Nano Dimension — Share buyback underway

Nano Dimension (NASDAQ: NNDM)

Last close As at 11/10/2024

USD2.30

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Nano Dimension — Share buyback underway

Nano Dimension has provided a business update that highlights a major R&D milestone, a system sale to a defence customer and the start of a $200m share buyback programme. Management is focused on optimising capital allocation, balancing value enhancing acquisitions, the return of cash to shareholders and R&D investment.

Katherine Thompson

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Katherine Thompson

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TMT

Nano Dimension

Share buyback underway

Corporate update

Tech hardware and equipment

29 February 2024

Price

$2.87

Market cap

$677m

Net cash ($m) at end Q323

863.1

Shares in issue

236m

Free float

95.7%

Code

NNDM

Primary exchange

Nasdaq

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

Business description

Nano Dimension offers equipment for the additive manufacture of high-performance electronic devices, complex 3D ceramic and metal objects as well as miniature parts requiring a resolution of only one micron. It also offers complementary equipment for automated assembly of electronic devices and PCBs.

Analyst

Katherine Thompson

+44 (0)20 3077 5700

Nano Dimension is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

Nano Dimension has provided a business update that highlights a major R&D milestone, a system sale to a defence customer and the start of a $200m share buyback programme. Management is focused on optimising capital allocation, balancing value enhancing acquisitions, the return of cash to shareholders and R&D investment.

Year
end

Revenue
(US$m)

EBITDA
(US$m)

PBT*
(US$m)

PAT*
(US$m)

DPS
(US$)

P/E
(x)

12/19

7.1

(11.7)

(7.9)

(7.9)

0.00

N/A

12/20

3.4

(12.6)

(15.0)

(15.0)

0.00

N/A

12/21

10.5

(38.4)

(44.5)

(44.5)

0.00

N/A

12/22

43.6

(88.8)

(96.4)

(96.4)

0.00

N/A

Source: Company data. Note: *PBT and PAT are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptionals and share-based payments.

When we wrote in December, we highlighted the company’s focus on optimising capital allocation, with M&A, share buybacks and R&D investment all part of the mix. On 28 February, the company confirmed that the share buyback plan that had been approved by the Israeli court in October 2023 was now underway. This allows the company to buy back American depositary shares (ADSs) worth up to $200m until October 2024. This is in addition to the $86m of shares that were bought back in the first nine months of FY23 under a previous authority. As a reminder, the company had net cash of $863m at the end of Q323. We believe that the bid for Stratasys is still under consideration as part of Stratasys’s strategic review.

The company recently filed for a patent relating to its new material, INSU 200, under the Paris Convention Treaty. This material, which is part of its Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) product suite, is the first jettable ink capable of undergoing the commercial reflow process. With better thermal and mechanical properties than previous materials, it can support more demanding applications in the defence and commercial markets and widens the addressable market for Nano’s DragonFly IV system. The material will be made available to customers in April 2024.

The company noted that it had sold a DragonFly IV system to a leading western defence agency, the second it has sold to this customer. In total, the system has been sold to more than 10 national defence organisations.

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