Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Q1 2012 Stratasys earnings conference call. [Operator Instructions] And now I'd like to hand the call over to Shane Glenn, Director of Investor Relations.

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us to discuss our first quarter results. On the call with us today are Scott Crump, Chairman and CEO of Stratasys; and Bob Gallagher, CFO of Stratasys. Following the prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions. An audio replay of the call will also be available on our website later today. Statements during this call about Stratasys' beliefs, intentions and expectations, including statements regarding the expected timing and ultimate closing of the merger of Stratasys and Objet Limited as well as the benefits thereof are forward-looking statements. The statements involve risk and uncertainties both known and unknown that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in this presentation. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors including risk and uncertainties relating to Stratasys' ability to penetrate the 3D printing market; the success of Stratasys' distribution agreement with HP; Stratasys' ability to achieve the growth rates experienced in preceding quarters; Stratasys' ability to introduce, produce and market consumer materials and the market acceptance of those materials; the impact of competitive products and pricing; Stratasys' timely development of new products and materials, and market acceptance of those products and materials; the success of Stratasys' recent R&D initiative to expand the DDM capabilities of its core FDM technology; the success of Stratasys' RedEye on demand and other paid parts services; and Stratasys ability to complete its transaction with Objet Limited on the proposed terms and schedule and achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction. These and other applicable factors are discussed in this presentation and in Stratasys' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 and subsequent filings. Any forward-looking statements included in this presentation…

Good morning and thank you for joining us to discuss our financial results. The first quarter was a busy one for us and we are very pleased with our performance. Total revenue expanded to a record $45 million for the first quarter, an increase of 30% over last year. Non-GAAP operating profit was also impressive increasing by 43% over last year and we just raised our guidance for 2012. As we observed for the past several quarters, the first quarter benefited from the strong sales of our higher margin Fortus 3D production systems, which grew by over 60% compared to last year. This strong performance in our Fortus line also helped drive impressive consumable revenue growth of 30% year-over-year for the first quarter. We are continuing to benefit from the expanding use of direct digital manufacturing applications, which maintained relatively higher consumable utilization rates. We continue to believe the emerging market for DDM, direct digital manufacturing applications is at the beginning of a multi-year secular growth opportunity. There are many exciting developments to discuss this quarter. Just this week, we announced a revolutionary new 3D printing platform called Mojo, which was 3 years in the making. We believe Mojo is an ideal product to combine with our new channel development initiatives aimed at growing the sales of our most affordable products. We have now recruited and trained over 90 new sales agents that will focus on our most affordable products including our uPrint line and new Mojo 3D printer. And of course, we are excited about our recently announced plan to combine with Objet, a leading global manufacturer and distributor of 3D printing and rapid prototyping systems. Combining with Objet, we'll provide a complementary product line that we can leverage into our rapidly growing market opportunity. I'll return later to discuss these developments in more detail. But first, I'd like to turn the call over to our CFO, Bob Gallagher who will provide the highlights of our first quarter results. Here's Bob.

Thank you, Scott. As I begin I want to remind everyone of the financial implications of our recent acquisition of Solidscape. We closed the acquisition end of May last year. Consequently, Solidscape results are included in our first quarter financial results for 2012. During our discussion today, we will provide you with certain pro forma financial metrics that excludes Solidscape. We will also provide you pro forma financial metrics that excludes certain expenses such as stock-based compensation, amortization expense of acquired Solidscape intangibles and the expenses associated with our proposed combination with Objet Limited. We believe this will provided with more appropriate comparison of our first quarter financial performance relative to last year. Total revenue was a record $45 million for the first quarter, up 30% increase over the $34.6 million reported for the same period last year. Excluding Solidscape from our results, revenue would have still been a record at $41.6 million, a 20% increase over last year. The company shipped a total of 822 units during the first quarter versus 567 last year. Solidscape, where we spent 71 of the systems shipped in the first quarter of this year. As we observed over the past 3 quarters, our Fortus system sales were very strong during the period and positively impacted by the introduction of our Fortus 250mc which was our best selling system during the first quarter. The 250mc has a build envelop similar to a Dimension 1200 and fills a void as the lower end of our Fortus product lineup. It is positioned very closer to Dimension 3D printer line within the marketplace. We believe the new product generated significant interest from customers that would have otherwise purchased the Dimension 3D printer. Similar to prior periods this likely skew the unit growth trends during the quarter by…

