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Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) is a global leader in additive technology solutions for industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Products and Education. For nearly 30 years, a deep and ongoing focus on customers’ business requirements has fueled purposeful innovations—1,200 granted and pending additive technology patents to date—that create new value across product lifecycle processes, from design prototypes to manufacturing tools and final production parts. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and expertise—advanced materials; software with voxel level control; precise, repeatable and reliable FDM and PolyJet 3D printers; application-based expert services; on-demand parts and industry-defining partnerships—works to ensure seamless integration into each customer’s evolving workflow. Fulfilling the real-world potential of additive, Stratasys delivers breakthrough industry-specific applications that accelerate business processes, optimize value chains and drive business performance improvements for thousands of future-ready leaders around the world.
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Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
The statements in this press release regarding Stratasys' strategy, and the statements regarding its projected future financial performance, including the financial guidance concerning its expected results for 2018, are forward-looking statements reflecting management's current expectations and beliefs. These forward-looking statements are based on current information that is, by its nature, subject to rapid and even abrupt change. Due to risks and uncertainties associated with Stratasys' business, actual results could differ materially from those projected or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the degree of market acceptance of our 3D printers, high-performance systems and consumables, and the software and technology included in those systems; potential declines in the demand for, or the prices of, our products and services, or volume of our sales, due to decreased demand either for them specifically or in the 3D printing market generally; potential further charges against earnings that we could be required to take due to impairment of additional goodwill or other intangible assets; potential shifts in our product mix to lower-margin products or in our revenues mix towards our AM services business; any failure to adequately adapt our infrastructure and properly integrate the internal and external sources of our growth to generate intended benefits (including from the companies that we recently acquired); the impact of competition and new technologies; risks related to our relationships with our suppliers, resellers and independent sales agents, and our operations at our manufacturing sites; risks related to the international scope of our operations and regulatory compliance (including reporting, environmental, anti-corruption and other regulatory compliance) related to that scope of operations; risks related to the security of our information systems (including risks related to potential cyber-attacks); changes in the overall global economic environment or in political and economic conditions in the countries in which we operate; changes in our strategy; costs and potential liability relating to litigation and regulatory proceedings; and those additional factors referred to in Item 3.D “Key Information - Risk Factors”, Item 4, “Information on the Company”, Item 5, “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects,” and all other parts of our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2017 (the “2017 Annual Report”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 28th, 2018. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made throughout our 2017 Annual Report, the Report on Form 6-K that attaches Stratasys’ unaudited, condensed consolidated financial statements as of, and for the quarter ended, March 31, 2018, and its review of its results of operations and financial condition for those periods, which has been furnished to the SEC on or about the date hereof, and our other reports filed with or furnished to the SEC, which are designed to advise interested parties of the risks and factors that may affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Any guidance provided, and other forward-looking statements made, in this press release are made as of the date hereof, and Stratasys undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Use of non-GAAP financial measures
The non-GAAP data included herein, which excludes certain items as
described below, are non-GAAP financial measures. Our management
believes that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful information
for investors and shareholders of our Company in gauging our results of
operations (x) on an ongoing basis after excluding merger and
acquisition related expense and reorganization-related charges or gains,
and (y) excluding non-cash items such as stock-based compensation
expenses, acquired intangible assets amortization, including intangible
assets amortization related to equity method investments, impairment of
long-lived assets, changes in fair value of obligations in connection
with acquisitions and the corresponding tax effect of those items. We
also exclude, when applicable, non-recurring significant tax charges or
benefits that relate to prior periods which we do not believe are
reflective of ongoing business and operating results. These non-GAAP
adjustments either do not reflect actual cash outlays that impact our
liquidity and our financial condition or have a non-recurring impact on
the statement of operations, as assessed by management. These non-GAAP
financial measures are presented to permit investors to more fully
understand how management assesses our performance for internal planning
and forecasting purposes. The limitations of using these non-GAAP
financial measures as performance measures are that they provide a view
of our results of operations without including all items indicated above
during a period, which may not provide a comparable view of our
performance to other companies in our industry. Investors and other
readers should consider non-GAAP measures only as supplements to, not as
substitutes for or as superior measures to, the measures of financial
performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliation between
results on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis is provided in a table below.