are based on historical collection and write-off experience. If circumstances change (for example, the Company experiences higher-than-expected defaults or an unexpected adverse change in a customer’s financial condition), estimates of the recoverability of amounts due to the Company could be reduced. Similarly, if the Company experiences lower-than-expected defaults or customer financial condition improves, estimates of the recoverability of amounts due the Company could be increased.

The Company also provides an allowance account for returns and discounts. This allowance is evaluated on a specific account basis. In addition, the Company provides a general reserve for returns from customers that have not been specifically identified based on historical experience.

The Company’s estimate of the allowance for doubtful accounts for financing receivables is determined by evaluating specific accounts for which the borrower is past due more than 90 days, or for which it has information that the borrower may be unable to meet its financial obligations (for example, bankruptcy). In these cases, the Company uses its judgment, based on the available facts and circumstances, and records a specific reserve for that borrower against amounts due to reduce the outstanding receivable balance to the amount that is expected to be collected. If there are any specific reserves, they are re-evaluatedreevaluated and adjusted as additional information is received that impacts the amount reserved.

Inventories

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable market value, cost being determined using the first-in, first-out method. Reserves for slow-moving and obsolete inventories are provided based on historical experience and current product demand. The Company evaluates the adequacy of these reserves quarterly.

F-10


Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are carried at cost and depreciated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the related assets, generally three to thirty years. Leasehold improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the shorter of (i) their estimated useful lives and (ii) the estimated or contractual lives of the leases. Realized gains and losses are recognized upon disposal or retirement of the related assets and are reflected in results of operations. Charges for repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

Goodwill and Intangible Assets

The annual impairment testing required by ASC 350, “Intangibles Goodwill and Other” requires the Company to use judgment and could require the Company to write down the carrying value of its goodwill and other intangible assets in future periods. The Company allocatedallocates goodwill to identifiable geographic reporting units, which are tested for impairment using a two-step process detailed in that statement. See Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements. The first step requires comparing the fair value of each reporting unit with the carrying amount, including goodwill. If that fair value exceeds the carrying amount, the second step of the process is not required to be performed, and no impairment charge is required to be recorded. If that fair value does not exceed that carrying amount, the Company must perform the second step, which requires an allocation of the fair value of the reporting unit to all assets and liabilities of that unit as if the reporting unit had been acquired in a purchase business combination and the fair value of the reporting unit was the purchase price. The goodwill resulting from that purchase price allocation is then compared to the carrying amount with any excess recorded as an impairment charge.

Goodwill set forth on the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 20112014 arose from acquisitions carried out in 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 and in years prior to December 31, 2007.Goodwill arising from acquisitions prior to 2007 was allocated to geographic reporting units based on the percentage of SLS® printers then installed by geographic area. Goodwill arising from acquisitions in 2009 2010 and 2011through 2014 was allocated to geographic reporting units based on geographic dispersion of the acquired companies’ sales or capitalization at the time of their acquisition.

The Company is required to perform a valuation of each of its three geographic reporting units annually, or upon significant changes in the Company’s business environment. The Company conducted its annual impairment analysis in the fourth quarter of 2011.2014. To determine the fair value of each reporting unit the Company utilized discounted cash flows, using five years of projected unleveraged free cash flows and terminal EBITDA earnings multiples. The discount rates used for the analysis reflected a weighted average cost of capital based on industry and capital structure adjusted for equity risk premiums and size risk premiums based on market capitalization. The discounted cash flow valuation uses projections of future cash flows and includes assumptions concerning future operating performance and economic conditions and may differ from actual future cash flows. The Company also considered the current trading multiples of comparable publicly-traded companies and the historical pricing multiples for comparable merger and acquisition transactions that have occurred in the industry. The control premium that a third party would be willing to pay to obtain a controlling interest in a reporting unit of the Company was a component considered when determining fair value. In addition, factors such as the performance of competitors were also considered. Under each fair value measurement methodology considered, the fair value of each reporting unit exceeded its carrying value; accordingly, no goodwill impairment adjustments were recorded. In addition, factors such as the performance of competitors were also considered. The Company concluded that there was a reasonable basis for the excess of the estimated fair value of the geographic reporting units over its market capitalization.

The estimated fair value of the three geographic reporting units incorporated judgment and the use of estimates by management. Potential factors requiring assessment include the relationship between our market capitalization and our book value, variance in results of operations from projections, and additional acquisition transactions in the industry that reflect a lower control premium. Any of these factors may cause management to re-evaluatereevaluate goodwill during any quarter throughout the year. If an impairment charge were to be taken for goodwill it would be a non-cash charge and would not impact the Company’s cash position or cash flows; however, such a charge could have a material impact to equity and the statement of income and comprehensive income.

There was no goodwill impairment for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 or 2009.2012.

Determining the fair value of a reporting unit, intangible asset or a long-lived asset is judgmental and involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions. The Company bases its fair value estimates on assumptions that it believes are reasonable, but are uncertain and subject to changes in market conditions.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

F-11


Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest

 

The minority interest shareholders of a certain subsidiary have the right to require the Company to acquire their ownership interest under certain circumstances pursuant to a contractual arrangement and the Company has a similar call option under the same contractual terms. The amount of consideration under the put and call rights is not a fixed amount, but rather is dependent upon various valuation formulas and on future events, such as revenue and gross margin performance of the subsidiary through the date of exercise, etc. as described in Note 22.

The Company has recorded the put option as mezzanine equity at their current estimated redemption amount. The Company accrues changes in the redemption amounts over the period from the date of issuance to the earliest redemption date of the put option. For the year ended December 31, 2014, there has been no charge to noncontrolling interests. Changes in the estimated redemption amounts of the put options are adjusted at each reporting period with a corresponding adjustment to equity.

The following table presents changes in Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Years Ended December 31,

(in thousands)

2014

 

2013

Balance at January 1,

$

 

$

Granted

 

8,550 

 

 

Currency translation adjustments

 

322 

 

 

Balance at December 31,

$

8,872 

 

$

Licenses, Patent Costs and Other Long-Lived Assets

Licenses, patent costs and other long-lived assets include costs incurred to perfect license or patent rights under applicable domestic and foreign laws and the amount incurred to acquire existing licenses and patents. Licenses and patent costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, which are approximately seven to twenty years. Amortization expense is included in cost of sales, research and development expenses and selling, general and administrative expenses, depending upon the nature and use of the technology.

The Company evaluates long-lived assets other than goodwill for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. If the estimated future cash flows (undiscounted and without interest charges) from the use of the asset are less than its carrying value, a write-down would be recorded to reduce the related asset to its estimated fair value.

No impairment loss was recorded for the periods presented.

Capitalized Software Costs

Certain software development and production costs are capitalized when the related product reaches technological feasibility. No Software development costs were capitalized in 20112014 and $250 were $7,863 and were $1,208capitalized in 2010. There were no2013. No software development costs were capitalized in 2009.2012. Capitalized software costs include internally developed software and certain costs that relate to developed software that the Company acquired through acquisition of businesses. Amortization of software development costs begins when the related products are available for use in related printers. Amortization expense included in cost of sales,related to capitalized software costs amounted to $1,046, $159$1,439, $1,439 and $141$1,440 for 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, respectively, based on the straight-line method using an estimated useful life ofranging from one year.year to eight years. Net capitalized software costs aggregated $7,864, $1,048$3,556, $5,234 and $0$6,424 at December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, respectively, and are included in intangible assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Contingencies

The Company follows the provisions of ASC 450, “Contingencies,” which requires that an estimated loss from a loss contingency be accrued by a charge to income if it is both probable that an asset has been impaired or that a liability has been incurred and that the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated.

F-12


Foreign Currency Translation

The Company transacts business globally and is subject to risks associated with fluctuating foreign exchange rates. Approximately 50%49.1% of the Company’s consolidated revenue is derived from sales outside the U.S. This revenue is generated primarily from sales of subsidiaries operating outside the U.S. in their respective countries and surrounding geographic areas. This revenue is primarily denominated in each subsidiary’s local functional currency, although certain sales are denominated in other currencies, including U.S. Dollars, the Euro or the Japanese Yen.currencies. These subsidiaries incur most of their expenses (other than intercompany expenses) in their local functional currencies. These currencies include Australian Dollars, British Pounds, Chinese Yuan, Euros, Japanese Yen, Swiss Francs, South Korean Won, Israel Shekel, Brazilian Real and Swiss Francs.Indian Rupee.

The geographic areas outside the U.S. in which the Company operates are generally not considered to be highly inflationary. Nonetheless, these foreign operations are sensitive to fluctuations in currency exchange rates arising from, among other things, certain intercompany transactions that are generally denominated in U.S. Dollarsdollars rather than their respective functional currencies. The Company’s operating results, assets and liabilities are subject to the effect of foreign currency translation when the operating results and the assets and liabilities of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are translated into U.S. Dollarsdollars in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The assets and liabilities of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are translated from their respective functional currencies into U.S. Dollarsdollars based on the translation rate in effect at the end of the related reporting period.

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The operating results of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are translated to U.S. Dollarsdollars based on the average conversion rate for the related period. Gains and losses resulting from these conversions are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income in the consolidated balance sheets.

Gains and losses resulting from foreign currency transactions (transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of the Company or a subsidiary) are included in the consolidated statements of income and other comprehensive income, except for intercompany receivables and payables for which settlement is not planned or anticipated in the foreseeable future, which are included as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income in the consolidated balance sheets.

Derivative Financial Instruments

The Company is exposed to market risk from changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates and commodity prices, which may adversely affect its results of operations and financial condition. The Company seeks to minimize these risks through regular operating and financing activities and, when the Company considers it to be appropriate, through the use of derivative financial instruments.

The Company does not purchase, hold or sell derivative financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes. The Company has elected not to prepare and maintain the documentation to qualify for hedge accounting treatment under ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging,” and therefore, all gains and losses (realized or unrealized) related to derivative instruments are recognized in interest and other income (expense),expense, net in the consolidated statements of income and other comprehensive income and depending on the fair value at the end of the reporting period, derivatives are recorded either in prepaid and other current assets or in accrued liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets.

The Company and its subsidiaries conduct business in various countries using both their functional currencies and other currencies to effect cross border transactions. As a result, they are subject to the risk that fluctuations in foreign exchange rates between the dates that those transactions are entered into and their respective settlement dates will result in a foreign exchange gain or loss. When practicable, the Company endeavors to match assets and liabilities in the same currency on its U.S. balance sheet and those of its subsidiaries in order to reduce these risks. The Company, when it considers it to be appropriate, enters into foreign currency contracts to hedge the exposures arising from those transactions. The total impact of foreign currency related items onSee Note 10 to the consolidated statements of income and other comprehensive income was a net loss of $118 for 2011, a net loss of $319 for 2010 and a net loss of $104 for 2009.financial statements.

The Company is exposed to credit risk if the counterparties to such transactions are unable to perform their obligations. However, the Company seeks to minimize such risk by entering into transactions with counterparties that are believed to be creditworthy financial institutions.

The 5.50% senior convertible notes provide the noteholders with certain rights that the Company considers to be embedded derivatives. Embedded derivatives could be required to be bifurcated and accounted for separately from the underlying notes. The Company evaluated the embedded derivatives and determined they were not required to be bifurcated.

Research and Development Costs

Research and development costs are expensed as incurred.

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Earnings per Share

Basic net income per share is computed by dividing net income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted net income per share is computed by dividing net income, as adjusted for the assumed issuance of all dilutive shares, by the weighted

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average number of shares of common stock outstanding plus the number of additional common shares that would have been outstanding if all dilutive common shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options or conversion of convertible securities had been issued. Common shares related to stock options are excluded from the computation when their effect is anti-dilutive, that is, when their inclusion would increase the Company’s net income per share or reduce its net loss per share. TheAt December 31, 2013 and 2012, the average outstanding diluted shares calculation also excludesexcluded shares that may behave been issued upon conversion of the outstanding senior convertible notes because their conversion price exceededinclusion would have been anti-dilutive. All senior convertible notes were converted in 2014. See Note 17 to the market price of the shares at December 31, 2011.consolidated financial statements.

Advertising Costs

Advertising costs are expensed as incurred. Advertising expenses were $1,561, $816$8,799, $6,010 and $523$3,972 for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, respectively.

Pension costs

The Company sponsors a retirement benefit for one of its non-U.S. subsidiaries in the form of a defined benefit pension plan.  Accounting standards require the cost of providing this pension benefit be measured on an actuarial basis. Actuarial gains and losses resulting from both normal year-to-year changes in valuation assumptions and differences from actual experience are deferred and amortized. The application of these accounting standards requires management to make assumptions and judgments that can significantly affect these measurements. Critical assumptions made by management in performing these actuarial valuations include the selection of the discount rate to determine the present value of the pension obligations that affects the amount of pension expense recorded in any given period. Changes in the discount rate could have a material effect on the Company’s reported pension obligations and related pension expense. See Note 1615 to the consolidated financial statements.

Equity Compensation Plans

The Company maintains stock-based compensation plans that are described more fully in Note 14 to the consolidated financial statements. Under the fair value recognition provisions of ASC 718, “Compensation Stock Compensation,” stock-based compensation is estimated at the grant date based on the fair value of the awards expected to vest and recognized as expense ratably over the requisite service period of the award.

Income Taxes

The Company and its domestic subsidiaries file a consolidated U.S. federal income tax return. The Company’s non-U.S. subsidiaries file income tax returns in their respective jurisdictions. The Company provides for income taxes on those portions of its foreign subsidiaries’ accumulated earnings that the Company believes are not reinvested permanently in their business.

Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and tax benefit carryforwards. Deferred income tax liabilities and assets at the end of each period are determined using enacted tax rates.

The Company provides a valuation allowance for those jurisdictions in which the expiration date of tax benefit carryforwards or projected taxable earnings leads the Company to conclude that it is not likely that it will be able to realize the tax benefit of those carryforwards.

During the second quarter of 2011, based

Based upon the Company’s recent results of operations and its expected profitability in the future, the Company concluded that it is more likely than not that a portion of its U.S. net deferred tax assets will be realized.

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The Company applies ASC 740 to determine the impact of an uncertain tax position on the income tax returns. In accordance with ASC 740, this impact must be recognized at the largest amount that is more likely than not to be required to be recognized upon audit by the relevant taxing authority.

The Company includes interest and penalties accrued in the consolidated financial statements as a component of income tax expense.

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See Note 2120 to the consolidated financial statements.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Standards Implemented in 20112014

No new accounting pronouncements were implemented in 2014.

New Accounting Standards to be Implemented

In October 2009,May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASU 2009-13, “Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements —2014-09), which supersedes nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance under U.S. GAAP. The core principle of ASU 2014-09 is to recognize revenues when promised goods or services are transferred to customers in amounts that reflect the consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09 defines a consensusfive-step process to achieve this core principle and, in doing so, may require more judgment and estimates within the revenue recognition process than are required under existing U.S. GAAP. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods therein, using either of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force,” to provide amendments tofollowing transition methods: (i) a full retrospective approach reflecting the criteria in Subtopic 609-24application of the Codification for separating consideration into multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements.standard in each prior reporting period with the option to elect certain practical expedients, or (ii) a retrospective approach with the cumulative effect of initially adopting ASU 2009-13 establishes a selling price hierarchy for determining the selling price of each specific deliverable, which includes vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) if available, third party evidence if VSOE is not available or estimated selling price if neither VSOE nor third party evidence is available. ASU 2009-13 also eliminates the residual method for allocating revenue between the elements of an arrangement and requires that arrangement consideration be allocated2014-09 recognized at the inceptiondate of adoption (which includes additional footnote disclosures). We are currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of ASU 2014-09 on our consolidated financial statements and have not yet determined the method by which we will adopt the standard in 2017.

In June 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-12, Compensation – Stock Compensation (“ASU 2014-12”). ASU 2014-12 is intended to resolve diverse accounting treatment for share based awards in which the terms of the arrangement to all deliverables usingaward provide that a performance target that affects vesting could be achieved after the relative selling price method, which allocates any discount in the arrangement proportionally to each deliverable on the basis of each deliverable’s selling price. This Update expands the disclosure requirements regarding a vendor’s multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements. ASU 2009-13requisite service period. The standard is effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015 and may be applied prospectively for revenue arrangements entered into or materially modified in fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010, with earlyretrospectively.  The Company does not expect adoption permitted. Thisof this standard became effective for the Company beginning in January 2011 and impacted the timing of revenue recognition and the allocation of discounts for multiple element sales. ASU 2009-13 requires the discount on a multiple element sale to be allocated ratably, which may accelerate the timing of recognizing revenue on certain elements. As a result, the gross profit margins allocated to each revenue category may have shifted among revenue categories; however, overall gross profit margin was not impacted in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Adoption resulted in a positive impact on the gross profit margin of printers and other products, which was offset by a negative impact on materials and services gross profit margins.

