Proto Labs, Inc.

PRLB Industrials Metal Fabrication

Proto Labs, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $533.1 million, up 6.44% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 10.6%, EPS grew 100.0% and free cash flow grew 1.35%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

85.65 1.76 −2.01%
Market cap
$2.1B
P/E
67.4×
Fwd P/E
55.0×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
9.63
Beneish M
−2.75
Dividend safety
n/a

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 3.34
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 1 — — 2 — — 2 1 — — 2 —
Insider Ownership 1.67%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 2,090.00
Revenue 560.54
Net Income 30.48
Free Cash Flow 58.78
Net Debt (142.78)
Current Ratio 3.64 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.00 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 67.44 (above 35: high)
Fwd P/E 55.00 (above 35: high)
P/S ratio 3.66
P/B ratio 2.97
Past 5Y EPS Growth (14.18%) (below 0%: weak)
This Y EPS Growth 33.37% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y EPS Growth 7.84%
Next Y revenue growth 9.24%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 5.79%

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 87.58%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 44.67%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 48.03%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 44.53%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 43.94%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate —
Annual Dividend Yield —
total individual payouts
2024 Powerpack
2023 Powerpack
2022 Powerpack
2021 Powerpack
2020 Powerpack
2019 Powerpack
2017 Powerpack
special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 103 103 128 143
Receivables 75 69 81 96
Inventory 14 12 14 15
Other — — — —
201 195 234 266
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 16 16 15 22
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
50 53 67 73

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 7.28% 4.18% 2.96%
Cash Flow 1.52% (6.98%) 6.27%
Earnings (7.54%) (16.03%) 0.00%
Book Value 7.48% 0.90% (1.15%)

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 139 149 — — —
’25 126 135 135 136 533
’24 128 126 126 122 501
’23 126 122 131 125 504
’22 124 127 122 116 488
’21 116 123 125 124 488
’20 115 107 108 105 434
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 18 15 — — —
’25 18 11 29 16 75
’24 21 14 25 17 78
’23 23 9 24 17 73
’22 18 13 21 11 62
’21 6 14 11 23 55
’20 22 31 29 25 107
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 15 9 — — —
’25 17 9 26 8 60
’24 19 10 23 16 69
’23 19 6 21 (1) 46
’22 15 10 13 6 45
’21 0 (3) 7 17 21
’20 9 11 22 18 60
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.33 0.37 — — —
’25 0.15 0.18 0.30 0.25 0.88
’24 0.20 0.18 0.29 (0.02) 0.66
’23 0.10 (0.01) 0.31 0.27 0.66
’22 0.19 0.09 0.14 (4.24) (3.77)
’21 0.13 0.47 0.17 0.43 1.21
’20 0.52 0.47 0.55 0.36 1.89
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.4
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 43.10 48.00 100.05 88.75 63.19 47.57 22.04 23.01 25.76 29.59

