Q2 2022 Markforged Holding Corp Earnings Call

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Mark Forge 2nd Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star then 1 on your telephone keypad.

Should you need assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star and zero. I would now like to turn the conference over to Austin Bullock, Director of Investor Relations of Markforged. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon. I'm Austin Bollig, Director of Investor Relations of Markforged Holding Corporation. Welcome to our second quarter fiscal year 2022 results conference call. We will be discussing the results announced in our earnings press release issued after market closed today. With me on the call is our President and CEO , Shai Turem, and our CFO , Mark Schwartz.

Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone that management will be making statements during this call that include estimates and other forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Any statements contained in this call that are not statements of historical facts should be deemed to be forward-looking statements.

These statements represent management's views as of today, August 11, 2022, and are subject to material risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Declavík

Mark Forge disclaims any intention or obligation, except as required by law, to update or revise forward-looking statements.

Also, during the course of today's call, we refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. There's a reconciliation schedule showing the GAAP versus non-GAAP results currently available in our press release issued after market closed today, which can also be found on our website at investors.markforge.com.

I'll now turn the call over to Shai Turem, President and CEO of Markforged.

Thank you, Austin, and thank you, everyone, for joining us on our Q2 2022 earnings call.

I'm pleased to share that once again Mark Fodge delivered a strong performance in the second quarter. We continued to execute against our long-term strategy and delivered robust results across all segments and geographies.

Revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $24.2 million, increasing 19% year-over-year.

Demand for the digital forge remains strong globally, and our pipeline of opportunities continues to grow across our complete portfolio.

Our customers begin to realize the supply chain advantages of printing industrial strength parts at the point of need as soon as they install our solution.

From there, the number of mission-critical applications our customers are able to solve with the technology starts to expand.

and that, in turn, increases the number of digital inventory parts our customers manage for our cloud-based software.

We see this pattern of growth and usage across the Americas, EMEA and APEC regions.

We recently published a case study in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force and especially the Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico.

where they deployed an X7 industrial printer to support the elite airmen who ran over 300 special ops training activities each year.

The Onsite team relies on Markforged materials such as onyx reinforced with fiberglass, carbon fiber and Kevlar to rapidly build devices and training environments to match real-world combat zones.

One specific application is night vision goggle mount affixed to the AirMed's tactical helmet.

By using the X-7 to print a replacement mount in ONIX, the Air Force was able to improve pilot stamina and agility while also saving money.

The conventional aluminum part.

ranges from $100 to several hundred dollars with several weeks late time to build.

while the Mark Forge printed parts cost less than $5 and is ready in just a few hours.

The time savings and cost savings have both been impactful to the Air Force.

They told us bringing the Mark 4th printer is one of the best things we've ever done.

As manufacturers look to solve more mission-critical applications through the Digital Forge, they are increasingly looking to our latest product release, the large-format FX20.

With its size, speed and ability to print high temperature resistant parts stronger than metals, demand for the FX20 has exceeded our expectations.

We already have examples of customers that have ordered multiple units.

We have been fulfilling orders globally for the past few months and continue to ramp towards volume production by the end of the year as we committed.

Our strategy focuses on empowering our customers to solve industrial manufacturing challenges at the point of need.

Last month reached another important milestone on that journey by entering into a definitive agreement with Oganas AB to acquire DigitalMETA, the creator of a leading binder jetting solution known to be precise and reliable.

This acquisition is consistent with our long-term strategy to extend Markforged capabilities into complementary technologies for high-throughput production of metal additive parts.

Digital Metal Binder Jetting technology complements our existing Metal-X solution while also expanding our addressable market.

within manufacturing industries that includes automotive, medical and luxury goods.

We believe this strategic acquisition advances our long-term vision of distributed manufacturing and we look forward to seeing our teams collaborate together to deliver on our now shared vision.

In addition to the pending digital metal acquisition, we continue to make great strides with our internal innovation efforts.

Our strong balance sheet has enabled us to build a powerful product development engine driven by a team of engineers and product innovators that are developing multiple programs in product.

These efforts ensure that we continue to deliver the most innovative additive solutions to the market with a planned major product or feature release every year.

Combined with our strategic acquisition, I believe we have a very exciting product portfolio roadmap that will continue to expand our addressable market and amplify the value proposition of our digital forge.

We continue to see strong interest in our current products and excitement about the future. However, the volatility of the current global economy is having a short-term impact on customer purchasing decision and timing of pipeline conversion.

