For the year, consolidated revenue grew 21% to $57.7 million compared with 2016. Excluding revenue attributable to product lines that the Company has exited, the comparable revenue grew 25%. Machine revenue was up 43%, driven by eight more machines sold, for a total of 41 in 2017. Non-machine revenue was up 4% in 2017. Excluding revenue attributable to product lines that the Company has exited, the comparable non-machine revenue grew by 10%.
Given the long sales cycle and significance of a machine’s average selling price relative to total revenue, fluctuations in machine-sale revenue vary from quarter to quarter. ExOne does not believe that such quarter-to-quarter fluctuations are necessarily indicative of larger trends.
Fourth Quarter Operations – Impacted by Accelerated Investments
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Q4 2017 | Q4 2016 | Change | % Change | |||||||
Gross profit | $6.7 | $5.2 | $1.5 | 28% | |||||||
Gross margin | 33.0% | 35.7% | |||||||||
Operating loss | ($1.9) | ($2.4) | $0.5 | 21% | |||||||
Net loss | ($1.9) | ($2.6) | $0.7 | 23% | |||||||
Diluted EPS | $ (0.12) | $ (0.16) | $0.04 | 25% | |||||||