Thank you, Bob. Stratasys is revising financial guidance for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012, as follows: revenue guidance range of $183 million to $193 million versus a previous guidance range of $175 million to $190 million; Non-GAAP earnings guidance range of $1.29 to $1.38 per share versus a previous guidance range of $1.17 to $1.28 per share; GAAP earnings guidance range of $0.97 to $1.13 per share versus a previous guidance range of $1.02 to $1.13 per share. GAAP earnings guidance includes the estimated impact of Objet transaction-related expenses prior to the close. Financial guidance does not reflect the potential combined performance of Stratasys, Inc. and Objet, nor does it include the estimated incremental transaction-related cost that would be incurred upon closing of the transaction. In addition to excluding the impact of expenses associated with the proposed combination with Objet, non-GAAP earnings guidance excludes the impact of stock-based compensation expense and the amortization expense of acquired Solidscape intangibles. Qualitatively, we continue to observe a favorable market environment for our products and we are assuming that will continue through 2012. However, we are assuming that the growth in our Fortus system sales will moderate in the coming months relative to the very high levels we have recently observed. We are also assuming that our new initiatives within 3D printing will lead to higher sales of our 3D printers in 2012. Now, I'd like to turn the call back to Scott Crump.

Thank you, Shane. Based on our strong first quarter performance, we are looking forward to a great year. As Bob mentioned, our higher margin of Fortus line continued its strong positive sales momentum in the first quarter. Manufactures continue to recognize the value of our technology for end-use part production, including fixtures and assembly tools used in manufacturing. In addition, the capabilities of our technology allow for the production of complex geometries that would be impossible to produce through conventional processes. The 900mc has been particularly strong for DDM applications within the aerospace and automotive sectors. Our expanding base of Fortus 3D production systems and higher usage rates generated by DDM applications is driving the growth of our consumables. Consumable revenue reached another record level in the first quarter, growing by 30% over last year. Revenue within our RedEye paid parts business also represented a record level, expanding by 25% over the first quarter last year. Our RedEye business continues to benefit from customers ordering larger functional prototypes and DDM end-use parts, in addition to other service offerings. We believe the announcement of our revolutionary new low-cost Mojo 3D printer platform this week represents a significant milestone in our goal to accelerate the sales of 3D printers worldwide to expand market share. The Mojo Print Pack comes with everything the commercial user needs to print models, including startup materials, all for under $10,000. This new platform is small enough to fit on a desktop, measuring only 25-inches wide, 18-inches high and 21-inches deep. The relatively small size makes the system more affordable and easier to merchandize to end-users. To produce the model, Mojo employs a variation of the traditional FDM material extrusion. The ABS material spool and print head are integrated in one single package called a QuickPack print engine.…

[Operator Instructions] First question we have comes from the line of Troy Jensen.

Just a quick question on Mojo, can you talk about maybe consumable pricing and what you think annual consumable consumption with will be persistent for the year?

The consumable pricing to the end user is going to be very similar to what you see our other 3D printers that have been around a little less than $5 per cubic inch. What we expect from the usage, it's a little too early obviously to say, we don't have any products in the field. We do believe that we're going to pick up some incremental users, a lot of incremental users with the products attractive price point. The utilizations is may not be at the levels that we see with some of our other products, but as you know the goal is here to greatly expand the unit volume and get the products into their field which ultimately will use a higher level of total consumables.

Just to know if you're experiencing any channel conflict, adding 90 agents and going to 150 agents in the U.S. for uPrint and Mojo versus Dimension lead sellers, has there been any conflict in the channel with this expansion?

We're at the beginning phase of it, we don't anticipate and we haven't seen any significant channel conflicts. First part of our job is to manage these smoothly but we're not anticipating any significant conflicts.