In October 2009, the FASB issued ASU 2009-14, “Certain Revenue Arrangements That Include Software Elements — a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force.” This Update removes tangible products containing software components and nonsoftware components that function together to deliver the tangible product’s essential functionality from the scope of the software revenue guidance in Subtopic 985-605 of the Codification. Additionally, ASU 2009-14 provides guidance on how a vendor should allocate arrangement consideration to deliverables in an arrangement that includes both tangible products and software that is not essential to the product’s functionality. ASU 2009-14 requires the same expanded disclosures that are included within ASU 2009-13. ASU 2009-14 is effective prospectively for revenue arrangements entered into or materially modified in fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010, with early adoption permitted. A company is required to adopt the amendments in both ASU 2009-13 and ASU 2009-14 in the same period using the same transition method. This update may allow some companies to recognize revenue on transactions that involve multiple deliverables earlier than under previous standards. This standard became effective for the Company beginning in January 2011 and did notwill have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In December 2010,August  2014, the FASB  issued ASU 2010-29, “DisclosureAccounting Standards Update No. 2014-15, Presentation of Supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business Combinations.” This Update amends and clarifies the acquisition date to be used for reporting pro forma financial disclosures when comparative financial statements are presented. In addition it requires a description of the nature of and amount of any material, non-recurring pro forma adjustments directly attributable to the business

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combination. (“ASU 2010-292014-15”). ASU 2014-15 requires an entity’s management to evaluate whether there are conditions or events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern and if those conditions exist, the required disclosures. The standard is effective prospectively for business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on orperiods ending after December 15, 2010, with early adoption permitted. The standard became effective for the Company in January 2011 and did not have an impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations as it only amends required disclosures.

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, “Presentation of Comprehensive Income.” ASU 2011-05 eliminates the current option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in equity and requires that all non-owner changes in stockholders’ equity be presented either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. In addition, it requires entities to present on the face of the financial statements reclassification adjustments for items that are reclassified from other comprehensive income to net income in the statements where the components of net income and the components of other comprehensive income are presented. ASU 2011-05 will become effective for public entities for fiscal years,2016, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011, with earlytherein.  The Company does not expect adoption permitted. The standard was adopted by the Company in January 2011. Sinceof this standard affects disclosure requirements only, its adoption did notwill have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

New Accounting Standards to be Implemented

In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-04, “Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”).” ASU 2011-04 explains how to measure fair value and intends to improve the comparability of fair value measurements presented and disclosed in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and IFRS. ASU 2011-04 will become effective prospectively for interim and annual reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2011; early adoption is not permitted for public entities. The standard will become effective for the Company in January 2012. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2011-04 on its consolidated financial statements.

In September 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-8, “Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (Topic 350).” ASU 2011-8 is intended to simplify the testing of goodwill for impairment by permitting an entity to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test described in Topic 350. ASU 2011-8 will become effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption permitted in limited circumstances. The standard will become effective for the Company in January 2012 and the adoption is not expected to have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-12, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassification of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in ASU 2011-5. ASU 2011-12 defers the effective date pertaining to reclassification adjustments out of accumulated other comprehensive income in ASU 2011-5. Entities should continue to report reclassification adjustments out of accumulated other comprehensive income consistent with the presentation requirements before ASU 2011-5. All other requirements in ASU 2011-5 are not affected by this Update, including the requirement to report comprehensive income either in a single continuous financial statement or in two separate but consecutive financial statements. ASU 2011-12 will become effective for public entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption permitted. The standard will become effective for the Company in January 2012. Since this standard affects disclosure requirements only, its adoption will not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

No other new accounting pronouncements issued or effective during 2011 have had or are expected to have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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Note 3 Acquisitions

Fiscal Year 2011

2014 Acquisitions

On January 5, 2011,February 18, 2014, the Company acquired the assets of National RP Support,Digital Playspace, Inc. (“NRPS”). NRPS, an online platform that combines home design, gaming, and community sharing to deliver a 3D create-and-make experience for children, families and adults. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $4,000, of which $2,000 was paid in cash and $2,000 was paid in shares of the Company’s stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. The operations of Digital Playspace, Inc. have been integrated into the Company’s service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

On April 2, 2014, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Medical Modeling Inc. Medical Modeling Inc. is a provider of customer support3D printing-centric personalized surgical treatments and patient specific medical devices, including virtual surgical planning, personalized medical devices and clinical transfer tools. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $69,026 of which $51,526 was paid in cash and $17,500 was paid in shares of the Company’s stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. The operations of Medical Modeling Inc. have been integrated into the Company’s service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

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On August 6, 2014, the Company acquired certain assets of Bordner and Associates, Inc. d/b/a Laser Reproductions (“Laser Reproductions”). Laser Reproductions is a provider of advanced manufacturing, tooling and rapid prototyping solutions. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $17,450, of which $13,075 was paid in cash and $4,375 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. The operations of Laser Reproductions have been integrated into the Company’s service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

On August 13, 2014, the Company acquired certain assets of sister companies American Precision Machining, L.L.C. (“APM”) and American Precision Prototyping, LLC (“APP”). APM and APP are providers of precision machining and manufacturing services and 3D printing services. The fair value of the consideration paid for these acquisitions, net of cash acquired, was $14,089, all of which was paid in cash. The operations of APM and APP have been integrated into the Company’s service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for these acquisitions was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

On August 28, 2014, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Simbionix USA Corporation (“Simbionix”). Simbionix is a factory-authorized sourceprovider of patient-specific surgical simulation solutions. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $121,562, all of which was paid in cash. The operations of Simbionix have been integrated into the Company’s products and service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

On September 3, 2014, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of LayerWise NV (“LayerWise”). LayerWise is a provider of advanced direct metal 3D printing and manufacturing services and delivers quick-turn, 3D-printed metal parts, maintenance,manufactured on its own proprietary line of direct metal 3D printers, for aerospace, high-precision equipment, and other servicesmedical and dental customers. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $41,933, all of which was paid in cash. The operations of LayerWise have been integrated into the Company’s service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

On November 25, 2014, the Company acquired 70% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Robtec, an additive manufacturing service bureau and distributor of 3D Systems’ equipment. NRPSprinting and scanning products. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company acquired 70% of the shares of Robtec at closing and the remainder of the shares will be acquired by the Company on the fifth anniversary of the closing. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $21,880, all of which was paid in cash. The operations of Robtec have been integrated into the Company’s service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on the estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

On December 16, 2014, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of botObjects Ltd. (“botObjects”), a company that develops consumer 3D printers. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $24,743, all of which was paid in cash. The operations of botObjects have been integrated into the Company’s service revenues. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on the estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the botObejcts purchase agreement, the sellers have the right to earn an additional amount, of up to a maximum of approximately $25,000, pursuant to an earnout formula over a three-year period as set forth in the acquisition agreement. The earnout was determined not to be acquisition consideration and therefore will be recorded as compensation expense in the period earned.

On December 17, 2014, the Company acquired a product line related to its materials business. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $54,552, all of which was paid in cash. The company completed this acquisition as part of its improved business continuity and operational excellence initiatives. The operations have been integrated into the Company’s materials production. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was

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allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on the estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2014 acquisitions.

For all acquisitions made in 2014, factors considered by the Company in determination of goodwill include synergies, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company. The acquisitions completed during the year are not material relative to the Company’s assets or operating results; therefore, no proforma financial information is provided.

Goodwill related to asset acquisitions will be deductible for tax purposes. Goodwill related to equity acquisitions will not be recognized as a tax-deductible asset. If the target in an equity acquisition was deducting goodwill from a previous asset acquisition, that tax benefit would continue.

The Company’s purchase price allocations for the acquired companies are preliminary and subject to revision as more detailed analyses are completed and additional information about fair value of assets and liabilities becomes available. The amounts related to the acquisitions of these businesses were allocated to the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed and included in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2014 as follows:

(in thousands)

2014

Fixed assets

$

19,279 

Other intangible assets, net

127,315 

Goodwill

259,422 

Other assets, net of cash acquired

38,583 

Liabilities

(75,364)

Net assets acquired

$

369,235 

Subsequent Acquisition

In November, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Cimatron Ltd. (“Cimatron”), a provider of integrated 3D CAD/CAM software products and solutions for manufacturing. The acquisition was completed on February 9, 2015 for approximately $77,000, net of cash.

2013 Acquisitions

On January 9, 2013, the Company acquired 100% of the shares of common stock and voting equity of Co-Web. Co-Web is a start-up that creates consumer customized 3D printed products and collectibles. Co-Web’s operations have been integrated into the Company’s Cubify consumer solutions and included in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $5,550,$262, based on the exchange rate of the Euro at the date of acquisition, all of which was paid in cash. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On February 27, 2013, the Company acquired 100% of the shares of common stock and voting equity of Geomagic, Inc. (“Geomagic”). Geomagic is a leading global provider of 3D authoring solutions including design, sculpt and scan software tools that are used to create 3D content and inspect products throughout the entire design and manufacturing process. Geomagic’s operations have been integrated into the Company and are included in products and services revenue.  The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $52,687, all of which was paid in cash. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On May 1, 2013, the Company acquired certain assets and liabilities of Rapid Product Development Group, Inc. (“RPDG”). RPDG is a global provider of additive and traditional quick turn manufacturing services.  RPDG’s operations have been integrated into the Company’s Quickparts services and are included in services revenue.  The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $44,413, of which $33,163 has been paid in cash and $6,750 has been paid in shares of the Company’s stock.  The remaining $4,500 deferred purchase price was paid on the 12 month anniversary of the closing date with $3,750 of cash and $750 in shares of the Company’s stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was

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allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On July 15, 2013, the Company acquired approximately 82% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Phenix Systems, a leading global provider of direct metal selective laser sintering 3D printers. During 2013, the Company acquired additional shares and completed a tender offer. As of December 31, 2014, the Company owned approximately 95% of the capital and voting rights of Phenix Systems. Phenix Systems designs, manufactures and sells proprietary direct metal 3D printers that can print chemically pure, fully dense metal and ceramic parts from very fine powders. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was approximately $16,975 based on the exchange rate at the date of acquisition, all of which was paid in cash. Phenix’s operations have been integrated into printers and other products and services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On August 6, 2013, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock, preferred stock and voting equity of VisPower Technology, Inc., a cloud-based, collaborative design and project management platform (“TeamPlatform”). The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $4,998, all of which was paid in cash. TeamPlatform’s operations have been integrated into the Company’s professional and consumer offerings, including Geomagic Solutions and Cubify.com. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On August 20, 2013, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock and voting equity of CRDM, Ltd. (“CRDM”), a provider of rapid prototyping and rapid tooling services. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was approximately $6,399 based on the exchange rate at the date of acquisition, all of which was paid in cash. CRDM’s operations have been integrated into the Company’s global Quickparts custom parts and manufacturing services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On September 6, 2013, the Company acquired the assets of The Sugar Lab, a start-up that is dedicated to 3D printing customized, multi-dimensional, edible confections. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $1,500, of which $1,000 was paid in cash and $500 was paid in shares of the Company’s stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. The Sugar Lab’s operations have been integrated into the Company’s printers and services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On December 4, 2013, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock and voting equity of Figulo Corporation, a provider of 3D-printed ceramics. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $2,846, of which $1,996 was paid in cash and $850 was paid in shares of the Company’s stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. Figulo’s operations have been integrated into the Company’s printers and services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On December 13, 2013, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock and voting equity of Village Plastics Co., a manufacturer of filament-based ABS, PLA and HIPS 3D printing materials. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $6,361, of which $4,361 was paid in cash and $2,000 was paid in shares of the Company’s stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. Village Plastics operations have been integrated into the Company’s supply chain and manufacturing operations. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated

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fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On December 23, 2013, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock and voting rights of Gentle Giant Studios, Inc., a provider of 3D scanning and modeling content for the entertainment and toy industries. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $10,650, of which $7,975 was paid in cash and $2,675 was paid in shares of the Company’s stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933. Gentle Giant Studios’ technology and content have been integrated into the Company’s service revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company. The Company’s purchase price allocations are preliminary and subject to revision as more detailed analyses are completed and additional information about fair value of assets and liabilities becomes available.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Gentle Giant Share Purchase Agreement, additional consideration will be paid on the third, fourth and fifth anniversaries of the Closing Date, calculated based on revenues of Gentle Giant for the twelve month period prior to each such anniversary date.

On December 31, 2013, the Company acquired certain assets of Xerox Corporation’s Wilsonville, Oregon product design, engineering and chemistry group and related assets. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $32,500, all of which was paid in cash. The Wilsonville team and assets have been integrated into the Company’s R&D operations. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below, which summarizes 2013 acquisitions. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company. The Company’s purchase price allocations are preliminary and subject to revision as more detailed analyses are completed and additional information about fair value of assets and liabilities becomes available.

The amounts related to the acquisitions of these businesses were allocated to the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed and included in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2013 as follows:

(in thousands)

2013

Fixed assets

$

9,830 

Other intangible assets, net

51,930 

Goodwill

128,328 

Other assets, net of cash acquired

21,843 

Liabilities

(32,340)

Net assets acquired

$

179,591 

2012 Acquisitions

On January 3, 2012, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Z Corporation (“Z Corp”) and Vidar Systems Corporation (“Vidar”). Z Corp is a provider of consumer and professional 3D printers, 3D scanners, proprietary print materials and printer services. Z Corp’s operations have been integrated into the Company and are included in printers and other products and services revenue. Vidar is a provider of medical film scanners that digitize film for radiology, oncology, mammography and dental applications. Vidar’s operations have been integrated into the Company and included in printers and other products revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was $134,918, net of cash acquired, all of which was paid in cash, and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, and is included in the table below which summarizes 20112012 acquisitions.Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On February 22, 2011,

Z Corp and Vidar, the Company acquired the shares of Quickparts.com, Inc. (“Quickparts”). Quickparts is a custom parts services company. Quickparts operationsonly significant acquisitions in 2012, have been integrated into the Company and included in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $22,775, all of which was paid in cash, and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is includedrecorded in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions.

On March 8, 2011, the Company acquired the assets of Accelerated Technologies, Inc (“ATI”). ATI is a custom parts services company. ATI operations have been integrated into the Company and included in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $1,000, all of which was paid in cash, and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions.

On April 13, 2011, the Company acquired the assets of Print3D Corporation (“Print3D”), a startup company that develops custom parts services for Computer Aided Design (“CAD”) users through advanced desktop tools that integrate directly into their design environment. Print3D operations have been integrated into the Company and future revenue will be included in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $1,250 and was allocated to the assets purchased based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions. Of the consideration, $1,000 was paid in cash and $250 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the acquisition agreement, the sellers have the right to earn an additional amount of up to approximately $8,925, pursuant to an earnout formula set forth in the acquisition agreement, for a period of thirty-six months, which commenced on June 1, 2011. As of December 31, 2011, an accrued liability was not recorded for the earnout.

On April 14, 2011, the Company acquired the assets of Sycode, a software development company based in India. Sycode specializes in providing plug-ins for all commercially available CAD packages. Sycode operations have been integrated into the Company and future revenue will be included in printers and other products, revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $500, all of which was paid in cash, and was allocated to the assets purchased based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions.

On May 6, 2011, the Company acquired the assets of The3dStudio.com, Inc (“3dStudio”), a provider of 3D and 2D digital media libraries, offering resources and expert support through a vibrant online marketplace exchange for consumers and professionals. 3dStudio operations have been integrated into the Company and included in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $2,500 and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions. Of the consideration, $1,875 was paid in cash and $625 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

On May 12, 2011, the Company acquired the shares of Freedom Of Creation (“FOC”), based in the Netherlands, a provider of printable collections of innovative and practical 3D content, including products commercialized by fashion and design labels. FOC operations have been integrated into the Company and included in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $2,286 and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions. Of the consideration, $1,136 was paid in cash and $1,150 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

On July 19, 2011, the Company acquired the assets of Alibre Inc. (“Alibre”), a provider of design productivity solutions. Alibre’s operations have been integrated into the Company and future revenue will be included in printers and other products and services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was $3,800, all of which was paid in cash and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions.

On August 9, 2011, the Company acquired certain assets of Content Media, Inc. related to the Botmill printer (“Botmill”). Botmill is a manufacturer of desktop 3D printers, kits, materials and accessories. Botmill’s operations have been integrated into the Company and future revenue will be included in printers and other products revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was $17, all of which was paid in cash, and was allocated to the assets purchased based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the acquisition agreement, the sellers have the right to earn an additional amount up to a maximum of $1,000, pursuant to an earn-out formula set forth in the acquisition agreement, for a period of three years, which commenced on September 1, 2011. As of December 31, 2011, no accrued liability was recorded for the earnout. The Company will re-evaluate the earnout in future periods to determine if a liability is to be accrued.

On September 20, 2011, the Company acquired the shares of Formero Pty, Ltd. and its wholly-owned subsidiary XYZ Innovation (“Formero”). Formero, based in Australia, with an additional office in China, is a provider of on-demand custom parts services and a distributor of 3D printers. Formero’s operations have been integrated into the Company and included in services revenue and printers and other products revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $5,967 and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions. Of the consideration, $4,967 was paid in cash and $1,000 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Formero acquisition agreement, the sellers have the right to earn an additional amount of up to a maximum of approximately $2,012, based on the exchange rate at the date of acquisition, pursuant to an earn-out formula set forth in the acquisition agreement, for a period of three years, which commenced on October 1, 2011. As of December 31, 2011, an accrued liability of approximately $1,862, based on the exchange rate at the date of acquisition, was recorded for the earnout. The earnout was determined to be acquisition consideration and therefore is reflected as part of goodwill.

