STRATASYS LTD

Strategic Restructuring Plan

The authorization of our share repurchase program described above was part of a number of strategic actions we have taken to enhance shareholder value, building upon our previously announced comprehensive process to explore strategic alternatives for our company, in order to maximize value for all Stratasys shareholders, which we had initiated on September 28, 2023 (as described in our Report of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K that we furnished to the SEC on that day, available at the following link: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517396/000121390023080136/ea185964-6k_stratasys.htm), and which we completed during the second quarter of 2024. The goals of that process were to further solidify our leadership in additive manufacturing, while focusing our business model to deliver a significantly improved and consistently profitable, cash-flow positive additive manufacturing company, throughout cycles. At the conclusion of that process, our board of directors identified restructuring initiatives in two important areas to further those goals and to best position Stratasys to maximize value:

(i) Our first initiative is to adjust our cost structure to better match current market conditions, primarily through an approximately 15% headcount reduction that will drive the majority of an expected $40 million in annual run rate savings. This initiative is expected to generate an annualized EBITDA margin of 8% at current revenue levels. The first full-quarter’s benefit of these cost savings is expected in the first quarter of 2025.

(ii) Our second initiative is to enhance our efforts to remove barriers and help customers increase their pace of adoption of additive manufacturing. This involves addressing the total cost of ownership, which is largely influenced by materials consumption. We plan to increase our investment of resources to better educate and support our customers' engineers, who are still learning to fully utilize additive manufacturing design and workflow benefits. We will also increase efforts to standardize additive manufacturing to better align with traditional manufacturing processes, making it easier for broader adoption. As part of this initiative, we plan to leverage our scale and breadth of technology to focus our go to market efforts on areas we view as the main growth drivers of our business –applications where additive manufacturing presents the most compelling benefits relative to conventional methods.