What our pipeline of opportunities is stronger than ever.

This has the net effect of lengthening cell cycles.

We view this as a natural behavior. The current economic uncertainty has led us to scrutinize our own internal cost controls even more diligently and reprioritize our own investments.

Mark will walk through the specifics shortly, but we realized that adjusting our near-term expectations accordingly is a prudent and wise decision.

We remain committed to our strategy. It is working.

I firmly believe that the current environment is actually an opportunity for us.

We are driving efficiency throughout the organization and continuing on plan to strengthen our product portfolio.

With a strong balance sheet and exciting product strategy, we continue to keep our sightline focused on achieving breakeven in 2024.

We are here for the long-term journey and are eager and prepared to take advantages of near-term opportunities to solidify our advantage.

I believe in a future where supply chains are resilient and sustainable.

And I think the best way to realize this future is by pushing digital manufacturing capability directly to the point of need.

Changing the world of manufacturing won't happen overnight. It is a long-term mission.

That is why, even during this period of macroeconomic uncertainty, we are investing in our product portfolio and continuing to build robust pipeline of demand.

With that, I now turn the call over to Mark Schwartz, our CFO , who will offer more details on our financial performance and guidance for the remainder of the year.

Thanks, Shai.

I will now review our financial results for the second quarter and six months into June 30, 2022, as well as update our full year outlook for 2022.

Please note that my comments reflect our non-GAAP results and outlook. For your reference, our earnings press release, issued earlier this afternoon and posted to our Investor Relations website, includes our GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation to assist with my commentary.

Revenue increased 19% for the second quarter of 2022 to $24.2 million, compared with revenue of $20.4 million for the second quarter of 2021.

Gross profit in Q2 was $13 million, compared to $12 million for the second quarter of 2021.

As a result, we generated a gross profit margin of 54%, compared to 59% in the first quarter of 2021.

For the six months ended June 30, 2022, revenue increased 14% to $46.1 million, compared with revenue of $40.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021.

Gross profit for the six months ended June 30, 2022, was $24.7 million.

compared to $24.2 million for the same period in 2021.

As a result, we generated a gross profit margin of 54%, compared to a 60% gross margin, generated in the first half of 2021.

Our gross margin in the first half and the second quarter of 2022 has been impacted by broad-ranging increases in direct material costs,

indirect costs including freight and logistics.

as well as the launch of the FX20 in Q1 2022, which continues to experience higher component material and labor costs.

as we ramp this exciting new product to commercial production.

Rising labor and component material costs continue to exert pressure on the cost of goods sold.

But as I've mentioned previously, against this inflationary backdrop, the DigitalForge platform continues to create a powerful advantage for our customers, a value they continue to demand and one that supports our gross margin differentiation.

Moving on, operating expenses for the quarter were $30 million, compared to $20 million for the second quarter in 2021.

We incurred $56.4 million of operating expenses during the first half of 2022, compared to $36.3 million in the first half of 2021.

The year-over-year increase in both the first half and second quarter of 2022 was a planned increase.

driven largely by accelerated innovation efforts, investments in our go-to-market activities, and public company infrastructure costs, as we continue to execute on our long-term growth strategy.

In line with these plans, we continued to grow our research and development teams in the second quarter, increasing R&D spend by 46% to $8.8 million, compared with $6.1 million for the second quarter in 2021.

Similarly, for the first half of 2022, we increased R&D spend by 64% to $18 million, compared with $11 million for the first half of 2021.

We will continue to grow our innovation teams and are excited with the strength of the current team that is now working on our future products for 2023 and 2024.

For the second quarter of 2022, our net loss was $16.8 million, or a loss of 9 cents per share.

For the six months ended June 30, 2022, our net loss was $31.7 million, or a net loss of $0.17 per share.

Finally, we exited the first half of the year with a cash balance of $243 million.

on plan and well positioned to execute on our long term goals.

Now onto guidance.

We are updating our 2022 financial guidance to reflect our updated forecast.

which considers the current macroeconomic volatility.

We anticipate revenue for the year to be within the range of $100 to $115 million.

This represents year-over-year growth of approximately 18% compared to 2021 at the midpoint of that range.

We expect gross margin for the year to fall within the range of 52% to 54%.

Given our reduced revenue forecast, we have also revised operating profit and EPS.

anticipating an operating loss in the range of $54 to $59 million for the year.

and EPS results for the full year to be a loss in the range of 29 cents to 32 cents per share.