On October 4, 2011, the Company acquired the shares of Kemo Modelmakerij B.V. (“Kemo”). Kemo, based in the Netherlands, is a provider of on-demand custom parts services. Kemo’s operations have been integrated into the Company and revenue is recorded in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was approximately $3,719, based on the exchange rate at the date of acquisition, all of which was paid in cash, and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

On November 1, 2011, the Company acquired the RenShape® stereolithography print materials and Digitalis® rapid manufacturing 3D printer product line from the Advanced Materials Division of Huntsman Corporation (“Huntsman”). Huntsman’s print materials operations have been integrated into the Company and future revenue will be included in printers and other products revenue. The 3D printer product line is currently being evaluated by the Company to determine commercialization of the product or integration into the Company’s ongoing research and development. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was $41,286 all of which was paid in cash, and was allocated to the assets purchased based on the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2011 acquisitions.

Quickparts, the only significant acquisition in 2011, has been recorded in the services categorycategories of the Company’s consolidated financial statements since the date of acquisition. Revenue for QuickpartsZ Corp and Vidar for 20112012 was $24,127$55,637 and operating income was $2,799.$8,478.

If the 20112012 acquisition of QuickpartsZ Corp and Vidar had been included in the Company’s results of operations since January 1, 2010,2011, the consolidated revenue for 20112012 and 20102011 would have been $233,612$353,633 and $185,055,$286,956, respectively. Net income would have been $34,144 $38,941

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and $20,102$27,487 for 20112012 and 2010.2011. The unaudited pro forma results provided reflect certain adjustments related to the acquisitions, such as amortization expense on intangible assets acquired, and do not include any cost synergies or other effects of the integration of the acquisition. These pro forma amounts are not necessarily indicative of the results that would have occurred if the acquisition had been completed at the beginning of 2010,2011, nor are they indicative of the future operating results from the combined companies.

The amounts related to the acquisition of these businesses were allocated to the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed as follows:

(in thousands)  December 31,
2011
 

Property and equipment

  $3,597  

Intangible assets

   89,881  

Other assets, net of cash acquired and liabilities assumed

   (2,828
  

 

 

 

Net assets acquired

  $90,650  
  

 

 

 

Subsequent Acquisitions

On November 21, 2011 the Company entered into an agreement to acquire Z Corporation (“Z Corp”) and Vidar Systems (“Vidar”), located in Burlington, MA and Herndon, VA, respectively, and on January 3,April 5, 2012, the Company completedacquired 100% of the acquisitionoutstanding shares and voting rights of Z CorpFresh Fiber B.V. (“Fresh Fiber”), moving from a minority shareholder to 100% ownership. Fresh Fiber designs and Vidar. Z Corp is a leading provider of personalmarkets innovative 3D printed accessories for retail consumer electronics.  Fresh Fiber’s operations have been integrated into the Company and professional 3D printers, 3D scanners, and proprietary print materials and services. Vidar is a leading provider of medical film scanners that digitize film for radiology, oncology, mammography and dental applications. The Company isare included in the process of integrating Z Corp and Vidar.products revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, was $135,488, net of cash acquired, and will be allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumedwas $1,243, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date. Due to the timing of this acquisition,Euro exchange rate at the timedate of this filing the Company is in the processacquisition, of allocating the fair value of assets purchased, liabilities assumed and other intangibles identified as of the acquisition date, with any excess to be recorded as goodwill.

Fiscal 2010 Acquisitions

On February 16, 2010, the Company acquired the assets of Moeller Design and Development, Inc. (“Moeller Design”) in Seattle, Washington. Moeller Design is a provider of premium precision investment casting services and prototyping for aerospace and medical device applications. The Company acquired Moeller Design for its premium parts capabilities and to expand the geographic footprint of its 3Dproparts™ service to the West Coast. Moeller Design has been integrated into the Company’s 3Dproparts™ service. The fair value of

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

the consideration paid for this acquisition was $3,600 and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date and is included in the table below which summarizes 2010 acquisitions. In addition, there was a bargain purchase gain for $37. Of the $3,600 consideration, $2,600$848 was paid in cash and $1,000$395 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

In connection with the acquisition, the Company entered into a lease agreement with an entity whose managing member is the former owner of Moeller Design, pursuant to which the Company agreed to lease the facilities at which Moeller Design’s operations are conducted. The lease provides for an initial term of five years with renewal options for two successive five-year terms. The lease agreement includes an option for the Company to purchase the facility.

On April 6, 2010, the Company acquired the assets of Design Prototyping Technologies, Inc. (“DPT”) in Syracuse, New York. DPT is a provider of fast turnaround functional parts and prototypes. The Company acquired DPT to enhance its online offerings for its 3Dproparts™ service. DPT has been integrated into the Company’s 3Dproparts™ service.  The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was $3,600 and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below which summarizes 20102012 acquisitions. OfThe Fresh Fiber acquisition is not significant to the $3,600Company’s financial statements. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Fresh Fiber acquisition agreement, the seller has the right to earn an additional amount pursuant to an earnout formula over a three-year period as set forth in the acquisition agreement. The earnout was determined to be acquisition consideration $3,000and therefore is reflected as part of goodwill and was accrued based on the acquisition date fair value.

On April 10, 2012, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Kodama Studios, LLC, which operates My Robot Nation, (“My Robot Nation”), a consumer technology platform that provides intuitive, game-like content creation for 3D printing. My Robot Nation’s operations have been integrated into the Company and revenue from this acquisition is included in services revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $2,749, of which $1,499 was paid in cash and $600$1,250 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

In connection with  The fair value of the DPTconsideration paid for this acquisition the Company entered into a lease agreement with an entity whose managing members are the former owners of DPT, pursuant to which the Company agreed to lease the facilities at which DPT’s operations are conducted. The lease provides for an initial term of approximately two years with renewal options for two-year and one-year successive terms, respectively. The lease agreement includes a right of first refusal with respectwas allocated to the saleassets purchased and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair values as of the building.acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2012 acquisitions. The My Robot Nation acquisition is not significant to the Company’s financial statements.  Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

On July 7, 2010,April 17, 2012, the Company acquired the assets of CEP S.A.Paramount Industries (“Paramount”), a direct rapid manufacturing provider of product development solutions for aerospace and its affiliate, Protometal S.A. (collectively “CEP”), rapid prototypingmedical device applications, from design to production of certified end-use parts and printed part service providers located in Joué l’Abbé, France. The Company acquired CEP to augment and expand its 3Dproparts™ business in Europe. CEP hasproducts. Paramount’s operations have been integrated into the Company’s 3Dproparts™ service.Company and revenue since the date of acquisition is reported in services revenue.  The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $3,502 and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as$7,953, of the acquisition date and is included in the table below which summarizes 2010 acquisitions. Of the $3,502 consideration, $2,426$6,138 was paid in cash and $1,076$1,815 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

In connection with the CEP acquisition, the Company entered into lease agreements, pursuant to which the Company agreed to lease two facilities at which CEP’s operations are conducted. The leases current terms extend until June 30, 2012 and December 14, 2014, respectively, at which points the Company has certain renewal options.

On September 16, 2010, the Company acquired the assets of Express Pattern, Inc. (“Express Pattern”) in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Express Pattern is a provider of rapid prototyping, direct patterns for investment casting and manufacturing services. The Company acquired Express Pattern as part of the Company’s continued expansion of its 3Dproparts™ service. Express Pattern has been integrated into the Company’s 3Dproparts™ service. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was $1,650 and was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed based on theirthe estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below which summarizes 20102012 acquisitions. OfThe Paramount acquisition is not significant to the $1,650Company’s financial statements. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Paramount acquisition agreement, the seller has the right to earn an additional amount pursuant to an earnout formula over a five-year period as set forth in the acquisition agreement. The earnout was determined not to be acquisition consideration $1,400and therefore will be recorded as compensation expense in the period earned. In connection with the acquisition the Company entered into a lease agreement with the former owner of Paramount pursuant to which the Company agreed to lease the facilities at which Paramount conducts its operations. The lease provides for an initial term of five years, with options for two successive three-year terms.

On May 23, 2012, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Bespoke Innovations, Inc. (“Bespoke”), a startup that is bringing a more personal approach to the way a broad spectrum of medical devices are developed and used. Bespoke develops proprietary, integrated scan, design and print technology that is designed to deliver custom fit prosthetics, orthotics and orthopedic devices that improve treatment and lifestyle outcomes. Bespoke’s operations have been integrated into the Company and revenue since the date of acquisition is reported in products revenue. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $7,903 of which $4,064 was paid in cash and $250$3,144 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the acquisition agreement, the sellers have the right to a deferred payment of $695. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on the estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below which summarizes 2012 acquisitions. The Bespoke acquisition is not significant to the Company’s financial statements. 3D Systems CorporationFactors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

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On October 5, 2010,July 23, 2012, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rightsof Bits From Bytes LimitedViztu Technologies, Inc. (“Bits From Bytes”Viztu”) located near Bristol, England. Bits From Bytes.  Viztu is a producerthe developer of personalHypr3D™, an online platform that allows anyone to turn their pictures and videos into printable 3D printers and printer kits. Bits From Bytes hascreations. Viztu’s operations have been integrated into the Company. Based on the exchange rate atCompany and revenue since the date of acquisition theis included in services revenue.  The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $2,185,$1,000, of which $1,592$500 was paid in cash and $593$500 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock, allstock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of which1933. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below which summarizes 20102012 acquisitions.  The Viztu acquisition is not significant to the Company’s financial statements. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and strategic fit for the Company.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Viztu acquisition agreement, the seller has the right to earn an additional amount, of up to a maximum of $1,000, pursuant to an earnout formula over a four-year period as set forth in the acquisition agreement. The earnout was determined not to be acquisition consideration and therefore will be recorded as compensation expense in the period earned. 

On October 1, 2012, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of The Innovative Modelmakers B.V. (“TIM”), a full service provider of Quickparts custom parts services.  The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $1,714, based on the exchange rate of the Euro at the date of acquisition, of which $1,148 was paid in cash and $566 was paid in shares of the Company’s common stock. These shares were issued in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the acquisition agreement, the sellers have the right to deferred payments of approximately $1,420, based on the exchange rate at December 31, 2011, pursuant to details set forth in the acquisition agreement for a period of three years which commenced December 31, 2011. See Note 18 to the consolidated financial statements.

On October 12, 2010, the Company acquired the shares of Provel, S.r.l. (“Provel”). Provel is an Italian provider of rapid protyping, tooling and printed parts services located near Turin, Italy. The Company acquired Provel as part of its continued expansion of its 3Dproparts™ service in Europe. Provel has been integrated into the Company’s 3Dproparts™ service. Based on the exchange rate at the date of acquisition, the fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition net of cash acquired, was $11,955, of which $6,848 was paid in cash and $1,387 was paid in shares at closing, with a second installment of $3,720 paid October 2011, all of which was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, with any excess recorded as goodwill, and is included in the table below which summarizes 20102012 acquisitions. The shares were issuedCompany integrated TIM into its European Quickparts services, and revenue since the acquisition date is reported in a private transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.

Subjectservices revenue. The TIM acquisition is not significant to the termsCompany’s financial statements. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and conditionsstrategic fit for the Company.

On October 9, 2012, the Company acquired 100% of the acquisition agreement, the sellers have the right to earn an additional amount up to approximately $1,392, based on the exchange rate at the dateoutstanding shares and voting rights of acquisition, pursuant to an earnout formula set forth in the acquisition agreement, forINUS Technology, Inc., a perioddeveloper of twelve months, which commenced on February 1, 2011.scan-to-CAD and inspection software tools, known as Rapidform (“Rapidform”). The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, was $33,918, all of which was paid in cash. The fair value of the consideration paid for this acquisition was allocated to the assets purchased and liabilities assumed, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date, of acquisition. As of December 31, 2011, no accrued liability waswith any excess recorded for the earnout.

Provel S.r.l., the only significant acquisition in 2010, has been recorded in the Services category of the Company’s consolidated financial statements since the date of acquisition. Revenue for Provel for 2010 was $1,117as goodwill, and operating income was $257.

If Provel had beenis included in the Company’s results of operations since January 1, 2009, the consolidatedtable below which summarizes 2012 acquisitions. Rapidform revenue for 2010 and 2009 would have been $163,965 and $119,005, respectively. Net income would have been $20,056 and $1,214 for 2010 and 2009.is reported in products revenue.  The unaudited pro forma results provided reflect certain adjustments relatedRapidform acquisition is not significant to the acquisitions, such as amortization expense on intangible assets acquired,Company’s financial statements. Factors considered in determination of goodwill include synergies, workforce, vertical integration and do not include any cost synergies or other effects ofstrategic fit for the integration of the acquisition. These pro forma amounts are not necessarily indicative of the results that would have occurred if the acquisition had been completed at the beginning of 2009, nor are they indicative of the future operating results from the combined companies.

All the other acquisitions the Company completed in 2010 were not material, either individually or in aggregate; therefore, no pro forma financial information is provided for these acquisitions. Moeller Design and Development, Inc., Design Prototyping Technologies, Inc, CEP S.A., Protometal S.A. and Express Pattern, Inc. have been recorded in the Services category in the Company’s consolidated financial statements since the date of acquisition. Bits From Bytes Limited has been recorded in the Printers and other products category in the Company’s consolidated financial statements since the period of acquisition.

3D Systems CorporationCompany.

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

The amounts related to the acquisitionacquisitions of these businesses were allocated to the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed and included in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2012 as follows:

 

(in thousands)  December 31,
2010
 

Property and equipment

  $5,523  

Intangible assets

   25,932  

Other assets, net of cash acquired and liabilities assumed

   (4,926

Gain from bargain purchase

   (37
  

 

 

 

Net assets acquired

  $26,492  
  

 

 

 

(in thousands)

2012

Fixed assets

$

9,599 

Intangible assets

200,407 

Other liabilities, net of cash acquired and assets assumed

(18,719)

Net assets acquired

$

191,287 

Note 4 Inventories

Components of inventories, net at December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 are as follows:

 

(in thousands)  2011  2010 

Raw materials

  $8,797   $6,742  

Work in process

   606    195  

Finished goods

   18,422    19,079  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total cost

   27,825    26,016  

Less: reserves

   (2,542  (2,205
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Inventories, net

  $25,283   $23,811  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Raw materials

 

$

46,850 

 

$

34,144 

Work in process

 

 

2,304 

 

 

3,050 

Finished goods and parts

 

 

47,491 

 

 

37,954 

Inventories, net

 

$

96,645 

 

$

75,148 

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Note 5 Property and Equipment

Property and equipment at December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 are summarized as follows:

 

(in thousands)  2011  2010  Useful Life
(in years)
 

Land

  $541   $152    N/A  

Building

   9,204    9,574    25  

Machinery and equipment

   36,773    30,460    3-7  

Capitalized software — ERP

   3,141    3,143    5  

Office furniture and equipment

   3,138    3,051    5  

Leasehold improvements

   5,996    5,504    Life of Lease(1) 

Rental equipment

   56    506    5  

Construction in progress

   980    980    N/A  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

Total property and equipment

   59,829    53,370   

Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization

   (30,235  (25,701 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

Total property and equipment, net

  $29,594   $27,669   
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

 

Useful Life (in years)

Land

 

$

541 

 

$

541 

 

N/A

Building

 

 

9,370 

 

 

9,315 

 

25

Machinery and equipment

 

 

84,443 

 

 

56,962 

 

3-7

Capitalized software 

 

 

3,693 

 

 

3,872 

 

3-5

Office furniture and equipment

 

 

3,478 

 

 

3,586 

 

3-5

Leasehold improvements

 

 

12,447 

 

 

9,395 

 

Life of lease (a)

Rental equipment

 

 

557 

 

 

 —

 

5

Construction in progress

 

 

20,082 

 

 

4,014 

 

N/A

Total property and equipment

 

 

134,611 

 

 

87,685 

 

 

Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization

 

 

(52,730)

 

 

(42,477)

 

 

Total property and equipment, net

 

$

81,881 

 

$

45,208 

 

 

(1)(a)

Leasehold improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the shorter of (i) their estimated useful lives and (ii) the estimated or contractual life of the related lease.

Depreciation expense for 2011, 2010 and 2009 was $6,267, $6,118 and $4,882, respectively.

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

Capitalized leases related to buildings had a cost of $8,496 at December 31, 2011Depreciation and 2010. Capitalized leases related to office furniture and equipment had a cost of $24 at December 31, 2011 and $542 at December 31, 2010.

For the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company recognized software amortization expense of $225 for enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system capitalization costs compared to $537on property and equipment for the years ended December 31, 20102014, 2013 and 2009.2012 was $14,727, $9,746 and $8,441, respectively. 