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 82.06 109.10 166.60 130.60 203.88 286.57 61.14 40.47 45.15 55.90
People
People Employees 1,700 2,266 2,487 2,535 2,408 2,663 2,568 2,415 2,357 2,280
Revenue/emp, $m 0.18 0.15 0.18 0.18 0.18 0.18 0.19 0.21 0.21 0.23
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 298 344 446 459 434 488 488 504 501 533
Gross margin, % 56.01 56.27 53.56 51.29 50.14 45.62 44.12 44.06 44.56 44.48
EBT 64 74 92 81 63 40 (98) 28 25 31
EBT margin, % 21.55 21.61 20.57 17.70 14.49 8.23 (20.04) 5.55 4.93 5.83
Net income 43 52 77 64 51 33 (103) 17 17 21
Depreciation 19 20 27 31 33 40 39 38 36 34
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 11.30 12.93 16.51 17.07 16.25 17.67 17.82 19.24 19.96 22.29
Earnings 1.62 1.94 2.84 2.37 1.90 1.21 (3.77) 0.66 0.66 0.89
Cash flow 2.94 3.07 4.56 4.32 4.00 2.00 2.26 2.80 3.10 3.11
Capex (1.27) (1.22) (3.23) (2.32) (1.76) (1.24) (0.64) (1.05) (0.36) (0.59)
Free cash flow 1.66 1.84 1.33 2.00 2.24 0.76 1.62 1.75 2.74 2.53
Book value 14.41 17.31 20.07 21.80 24.10 30.00 25.45 26.55 26.70 28.17
Shares, m 26 27 27 27 27 28 27 26 25 24
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 32.59 53.26 39.86 42.67 80.74 42.44 0.00 57.11 59.23 56.84
P/S 4.67 8.03 6.83 5.95 9.44 2.91 1.42 1.97 1.96 2.27
P/B 3.67 6.00 5.62 4.66 6.37 1.71 0.99 1.43 1.46 1.80
EV/Sales 4.31 7.77 6.55 5.63 9.09 2.76 1.27 1.78 1.76 2.04
EV/FCF 29.26 54.53 81.41 47.96 65.82 64.04 13.95 19.58 12.86 17.97
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 77 82 123 116 107 55 62 73 78 75
Capex (34) (33) (87) (62) (47) (34) (18) (27) (9) (14)
Free cash flow 44 49 36 54 60 21 45 46 69 60
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 134 121 163 189 192 129 115 151 142 167
Total debt — 5 — 9 2 1 2 1 0 —
Net debt (108) (89) (132) (152) (160) (76) (78) (102) (103) (128)
Shareholders’ equity 380 461 541 586 644 828 698 695 670 674
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 11.02 11.10 13.46 9.85 7.18 3.99 (11.96) 2.19 2.19 2.82
ROIC 14.22 12.13 13.56 11.51 7.72 3.35 (9.88) 2.97 2.19 2.88
ROE 12.07 12.31 15.28 11.29 8.27 4.53 (13.56) 2.47 2.43 3.16
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Proto Labs, Inc. vs peers in Metal Fabrication (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
MLI Mueller Industries, Inc. $13.4B 15.4× 17.0× +25.46% (above 0%: growing) +1.77% (above 0%: growing) +7.23% (above 0%: growing) 27.69% 21.71% Compare
CMC Commercial Metals Company $7.2B 11.0× 11.0× +25.72% (above 0%: growing) +41.32% (above 0%: growing) +21.76% (above 0%: growing) 18.87% 10.18% Compare
ESAB ESAB Corporation $4.1B 23.4× 19.9× +12.86% (above 0%: growing) −54.55% (below 0%: shrinking) −58.05% (below 0%: shrinking) 38.04% 9.75% Compare
GPGI CompoSecure, Inc. $3.7B — (loss-making) 15.1× −99.98% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m 0.00% 195.83% 0.00% Compare
WOR Worthington Enterprises, Inc. $3.1B 19.1× 14.8× +13.23% (above 0%: growing) +23.94% (above 0%: growing) +97.40% (above 0%: growing) 26.43% 3.79% Compare
PRLB Proto Labs, Inc. $2.1B 67.4× 55.0× +10.57% (above 0%: growing) +100.00% (above 0%: growing) +1.35% (above 0%: growing) 46.43% 7.61%
RYZ Ryerson Holding Corporation $1.4B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +71.57% (above 0%: growing) +400.00% (above 0%: growing) −67.35% (below 0%: shrinking) 17.71% 1.71% Compare
IIIN Insteel Industries, Inc. $574.4M 15.9× 17.4× +9.88% (above 0%: growing) −41.03% (below 0%: shrinking) −61.18% (below 0%: shrinking) 10.17% 5.86% Compare
MEC Mayville Engineering Company, Inc. $362.4M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +23.16% (above 0%: growing) n/m −153.04% (below 0%: shrinking) 10.86% 0.24% Compare
Median of peers $3.4B 15.9× 16.1× +18.20% +12.86% −29.02% 22.65% 4.83%

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Proto Labs, Inc. (PRLB) key facts

  • Strength: Proto Labs, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $533.1 million, up 6.44% from fiscal 2024.
  • Proto Labs, Inc. (PRLB) is a Metal Fabrication company in the Industrials sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • As of October 16, 2026, PRLB traded at $85.65, a market capitalization of $2.1 billion.
  • Return on equity was 3.16% and debt-to-equity 0.00.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 7 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 9.63 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

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