Most traders ought to give attention to these firms which are no less than sometimes (which means in some quarters) producing money from operating their operations lately: 3D Techniques, Stratasys, and Materialise. Returns which have crushed the S&P 500 are boldfaced. $523 million (belongings underneath administration) All Rights Reserved.Wall Avenue’s Projected 5-12 months Annualized EPS Progress All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. "You might call it the third industrial revolution."Įven if he's right, there are arguably safer ways to invest in the trend. "This is for someone who thinks it's an earth shattering concept," he said. So he's in it for the long haul.Īnd he thinks investors in his fund should also be true believers. Meckler concedes that there will be ups and downs for the 3D printer companies, but that this kind of technological shift only comes around once every 20 or 30 years. He said actual 3D printers are just the tip of the iceberg and that the industry has the potential to lead to big advancements in manufacturing as well as medicine. After several asset sales, the company now known as Mediabistro is trading more than 95% below its peak price from December 1999.īut Meckler rejects the comparison to dot-com euphoria in the 1990s and claims the 3D printer naysayers simply don't understand the business.
He took a company called public in 1999. Remember what happened to many of the Internet mutual funds of the 1990s that loaded up on high-flying web stocks and crashed and burned after the tech bubble popped? It is probably not the best idea for any investor to have such a big concentration in one subsector. Still, the speculative nature of 3D printing stocks might scare off some investors.
Related: Invest in innovation: 3D Systems and 4 other hot stocks Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman, for example, announced in October that the company will enter the 3-D printing market sometime in 2014. It's almost certain that more big tech companies will embrace 3D printing. But for companies, "it's flattening the playing field where almost anyone located anywhere can become a product developer and manufacturer." "We strongly disagree with the notion of everyone having a general purpose printer at home printing out products for themselves and their friends," Wohlers said. Rather, Wohlers believes the real money is in industrial manufacturing, which will allow companies to design and produce products more efficiently and at a lower cost. But they are just a small fraction of the overall market. Terry Wohlers of Wohlers Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in 3D printing, says that smaller 3D printers for consumers are getting a lot of media attention. It's Cube printers are available at Staples and other retailers.īut some think 3D printers will never be an everyday household appliance. 3D Systems already has a presence in the consumer 3D printer market. Related: Hershey's to make 3D chocolate printerĪnd 3D Systems is down 15% in 2014 after a huge run last year. The company bought MakerBot, one of the first firms to sell desktop 3D printers, in August. Shares of Stratasys are down 9% after surging 65% in 2013. As a result, several of last year's hot 3D stocks have fallen so far this year. That's raised concerns about the high valuations for many of the companies.
It's not as if there are that many choices.Īnd while 3D printing has been around since the late 1980's, the stocks in the sector have soared recently as investors hope to see the technology go mainstream. Still, there are only a handful of publicly traded 3D printer companies in the U.S right now. So why create a mutual fund? Meckler claims investors want exposure to the industry, but they don't know which stocks to pick.
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