Note 6 Intangible Assets

Intangible assets other than goodwill at December 31, 20112014 and December 31, 20102013 are as follows:

 

   2011   2010 
(in thousands)  Cost   Accumulated
Amortization
  Net   Cost   Accumulated
Amortization
  Net 

Licenses

  $5,875    $(5,875 $    $5,875    $(5,875 $  

Patent costs

   16,379     (13,846  2,533     16,296     (13,632  2,664  

Acquired technology

   11,015     (10,345  670     11,064     (10,304  760  

Internally developed software

   17,847     (9,983  7,864     9,984     (8,936  1,048  

Customer relationships

   32,974     (1,798  31,176     10,253     (300  9,953  

Non-compete agreements

   8,976     (1,890  7,086     3,875     (840  3,035  

Trade names

   4,651     (180  4,471     883     (68  815  

Other

   1,986     (1,746  240     974     (974    
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $99,703    $(45,663 $54,040    $59,204    $(40,929 $18,275  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

During 2011, 2010 and 2009, the Company capitalized $336, $302 and $223, respectively, for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Gross

 

Accumulated Amortization

 

Net

 

Gross

 

Accumulated Amortization

 

Net

 

Useful Life (in years)

 

Weighted Average Useful Life Remaining (in years)

Intangible assets with finite lives:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Licenses

 

$

5,875 

 

$

(5,875)

 

$

 —

 

$

5,875 

 

$

(5,875)

 

$

 —

 

N/A

 

N/A

Patent costs

 

 

20,733 

 

 

(7,369)

 

 

13,364 

 

 

21,545 

 

 

(5,960)

 

 

15,585 

 

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Acquired technology

 

 

57,383 

 

 

(18,241)

 

 

39,142 

 

 

30,095 

 

 

(13,615)

 

 

16,480 

 

3 - 10

 

4

Internally developed software

 

 

9,073 

 

 

(5,517)

 

 

3,556 

 

 

18,097 

 

 

(12,863)

 

 

5,234 

 

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Customer relationships

 

 

157,139 

 

 

(36,975)

 

 

120,164 

 

 

95,793 

 

 

(18,283)

 

 

77,510 

 

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2

Non-compete agreements

 

 

35,469 

 

 

(11,784)

 

 

23,685 

 

 

16,848 

 

 

(6,666)

 

 

10,182 

 

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3

Trade names

 

 

21,800 

 

 

(4,455)

 

 

17,345 

 

 

9,302 

 

 

(2,211)

 

 

7,091 

 

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5

Other

 

 

39,100 

 

 

(6,905)

 

 

32,195 

 

 

11,598 

 

 

(4,081)

 

 

7,517 

 

4 - 10

 

1

Intangible assets with indefinite lives:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trademarks

 

 

2,110 

 

 

 

 

2,110 

 

 

2,110 

 

 

 

 

2,110 

 

N/A

 

N/A

Total intangible assets

 

$

348,682 

 

$

(97,121)

 

$

251,561 

 

$

211,263 

 

$

(69,554)

 

$

141,709 

 

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Amortization expense related to costs incurred to acquire,internally develop and extend patents in the United States and various other countries. Amortization of such previously capitalized patent costscountries was $237 in 2011, $474 in 2010$281, $250 and $829 in 2009.

At December 31, 2011, the gross acquired technology balance was $11,015. Acquired technology decreased $49 in 2011 from $11,064 in 2010 due to foreign currency exchange effects. The related accumulated amortization increased $41, net of foreign currency exchange impacts.

The Company had $50,837 and $14,851 of other net intangible assets, consisting of internally developed software, non-compete agreements, customer relationships and trade names and other intangibles from acquisitions, as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Internally developed software also includes certain software costs that relate to developed software the Company obtained through acquisitions. Acquisition activities during the year ended December 31, 2011 yielded $40,832 of other intangible assets compared to $16,108 in 2010. Amortization expense related to such intangible assets was $4,588, $928 and $175$215 for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, respectively.

Amortization expense related to acquired intangible assets was $39,203, $20,447 and $12,573 for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Amortization of these intangible assets is calculated on a straight-line basis over a fiveperiods ranging from one year life.to twenty years.

Annual amortization expense for intangible assets is expected to be $7,093 in 2012, $7,004 in 2013, $6,981 in 2014, $6,826$50,888 in 2015, $46,105 in 2016, $41,802 in 2017, $33,280 in 2018 and $5,680$24,706 in 2016.2019.

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

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Note 7 Goodwill

The following are the changes in the carrying amount of goodwill by geographic reporting unit:

 

(in thousands)  U.S.   Europe  Asia-
Pacific
   Total 

Balance at January 1, 2010

  $19,013    $22,787   $6,930    $48,730  

Effect of foreign currency exchange rates

        415         415  

Goodwill acquired through acquisitions

   934     8,899         9,833  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2010

   19,947     32,101    6,930     58,978  

Effect of foreign currency exchange rates

        (638  14     (624

Goodwill acquired through acquisitions

   41,365     3,026    4,906     49,297  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2011

  $61,312    $34,489   $11,850    $107,651  
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Americas

 

EMEA

 

Asia Pacific

 

Total

Balance at January 1, 2013

 

$

168,202 

 

$

40,276 

 

$

31,836 

 

$

240,314 

Effect of foreign currency exchange rates

 

 

 —

 

 

2,145 

 

 

(967)

 

 

1,178 

Goodwill acquired through acquisitions

 

 

96,533 

 

 

28,734 

 

 

3,307 

 

 

128,574 

Balance at December 31, 2013

 

 

264,735 

 

 

71,155 

 

 

34,176 

 

 

370,066 

Effect of foreign currency exchange rates

 

 

1,804 

 

 

(17,238)

 

 

(992)

 

 

(16,426)

Goodwill acquired through acquisitions

 

 

72,872 

 

 

163,025 

 

 

 —

 

 

235,897 

Balance at December 31, 2014

 

$

339,411 

 

$

216,942 

 

$

33,184 

 

$

589,537 

The effect of foreign currency exchange rates in this table reflects the impact on goodwill of amounts recorded in currencies other than the U.S. Dollardollar on the financial statements of subsidiaries in these geographic areas resulting from the yearly effect of foreign currency translation between the applicable functional currency and the U.S. Dollar.dollar. The remaining goodwill for EuropeEMEA and the entire amount of goodwill for Asia-PacificAsia Pacific represent amounts allocated in U.S. Dollarsdollars from the U.S. to those geographic areas for financial reporting purposes.

Note 8 Employee Benefits

The Company sponsors a Section 401(k) plan (the “Plan”) covering substantially all its eligible U.S. employees. The Plan entitles eligible employees to make contributions to the Plan after meeting certain eligibility requirements. Contributions are limited to the maximum contribution allowances permitted under the Internal Revenue Code. The Company matches 50% of the employee contributions up to a maximum match of $3$1.5, as set forth in the Plan. The Company may also make discretionary contributions to the Plan, which would be allocable to participants in accordance with the Plan.

In addition, the Company has several other U.S. and non-U.S. defined contribution plans covering eligible U.S. and non-U.S. employees, respectively. Postretirement benefits related to non-U.S. defined contribution plans, other than pensions, provide healthcare benefits, and in some instances, life insurance benefits for certain eligible employees.

For the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, the Company expensed $241, $224$721, $527 and $187,$489, respectively, for matching contributions to the Plan.

The Company also sponsors a Section 401(k) plan covering eligible employees of Quickparts (the “Quickparts Plan”), which was acquired in early 2011. The Quickparts Plan entitles eligible employees to make contributions to the Quickparts Plan after meeting certain eligibility requirements. Contributions are limited to the maximumdefined contribution allowances permitted under the Internal Revenue Code. The Company does not match the employee contributions; therefore, the Company had no expense for matching contributions to the Quickparts Plan.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

plans.

 

Note 9 Accrued and Other Liabilities

Accrued liabilities at December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 are as follows:

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010 

Compensation and benefits

  $7,036    $6,786  

Vendor accruals

   1,640     2,259  

Accrued professional fees

   326     451  

Accrued taxes

   3,500     3,102  

Royalties payable

   302     439  

Accrued interest

   950     48  

Contractual obligations due to acquisitions

   1,384     4,356  

Non-contractual obligation to repurchase

        27  

Accrued other

   1,678     501  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $16,816    $17,969  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Compensation and benefits

 

$

20,726 

 

$

13,197 

Vendor accruals

 

 

10,451 

 

 

5,449 

Accrued professional fees

 

 

532 

 

 

493 

Accrued taxes

 

 

8,577 

 

 

1,834 

Royalties payable

 

 

1,796 

 

 

750 

Accrued interest

 

 

43 

 

 

73 

Accrued earnouts related to acquisitions

 

 

185 

 

 

5,872 

Accrued other

 

 

1,909 

 

 

762 

Total

 

$

44,219 

 

$

28,430 

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Other liabilities at December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 are summarized below:

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010 

Defined benefit pension obligation. See Note 16

  $3,884    $3,394  

Long-term tax liability

   827     756  

Earnouts and deferred payments related to acquisitions

   1,898     2,660  

Other long-term liabilities

   3,838     3,151  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $10,447    $9,961  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Defined benefit pension obligation

 

$

7,062 

 

$

5,861 

Long term tax liability

 

 

2,029 

 

 

90 

Long term earnouts related to acquisitions

 

 

8,970 

 

 

4,206 

Long term deferred revenue

 

 

7,627 

 

 

4,218 

Other long term liabilities

 

 

9,210 

 

 

826 

Total

 

$

34,898 

 

$

15,201 

Note 10 Hedging Activities and Financial Instruments

Generally accepted accounting principles require the Company to disclose its estimate of the fair value of material financial instruments, including those recorded as assets or liabilities, in its consolidated financial statements. The carrying amounts of current assets and liabilities approximate fair value due to their short-term maturities. Generally, the fair value of a fixed-rate instrument will increase as interest rates fall and decrease as interest rates rise.

The carrying amounts and fair values of the Company’s other financial instruments at December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 were as follows:

 

   2011   2010 
   Carrying
Amount
   Fair
Value
   Carrying
Amount
   Fair
Value
 

Grand Junction note receivable

  $      1,918    $      1,474    $    1,267    $    1,374  

5.5% convertible senior notes

   131,107     136,837            

In December 2008, the Company sold its Grand Junction, Colorado facility for $5,500, consisting of $3,500 of cash proceeds (before deducting closing costs) and a zero interest five-year promissory note from the buyer. The Company discounted the note receivable by $1,017, reducing the net gain on the sale to $636. In accordance with ASC 360.20 “Real Estate Sales,” the Company has not recognized this gain on the sale of its Grand Junction facility as of December 31, 2011. The carrying value of the long-term receivable, net of the discount and deferred gain is recorded in “Other assets, net.” None of the gain will be recognized until the earlier of (i) the sale of the property securing the note by the buyer, or (ii) repayment of the promissory note by the buyer.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

(in thousands)

 

Carrying Amount

 

Fair Value

 

Carrying Amount

 

Fair Value

5.50% convertible notes

 

$

 —

 

$

 —

 

$

11,416 

 

$

12,035 

 

The note is secured by (i) a guarantee from the principals of the entity that purchased the facility and (ii) a second deed of trust on the facility.

The fair value of the Grand Junction note receivable was calculated at December 31, 2011 and 2010 by discounting the remaining payments using a discount rate of 13.78% and 14.49%, respectively. This rate was derived by taking the risk-free interest rate for similar maturities and adding an estimated risk premium intended to reflect the credit risk.

In the fourth quarter ofNovember 2011, the Company entered into an indenture under which weit privately placed $152,000 of 5.50% Senior Convertible Notessenior convertible notes due December 15, 2016 with institutional and accredited investors. The estimated fair value of the fixed-rate convertible notes in the table above differdiffers from the amounts reflected on the balance sheet based on the difference between the mandatory redemption value and the market value of the notes. The interest rate used to discountremaining outstanding Notes were converted during the contractual payments associated with the debentures was 5.88% for 2011.third quarter of 2014.

The foregoing estimates areestimate is subjective and involveinvolves uncertainties and matters of significant judgment. Changes in assumptions could significantly affect the Company’s estimates.

The Company conducts business in various countries using both the functional currencies of those countries and other currencies to effect cross border transactions. As a result, the Company is subject to the risk that fluctuations in foreign exchange rates between the dates that those transactions are entered into and their respective settlement dates will result in a foreign exchange gain or loss. When practicable, the Company endeavors to match assets and liabilities in the same currency on its balance sheet and those of its subsidiaries in order to reduce these risks. When appropriate, the Company enters into foreign currency contracts to hedge exposures arising from those transactions. The Company has elected not to prepare and maintain the documentation to qualify for hedge accounting treatment under ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging,” and therefore, all gains and losses (realized or unrealized) are recognized in “Interest and other expense, net” in the consolidated statements of income and other comprehensive income. Depending on their fair value at the end of the reporting period, derivatives are recorded either in prepaid expenses and other current assets or in accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet.

There were no foreign currency contracts outstanding at December 31, 2014 or at December 31, 2013.

The total impact of foreign currency related items on the consolidated statements of income and other comprehensive income were losseswas a loss of $118, $319$5,727, a loss of $773 and $104a gain of  $145 for 2011, 2010the years ended December 31, 2014,  2013 and 2009,2012, respectively.

Note 11 Borrowings

5.5% senior convertible notes

Credit Facility

On October 10, 2014, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a $150,000 five-year revolving, unsecured credit facility (the “Credit Agreement”) with PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, PNC Capital Markets LLC, as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and the other lenders party thereto (collectively, the “Lenders”). The Credit Agreement comprises a revolving loan facility that provides for advances in the initial aggregate principal amount of up to $150,000 (the “Credit Facility”).  Subject to certain terms and conditions contained in the Credit Agreement, the Company may, at its option and subject to customary conditions, request an increase in the aggregate principal amount available under

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the Credit Facility by an additional $75,000.  The Credit Agreement includes provisions for the issuance of letters of credit and swingline loans. 

The Credit Agreement is guaranteed by certain of the Company’s material domestic subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”).  Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Guarantors guarantee to the Lenders, among other things, all of the obligations of the Company and each other Guarantor under the Credit Agreement.  From time to time, the Company may be required to cause additional material domestic subsidiaries to become Guarantors under the Credit Agreement.

Generally, amounts outstanding under the Credit Facility bear interest, at the Company’s option, at either the Base Rate or the LIBOR Rate, in each case, plus an applicable margin.  Base Rate advances bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) the highest of (A) the Administrative Agent’s prime rate, (B) the Federal Funds Open Rate plus 0.5% or (C) the Daily LIBOR Rate for a one month interest period plus 1%, and (ii) an applicable margin that ranges from 0.25% to 0.50% based upon the Company’s consolidated total leverage ratio. LIBOR Rate advances bear interest at a rate based upon the London interbank offered rate for the applicable interest period, plus an applicable margin that ranges from 1.25% to 1.50% based upon the Company’s consolidated total leverage ratio. Under the terms of the Credit Agreement, (i) accrued interest on each loan bearing interest at the Base Rate is payable quarterly in arrears and (ii) accrued interest on each loan bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate is payable in arrears on the earlier of (A) quarterly and (B) the last day of each applicable interest payment date for each loan. The Credit Facility is scheduled to mature on October 10, 2019, at which time all amounts outstanding thereunder will be due and payable.

The Company is required to pay certain fees in connection with the Credit Facility, including a quarterly commitment fee equal to the product of the amount of the average daily available revolving commitments under the Credit Agreement multiplied by a percentage that ranges from 0.20% to 0.25% depending upon the Company’s leverage ratio, as well as customary administrative fees.

The Credit Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, covenants and default provisions for a Credit Facility of this type, including, but not limited to, financial covenants, limitations on liens and the incurrence of debt, covenants to preserve corporate existence and comply with laws and covenants regarding the use of proceeds of the Credit Facility. The financial covenants include a maximum consolidated total leverage ratio, which is the ratio of consolidated total funded indebtedness to consolidated EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization expense), as defined in the Credit Agreement, of 3.00 to 1.00, and a minimum interest coverage ratio, which is the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA to cash interest expense, of 3.50 to 1.0.  The Company is only required to be in compliance with the financial covenants as of the end of any fiscal quarter in which there are any loans outstanding at any time during such fiscal quarter.

There was no outstanding balance on the Credit Facility as of December 31, 2014.

5.5% Senior Convertible Notes and Interest Expense

In November 2011, the Company completed the private placement of $152,000 of 5.50% senior convertible notes due in December 2016. The net proceeds of these notes were used to pay the purchase price for the Z Corp and Vidar acquisitions and for general corporate purposes. The Company issued these notes under an indenture dated as of November 22, 2011 at a price of 98% of the $152,000 aggregate principal amount. After deducting this original issue discount and commissions provided for on the placement of the notes, the net proceeds of this private placement amounted to $145,366. These notes are senior unsecured obligations and rank equal in right of payment with all the Company’s existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness. They are also senior in right of payment to any subordinated indebtedness that the Company may incur in the future.

In May 2008, the FASB issued guidance contained in ASC Topic 470-20, “Debt with Conversion and Other Options” which applies to all convertible debt instruments that have a “net settlement feature”, which means that such convertible debt instruments, by their terms, may be settled either wholly or partially in cash upon conversion. This topic requires issuers of convertible debt instruments that may be settled wholly or partially in cash upon conversion to separately account for the liability and equity components in a manner reflective of the issuers’ non-convertible debt borrowing rate.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

The company recognized the estimated equity component of the convertible notes of $18,210 in additional paid-in capital. In addition, the company allocated $440 of unamortized debt issuance costs to the equity component and recognized this amount as a reduction to additional paid-in capital. The company also recognized a discount on convertible notes of $3,040, which is being amortized as non-cash interest expense over the life of the notes.

The company also recognized a deferred tax liability of $7,200 as the tax effect of the basis difference between carrying values and tax basis of the convertible notes. The carrying value of this deferred tax liability offset certain net deferred tax assets for determining valuation allowances against those deferred tax assets. See Note 21 to the consolidated financial statements.