Finally, we'd like to reiterate our continuing expectation that our strong balance sheet, coupled with disciplined cost controls and the strength of our product portfolio, will carry us through to sustained profitability without the need to raise further capital.

That concludes our prepared remarks today.

Operator, please open up the call for questions.

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Your first question is from Brian Drab with William Blair. Please go ahead. Thanks.

Thanks for taking my questions. The first area I wanted to discuss is gross margin.

Mark, can you maybe just drill into gross margin in the headwind somewhat and call out the component parts?

More specifically what I'm trying to drive out of course is you know what? What are the? temporary

of headwind right now and where would we be without these headwinds. If you can break it out into whichever way you might be able to at expedite fees, inflation costs, materials, etc.

Yeah, thank you, Brian , for your question.

I think we are seeing very, very similar challenges to what we highlighted last quarter and in previous quarters across the board with logistics costs.

being a specific callout, higher component costs, and the ramping of the FX20. In the case of the FX20, we think that costs are back in line for us Q1 next year, really by the end of this year, but you'll see the impact of that Q1 of next year as we are reaching what we would call commercial volumes.

and in terms of higher component costs.

I think we've seen that begin to wane in certain areas, but overall I would still tell you that the pricing pressure is still very strong and the challenges are still very real. But there are pockets where we're starting to see some relief. I think that will continue at least to the end of this year for us and potentially into next year. And then the higher logistics costs.

Um, I don't think our, our.

materially higher than they were in previous quarters, but we've seen, at least in the first half of this year, but we've seen a sustained increase in the cost of freight and moving goods around the world and warehousing those goods around the world that hasn't subsided. And to be honest, I'm not certain that that is going to subside or not.

So it's difficult to tease out how much of this is here to stay versus how much of this is perhaps temporary. The ramping of the FX20 is temporary. We'd have to do a little bit of work to quantify what that means. But I would suggest it's not more than a percentage point.

On the FX20, it's not more than a percentage point.

Right.

Right, okay, got it.

I'm just trying to bridge between originally I was modeling 58% or so for gross profit, I think 58 or 59, and just trying to bridge that to the 53 that we're expecting for the year. Obviously, everyone's feeling the same headwinds. I'm just trying to figure out if things somehow... I'm not trying to get you to predict when it gets back to normal. I'm just trying to think.

I'm calling my model where I think it might be getting back to normal, but who knows?

I'm just trying to understand the components, so thanks for that. And then just the last question I'll ask for now is...

How has the pipeline held up lately in terms of interest or orders for the FX 20? A lot of companies are seeing push outs of orders. I'm just wondering if you're seeing some of that there. Thanks. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Brian . I would say that the pipeline in general continue to increase. We are still in record level for us, especially for the FX 20. As we shared, it's exceeding our expectations. And we are definitely see the ramping up in the next few quarters. We do see a little bit of a longer sale cycles due to the macroeconomics. I think our customers want to see a little bit more what's going on with inflation and the current situation and other places before they make the final call.

but from pipeline perspective, the demand is in record level for us.

I will follow up more later.

Thanks, Brian . Thank you.

The next question is from Jacob Siphon with Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Chapter 2

Hey guys, thanks for taking my questions.

Maybe just to piggyback off of Brian's question on the FX20, you said you had global demand that was strong for the printer. What, um...

What were the highlights, the strongest areas, and what were some of the weaker areas?

channels, geographic channels.

Of course, I would say the strong demand of the FX20 is globally, really globally to a level that we have an order from New Zealand, for example. So it's really across the board. I would say the strongest industries around aerospace and manufacturing, especially machine shops and others that are looking to replace real, no mission critical metal parts with this solution. So the demand for the FX20 is really solid. I do not see anywhere that I can say that it's weak.

And I would add to that that we are now for the first time starting to see orders of multiple units coming in, which is really exciting for us.

Alright.

That's helpful. Maybe just on consumables, look like consumables are up nicely. What have been some of the stronger materials?

in that segment.

I don't think there is one that we would call out.

Our largest selling material is our onyx material, and we're certainly seeing robust demand for that. But I would tell you that there is demand across the board. Last quarter we released a new series of materials, and there's new revenues from those materials that are ramping nicely as well. That's our precise PLA materials. So it's really across the board. I think what we would – how we view this is a very healthy usage across the board of our printers, not in any specific material.

Got it. Maybe just one last one.

Guidance implies, if I'm crunching the numbers right, you know, OpEx will be relatively flat quarter over quarter. Maybe just can you walk me through how you're thinking about sales and marketing expense and.