Stratasys had a long history of having good relationship with our resellers and we don't see anything in the channel expansion that we've that would change the relationships with our resellers. It's still very positive.

Bob, gross margins on services, am I calculating this right, was it 43% versus 60% last year, and can you just explain the drop?

There is a couple of things that were playing in there. We have some lower margin on our maintenance overall, but RedEye, as part of their sales growth was offering additional third party services including outsourcing PolyJet and when we are outsourcing those things to third parties that has a negative impact overall on margin percentage but have positive contribution to overall margin dollars. We would expect that to raise back up in future quarters.

The next question we have comes from the line of Jim Ricchiuti at Needham & Company.

Another question on Mojo, to what extent does the introduction of Mojo potentially cannibalize uPrint sales and is the product going to be widely available in Europe as well?

The product features of course are different. They are more complementary, for instance, Mojo has 5-inch envelope versus the larger 3D printers offer a larger, basically different offering. The overall strategy has always been for the last 10 years to have some cannibalization, but significantly positive growth on our overall net basis. It's the old idea of controlling the growth and controlling what I guess, is cannibalized. And we're very, very positive about it.

There are some differences between the product lines, when you look at Mojo versus a uPrint or a Dimension. The Mojo does have a smaller build envelope. We can only build in one size. There is only one material. There is no color option currently with the Mojo. So there are some functionality features with the higher priced 3D printers that may appeal to certain customers versus the lower-end or the most affordable product. But to Scott's point, it's really all about expanding the total install base.

And the availability in Europe and implications in terms of HP, will they be carrying the product?

Mojo is going to be a worldwide product. I think what we saw from HP in the quarter was positive sales momentum, which is great for Stratasys. But our relationship today is clearly defined with HP with uPrint and uPrint Plus. And I don't want to speculate on this call relative to a relationship that we don't have.

And, Bob, just the transaction expense in this quarter, can you talk about that? I wasn't sure if you mentioned that or not?

Yes. We said about our million dollars of expenses that we incurred in the quarter. And most of those expenses are not tax-deductible. We have a non-GAAP table that we included in the press release. So the impact of that is much greater than then you would typically put relative to EPS. But I think if you look at the non-GAAP table, you'll be able to see the impacts of that.

Right, sorry I wasn't clear. What should we anticipate in the current quarter for transaction expense?

Yes. We haven't gone out and projected that externally and we're not providing guidance relative to that today. You can see that there is a large differentiation between our guidance between non-GAAP and GAAP and it's widened from what it was previously. And a part of that is very much in the anticipation of the cost we're going to occur relative to the combination with Objet.

So if you back and if you take the EPS range adjustment there and that's provided in the reconciliation table, you can back into the estimate for the Objet-related expenses we expect to incur prior to closing. And then on closing, we would have some additional costs that we would incur and those are not estimated.

And the GAAP Non-GAAP that range I'm just trying to get a sense will more of that happen in Q2, Q3 but we'll have to see how that plays out.

The next question we have comes from the line of Steve Dyer from Craig-Hallum.

Just kind of back on Mojo, the 90 sales agents going to 150 is that above and beyond the current reseller channel, just so I understand how it's going to be distributed. Is some or all of the current reseller channel going to be distributing this, in addition to these specialists or what is your overall footprint look like?

The sales agents are incremental individuals, who are selling the lower-end products, so most of those are going to be agents that are added by the current reseller channel. And some of those, probably a little over half are going to be agents that are independent of any individual reseller.

So what percentage of the current reseller base will be offering this? If you have any estimate?

The vast majority of our resellers today will be offering Mojo. They're all excited about the product.

There would be addition to the sales agents in addition to the vast majority of our resellers.

And then, initially or I guess both initially and then as you look forward, what do you expect for margin profile on the Mojo?

As we've said in the comments, I think by Scott, we said that, while the price is lower it's actually a higher margin product for us than the uPrint. The cost of the Mojo is less than half of what uPrint is today. So we're pretty excited about reaching. That's why we consider it revolutionary, because we really reach new price points, both from a customer perspective and then from an internal cost perspective.

