3D printing company 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) will be reporting earnings this Monday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.

3D Systems missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $94.54 million, down 8.1% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting 3D Systems’s revenue to decline 15.4% year on year to $95.78 million, a further deceleration from the 11.7% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.16 per share.

The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.

Looking at 3D Systems’s peers in the industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Proto Labs delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5.4%, and Energy Recovery reported revenues up 3.1%, topping estimates by 10.3%. Proto Labs traded up 10.5% following the results while Energy Recovery was also up 5%.

Read our full analysis of Proto Labs’s results here and Energy Recovery’s results here.

Investors in the industrial machinery segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. 3D Systems’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $3 (compared to the current share price of $1.70).

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