Vyomesh Joshi
Analyst · Gabelli & Company
Thanks, Melanie. Good afternoon, everyone. GAAP revenue in the third quarter was $155.3 million and non-GAAP revenue was $155.1 million. The difference being the entertainment divestiture completed in July. These results reflect a decrease of 5.6%, but had the entertainment business been excluded from our results, the revenue would have decreased by 3.6%. GAAP gross profit margin was 43.3%, and non-GAAP gross profit margin was 44.4%. For the third quarter of 2019, we reported a GAAP loss of $0.15 per share and a non-GAAP loss of $0.04 per share.The well-known industry decline in manufacturing activity and industrial production has impacted our business this year as overall demand from our customers is down. We also continued to experience revenue headwinds this quarter due to the ordering patterns of a large enterprise customer and the pause we have taken on factory metal systems. From a geographic standpoint, these challenges impacted results in the Americas and Asia Pacific, which was slightly offset by strength in the EMEA region, primarily driven by healthcare.I want to highlight a few positive developments from this quarter. As expected, we have returned to growth in materials, and we are working closely with our customers to find the right production workflows. We are excited that since our last earnings call, we have introduced eight new production materials for our Figure 4 platform. These include application-specific resins like EGGSHELL, medical resins like MED-AMB and MED-WHT and production resins like PRO-BLK 10 and HI TEMP 300. Early feedback from customers tell us that they are very innovative, and the customers are very excited about these new materials for end-user production. These materials will open up new production workflows in our target markets of health care, automotive, consumer electronics and other industrial segments, enabling us to transition from prototyping to production.Our Figure 4 dental platform has been very successful with NextDent materials. And with these 8 new production materials, we will scale our industrial Figure 4 platforms significantly in the coming months.Our healthcare revenue grew 6%, and excluding our large enterprise customer, it grew 15%. We are committed to operational excellence and are keenly focused on cost structure and cash flow.In the third quarter, we decreased net inventory by $11.2 million quarter-over-quarter and generated $6.5 million of cash from operations. We believe, in this uncertain environment, that our most important area of focus is profitability. And to achieve this, we continue to take costs out of the business. Compared to last year at this time, we reduced SG&A by 5% and R&D by 8%. We have been taking cost out of the business throughout 2019. And in the first nine months, we have lowered SG&A by 6% and R&D by 11%, for total operating expense reduction of 8% in 2019.In the coming months, we will be accelerating our strategic reductions so that as we enter 2020, we will have the right cost structure for the company.Last quarter, we disclosed a suspension of federal contracting from the United States Air Force, and I'm pleased that this has now been resolved. On September 6, the Air Force lifted the suspension following our execution of a two year administrative agreement with them, and we are now eligible to obtain and perform new U.S. government contracts without restrictions.Finally, I would like to introduce our new CFO, Todd Booth, who joined us in September. I'm very excited to have Todd here, as we are partnering to focus on operational excellence and driving toward a common goal of profitability and cash generation for 3D Systems. Todd will now provide more details on our results for the third quarter of 2019. Todd?