And I know, Bob, right coming right out of the gate with uPrint. It was lower margin for a little while, until you were able to bring all the cost out. Do you expect kind of similar ramp with this or should this be kind of immediately very profitable?

Yes, we took a little different tact on Mojo, trying to reach that $10,000 price point. We took our time. As Scott mentioned, it took over 3 years for us to develop this product. And we had a focus on the cost of this product right from the beginning. We're always looking for opportunities to lower the cost of the product, which benefits everybody. But unlike uPrint, I think we don't project to have a significant decrease in the cost of the product in the near term.

And then, as it relates to Objet, a couple of questions there. One, any discussions I guess with HP and I think you sort of touched on this earlier. But would you anticipate HP kind of working with the Objet, and putting one of their products in the bag as well over there or is that strictly going to be your printers?

Like I said, I think we needed to focus on the relationship that we have with HP as opposed to speculating about what it might be in the future.

Last one, Hart-Scott-Rodino regulatory review. When would you expect sort of that initial look? If you have any I guess commentary there, just given the dominance of the 2 of you. Do you feel okay about that going through, et cetera?

Yes, we feel very confident the representation that we have. And we're confident that we'll be able to complete this transaction. With this we believe we have complementary products, very much so. And I think we'll see that from our customers. And we'll know more when we talk about our second quarter conference call.

The next question we have comes from the line of Andrea James from Dougherty & Company.

If I estimate the GMs on the uPrint and I cut that production cost in half, then I get a GM on the Mojo that's about 60%, am I looking at that right?

Yes. We're not going to go into individual product. We've said previously that the uPrint was our lower of the margin products. And what we're trying to get across here is that's not the same case for the Mojo and we're not going to give individual product margins.

And then do you think your gross margins will increase throughout the year or would the Q1 number will be what you're thinking for full year given the effect of the services business?

As a company, we've always stayed away depending on what our product mix is. We've always really try to focus our shareholders on operating income. Growth and sales and growth and operating incomes and this is true still today, in terms of the guidance that we give. So the level of guidance as we're comfortable what we've given is what you should rely on.

And then tax rate seem to be a little bit higher in Q1.

Yes. There is no doubt. We had a higher tax rate, as we mentioned the $1 million of Objet expenses, primarily those are not tax deductible expenses. The other thing is I am sure aware is the research and development credit in the U.S. has expired, as of December 31, 2011. We do expect that the R&D tax credit to come back later on in the year. So you're going to see some volatility in our tax rate this year that hasn't been there historically.

The next question we have come from the line of Andy Schopick and he is from Private Investor.

Bob, I have 2 questions I'd like to ask you. First, could you give me a split between domestic and international on the revenue?

On the revenue, it was 50-50.

It was 50-50? And about how much of the international revenue is derived from Western Europe?

I think overall Europe represented almost 30% of revenue in the quarter.

It's about 30%?

Yes, and that's excluding Solidscape, so it's on an apples-to-apples basis.

Bob, question about the pending acquisition with Objet. I did try and look at the 8-K filings. I was looking for little more detail here, because in your press release, when you did announced the deal, it's expected to have a combined equity value of $1.4 billion based on the closing price or based on the price in mid-April, which was around 36 and the other stock selling over 50. I can't really tell here, how many shares are likely to be issued or how the change in the price level from the time you announced the deal may affect the terms of this deal. At what point are we going to be able to make our own kind of assessment of the financial impact in terms of understanding how many shares may be issued to complete the deal? And when any pro forma numbers might be available for analysis?

I think what's very easy on this is this is a combination of 2 very successful companies. What you're going to see at the close is you're going to see shares to shareholders were owned 55% of the combined company irrespective of what's going on in the stock price.

Is that fixed?

And that's fixed. So we believe the combination is really built based on the performance of the company as that has been in rest and less so on relative market value of our stock because we're in the same industry. In terms of answering your question, when you're going to able to see more relative to financials of the 2 companies. We're working currently on at giving a proxy out to our shareholders, which will give all the reasons that our board unanimously reported for approval. Recommending approval of this for our shareholders and included that will be all the reasons that they put in that including our financial analysis of the combined companies.

And about what timeframe can we expect that?

I would expect sometime within the next 30 days.

