Took a one minute look at finance.google.com and what do I see:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=3d+...LYi_swHpoo_gCA
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NAS...LYi_swHpoo_gCA

If that EPS is correct, both companies are in deep trouble and the business has been bad for a few years already. The management has updated their CVs long ago. Unless they can change direction, they will face bankruptcy.

With this it's almost given that they will be acquired, big question is by who. Market capitalization is now about 1 bil, so you could buy them for a few hundred mil in a while. You could see a bold venture capitalist jump out of bushes but it could be a growing small 3D printing company or a technology behemoth like HP or Dell which hasn't been too successful in their own 3D printing efforst and doesn't have very good targets for investment otherwise. Also don't count out crazy billionaires like Elon Musk

I guess Autodesk is on the list since seems Sebastian established that they have an interest in integrating vertically with printer manufacturers.

Todd makes an interesting point about the "what if" prototyping from the commercial side market drying up. Is there further information on this somewhere? Isn't 3D printing supposedly growing and getting more and more hype?

How about the growing production use of 3D printing? Medical etc applications...