Research and.

general.

Yeah, I think what we've said and hopefully you all are seeing is that we have control of our costs. We have what we believe to be fairly strong cost disciplines across our business.

it enables us to be fiscally responsible while maintaining and growing areas of our business that we're attempting to grow to reach our goals.

We definitely remain focused on our innovation efforts.

We are absolutely slowing our spend in G&A and I would tell you that That our sales and marketing efforts our go-to-market efforts are probably somewhere in the middle. There's Opportunities for us to optimize our sales and marketing spend, but we're certainly not taking our foot off the gas.

slowing our spend in G&A. And I would tell you that our sales and marketing efforts, our go-to-market efforts, are probably somewhere in the middle. There's opportunities for us to optimize our sales and marketing spend, but we're certainly not taking our foot off the gas. Maybe I'll add a...

We are, as we shared, looking to get to break-even in 2024. And as such, we committed to show operational leverage. So we did a significant investment in infrastructure across R&D, SG&A in 2021. And I think you're gonna see this year and in the year to come, the operational leverage building up. And I think that's part of it.

Okay, thanks guys. I'll hop back in the queue.

The next question is from Jim Suva with Citigroup. Please go ahead.

Thank you. As we looked at your adjusted outlook for the full year now, what were the key performance indicator key variables?

that kind of caused you to adjust things down on kind of both of the items. And then I'll have a follow-up question kind of around the timing of them about were they like very recent in the past couple weeks or kind of mid-quarter because I guess the concern would be do these metrics have a risk of potential, you know, even softening some more? So you can let us know what were the KPIs for kind of the revenues and the margins.

that really caused you to take it lower so we can just kind of be aware of those? Yeah, thank you, Jim. Thanks for your question. This is a really challenging time from a forecasting perspective, but it's a more challenging time from our perspective in trying to share what we believe this year looks like. We have really, really strong conviction around our pipeline.

What we don't have conviction around are folks sitting in my chair that I can tell you, for example, we mentioned it in our prepared remarks, but we are taking a very close look at our own expenses internally. I think it's fiscally responsible to do so when there's so much macroeconomic uncertainty. We don't know what others sitting in my chair are doing, and I think that, from our perspective, causes us to reflect.

in the near term and to bring down our guidance.

And then the timing of that, you know, did it happen in the past, you know, week or two or a month or two? Just because I'm trying to, you know, allocate about the risk of, are could things actually worsen up here in the next 30 days or those like very fresh updates that you put together? Can we make sure that the Stupid quote from Joemetic is actually about for azeema and

How we think about this and how we guide and the level of information that we attempt to share is our best and most recent thinking.

And that's always the case, Jim. That's always what we strive to do. So this is our best and most recent thinking, even up to late last week and early this week.

Thank you so much for the additional details and clarifications. It was greatly appreciated.

You're very welcome.

The next question is from Rod Hall with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Hey guys, this is Anmol on Parod. I also wanted to dig a little into the foliar guidance. I just wanted to check where is the most shortfall for H2 and is it...

I understand that the order growth is strong for FX20, but how is the tracking work? Is the original plan slower than expected? I also wanted to check about the visibility in terms of order pipeline in the second half.

What are the confidence levels there, like if they're binding orders or any comments that you can provide us with. Thank you.

Yeah, so a couple of things. Thank you for your question. I think first and foremost, we build to a forecast so that when we get an order from a customer, we are able to fulfill it. We don't leave the quarter with any significant backlog.

As we get binding orders, we are then fulfilling them.

We had what we believed to be a very strong quarter. We were very excited about our results for last quarter and even more excited about the optimism from our existing and expected customer base. Folks are really excited about our product portfolio and what we have to offer today, including on the material side. So we feel great about the direction we're headed. We just feel it is prudent.

for us to really consider what's happening around the planet, what others in this seat are doing, and not getting out over our skis a bit. So from our perspective, the demand continues to be very encouraging. Our pipeline is stronger than ever. The only variable that we're... Maybe not the only, but the most significant variable that we are considering as we have brought down our guidance for the year.

is the conversion of that pipeline and how quickly folks in my seat determine that they want to push out that spend for a quarter or not. We're not seeing an awful lot of that, as you can see from our results, but we are attempting to be prudent.

All right, I appreciate it, Mark. Just to follow up on that, so.

At this moment, are you expecting being a little prudent in FX20 and other product lines too? Or is it more towards one way or the other? Do you expect the other products to be more slower and FX20 or is it like being prudent all the way around?