At December 31, 2011, the carrying amount of the equity component recognized upon adoption was $17,770. The following table summarizes the principal amounts and related unamortized discount on convertible notes:

(in thousands)  2011  2010 

Principal amount of convertible notes

  $152,000   $  

Unamortized discount on convertible notes

   (20,893    
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net carrying value

  $131,107   $  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

The following table summarizes other information related to the convertible notes:

(in years)

Total amortization period for debt discount

5 years

Remaining amortization period for debt discount

5 years

Effective interest rates on convertible notes

9.51

The following table summarizes interest costs recognized on convertible notes:

(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

Contractual interest coupon

  $906    $    $  

Amortization of debt discount

   409            
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $1,315    $    $  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

These notes are convertible into shares of the Company’s Common Stock at an initial conversion rate equivalent to 46.6021 shares of Common Stock per $1 principal amount of notes, which represents an initial conversion rate of approximately $21.46 per share of Common Stock. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment in certain circumstances as more fully set forth in the indenture covering the notes.

If converted, the aggregate principal amount of the notes then outstanding may be settled in cash, shares of common stock, or a combination thereof, at the Company’s election. Subject to the terms of the indenture, holders may convert their notes at any time. The number of shares of common stock the notes are currently convertible into is approximately 7,084. In certain circumstances provided by the indenture, the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes may be increased, and with it the aggregate principal amount of the notes. Unless earlier repurchased, redeemed or converted, the notes will mature on December 15, 2016.

The notes were issued with an effective yield of 5.96% based upon an original issue discount at 98.0%. The net proceeds from the issuance of these Notes, after deducting original issue discount and capitalized issuance costs of $6,634, amounted to $145,366. The capitalized issuance costs are being amortized to interest expense over the life of the notes.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

The notes accrue interest at the rate of 5.50% per year payable in cash semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 of each year.

During 2014, the remaining $12,540 of outstanding notes were converted, reflecting a loss of $1,806 for the year beginning June 15,ended December 31, 2014, compared to losses of $11,275 and $7,021, respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012.

Redemption Features — convertible securities

Upon certain terms and conditions, the Company may elect to satisfy its conversion obligation with respect to the notes by paying cash, in whole or in part, As of December 31, 2014, there is no outstanding balance for specified aggregate principal amount of the notes. In

The following table summarizes the event of certain types of fundamental changes, the Company will increase the conversion rate by a number of additional shares, up to a maximum of 9.031 shares, which equates to a conversion price of approximately $16.83 per share.principal amounts and related unamortized discount on convertible notes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Principal amount of convertible notes

 

$

 —

 

$

12,540 

Unamortized discount on convertible notes

 

 

         —

 

 

(1,124)

Net carrying value

 

$

 —

 

$

11,416 

Interest Expense

Interest expense totaled $2,090 in 2011, compared to $587 in 2010$1,227, $3,425 and $618 in 2009, while$12,468 for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively and interest income totaled $51 in 2011, compared to $32 in 2010$482, $1,258, and $9 in 2009,$168 for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively, reflecting the combined effect of the issuance and conversion of the senior convertible notes and lower interest rates on investments, higher cash balancesinvestments.

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Other Debt

In connection with its acquisition of LayerWise, the Company assumed a portion of LayerWise’s outstanding bank debt, consisting of $1,427 of revolving credit facilities and $240 in term loans. The term loans bear interest at rates ranging from 1.34% to 5.40% as of December 31, 2014. The outstanding balance on the repaymentterm loans was $127, as of December 31, 2014, all of which was current. There were no borrowings outstanding under the revolving credit facilities as of December 31, 2014. There is a 0.125% commitment fee on the unused portion of the industrial revenue bonds in 2009. For 2011, interest expense related to capital leases and the 5.50% senior convertible notes, while in 2010 and 2009, interest expense related to capital leases.facilities.

Note 12 Lease Obligations

The Company leases certain of its facilities and equipment under capitalized leases and other facilities and equipment under non-cancelable operating leases. The leases are generally on a net-rent basis, under which the Company pays taxes, maintenance and insurance. Leases that expire at various dates through 2031 are expected to be renewed or replaced by leases on other properties. RentalRent expense for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012 aggregated $2,738, $1,977$10,427, $6,891 and $1,707,$4,968, respectively.

The Company’s future minimum lease payments as of December 31, 20112014 under capitalized leases and non-cancelable operating leases, with initial or remaining lease terms in excess of one year, were as follows:

 

(in thousands)  Capitalized
Leases
  Operating
Leases
 
Years ending December 31:   

2012

  $696   $2,517  

2013

   696    1,502  

2014

   695    862  

2015

   706    735  

2016

   683    626  

Later years

   11,052    488  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total minimum lease payments

   14,528   $6,730  
   

 

 

 

Less amounts representing imputed interest

   (6,756 
  

 

 

  

Present value of minimum lease payments

   7,772   

Less current portion of capitalized lease obligations

   (163 
  

 

 

  

Capitalized lease obligations, excluding current portion

  $7,609   
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Capitalized Leases

 

Operating Leases

Years ending December 31:

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015

 

$

1,112 

 

$

10,006 

2016

 

 

1,098 

 

 

8,960 

2017

 

 

1,125 

 

 

6,649 

2018

 

 

1,121 

 

 

5,536 

2019

 

 

1,117 

 

 

4,733 

Later years

 

 

9,252 

 

 

7,531 

Total minimum lease payments

 

 

14,825 

 

$

43,415 

Less: amounts representing imputed interest

 

 

(5,391)

 

 

 

Present value of minimum lease payments

 

 

9,434 

 

 

 

Less: current portion of capitalized lease obligations

 

 

(529)

 

 

 

Capitalized lease obligations, excluding current portion

 

$

8,905 

 

 

 

Rock Hill Facility

The Company leases its current headquarters and research and development facility pursuant to a lease agreement with Lex Rock Hill, LP. After its initial term ending August 31, 2021, the lease provides the Company with the option to renew the lease for two additional five-year terms. The lease also grants the Company the right to cause Lex Rock Hill, subject to certain terms and conditions, to expand the leased premises during the term of the lease, in which case the term of the lease would be extended. The lease is a triple net lease and provides for

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

the payment of base rent of $669 in 20122014 through 2015, $682$683 in 2016, including a rent escalation in 2016, $709 in 2017 through 2020 and $723 in 2021. Under the terms of the lease, the Company is obligated to pay all taxes, insurance, utilities and other operating costs with respect to the leased premises.  The lease also grants the Company the right to purchase the leased premises and undeveloped land surrounding the leased premises on terms and conditions described more particularly in the lease. In 2011, the Company exercised its right to purchase the undeveloped land for $370. This lease is recorded as a capitalized lease obligation under ASC 840, “Leases.” The implicit interest rate atwas 6.93% as of December 31, 20112014 and 2010 was 6.93%.2013. 

Furniture and Fixtures Lease

The Company had a financing lease with a financial institution covering office furniture and fixtures which required the Company to make monthly payments through October 2011. In accordance with ASC 840, the Company recorded this lease as a capitalized lease. The implicit interest rate at December 31, 2010 was 8.05%.

Other Capital Lease Obligations

The Company leases other equipment with lease terms through August 2015.2018. In accordance with ASC 840, the Company has recorded these leases as capitalized leases. The implicit interest rate ranged from 1.75% to 8.06% at December 31, 2011 was 6.45%2014 and 1.75% to 7.80% at December 31, 2010 was 1.55%.2013.

Note 13 Preferred Stock

The Company had 5,000 shares of preferred stock that were authorized but unissued at December 31, 20112014 and 2010. In connection with the stockholders’ rights plan approved by the Company’s Board of Directors in December 2008, 1,000 shares of such preferred stock were authorized as Series A Preferred Stock. This Series A Preferred Stock and the stockholders’ rights plan were terminated by the Company’s Board of Directors on November 18, 2011.2013.

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Note 14 Stock-Based Compensation and Stockholders’ Rights Plan

Effective May 19, 2004, the Company adopted its 2004 Incentive Stock Plan, as further amended and restated on February 3, 2015 (the “2004 Stock Plan”) and its 2004 Restricted Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors (the “2004 Director Plan”). Effective upon the adoption of these Plans, all the Company’s previous stock option plans terminated, except with respect to options outstanding under those plans. As of December 31, 20112014 and 2010, the aggregate number of shares of common stock underlying outstanding2013, all vested options issued under all previous stock option plans was 1,076had been exercised and 1,554, respectively, at an average exercise price per share of $3.76 and $4.34, respectively, with expiration dates through November 2013.there were no options outstanding. All stock-based compensation expense for vested options was recognized prior to 2008.

In 2009,2014, the maximum number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2004 Stock Plan was increased from 2,0004,000 to 4,000.6,000. Total awards issued under this plan, net of repurchases, amounted to 3841,026 shares of restricted stock in 2011, 2842014, 1,046 shares of restricted stock in 2010,2013, and 628540 shares of restricted stock in 2009.2012. The Company estimated the future value associated with awards granted in 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012 as $8,007, $3,688$49,121, $67,942 and $2,200,$20,458, respectively, which is calculated based on the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant less the amount paid by the recipient and is expensed over the vesting period of each award. The compensation expense recognized in 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012 was $2,637, $1,149$31,944, $12,958 and $1,044,$4,818, respectively. EachGenerally, each of these awards wasis made with a vesting period of three years to five years from the date of grant and requiredrequires the recipient to pay the lesser of $1.00 for each share or an amount equal to ten percent of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock per share at the date of grant.

The purpose of thisthe 2004 Stock Plan is to provide an incentive that permits the persons responsible for the Company’s growth to share directly in that growth and to further the identity of their interests with the interests of the Company’s stockholders. Any person who is an employee of or consultant to the Company, or a subsidiary or an affiliate of the Company, is eligible to be considered for the grant of restricted stock awards, stock options or

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

performance awards pursuant to the 2004 Stock Plan. The 2004 Stock Plan is administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, which, pursuant to the provisions of the 2004 Stock Plan, has the sole authority to determine recipients of awards under that plan, the number of shares to be covered by such awards and the terms and conditions of each award. The 2004 Stock Plan may be amended, altered or discontinued at the sole discretion of the Board of Directors at any time.

The 2004 Director Plan provides for the grant of up to 400600 shares of common stock to non-employee directors (as defined in the Plan) of the Company, subject to adjustment in accordance with the terms of the Plan. The purpose of this Plan is to attract, retain and motivate non-employee directors of exceptional ability and to promote the common interests of directors and stockholders in enhancing the value of the Company’s common stock. Each non-employee director of the Company is eligible to participate in this Plan upon their election to the Board of Directors. The Plan provides for initial grants of 1 share of common stock to each newly elected non-employee director, annual grants of 3 shares of common stock as of the close of business on the date of each annual meeting of stockholders, and interim grants of 3 shares of common stock, or a pro rata portion thereof, to non-employee directors elected at meetings other than the annual meeting. Effective April 1, 2011,2013, the Board of Directors amended this Plan to increase the limit of the value of any award of shares made to an eligible director to $50,$100, valued on the date of the award. The issue price of common stock awarded under this Plan is equal to the par value per share of the common stock. The Company accounts for the fair value of awards of common stock made under this Plan, net of the issue price, as director compensation expense in the period in which the award is made. During the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, the Company recorded $300, $257$849, $600 and $146,$300, respectively, as director compensation expense in connection with awards of 1617 shares in 2011, 362014, 12 shares in 20102013 and 4211 shares in 20092012 of common stock made to the non-employee directors of the Company pursuant to this Plan.

As of December 31, 2011, 121 and 2,096

377 shares of common stock were available for future grants under the 2004 Director Plan and the 2004 Stock Plan, respectively.Plan. The status of the Company’s stock options is summarized below:

 

   2011   2010   2009 
(shares and options in thousands)  Options  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
   Options  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
   Options  Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
 

Outstanding at beginning of year

   1,554   $4.34     1,728   $4.60     1,772   $4.56  

Exercised

   (452  5.61     (158  7.13     (30  2.82  

Lapsed or canceled

   (26  6.72     (16  5.34     (14  3.36  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

Outstanding at end of year

   1,076   $3.76     1,554   $4.34     1,728   $4.60  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

Options exercisable at end of year

   1,076      1,554      1,728   

Shares available for future option grants(1)

   2,217      2,480      2,736   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

(shares and options in thousands)

 

Options

 

Weighted Average Exercise Price

 

Options

 

Weighted Average Exercise Price

 

Options

 

Weighted Average Exercise Price

Outstanding at beginning of year

 

 —

 

$

 —

 

 —

 

$

 —

 

1,076 

 

$

3.76 

Exercised

 

       —

 

 

 —

 

 —

 

 

 —

 

(1,056)

 

 

3.70 

Lapsed or canceled

 

       —

 

 

 —

 

 —

 

 

 —

 

(20)

 

 

7.12 

Outstanding at end of year

 

       —

 

$

           —

 

       —

 

$

           —

 

 —

 

$

 —

Options exercisable at end of year

 

       —

 

 

 

 

       —

 

 

 

 

 —

 

 

 

Shares available for future option grants (a)

 

377 

 

 

 

 

1,445 

 

 

 

 

1,667 

 

 

 

 

(1)

(a)

Assumes the issuance of options permitted by the 2004 Incentive Stock Plan.

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

The following table summarizes information aboutAs of December 31, 2012, all stock options were exercised or expired; consequently, no stock options were outstanding at December 31, 2011:

   Options Outstanding   Options Exercisable 

Range:

  Options
Outstanding
   Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (Years)
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
   Options
Outstanding
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
 

(options in thousands)

  

$1.00 to $4.99

   1,030     1.69    $3.62     1,030    $3.62  

$5.00 to $9.99

   46     .33     6.97     46     6.97  

$10.00 to $14.99

                         
  

 

 

       

 

 

   
   1,076     1.63    $3.76     1,076    $3.76  
  

 

 

       

 

 

   

or exercised during 2014 or 2013. The aggregate intrinsic value of the Company’s 1,076 outstanding stock options amounted to $15,494 at December 31, 2011.

From December 2008 through November 2011, the Company maintained a stockholders’ rights plan (“the Rights Plan”). The Rights Plan included a right for holders of Common Stock to purchase Series A Preferred Stock, generally exercisable if a person or group commenced a tender or exchange offer for 15 percent or moreexercised during 2012 was $39,165, determined as of the Company’s Common Stock. The Series A Preferred Stock rights were terminated upon terminationdate of the Rights Plan on November 15, 2011.exercise.

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Note 15 Non-controlling Interest

In May 2009, the Company formed MQast, LLC (“MQast”), a joint venture with an unrelated third party. In accordance with ASC 810, “Consolidation,” the carrying value of the non-controlling interest was reported in the consolidated balance sheets as a separate component of equity, and both consolidated net income and comprehensive income were adjusted to include the net income attributable to the non-controlling interest. In March 2010, MQast became a wholly-owned subsidiary, and at December 31, 2010, there was no longer any income or equity attributable to the non-controlling interest.

Note 16    International Retirement Plan

The Company sponsors a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan for certain employees of a non-U.S. subsidiary initiated by a predecessor of the Company.subsidiary. The Company maintains insurance contracts that provide an annuity that is used to fund the current obligations under this plan. The net present value of that annuity was $2,536$2,981 and $2,394$3,144 as of December 31, 20112014 and 2010,2013, respectively. The net present value of that annuity is included in “Other assets, net” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 20112014 and 2010.

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

2013. The following table provides a reconciliation of the changes in the projected benefit obligation for the years ended December 31, 20112014 and 2010:2013:

 

(in thousands)  2011  2010 

Reconciliation of benefit obligations:

   

Obligations as of January 1

  $3,448   $3,293  

Service cost

   114    155  

Interest cost

   196    174  

Actuarial loss

   397    94  

Benefit payments

   (56  (54

Effect of foreign currency exchange rate changes

   (163  (214
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Obligations as of December 31

  $3,936   $3,448  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Funded status as of December 31 (net of tax benefit)

  $(3,936 $(3,448
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Reconciliation of benefit obligations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obligations as of January 1

 

$

5,987 

 

$

5,240 

Service cost

 

 

150 

 

 

144 

Interest cost

 

 

200 

 

 

198 

Actuarial loss

 

 

1,719 

 

 

302 

Benefit payments

 

 

(144)

 

 

(122)

Effect of foreign currency exchange rate changes

 

 

(718)

 

 

225 

Obligations as of December 31

 

 

7,194 

 

 

5,987 

Funded status as of December 31 (net of tax benefit)

 

$

(7,194)

 

$

(5,987)

The projected benefit obligation in the table above includes $397$1,719 and $94$302 of unrecognized net loss for the years ended December 31, 20112014 and 2010,2013, respectively. At December 31, 2011,2014, the Company recorded this $397the $1,719 loss, net of $69 of actuarial amortization and a $122$515 tax benefit, as a $275$1,135 adjustment to “Accumulated other comprehensive income” in accordance with ASC 715, “Compensation Retirement Benefits.” At December 31, 2010,2013, the Company recorded the $94$302 loss, net of $56 of actuarial amortization and a $29$78 tax benefit, as a $65$168 adjustment to “Accumulated other comprehensive income.income” in accordance with ASC 715, “Compensation – Retirement Benefits. At December 31, 2009, the Company recorded the $86 loss, net of a $29 tax benefit, as a $57 adjustment to “Accumulated other comprehensive income.”