[Operator Instructions] Next question we have come from the line of Patrick Ruth [ph] of Battle Road Research.

I just wanted to ask a question about the Dimension and as well as the low end printing systems, as sales from those products are lower than your expectations. Would you say that that is systemic to lower demand for those printers or are you seeing greater competition in those lines.

I think it's important to say overall our units are up 822 versus 567 last year and 700 at the end of the year. So I think there is some very positive trends overall. I think what we're seeing is there is an impact clearly from our Dimension 250mc and the ability of our channel to be able to up-sell. And then part of our channel is during this quarter, we've been building out our channel, we've been for our sales team. We've also been focused on launching the Mojo. So I think there is very positive results within our numbers overall in terms of units. And we think we're in it very much in expanding market as we've said multiple times, very under penetrated.

In terms of the Mojo, can you guys identify possibly the largest market for that product and really is this any different from uPrint targeted market as well?

Well with the lower price, at what I think is inflection point below $10,000. It covers all of the mechanical applications, mechanical CAD applications. Right now, there is about 9 of those verticals. It also expands into the lower budget groups of the architectural and of course education. So it's really more about more volume at the inflection point of price elasticity than let's say in DDM, where you're actually creating full new applications.

So you would say that they are vying for similar customers at the uPrint.

Yes, but one of the things, we think is key is, is that it changes and we think $10,000 is a break point relative to the approval, who has to approve that within the company. So that's where we think that the Mojo is going to be an exciting opportunity for us.

If I may, I just want to present a last one, in terms of revenue contribution, how much the Asia Pacific is bringing this quarter? I know you said Europe contributed on 30 on a question before. So I just wanted, if the Asia Pacific contributed?.

Yes. Asia Pacific would be 15% to 17%.

We have another question from Jim Ricchiuti from Needham & Company.

You gave the percentage increase for the consumables revenue year-over-year, so just curious, what was the increase sequentially, what was it up from Q4?

I don't have that at our fingertips, but it was definitely up given the fact that Q1 was an all time record. Remember you do have the seasonality factor that you need to take into account. Even though we're very pleased the fact that it was up sequentially, but I don't have that number in front of me.

It just sounds as though there perhaps was less seasonality then you've normally seen?

Well, I think the seasonality was there, it was just muted about the fact that we have a business that's overall has just continued to grow very rapidly there.

Don't recall you gave in units and you may have in the past for Solidscape. The 71 units, how does that compare from the prior year, if you order from Q4, just trying to get a sense if you're seeing some more momentum in that product area?

We've consistently given the Solidscape unit numbers. So that's available on the previous calls. I think it was up units in Q4 of 2011. So it's up 3 units quarter-over-quarter.

We have another question and it comes from the line of Tim Mulrooney from William Blair.

I apologize if I miss this on the call. I know that you said 3D printer revenue was down 12% and Fortus revenue was up 61%, but I'm not sure if you guys gave the units for each, do you have that available?

Yes. The 3D printing units which I believe we gave were up 15%. And the Fortus units, I believe we did not give, but we've tried to stay away from that given the fact that we've introduced the 250mc and it is having such an extraordinary impact on the unit growth. But the Fortus units were up well over 100%.

These are the price points from the 250mc all the way up to the 900mc. We believe that giving up Fortus units is actually really kind of misleading for people.

Would it be fair to say that Fortus units were up sequentially?

Absolutely, they were up sequentially also.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I would now like to turn the call over to Scott Crump, your CEO, for closing remarks.

Okay. In conclusion, we entered 2012 well positioned for the long-term. We have continued to see positive momentum in our Fortus product line. In addition, our consumable business continues to benefit primarily from our growing install base of Fortus systems and higher utilization trends provided by DDM applications. We are very excited about the introduction of our new Mojo product line, which we believe can drive market expansion to a new level. Finally, we look forward to combining with Objet. This is an important transaction for our companies as well as for the industry. We believe this combination will create significant value for all of our stakeholders. We look forward to an exciting 2012. And we'd like to thank you for your interest in Stratasys. And look forward to speaking with you again in next quarter. Goodbye.

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