No, we think that the current economic uncertainty impacts across our product line. I don't think there's any one in particular.

So, no, I hope that answers your question, but we're not seeing it in any particular product line.

Yeah, thanks, Arpan. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

The next question is from Greg Palm with Craig Hill. Please go ahead.

Yeah thanks for taking the questions here. I wanted to follow up on gross margin guidance for the second half so by my math you're running at about 54% year-to-date.

you're guiding 53% at the midpoint. So it implies that things are actually gonna worsen and I understand the...

comments on component costs and everything, but you know you'll get a little bit of lift presumably from volume.

And it sounds like input costs are more or less stabilizing. So what am I missing specifically?

Hey, Greg. Yeah, thanks for your question. You're not missing anything. Again, this is us sort of trying to share what we're seeing today. If you look at our gross margin for the first half of the year, now at a percentage point, it's 53.7%.

And we were actually up very modestly, about 20 basis points from the first quarter to the second quarter. We see gross margins to be sequentially flat. We're continuing to navigate all of these supply chain challenges. But we see it coming in fairly similar to where we've seen it in the first couple of quarters.

Okay, so maybe just a little bit of conservatism.

there and I guess as relates to this you know slowdown or maybe the expected slowdown that you're talking about are you seeing any changes yet in consumable usage patterns or are you mostly expecting this to impact the hardware revenue

I would say to the extent that there is a slowdown and an impact, as you've suggested, then it wouldn't be on the consumable side. Our consumable business is very consistent, relatively easy to model, and something that, again, another area where we're really excited, because once our printers are out in the field, our customers are taking advantage of it and they're using them.

I would add maybe Greg, I would say I'm here almost three years now. The only month ever that we saw a drop in the material usage is March of 2020 with COVID when everyone went home. Other than that it's always growing.

Yep, okay, good.

And then last one, inventory.

Took another big jump up sequentially. Looks like that's mostly finished goods.

anything to get concerned about that? I mean, do you have visibility into working off some of that level over the next couple quarters?

We do, exactly, Greg. Yeah, thanks for paying attention to that. So I think from our perspective, you know, we use contract manufacturers. Again, as I said, we build to forecast. And much of that is finished goods, as you suggested. We expect over the next three, maybe four quarters maximum, that inventory will come back in line to what we've experienced historically. So with that in mind, we expect another time.

Okay, perfect. All right, I'll leave it there. Best of luck going forward. Thanks.

Thanks. Thank you.

The next question is from thewellbuilt with Steve-o. Please go ahead.

I was hoping to shift gears a little bit, but you could comment on the digital metal acquisition. I guess maybe commenting on why this is the right fit and how to think about how we should think about it from a quantitative perspective in terms of ramping over the next few years. Thanks.

Sure, thank you, Norel. As we communicated all the time, we're looking for complementary and strategic acquisitions, especially technologies that will help us expand our offering for our customers. Again, we're still focused on manufacturing, focused on mission critical applications. When we were looking around, we identified binder jetting as a key technology that we believe would scale fast. For more information, visit www.norel.com

for high volume production of metal parts.

Specifically with digital metal, they have very high level of reliability and accuracy and precision for the parts that are going out of the system. It's still in early stages, I would say, of go-to-market. I think this is where it's very synergistic with Markforged. We have, I would say, significantly wider global coverage and go-to-market. This is why we chose to do it. We believe it's very, very complementary to our solution. It's still focused on high-end, mission-critical application.

but it's really helping us now to move to high-volume production and into a few other industries like medical, luxury goods that we didn't play before, in addition to automotive. So I think it's a really good acquisition for us.

To answer maybe the second part of your question, Noelle, tagging onto what Shai said, this is a mature technology, a great team, almost two decades of experience, focused in metals and binder jetting. We can't disclose specific details on revenue specifically because the transaction hasn't closed yet, but we're not expecting the revenues to be material, forgive me, in 2022. Thank you. Thank you.

I guess the associated question there would be, given that revenues aren't material, how should we think about the least near-term headwind from a cost perspective?

So we're not expecting it to actually impact our OPEX for the call for Q4 in any material way either.

Yep, okay. And then just I guess shifting back to the outlook a little bit, could you comment on your backlog? You know, you've talked about the strong backlog for the FX20. How do you sort of gauge the risk of cancellations or, you know, get comfortable with the backlog? If you could comment again on some of the indicators or the metrics around that, that would be great. Thanks. Thank you.