The Company has recognized the following amounts in the consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 20112014 and 2010:2013:

 

(in thousands)  2011  2010 

Accrued liabilities

  $52   $54  

Other liabilities

   3,884    3,394  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Projected benefit obligation

   3,936    3,448  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

   (194  64  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $3,742   $3,512  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Accrued liabilities

 

$

132 

 

$

127 

Other liabilities

 

 

7,062 

 

 

5,860 

Projected benefit obligation

 

 

7,194 

 

 

5,987 

Accumulated other comprehensive income

 

 

(2,211)

 

 

(1,076)

Total

 

$

4,983 

 

$

4,911 

The following projected benefit obligation and accumulated benefit obligation were estimated as of December 31, 20112014 and 2010:2013:

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010 

Projected benefit obligation

  $3,936    $3,448  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Accumulated benefit obligation

  $3,727    $3,252  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Projected benefit obligation

 

$

7,194 

 

$

5,987 

Accumulated benefit obligation

 

$

6,301 

 

$

5,553 

 

The following table shows the components of net periodic benefit costs and other amounts recognized in other comprehensive income:

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010 

Net periodic benefit cost:

    

Service cost

  $114    $155  

Interest cost

   196     174  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $310    $329  

Other changes in plan assets and benefit obligations recognized in other comprehensive income:

    

Net loss

   275     65  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total expense recognized in net periodic benefit cost and other comprehensive income

  $585    $394  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Net periodic benefit cost:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service cost

 

$

150 

 

$

144 

Interest cost

 

 

200 

 

 

198 

Amortization of actuarial loss

 

 

69 

 

 

    56

Total

 

$

419 

 

$

398 

Other changes in plan assets and benefit obligations recognized in other comprehensive income:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

 

1,135 

 

 

168 

Total expense recognized in net periodic benefit cost and other comprehensive income

 

$

1,554 

 

$

566 

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The following assumptions are used to determine benefit obligations as of December 31:

 

   2011  2010 

Discount rate

   4.90  5.50

Rate of compensation

   1.50  1.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

Discount rate

 

 

2.40% 

 

 

3.50% 

Rate of compensation

 

 

3.00% 

 

 

2.00% 

The following benefit payments, including expected future service cost, are expected to be paid:

 

(in thousands)    

Estimated future benefit payments:

  

2012

  $119  

2013

   143  

2014

   146  

2015

   149  

2016

   168  

2017 - 2021

   999  

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

Estimated future benefit payments:

 

 

 

2015

 

$

135 

2016

 

 

152 

2017

 

 

155 

2018

 

 

158 

2019

 

 

175 

2020-2024

 

 

1,142 

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

Note 1716 Warranty Contracts

The Company provides product warranties for up to one year, or longer if required by applicable laws or regulations, as part of sales transactions for certain of its printers. Warranty revenue is recognized ratably over the term of the warranties, which is the period during which the related costs are incurred. This warranty provides the customer with maintenance on the equipment during the warranty period and provides for certain repair, labor and replacement parts that may be required. In connection with this activity, the Company recognized warranty revenue and incurred warranty costs as shown in the table below:

Warranty Revenue Recognition

(in thousands)

  Beginning  Balance
Deferred Warranty
Revenue
   Warranty
Revenue
Deferred
   Warranty
Revenue
Recognized
  Ending  Balance
Deferred Warranty
Revenue
 
       
Year Ended December 31,       

2011

  $4,433    $4,210    $(5,549 $3,094  

2010

   2,677     5,941     (4,185  4,433  

2009

   3,075     3,417     (3,815  2,677  

Warranty Costs Incurred

(in thousands)

Year Ended December 31,

  Materials   Labor and
Overhead
   Total 

2011

  $2,020    $3,565    $5,585  

2010

   1,330     2,668     3,998  

2009

   1,288     2,476     3,764  

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Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warranty Revenue Recognition:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Beginning Balance Deferred Warranty Revenue

 

Warranty Revenue Deferred

 

Warranty Revenue Recognized

 

Ending Balance Deferred Warranty Revenue

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

$

9,141 

 

$

17,185 

 

$

(14,412)

 

$

11,914 

2013

 

 

4,081 

 

 

14,681 

 

 

(9,621)

 

 

9,141 

2012

 

 

3,094 

 

 

7,540 

 

 

(6,553)

 

 

4,081 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warranty Costs Incurred:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

 

 

Materials

 

Labor and Overhead

 

Total

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

 

 

 

$

5,958 

 

$

6,662 

 

$

12,620 

2013

 

 

 

 

 

4,441 

 

 

4,821 

 

 

9,262 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

2,672 

 

 

3,720 

 

 

6,392 

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Note 1817 Computation of Net Income per Share

The Company presents basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) amounts. Basic EPS is calculated by dividing net income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the applicable period.  Diluted EPS is calculated by dividing net income available to 3D Systems’ common stockholders by the weighted average number of common and common equivalent shares outstanding during the applicable period. The following table is a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of the basic and diluted income per share computations for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009:2012:

 

(in thousands, except per share amounts)  2011   2010   2009 

Numerator:

      

Net income available to 3D Systems common stockholders: numerator for basic net income per share

  $35,420    $19,566    $1,066  

Add: Effect of dilutive securities

      

Stock options, other equity compensation, convertible redeemable preferred stock and debentures

               
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income available to 3D Systems common stockholders: numerator for dilutive net income per share

  $35,420    $19,566    $1,066  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Denominator:

      

Denominator for basic net income per share: weighted average shares

   49,748     46,168     45,088  

Add: Effect of dilutive securities

      

Stock options, other equity compensation, convertible redeemable preferred stock and debentures

   975     760     122  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Denominator for dilutive net income per share(1)

   50,723     46,928     45,210  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income per share

      

Basic

  $0.71    $0.42    $0.02  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted

  $0.70    $0. 42    $0.02  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Numerator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income attributable to 3D Systems – numerator for basic net earnings per share

 

$

11,637 

 

$

44,107 

 

$

38,941 

Add: Effect of dilutive securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.50% convertible notes (after-tax)(a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numerator for diluted earnings per share

 

$

11,637 

 

$

44,107 

 

$

38,941 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denominator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average shares – denominator for basic net
earnings per share 

 

 

108,023 

 

 

98,393 

 

 

80,817 

Add: Effect of dilutive securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock options and other equity compensation 

 

 

 

 

 

 

906 

5.50% convertible notes (after-tax)(a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denominator for diluted earnings per share 

 

 

108,023 

 

 

98,393 

 

 

81,723 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and Diluted

 

$

0.11 

 

$

0.45 

 

$

0.48 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense excluded from diluted earnings per share calculation (a)

 

$

 

$

1,835 

 

$

9,002 

5.50% Convertible notes shares excluded from diluted earnings per share calculation (a)    

 

 

 

 

1,764 

 

 

5,957 

(1)

The average(a)

Average outstanding diluted shares calculation excludes options covering 708 shares in 2009 with an exercise price that exceeds the average market price of shares during the period, since the effect of their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive resulting in a reduction to the net earnings per share. The average outstanding diluted sharesshare calculation also excludes shares that may be issued upon conversion of the outstanding senior convertible notes becausesince the effect of their conversion price exceeded the market price of the shares at December 31, 2011.inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.  

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

Note 18 Noncontrolling Interests

 

Note 19    Supplemental Cash Flow Information

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

Interest payments

  $1,188    $589    $622  

Income tax (receipts) payments

   1,523     711     (541

Non-cash items:

      

Transfer of equipment from inventory to property and equipment(a)

   3,714     2,484     1,323  

Transfer of equipment to inventory from property and equipment(b)

   1,068     265     915  

Issuance of stock for acquisition of businesses

   3,042     5,895       

On July 15, 2013, the Company acquired approximately 82% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Phenix Systems, a global provider of direct metal selective laser sintering 3D printers based in Riom, France. Phenix’s operating results are included in these consolidated financial statements. In accordance with ASC 810, “Consolidation,” the carrying value of the noncontrolling interest is reported in the consolidated balance sheets as a separate component of equity and consolidated net income has been adjusted to report the net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest. Subsequent to the acquisition, the Company completed a tender offer and acquired additional shares and voting rights of Phenix Systems. As of December 31, 2014, the Company owned approximately 95% of the capital and voting rights of Phenix Systems.

 

(a)

Inventory is transferred from inventory to property and equipment at cost when the Company requires additional machines for training, demonstration, short-term rentals and use in its on-demand parts services.

(b)

In general, an asset is transferred from property and equipment into inventory at its net book value when the Company has identified a potential sale for a used machine. The machine is removed from inventory upon recognition of the sale.

Note 2019 Fair Value Measurements

ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures,” defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. ASC 820 also establishes a fair value hierarchy which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs that may be used to measure fair value:

Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

·

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

Level 2 — Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities; or

·

Level 2 – Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities; or

Level 3

·

Level 3 Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

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For the Company, the above standard applies to cash equivalents, convertible senior notes and foreign exchange contracts. The Company utilizes the market approach to measure fair value for its financial assets and liabilities. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities.

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis are summarized below:

 

  Fair Value Measurements as of: 
(in thousands) December 31, 2011  December 31, 2010 
  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3  Total  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3  Total 

Description

        

Cash equivalent(1)

 $143,881   $   $   $143,881   $22,045   $   $   $22,045  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fair Value Measurements as of:

 

 

December 31, 2014

 

December 31, 2013

(in thousands)

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash equivalents (a) 

$

190,628 

 

$

 —

 

$

 —

 

$

190,628 

 

$

226,895 

 

$

 —

 

$

 —

 

$

226,895 

(1)(a)

Cash equivalents include funds held in money market instruments and are reported at their current carrying value which approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of these instruments and are included in cash and cash equivalents in the consolidated balance sheet.

The Company did not have any transfers of assets and liabilities between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value measurement hierarchy during the quarter or year ended December 31, 2011.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

2014.

 

In addition to the financial assets and liabilities included above, certain of our non-financial assets and liabilities are to be initially measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis. This includes items such as non-financial assets and liabilities initially measured at fair value in a business combination (but not measured at fair value in subsequent periods) and non-financial, long-lived assets measured at fair value for an impairment assessment. In general, non-financial assets and liabilities including goodwill, other intangible assets and property and equipment are measured at fair value when there is an indication of impairment and are recorded at fair value only when impairment is recognized. The Company has not recorded any impairments related to such assets and has had no other significant non-financial assets or non-financial liabilities requiring adjustments or write-downs to fair value as of December 31, 20112014 and 2010.2013.

Note 2120 Income Taxes

The components of the Company’s income before income taxes are as follows:

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

Income before income taxes:

      

Domestic

  $25,057    $15,273    $(734

Foreign

   7,389     4,466     2,647  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $32,446    $19,739    $1,913  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

2014

 

 

2013

 

 

2012

Income before income taxes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domestic

$

5,751 

 

 

$

55,826 

 

 

$

34,105 

Foreign

 

11,636 

 

 

 

8,180 

 

 

 

9,174 

Total

$

17,387 

 

 

$

64,006 

 

 

$

43,279 

The components of income tax provision for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012 are as follows:

 

(in thousands)  2011  2010  2009 

Current:

    

U.S. federal

  $   $(81 $(41

State

   367    123      

Foreign

   1,799    1,366    506  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

   2,166    1,408    465  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Deferred:

    

U.S. federal

   (4,727  (1,050    

State

   (189  (82    

Foreign

   (224  (103  309  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

   (5,140  (1,235  309  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total income tax provision

  $(2,974 $173   $774  
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

2014

 

 

2013

 

 

2012

Current:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. federal

$

23,336 

 

 

$

24,688 

 

 

$

441 

State

 

72 

 

 

 

1,926 

 

 

 

1,031 

Foreign

 

6,588 

 

 

 

3,165 

 

 

 

3,527 

Total

 

29,996 

 

 

 

29,779 

 

 

 

4,999 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. federal

 

(21,624)

 

 

 

(7,760)

 

 

 

869 

State

 

(87)

 

 

 

(450)

 

 

 

(798)

Foreign

 

(2,844)

 

 

 

(1,682)

 

 

 

(732)

Total

 

(24,555)

 

 

 

(9,892)

 

 

 

(661)

Total income tax provision

$

5,441 

 

 

$

19,887 

 

 

$

4,338 

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The overall effective tax rate differs from the statutory federal tax rate for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012 as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  % of Pretax Income 

% of Pretax Income

  2011 2010 2009 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Tax provision based on the federal statutory rate

   35.0  35.0  35.0

 

35.0 

%

 

 

35.0 

%

 

 

35.0 

%

Release of valuation allowances

   (19.2  (5.9    

Use of valuation allowances against U.S. taxable income

   (24.8  (33.0  (96.3

Nondeductible expenses

 

12.5 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncertain tax positions

 

11.2 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deemed income related to foreign operations

   0.7    2.8    109.3  

 

8.1 

 

 

 

0.2 

 

 

 

0.1 

 

Non-deductible expenses

   0.4    0.3    1.3  

Income not subject to tax

   (2.0        

State taxes, net of federal benefit, before valuation allowance

   1.3    2.8    (1.4

Impact of foreign tax settlement

           (2.7

Return to provision adjustments, foreign current and deferred balances

   (0.7  0.4    (2.3

 

2.5 

 

 

 

(0.4)

 

 

 

0.5 

 

Foreign income tax rate differential

   (0.6  (2.3  (3.8

 

0.5 

 

 

 

(0.3)

 

 

 

(0.7)

 

State taxes, net of federal benefit, before valuation allowance

 

0.3 

 

 

 

2.4 

 

 

 

2.3 

 

Release of valuation allowances

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(12.4)

 

Use of non-operating losses against U.S. taxable income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(14.6)

 

Foreign tax credits related to above

 

(6.3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domestic production activities deduction

 

(12.0)

 

 

 

(3.6)

 

 

 

 

Research credits

 

(21.9)

 

 

 

(0.6)

 

 

 

 

Other

   0.7    0.8    1.4  

 

    1.4

 

 

 

(1.6)

 

 

 

(0.2)

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Effective tax rate

   (9.2)%   0.9  40.5

 

31.3 

%

 

 

31.1 

%

 

 

10.0 

%

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

The difference between the Company’s effective tax rate for 20112014 and the federal statutory rate was 3.7 percentage points. The Company incurred nondeductible expenses and recognized income for tax purposes, net of tax credits, not included in financial statement income, increasing the effective tax rate. The Company is benefiting from the U.S. domestic production activities deduction and from research credits, reducing the effective tax rate.

The difference between the Company’s effective tax rate for 2013 and the federal statutory rate was 3.9 percentage points. The Company reported positive U.S. taxable income, and was therefore entitled to use the domestic production activities deduction provided to producers in the United States, effectively lowering the U.S. tax rate applicable to production activities.

The difference between the Company’s effective tax rate for 2012 and the federal statutory rate resulted primarily from changes in valuation allowances. These comprised:

 

The release of valuation allowances against certain U.S. deferred tax assets. This release was based upon the Company’s recent results of operations and its expected profitability in future years. The Company concluded, during the second quarter of 2011, that it is more likely than not that a portion of its net U.S. deferred tax assets will be realized. As a result, in accordance with ASC 740, $17,000 of the valuation allowance applied to such net deferred tax assets was reversed. This reversal resulted in a non-cash income tax benefit of $6,221.

·

The release of valuation allowances against certain U.S. deferred tax assets. This release was based upon the Company’s results of operations. The Company concluded during 2012 that it is more likely than not that a portion of its current U.S. deferred tax assets will be realized. As a result, in accordance with ASC 740, the Company released the remainder of its valuation allowances related to $12,388 of reserves, accruals and tax credits and to $7,602 of net operating loss carryforwards for state income tax purposes, resulting in no valuation allowance as of December 31, 2012. This resulted in a non-cash income tax benefit of $5,372. 

 

Other changes in valuation allowances are

·

Other changes in valuation allowances were a result of utilizing U.S. loss carryforwards, which had had a full valuation allowance against them, to eliminate all federal and most state income tax expense otherwise arising.

In 2014 and 2013, the Company had no valuation allowance against them, to eliminate all federal and most statenet deferred income tax expense otherwise arising.

The difference between the Company’s effective tax rate for 2010 and the federal statutory rate resulted primarily from changes in valuation allowances. These comprised:

The release of valuation allowances against certain U.S. deferred tax assets. This release was based upon the Company’s recent results of operations and its expected profitability in future years. The Company concluded, during the fourth quarter of 2010, that it is more likely than not that a portion of its net U.S. deferred tax assets will be realized. As a result, in accordance with ASC 740, $3,000 of the valuation allowance applied to such net deferred tax assets was reversed. This reversal resulted in a non-cash income tax benefit of $1,162.

Other changes in valuation allowances as a result of utilizing U.S. loss carryforwards, which had had a full valuation allowance against them, to eliminate all federal and most state income tax expense otherwise arising.

The difference between the Company’s effective tax rate for 2009 and the federal statutory rate resulted primarily from changes in valuation allowances and from the impact of deemed income related to foreign operations.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

In 2011,2012, the Company’s valuation allowance against net deferred income tax assets decreased by $25,892.$8,781. This decrease consisted of a $25,892an $8,781 decrease against the U.S. deferred income tax assets. The decrease in the valuation allowance against the net U.S. deferred income tax assets resulted primarily from the increase in the Company’s domestic net operating income, an increase in the amount of deferred income tax liabilities and from the release of a portion of the valuation allowances against U.S. net deferred tax assets.

In 2010, the Company’s valuation allowance against net deferred income tax assets decreased by $4,054. This decrease consisted of a $4,059 decrease against the U.S. deferred income tax assets and a $5 increase against foreign deferred income tax assets. The decrease in the valuation allowance against the net U.S. deferred income tax assets resulted primarily from the increase in the Company’s domestic net operating income and from the release of a portion of the valuation allowances against U.S. net deferred tax assets.

