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3D printing company financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for an additive manufacturing (3D printing) company, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Sells 3D printers and software, recurring consumables (materials) and service contracts on its installed base, and prints parts on demand in service bureaus.

See the sampleHow the model works

In short

  • 01

    Three linked statements

    Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.

  • 02

    Valued two ways

    Discounted cash flow and trading multiples, side by side.

  • 03

    Monthly to annual

    Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual periods, for up to 30 years.

  • 04

    Checked every period

    A Checks sheet shows the balance sheet balances and the cash reconciles.

The sample

The sample, as Excel draws it.

Built by the same system and checks as yours, on illustrative figures: every sheet as Excel draws it, or live.

Annual · 10 years · Low detail
3D printing company sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample 3D printing company model

Illustrative figures: the sample describes no real business. The live preview shows values; your model’s Excel file has every formula.

How it works

How the model works for a 3D printing company.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    Pricing and pass-through · All product lines
    Product sales revenueUnits soldfrom sales volumes by productAverage selling price
    Pricing and pass-through · All product lines
    Average selling priceAverage selling price at the start datePrice index
    Recurring revenue and ARR · All product plans
    Subscription revenueOpening ARRClosing ARRshare of the year
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Direct labour · All plants
    Direct labourFixed labourVariable labour (production × cost per unit)
    Cost of revenue · All product plans
    Cost of revenueHosting and infrastructureCustomer support and success
    New customers and sales and marketing · All product plans
    Sales and marketingCustomer acquisition spend (new logos)Account management and renewals
  3. What it invests in3 formulas
    Plant capex and depreciation · All plants
    Plant capital expenditureSustaining capexGrowth capex
    Plant capex and depreciation · All plants
    Plant depreciationDepreciation of existing assetsDepreciation of sustaining additionsProject 1 depreciation (from commissioning)Project 2 depreciation (from commissioning)Project 3 depreciation (from commissioning)
    Plant capex and depreciation · All plants
    Closing net book valueOpening net book valuePlant capital expenditurePlant depreciation
  4. How it is funded3 formulas
    Debt
    RepaymentsScheduled repaymentsPrepayments from an equity raise and the cash sweep
    Debt
    Closing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepayments
    Debt
    Interest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
  5. How profit becomes cash3 formulas
    Working capital
    Trade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in period
    Working capital
    InventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in period
    Working capital
    Trade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
What it covers

30 parts, each one tested.

Every part is a tested building block with its own checks: yours is put together from the ones your business needs.

  • CPI forecastConsensus curve with long-run anchor
  • Exchange rate (US dollar)Exchange rate by financial year
  • Operating expensesHeadcount build by function
  • Corporate costsFixed cost base indexed to CPI
  • Working capitalFull working capital
  • Income taxCorporate rate with tax losses
  • Corporate fixed assetsStraight-line over remaining life
  • DebtAmortising term loan
  • Equity raisingDistribution reinvestment plan
  • Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
  • Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
  • LeasesLease register
  • InventoryWeighted average costRaw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods held to support production and sales (used in place of the inventory part of working capital), and the cost-of-sales effect of the costing method and stock provisions.
  • Warranty provisionsWarranty as % of revenueThe cost of repairing or replacing faulty products sold, and the provision held for future claims.
  • Research, development and engineeringR&D intensityResearch, product development and sustaining engineering spend, the share capitalised as development costs and its amortisation, customer-funded engineering, and R&D tax incentives.
  • Aftermarket services and service contractsInstalled base × attach rate × contract valueService, maintenance, repair and consumables revenue earned from the installed base of equipment the business has sold, and the cost of delivering it.
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
  • Terminal valuePerpetuity growth on normalised cash flow
  • Intangible assets and softwareRegister of acquired intangibles
  • Capacity and productionNameplate capacity × utilisationHow much a plant can make and how much it does make, from capacity, operating time, utilisation and yield.
  • Direct labourFixed plus variable labourWages and on-costs of the production workforce at each plant.
  • Plant capex and depreciationSustaining capex plus growth projectsSustaining and expansion capital expenditure on plant, and the depreciation and book value that follow.
  • Sales volumes by productEnd-market production × content per unitUnits sold of each product line.
  • Pricing and pass-throughPrice with annual increasesSelling price of each product line and the revenue it earns (units × price).
  • Bill of materials and input costsStandard cost per unitRaw materials, components and bought-in parts consumed by each product line.
  • New customers and sales and marketingNew customers per period × CAC
  • Customer base and churnConstant churn rate
  • Recurring revenue and ARRARR bridge on ARPA with price increases and net expansion
  • Cost of revenueHosting and support as % of revenue
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01systems shipped
  2. 02installed base
  3. 03consumables per system
  4. 04recurring revenue share
  5. 05gross margin
  6. 06cash burn
Used for

What it is used for.

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