Sure. So as Mark shared before, we usually produce and have inventory so we can ship to our customers. The one caveat is FX20. So from that perspective, we continue to see the increase in the pipeline and we believe that we will ship orders as planned. On FX20, we do have backlog, there are read orders waiting for shipments, and this continued to build up. We did not see any cancellation yet or even signs of it.

and vice versa. We see more and more orders coming in and as Marc shared, there's actually now orders of multiple systems in the same order. So it still looks very, very strong from our perspective.

Great, thank you.

Thank you, Noel.

The next question is from Jared Meimam with Brembridge Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Hey guys, thanks for taking the questions. First one, just going back to gross margin, sorry to harp on it, but I think it's important. So Mark, you talked cost, and correct me if I'm wrong or if I have bad info, but it sounds like there were also some price increases on consumables during the quarter or towards the end of the quarter. So I'm just wondering if we adjust out for the FX20 ramp and we're looking at some of these underlying sticky inflationary items.

You know, this is something we talk about all the time and internally, as you can imagine.

We're managing through the supply chain challenges.

providing as little impact as possible to our customer base and particularly on materials.

because our customers when

You know, when you're buying an additive manufacturing printer, or any piece of CapEx for that matter, you're looking at what is it going to cost me per part to build the items that I need.

per application, per part, and your input materials.

become a significant driver of that. So to the extent that we can limit surprises to our customer base is something we're really focused on.

Yeah, I think.

Maybe turn on top of it, but...

Once someone is making a decision to buy our equipment, after that any day that it's not used, he's losing money.

The reason to buy our solution is because it really helps to bid reliable supply chain and resiliency in the parts you need. From that perspective, I believe we would continue to see very strong material growth, especially now when we go into higher volume production with FX20, by the way.

Got it. Yes, that makes sense. I think there's been a lot of other examples of companies at points and their growth story have gone from having the best margin to focused on having the best margin. So I can appreciate that. Maybe just one other question. The digital metal acquisition, I think, I'll ask you a question, but just following up on that is, I know you guys have talked about you want to... Absolutely.

kind of invest more in RDS, you can try to release a new product or new printer every year. So I'm curious, do you think this is kind of the printer or product for 2023 or 2024? Or are you also developing something organically for those years?

That's a very good question to clarify. So, as we shared in our remarks, it's both a meaning, we have inorganic activities, but do you turn metal that will add more capabilities into our product portfolio, but we also work in very diligently in house to continue to develop organically our next set of products. So we invested significantly in 2021 in infrastructure, the majority of that went into R&D.

so we are working on multiple programs at the same time. So you should expect a new product or new feature every year organically as well. So in addition to the Intermetal, we still continue to...

develop and innovate and 2023 and 2024 are going to be very very interesting years.

Okay, got it. And then just one quick follow-up on the digital metal. Do you think there's going to be any cannibalization of your current metal offerings, or do you believe the value prop is different enough where there's going to be pretty minimal customer overlap? Goodbye.

I think it's definitely complementary. It's not even close from, I would say, cost, price, and definitely not from output. One is more dedicated into higher volume and mass production, basically, and our Metal-X is more aimed into smaller volume and more tools and features, also from the size of the parts. I think it's definitely complementary. I don't see any cannibalization between them.

Okay, great. Thanks, guys.

Okay, great. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Jared.

Your line is open.

Hey, can you guys hear me okay?

We can, Greg, thanks. Okay, sorry. Mine won't mute for a second.

One quick follow-up, we noticed that your guidance for share account is up.

About five, I think five million from last quarter. Are you guiding to reflect the shares issued as a result of the acquisition of digital metal? Or is there something else going on?

No, there'll be a fairly significant, in terms of the delta there, tranche of restricted stock and options that vest in Q3 and Q4. We are looking at a year-end number that we're guiding to that's based off of 192 million shares.

That is exclusive of digital metal. We won't count that until after they close. From a weighted average perspective, we'll see about a third of those digital metal shares appear at the end of the year.

Okay that's what I assumed. So what would be the

I don't know the weighted average exceeding the year if you want to call it that

It'll be that 192 and then call it 1.3 or 1.4 million shares from Digital Metal.

Okay, all right. Thank you

You're very welcome.

This concludes the question and answer session. I would now like to turn the conference back over to Shai Turan for any closing remarks.

Thank you very much everyone for joining us for this call. I'm looking forward to seeing you soon or in the next quarter. Thank you.

This concludes today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines. Thank you for participating and have a blessed day.

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