In conjunction with the Company’s ongoing review of its actual results and anticipated future earnings, the Company reassesses the possibility of releasing the valuation allowance remaining, after the release discussed above, on its U.S. net deferred tax assets. Based upon this assessment, a further release of the valuation allowance may occur during 2012 or subsequent years. The required accounting for the release could involve significant tax amounts and it could impact earnings in the quarter in which it was deemed appropriate to release the reserve. At December 31, 2011, the U.S. valuation allowance was approximately $8,690.

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The components of the Company’s net deferred income tax assets and net deferred income tax liabilities at December 31, 20112014 and 20102013 are as follows:

 

(in thousands)  2011  2010 

Deferred income tax assets:

   

Tax credit carryforwards

  $6,436   $6,177  

Net operating loss carryforwards

   17,829    24,761  

Reserves and allowances

   3,501    2,584  

Accrued liabilities

       1,636  

Stock options and awards

   2,701    2,003  

Deferred lease revenue

   79    3  

Property, plant and equipment

       359  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Gross deferred income tax assets

   30,546    37,523  

Valuation allowance

   (8,781  (34,673
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total deferred income tax assets

   21,765    2,850  

Deferred income tax liabilities:

   

Senior convertible notes

   7,200      

Intangibles

   10,519    4,110  

Property, plant and equipment

   531      

Accrued liabilities

   448      
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total deferred income tax liabilities

   18,698    4,110  
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net deferred income tax assets (liabilities)

  $3,067   $(1,260
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

2014

 

 

2013

Deferred income tax assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax credit carryforwards

$

4,139 

 

 

$

2,713 

Net operating loss carryforwards

 

4,474 

 

 

 

5,725 

Reserves and allowances

 

12,016 

 

 

 

5,927 

Stock options and restricted stock awards

 

15,156 

 

 

 

3,174 

Deferred lease revenue

 

270 

 

 

 

86 

Senior convertible notes

 

 

 

 

1,042 

Accrued liabilities

 

1,501 

 

 

 

342 

Property, plant and equipment

 

 

 

 

629 

Total deferred income tax assets

 

37,556 

 

 

 

19,638 

Deferred income tax liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intangibles

 

50,324 

 

 

 

32,737 

Property, plant and equipment

 

2,122 

 

 

 

Accrued liabilities

 

 

 

 

Total deferred income tax liabilities

 

52,446 

 

 

 

32,737 

Net deferred income tax liabilities

$

(14,890)

 

 

$

(13,099)

The Company’s net deferred income tax assets (liabilities)liabilities include both current and noncurrent amounts. Accrued liabilities and deferred lease revenue are classified as current. Portions of reserves and allowances, tax credit carryforwards, and net operating loss carryforwards and valuation allowances that would be available within the next year are classified as current, with the remainder of the balance classified as noncurrent. Stock optionoptions and restricted stock awards, except for the amount vesting within the next year, property, plant and equipment, the senior convertible notes and intangibles are also classified as noncurrent.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740. Under ASC 740, deferred income tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the differences between financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities, using enacted rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. The provision for income taxes is based on domestic and international statutory income tax rates in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates.

At December 31, 2011, $17,8292014, $4,474 of the Company’s deferred income tax assets was attributable to $88,884$38,338 of net operating loss carryforwards, which consisted of $44,255 of$5,092 loss carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes, $44,196$26,365 of loss carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes and $433$6,881 of loss carryforwards for foreign income tax purposes.

At December 31, 2010, $24,7612013, $5,725 of the Company’s deferred income tax assets was attributable to $110,503$52,177 of net operating loss carryforwards, which consisted of $65,121 of$6,856 loss carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes, $45,090$38,934 of loss carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes and $292$6,387 of loss carryforwards for foreign income tax purposes.

The federal

At December 31, 2012, $1,949 of the Company’s deferred income tax assets was attributable to $42,202 of net operating loss carryforwards, set forth above exclude deductionswhich consisted of no loss carryforwards for the exercise of stock options. The net operating loss attributable to the excess of the tax deduction for the exercise of the stock options over the cumulative expense that would be recorded under ASC 718 in the financial statements is not recorded as a deferredU.S. federal income tax asset. The benefitpurposes, $41,047 of the excess deductionloss carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes and $1,155 of $12,339 will be recorded to additional paid-in capital when the Company realizes a reduction in its current taxes payable.loss carryforwards for foreign income tax purposes. 

The net operating loss carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes begin to expire in 2024, and certain2022. The net operating loss carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes begin to expire in 2012.2020. In addition, certain loss carryforwards for foreign income tax purposes begin to expire in 2018 and certain other loss carryforwards for foreign purposes do not expire. Ultimate utilization of these loss carryforwards depends on future taxable earnings of the Company and its subsidiaries.

At December 31, 2011,2014, tax credit carryforwards included in the Company’s deferred income tax assets consisted of $3,307$2,196 of research and experimentation tax credit carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes, $810 of foreign tax credits for U.S. federal income tax purposes, $518 of research and experimentation tax credit carryforwards for foreign income tax purposes and $615 of other state tax credits. The state research and experimentation credits do not expire; the other state credits begin to expire in 2017.

At December 31, 2013, tax credit carryforwards included in the Company’s deferred income tax assets consisted of $2,040 of research and experimentation tax credit carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes, $58 of such tax credit carryforwards for foreign income tax purposes and $615 of other state tax credits. The state research and experimentation credits do not expire; the other state credits begin to expire in 2017.

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At December 31, 2012, tax credit carryforwards included in the Company’s deferred income tax assets consisted of $735 of research and experimentation tax credit carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes, $2,040 of such tax credit carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes $474 of alternative minimum tax credit carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes and $615 of other state tax credits. The alternative minimum tax credits and the state research and experimentation credits do not expire; the other federal and state credits begin to expire in 2012.2017.

At December 31, 2010, tax credit carryforwards included in

The Company recorded $7,653 to additional paid-in capital during 2014 with respect to the Company’s deferred income tax assets consistedvesting of $3,050 of research and experimentation tax credit carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes, $2,135 of such tax credit carryforwards for U.S. state income tax purposes, $474 of alternative minimum tax credit carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes and $518 of other state tax credits. The alternative minimum tax credits and the state research and experimentation credits do not expire; the other federal and state credits begin to expire in 2012.restricted stock awards.

The Company has not provided for any taxes on approximately $7,128$23,628 of unremitted earnings of its foreign subsidiaries, as the Company intends to permanently reinvest all such earnings outside the U.S. We believe a calculation of the U.S.deferred tax liability associated with these undistributed earnings is impracticable.

The Company decreased its ASC 740 (formerly FIN 48) reserve by $12 for the year ended December 31, 2011 and increased this reserve by $110 for the year ended December 31, 2010.

The Company increased its unrecognized benefits by $36$1,829 for the year ended December 31, 20112014 and decreased these benefits by $77$459 for the year ended December 31, 2010.2013. The Company also accrued $110 in interest and penalties related to the unrecognized tax benefits. The Company does not anticipate any additional unrecognized tax benefits during the next twelve months that would result in a material change to its consolidated financial position.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrecognized Tax Benefits

(in thousands)

2014

 

 

2013

 

 

2012

Balance at January 1

$

(16)

 

 

$

(475)

 

 

$

(393)

Increases related to prior year tax positions

 

 

 

 

380 

 

 

 

300 

Decreases related to prior year tax positions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(378)

Increases related to current year tax positions

 

(1,829)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decreases related to current year tax positions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4)

Decreases in unrecognized liability due to settlements with foreign tax authorities

 

 

 

 

79 

 

 

 

Balance at December 31

$

(1,845)

 

 

$

(16)

 

 

$

(475)

 

   Unrecognized Tax Benefits 
(in thousands)  2011  2010  2009 

Balance at January 1

  $(429 $(352 $3,079  

Increases related to prior year tax positions

   28    19      

Decreases related to prior year tax positions

   (2  (149  (3,281

Increases related to current year tax positions

       72      

Decreases related to current year tax positions

       (3  (150

Decreases in unrecognized liability due to settlements with foreign tax authorities

   10    (16    
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31

  $(393 $(429 $(352
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

The Company includes interest and penalties accrued in the consolidated financial statements as a component of income tax expense.

The principal tax jurisdictions in which the Company files income tax returns are the United States, France, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Tax years 20082011 through 20112014 remain subject to examination by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The Company has utilized a portion of its U.S. loss carryforwards causing the years from 1997 through 2003to 2007 to be subject to examination. Should theThe Company utilize any of its remaining U.S. loss carryforwards, its remaining losses, which date back to 2003, would be subject to examination. The Company’s non-U.S. subsidiaries’files income tax returns (which are open to possible examination beginning in the year shown in parenthesesparentheses) in the following countries:Australia (2009), Belgium (2010), Brazil (2014), China (2010), France (2004)(2011), Germany (2006)(2011), India (2012), Israel (2010), Italy (2009), Japan (2005)(2007), Italy (2006)Korea (2008), Mexico (2014), Netherlands (2007), Switzerland (2005)(2008), the United Kingdom (2007), the Netherlands (2006)(2009) and Australia (2007)Uruguay (2014) .

Note 2221 Segment Information

The Company operates in one reportable business segment in which it develops, manufactures and markets worldwide 3D printing, rapid prototyping and manufacturing printers and parts solutions, which produce three-dimensional objects more quickly than traditional manufacturing.segment. The Company conducts its business through subsidiaries in the U.S.,United States, a subsidiary in SwitzerlandIsrael that operates a research and production facility and sales and service offices, a subsidiary in Switzerland that operates a research and production facility, subsidiaries in France and Brazil that operate production facilities and sales and service offices, and sales and service offices operated by other subsidiaries in Europe (France,(Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, SwitzerlandUnited Kingdom, Italy and the United Kingdom)Netherlands) and in Asia Pacific (Australia, China, India, Japan and Japan)Korea). The Company has historically disclosed summarized financial information for the geographic areas of operations as if they were segments in accordance with ASC 280, “Segment Reporting.”

Financial information concerning the Company’s geographical locations is based on the location of the selling entity. Such summarized financial information concerning the Company’s geographical operations is shown in the following tables:

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

Revenue from unaffiliated customers:

      

United States

  $117,739    $72,452    $48,917  

Germany

   34,978     27,097     24,128  

Other Europe

   48,346     38,442     24,612  

Asia Pacific

   29,360     21,877     15,178  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $230,423    $159,868    $112,835  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Revenue from unaffiliated customers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

333,925 

 

$

284,752 

 

$

196,414 

Germany

 

 

87,021 

 

 

51,245 

 

 

39,748 

Other EMEA

 

 

109,066 

 

 

82,536 

 

 

60,939 

Asia Pacific

 

 

123,640 

 

 

94,867 

 

 

56,532 

Total

 

$

653,652 

 

$

513,400 

 

$

353,633 

 

The Company’s revenue from unaffiliated customers by type is as follows:

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(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

Printers and other products

  $66,665    $54,686    $30,501  

Materials

   70,641     58,431     50,297  

Services

   93,117     46,751     32,037  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenue

  $230,423    $159,868    $112,835  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Intercompany sales were as follows:

 

   Year ended December 31, 2011 
   Intercompany sales to 
(in thousands)  United
States
   Germany   Other
Europe
   Asia
Pacific
   Total 

United States

  $    $17,634    $10,213    $3,984    $31,831  

Germany

   372          3,523          3,895  

Other Europe

   13,388     9     118     0     13,515  

Asia-Pacific

   18     4               22  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $13,778    $17,647    $13,854    $3,984    $49,263  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

   Year ended December 31, 2010 
   Intercompany sales to 
(in thousands)  United
States
   Germany   Other
Europe
   Asia
Pacific
   Total 

United States

  $    $14,862    $11,266    $2,499    $28,627  

Germany

   266          4,094          4,360  

Other Europe

   9,240     75     208          9,523  

Asia-Pacific

   34                    34  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $9,540    $14,937    $15,568    $2,499    $42,544  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

   Year ended December 31, 2009 
   Intercompany sales to 
(in thousands)  United
States
   Germany   Other
Europe
   Asia
Pacific
   Total 

United States

  $    $12,377    $7,415    $3,005    $22,797  

Germany

   477          3,851          4,328  

Other Europe

   7,421     559               7,980  

Asia-Pacific

                         
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $7,898    $12,936    $11,266    $3,005    $35,105  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Products

 

$

283,339 

 

$

227,627 

 

$

126,798 

Materials

 

 

158,859 

 

 

128,405 

 

 

103,182 

Services

 

 

211,454 

 

 

157,368 

 

 

123,653 

Total revenue

 

$

653,652 

 

$

513,400 

 

$

353,633 

 

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

Income (loss) from operations:

      

United States

  $19,045    $10,946    $(2,635

Germany

   1,509     935     278  

Other Europe

   6,645     1,935     1,279  

Asia Pacific

   7,152     6,356     3,636  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Subtotal

   34,351     20,172     2,558  

Inter-segment elimination

   551     748     515  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $34,902    $20,920    $3,073  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31, 2014

 

 

Intercompany Sales to

(in thousands)

 

Americas

 

Germany

 

Other EMEA

 

Asia Pacific

 

Total

Americas

 

$

201 

 

$

3,217 

 

$

42,622 

 

$

2,283 

 

$

48,323 

Germany

 

 

43,841 

 

 

 

 

3,131 

 

 

 

 

46,972 

Other EMEA

 

 

20,580 

 

 

6,742 

 

 

2,066 

 

 

 

 

29,388 

Asia Pacific

 

 

14,433 

 

 

 

 

2,739 

 

 

2,759 

 

 

19,939 

Total

 

$

79,055 

 

$

9,967 

 

$

50,558 

 

$

5,042 

 

$

144,622 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31, 2013

 

 

Intercompany Sales to

(in thousands) 

 

Americas

 

Germany

 

Other EMEA

 

Asia Pacific

 

Total

Americas

 

$

 

$

23,100 

 

$

15,622 

 

$

5,438 

 

$

44,160 

Germany

 

 

1,825 

 

 

 

 

4,135 

 

 

 

 

5,960 

Other EMEA

 

 

26,862 

 

 

1,688 

 

 

2,090 

 

 

566 

 

 

31,206 

Asia Pacific

 

 

1,659 

 

 

641 

 

 

67 

 

 

1,431 

 

 

3,798 

Total

 

$

30,346 

 

$

25,429 

 

$

21,914 

 

$

7,435 

 

$

85,124 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31, 2012

 

 

Intercompany Sales to

(in thousands)

 

Americas

 

Germany

 

Other EMEA

 

Asia Pacific

 

Total

Americas

 

$

 —

 

$

6,823 

 

$

4,153 

 

$

1,044 

 

$

12,020 

Germany

 

 

197 

 

 

 

 

2,205 

 

 

 

 

2,402 

Other EMEA

 

 

4,812 

 

 

26 

 

 

255 

 

 

38 

 

 

5,131 

Asia Pacific

 

 

195 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

195 

Total

 

$

5,204 

 

$

6,849 

 

$

6,613 

 

$

1,082 

 

$

19,748 

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010 

Assets:

    

United States

  $346,350    $113,249  

Germany

   20,285     17,231  

Other Europe

   71,202     67,790  

Asia Pacific

   25,137     10,530  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $462,974    $208,800  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Depreciation and amortization:

      

United States

  $8,075    $6,031    $4,943  

Income (loss) from operations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

(24,663)

 

$

43,743 

 

$

37,743 

Germany

   234     327     359  

 

 

2,749 

 

 

302 

 

 

1,305 

Other Europe

   2,475     1,004     403  

Other EMEA

 

 

9,181 

 

 

7,849 

 

 

5,415 

Asia Pacific

   718     158     181  

 

 

40,131 

 

 

30,499 

 

 

16,528 
  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Subtotal

 

 

27,398 

 

 

82,393 

 

 

60,991 

Inter-segment elimination

 

 

(1,083)

 

 

(1,532)

 

 

(420)

Total

  $11,502    $7,520    $5,886  

 

$

26,315 

 

$

80,861 

 

$

60,571 
  

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010 

Long-lived assets:

    

United States

  $128,646    $49,863  

Germany

   9,279     8,436  

Other Europe

   47,495     43,194  

Asia Pacific

   16,174     7,167  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $201,594    $108,660  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)  2011   2010   2009 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Capital expenditures:

      

United States

  $1,964    $671    $798  

Depreciation and amortization:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

38,876 

 

$

21,826 

 

$

17,049 

Germany

   6     8     125  

 

 

1,075 

 

 

961 

 

 

178 

Other Europe

   896     586     36  

Other EMEA

 

 

11,427 

 

 

4,410 

 

 

2,983 

Asia Pacific

   4     18     15  

 

 

3,810 

 

 

3,247 

 

 

1,019 
  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $2,870    $1,283    $974  

 

$

55,188��

 

$

30,444 

 

$

21,229 
  

 

   

 

   

 

 

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

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(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

Capital expenditures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

18,187 

 

$

5,166 

 

$

2,177 

Germany

 

 

235 

 

 

21 

 

 

49 

Other EMEA

 

 

3,680 

 

 

1,171 

 

 

857 

Asia Pacific

 

 

625 

 

 

614 

 

 

141 

Total

 

$

22,727 

 

$

6,972 

 

$

3,224 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

1,018,113 

 

$  

870,208 

Germany 

 

 

47,524 

 

 

38,685 

Other EMEA

 

 

382,259 

 

 

120,562 

Asia Pacific 

 

 

78,074 

 

 

68,401 

Total

 

$

1,525,970 

 

$

1,097,856 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Cash and cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

245,219 

 

$  

286,377 

Germany 

 

 

6,640 

 

 

3,441 

Other EMEA

 

 

15,556 

 

 

8,915 

Asia Pacific 

 

 

17,447 

 

 

7,583 

Total

 

$

284,862 

 

$

306,316 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

2014

 

2013

Long-lived assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

 

$

570,049 

 

$  

426,221 

Germany 

 

 

19,994 

 

 

23,134 

Other EMEA

 

 

309,817 

 

 

71,269 

Asia Pacific 

 

 

45,420 

 

 

50,377 

Total

 

$

945,280 

 

$

571,001 

 

Note 2322 Commitments and Contingencies

On November 21, 2011, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement to purchase all the outstanding capital stock of Z Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation (“Z Corp”), and Vidar Systems Corporation, a Virginia corporation (“Vidar”), from Contex Group A.S. for up to $137,000 in cash. This purchase price was subject to certain adjustments provided for in the stock purchase agreement, which included a provision that the seller would be entitled to retain any cash held by Z Corp and Vidar at the time of the closing except for an agreed upon amount to be included in no less than $6,600 of working capital of Z Corp and Vidar to be delivered to the Company at the closing of the acquisition. Completion of this transaction was subject to certain conditions set forth in the stock purchase agreement, and that agreement contained certain covenants, representations and warranties among the parties. The Company completed the closing under the stock purchase agreement on January 3, 2012 and paid the $135,488 purchase price in cash at that time, net of cash received and subject to final closing adjustments. At the date of this Form 10-K, those final closing adjustments have not yet been completed.

The Company leases office space and certain furniture and fixtures under various non-cancelable operating leases. Rent expense under operating leases was $2,738, $1,977$10,427, $6,891 and $1,707$4,968 for 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 2009,2012, respectively.

As of December 31, 2011,2014, the Company has supply commitments with third party assemblers for printer assemblyassemblies for the first quarter of 20122015 that total $10,940$56,620 compared to $9,317$41,091 at December 31, 2010.2013.

For certain

Certain of the recentCompany’s acquisitions we are obligated to pay deferred purchase price totaling $1,420, due in 2012 and 2013, based upon the exchange rate at the date of acquisition. In addition, certain of the agreements contain earnout provisions under which the sellers of the acquired businesses can earn additional amounts. The total liabilities recorded for these earnouts as of December 31, 20112014 was $1,862$9,155 compared to $3,297$5,578 at December 31, 2010.2013. See Note 3 for details of acquisitions and related commitments.

Put Options

Owners of interests in a certain subsidiary have the right in certain circumstances to require the Company to acquire either a portion of or all of the remaining ownership interests held by them. The owners’ ability to exercise any such “put option” right is subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including conditions requiring notice in advance of exercise. In addition, these rights cannot be exercised prior to a specified exercise date. The exercise of these rights at their earliest contractual date would result in obligations of the Company to fund the related amounts in 2019.

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Management estimates, assuming that the subsidiary owned by the Company at December 31, 2014, performs over the relevant future periods at their forecasted earnings levels, that these rights, if exercised, could require the Company, in future periods, to pay approximately $8,872 to the owners of such rights to acquire such ownership interests in the relevant subsidiary. This amount has been recorded as redeemable noncontrolling interests on the balance sheet at December 31, 2014. The ultimate amount payable relating to this transaction will vary because it is dependent on the future results of operations of the subject business.

Indemnification

In the normal course of business the Company periodically enters into agreements to indemnify customers or suppliers against claims of intellectual property infringement made by third parties arising from the use of the Company’s products. Historically, costs related to these indemnification provisions have not been significant and we arethe Company is unable to estimate the maximum potential impact of these indemnification provisions on our future results of operations.

To the extent permitted under Delaware law, the Company indemnifies directors and officers for certain events or occurrences while the director or officer is, or was serving, at the Company’s request in such capacity, subject to limited exceptions. The maximum potential amount of future payments wethe Company could be required to make under these indemnification obligations is unlimited; however, the Company has directors and officers insurance coverage that may enable the Company to recover future amounts paid, subject to a deductible and the policy limits. There is no assurance that the policy limits will be sufficient to cover all damages, if any.

Litigation

In 2008, DSM Desotech Inc.Litigation

On November 20, 2012, the Company filed a complaint which it has subsequently amended, in an action titledDSM Desotech 3D Systems, Inc. v. 3D Systems CorporationFormlabs, Inc. and 3D Systems,Kickstarter, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (EasternSouth Carolina (Rock Hill Division) asserting that Formlabs’ and Kickstarter’s sales of the Company engaged in anticompetitive behavior with respect to resins used in certainForm 1 3D printer infringed on one of its stereolithography machines. The complaint further asserted that the Company is infringing upon two of DSM Desotech’sCompany’s patents relating to stereolithography machines.

The Company Formlabs and Kickstarter filed answers to DSM Desotech’s complaint in which, among other things, the Company denied the material allegations of DSM Desotech’s complaint. In 2010, the Court issued a decision relating to the construction of the claims of the patents-in-suit following a Markman hearing held in 2009. In that decision, the Court generally adopted the claim constructions that the Company proposed.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

Fact discovery, including expert discovery, regarding the claims pending in this case concluded in 2011. The Company filed motions for summary judgment in December 2011 that seek rulings in its favor on all of DSM Desotech’s claims in the litigation. As of the date of this Form 10-K, the Court has not yet ruled on those motions.

The Company understands that DSM Desotech estimates the damages associated with its claims to be in excess of $40,000. The Company intends to continue to vigorously contest all the claims asserted by DSM Desotech.

The Company has been pursuing patent infringement litigation against EnvisionTEC, Inc. and certain of its related companies since 2005. In this litigation, the Company asserted that EnvisionTEC infringed the Company’s patents covering various three-dimensional solid imaging products and methods for creating physical three-dimensional models of an object and has sought injunctive relief and damages. EnvisionTEC’s Perfactory machine and Vanquish machine (the Vanquish is now marketed as the PerfactoryXede and PerfactoryXtreme) are the two products accused of patent infringement.

In 2008 the Court issued Markman claim constructions that generally adopted the claim constructions the Company proposed. Following a subsequent jury trial and certain other proceedings, the Court issued a judgment, as amended through 2011, to the effect that EnvisionTEC’s Perfactory and Vanquish machines infringe certain claims of one of our patents and its Vanquish machines infringe certain claims of another of our patents.

On October 13, 2011, EnvisionTEC’s motion to stay damages discovery was denied by the Court, and damages discovery is underway. The Company intends to pursue its claims for damages against EnvisionTEC.

On October 17, 2011, EnvisionTEC filed a Notice of Appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit seeking judicial review of the Court’s judgment,dismiss or transfer venue on February 25, 2013, and the Company filed a first amended complaint on March 8, 2013. On May 8, 2013, the Court granted the parties’ joint motion to stay the case until September 3, 2013 to enable the parties to continue settlement discussions. On November 8, 2013, the Company voluntarily dismissed the South Carolina complaint and filed a new complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York asserting that Formlabs’ sales of the Form 1 3D printer infringed on eight of the Company’s patents relating to stereolithography machines.  On December 20, 2013, Formlabs filed a motion to dismiss that appealthe Company’s claims of indirect and willful infringement, and the Company filed a memorandum in opposition on January 6, 2014.  Formlabs filed a reply on January 16, 2014. The Court ruled on the motion to dismiss on May 12, 2014, granting in part and dismissing in part Formlabs’ motion. The Company filed a first amended complaint on May 16, 2014, and Formlabs filed its answer on September 2, 2014.  On December 12, 2011. As1, 2014 the Company and Formlabs agreed to the entry of an order dismissing all claims and counterclaims with prejudice. The order was entered into pursuant to the terms of a Settlement and License Agreement dated November 25, 2014 between the Company and Formlabs under which the Company granted to Formlabs a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty bearing, license, without the right to sublicense, to make and sell Formlabs products under the subject patents.  In consideration of the date of this Form 10-K, the Court of Appeals has not yet ruled.

In 2010, MSK K.K., a Japanese company, filed a complaint against the Company’s Japanese subsidiary in the Tokyo District Court asserting, among other things, various contract claims associated with two laser sintering machines purchased from the Company’s Japanese subsidiary in 2007.

The plaintiff is seeking damages in excess of the Japanese Yen equivalent of $2,101. Several hearings have been held in the Tokyo District Court with respect to these claims. The Company’s Japanese subsidiary is vigorously contesting all of the claims assertedlicense and releases granted by the plaintiff.Company, Formlabs agreed to pay the Company a royalty of 8.0% of net sales of Formlabs products through the effective period.

The Company is also involved in various other legal matters incidental to its business. The Company believes, after consulting with counsel, that the disposition of these other legal matters will not have a material effect on our consolidated results of operations or consolidated financial position.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

Note 23 Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

The changes in the balances of accumulated other comprehensive income by component are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in thousands)

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 

Defined benefit pension plan

 

 

Total

Balance at December 31, 2013

$

6,865 

 

$

(1,076)

 

$

5,789 

Other comprehensive (loss)

 

(29,060)

 

 

(1,135)

 

 

(30,195)

Balance at December 31, 2014

$

(22,195)

 

$

(2,211)

 

$

(24,406)

The amounts presented above are in other comprehensive income and are net of taxes. For additional information about foreign currency translation, see Note 10. For additional information about the pension plan, see Note 15.

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Note 24 Selected Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)

The following tables set forth unaudited selected quarterly financial data:

 

   Quarter ended 
(in thousands)  December 31,
2011
   September 30,
2011
   June 30,
2011
  March 31,
2011
 

Consolidated revenue

  $69,861    $57,538    $55,128   $47,896  

Gross profit

   32,865     27,763     25,203    23,197  

Total operating expenses

   22,166     18,972     17,202    15,786  

Income from operations

   10,699     8,791     8,001    7,411  

Income tax (benefit) expense

   703     917     (5,479  885  

Net income

   8,005     7,220     13,373    6,822  

Basic net income per share

  $0.16    $0.14    $0.27   $0.14  

Diluted net income per share

  $0.16    $0.14    $0.26   $0.14  

 

   Quarter ended 
(in thousands)  December 31,
2010
  September 30,
2010
   June 30,
2010
   March 31,
2010
 

Consolidated revenue

  $51,595   $41,503    $35,144    $31,627  

Gross profit

  ��24,871    18,828     15,956     14,321  

Total operating expenses

   15,182    13,668     12,542     11,663  

Income from operations

   9,689    5,160     3,414     2,658  

Income tax (benefit) expense

   (594  284     247     236  

Net income

   9,443    5,368     2,737     2,018  

Basic net income per share

  $0.20   $0.12    $0.06    $0.04  

Diluted net income per share

  $0.20   $0.11    $0.06    $0.04  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quarter Ended

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

December 31, 2014

 

September 30, 2014

 

June 30, 2014

 

March 31, 2014

Consolidated revenue

 

$

187,438 

 

$

166,944 

 

$

151,512 

 

$

147,758 

Gross profit

 

 

89,766 

 

 

79,798 

 

 

72,398 

 

 

75,472 

Total operating expenses

 

 

85,538 

 

 

71,590 

 

 

68,036 

 

 

65,955 

Income from operations

 

 

4,228 

 

 

8,208 

 

 

4,362 

 

 

9,517 

Income tax expense

 

 

75 

 

 

1,113 

 

 

694 

 

 

3,559 

Net income attributable to 3D Systems

 

 

1,551 

 

 

3,084 

 

 

2,125 

 

 

4,877 

Basic and diluted net income per share

 

$

0.01 

 

$

0.03 

 

$

0.02 

 

$

0.05 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quarter Ended

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

December 31, 2013

 

September 30, 2013

 

June 30, 2013

 

March 31, 2013

Consolidated revenue

 

$

154,817 

 

$

135,717 

 

$

120,787 

 

$

102,079 

Gross profit

 

 

80,097 

 

 

71,437 

 

 

62,583 

 

 

53,477 

Total operating expenses

 

 

62,121 

 

 

42,867 

 

 

45,787 

 

 

35,958 

Income from operations

 

 

17,976 

 

 

28,570 

 

 

16,796 

 

 

17,519 

Income tax expense

 

 

5,248 

 

 

8,279 

 

 

4,791 

 

 

1,569 

Net income attributable to 3D Systems

 

 

11,224 

 

 

17,640 

 

 

9,343 

 

 

5,883 

Basic and diluted net income per share

 

$

0.11 

 

$

0.17 

 

$

0.10 

 

$

0.06 

The sum of per share amounts for each of the quarterly periods presented does not necessarily equal the total presented for the year because each quarterly amount is independently calculated at the end of each period based on the net income available to common stockholders for such period and the weighted average shares of outstanding common stock for such period.

Note 25 Subsequent Events

On November��21, 2011,

In November, the Company entered into a stock purchasedefinitive agreement to purchaseacquire all of the outstanding capital stockshares of Z CorporationCimatron Ltd. (“Z Corp”Cimatron”), a Massachusetts corporation, and Vidar Systems Corporation, a Virginia corporation (“Vidar”), from Contex Group A.S. for up to $137,000 in cash. This purchase price was subject to certain adjustments provided for in the stock purchase agreement, which included a provision that the seller would be entitled to retain any cash held by Z Corp and Vidar at the time of the closing except for an agreed upon amount to be included in no less than $6,600 of working capital of Z Corp and Vidar to be delivered to the Company at the closing of the acquisition. Completion of this transaction was subject to certain conditions set forth in the stock purchase agreement, and that agreement contained certain covenants, representations and warranties among the parties.

On January 3, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition under the stock purchase agreement and paid the $135,488 purchase price in cash at that time, net of cash received, on a debt-free basis, and subject to final closing adjustments.

3D Systems Corporation

Notes To Consolidated Financial Statements — (Continued)

Z Corp is a provider of personalintegrated 3D CAD/CAM software products and professional 3D printers, 3D scanners, proprietary print materials and services. Z Corp provides the Company with an additional print engine, capablesolutions for manufacturing. The acquisition was completed on February 9, 2015 for approximately $77,000, net of printing in full color, fills in its 3D printer price points and doubles it’s reseller channel for personal and professional printers. Vidar is a provider of medical film scanners that digitize film for radiology, oncology, mammography and dental applications. Vidar provides the Company with a distribution channel of resellers that are specifically focused on healthcare, expanding its healthcare solutions portfolio and reach. Future revenue from these acquisitions will be reported within the printers and other products revenue line. At the date of this Form 10-K, those final closing adjustments have not yet been completed. See Note 3.cash.

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of

3D Systems Corporation


Rock Hill, South Carolina

The audits referred to in our report dated February 23, 2012,26, 2014, relating to the consolidated financial statements of 3D Systems Corporation for the years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014,  2013 and 2009,2012, which is contained in Item 8 of the Form 10-K,10‑K, also included the audit of the financial statement schedule listed in the accompanying index. This financial statement schedule is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statement schedule based upon our audits.

In our opinion, the financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

/s/ BDO USA, LLP

BDO USA, LLP


Charlotte, North Carolina
February 26, 2015

February 23, 2012

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SCHEDULE II

3D Systems Corporation


Valuation and Qualifying Accounts


Years ended December 31, 2011, 20102014, 2013 and 20092012

 

Year

Ended

  

Item

 Balance at
beginning
of year
  Additions
charged/
(credited)

to expense
  Charged to
other
accounts
  Deductions  Balance
at end of
year
 

2011

  Allowance for doubtful accounts $2,017   $1,731   $83   $(812 $3,019  

2010

  Allowance for doubtful accounts  1,790    328        (101  2,017  

2009

  Allowance for doubtful accounts  2,015    909        (1,134  1,790  

2011

  Reserve for excess and obsolete inventory $2,205   $431   $   $(94 $2,542  

2010

  Reserve for excess and obsolete inventory  2,693    (364      (124  2,205  

2009

  Reserve for excess and obsolete inventory  3,156    (15      (448  2,693  

2011

  Deferred income tax asset allowance accounts(1) $34,673   $2,318   $0   $(28,210 $8,781  

2010

  Deferred income tax asset allowance
accounts
(1)
  38,727    6,266        (10,320  34,673  

2009

  Deferred income tax asset allowance
accounts
(1)
  38,326    6,272        (5,871  38,727  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended

 

Item

Balance at beginning of year

 

Additions charged to expense

 

Charged to other accounts

 

Deductions/ other

 

Balance at end of year

2014

 

Allowance for doubtful accounts

$

8,133 

 

$

8,699 

 

$

(206)

 

$

(6,326)

 

$

10,300 

2013

 

Allowance for doubtful accounts

 

4,317 

 

 

4,961 

 

 

(941)

 

 

(204)

 

 

8,133 

2012

 

Allowance for doubtful accounts

 

3,019 

 

 

3,039 

 

 

(541)

 

 

(1,200)

 

 

4,317 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

Deferred income tax asset allowance accounts

$

 

$

 

$

 

$

 

$

2013

 

Deferred income tax asset allowance accounts(a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012

 

Deferred income tax asset allowance accounts(a)

 

8,781 

 

 

11,146 

 

 

 

 

(19,927)

 

 

(1)(a)

Additions represent increases in valuation allowances against deferred tax assets; deductionsassets. Deductions represent decreases in valuation allowances against deferred tax assets.

 

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