NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal 2025

by 24USATVMay 22, 2024, 9 p.m. 25

• Record quarterly revenue of $26.0 billion, up 18% from Q4 and up 262% from a year ago
• Record quarterly Data Center revenue of $22.6 billion, up 23% from Q4 and up 427% from a year ago
• Quarterly cash dividend raised 150% to $0.01 per share on a post-split basis

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the first quarter ended April 28, 2024, of $26.0 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 262% from a year ago.

For the quarter, GAAP earnings per diluted share was $5.98, up 21% from the previous quarter and up 629% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share was $6.12, up 19% from the previous quarter and up 461% from a year ago.

“The next industrial revolution has begun — companies and countries are partnering with NVIDIA to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated computing and build a new type of data center — AI factories — to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “AI will bring significant productivity gains to nearly every industry and help companies be more cost- and energy-efficient, while expanding revenue opportunities.

“Our data center growth was fueled by strong and accelerating demand for generative AI training and inference on the Hopper platform. Beyond cloud service providers, generative AI has expanded to consumer internet companies, and enterprise, sovereign AI, automotive and healthcare customers, creating multiple multibillion-dollar vertical markets.

“We are poised for our next wave of growth. The Blackwell platform is in full production and forms the foundation for trillion-parameter-scale generative AI. Spectrum-X opens a brand-new market for us to bring large-scale AI to Ethernet-only data centers. And NVIDIA NIM is our new software offering that delivers enterprise-grade, optimized generative AI to run on CUDA everywhere — from the cloud to on-prem data centers and RTX AI PCs — through our expansive network of ecosystem partners.”

NVIDIA also announced a ten-for-one forward stock split of NVIDIA’s issued common stock to make stock ownership more accessible to employees and investors. The split will be effected through an amendment to NVIDIA’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which will result in a proportionate increase in the number of shares of authorized common stock. Each record holder of common stock as of the close of market on Thursday, June 6, 2024, will receive nine additional shares of common stock, to be distributed after the close of market on Friday, June 7, 2024. Trading is expected to commence on a split-adjusted basis at market open on Monday, June 10, 2024.

NVIDIA is increasing its quarterly cash dividend by 150% from $0.04 per share to $0.10 per share of common stock. The increased dividend is equivalent to $0.01 per share on a post-split basis and will be paid on Friday, June 28, 2024, to all shareholders of record on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

Outlook

NVIDIA’s outlook for the second quarter of fiscal 2025 is as follows:
• Revenue is expected to be $28.0 billion, plus or minus 2%.
• GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.8% and 75.5%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points. For the full year, gross margins are expected to be in the mid-70% range.
• GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $4.0 billion and $2.8 billion, respectively. Full-year operating expenses are expected to grow in the low-40% range.
• GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are expected to be an income of approximately $300 million, excluding gains and losses from non-affiliated investments.
• GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are expected to be 17%, plus or minus 1%, excluding any discrete items.

Highlights

NVIDIA achieved progress since its previous earnings announcement in these areas:
• First-quarter revenue was a record $22.6 billion, up 23% from the previous quarter and up 427% from a year ago.
• Unveiled the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to fuel a new era of AI computing at trillion-parameter scale and the Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD™ for generative AI supercomputing.
• Announced NVIDIA Quantum and NVIDIA Spectrum™ X800 series switches for InfiniBand and Ethernet, respectively, optimized for trillion-parameter GPU computing and AI infrastructure.
• Announced TSMC and Synopsys are going into production with NVIDIA cuLitho to accelerate computational lithography, the semiconductor manufacturing industry’s most compute-intensive workload.
• Announced that nine new supercomputers worldwide are using Grace Hopper Superchips to ignite new era of AI supercomputing.
• Unveiled that Grace Hopper Superchips power the top three machines on the Green500 list of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers.
• Expanded collaborations with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle to advance generative AI innovation.
• Worked with Johnson & Johnson MedTech to bring AI capabilities to support surgery.
• First-quarter Gaming revenue was $2.6 billion, down 8% from the previous quarter and up 18% from a year ago.
• Introduced new AI gaming technologies at GDC for NVIDIA ACE and Neural Graphics.
• Unveiled new AI performance optimizations and integrations for Windows to deliver maximum performance on NVIDIA GeForce RTX AI PCs and workstations.
• Announced more blockbuster games that will incorporate RTX technology, including and .
• Added support for new models, including Google’s Gemma, for ChatRTX, which brings chatbot capabilities to RTX-powered Windows PCs and workstations.
• First-quarter revenue was $427 million, down 8% from the previous quarter and up 45% from a year ago.
• Unveiled NVIDIA RTX A400 and A1000 GPUs for desktop workstations, based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, to bring AI to design and productivity workflows.
• Introduced NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud APIs to power industrial digital twin software tools, including an expanded Siemens partnership, and a new framework for the Apple Vision Pro.
• Announced the adoption of the new Earth-2 cloud APIs by The Weather Company and the Central Weather Administration of Taiwan for high-resolution global climate simulations.
• First-quarter Automotive revenue was $329 million, up 17% from the previous quarter and up 11% from a year ago.
• Announced BYD, XPENG, GAC’s AION Hyper, Nuro and others have chosen the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE Thor™ platform, which now features Blackwell GPU architecture, to power their next-generation consumer and commercial electric vehicle fleets.
• Revealed U.S. and China electric vehicle makers Lucid and IM Motors are using the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ platform for vehicle models targeting the European market.
• Announced an array of partners are using NVIDIA generative AI technologies to transform in-vehicle experiences.
• Introduced the Project GR00T foundation model for humanoid robots and major Isaac robotics platform updates.

CFO Commentary

Commentary on the quarter by Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, is available at https://investor.nvidia.com.

Conference Call and Webcast Information

NVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its first quarter fiscal 2025 financial results and current financial prospects today at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time). A live webcast (listen-only mode) of the conference call will be accessible at NVIDIA’s investor relations website, https://investor.nvidia.com. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until NVIDIA’s conference call to discuss its financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2025.

Non-GAAP Measures

To supplement NVIDIA’s condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, the company uses non-GAAP measures of certain components of financial performance. These non-GAAP measures include non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP other income (expense), net, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income, or earnings, per diluted share, and free cash flow. For NVIDIA’s investors to be better able to compare its current results with those of previous periods, the company has shown a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. These reconciliations adjust the related GAAP financial measures to exclude stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related and other costs, other, gains and losses from non-affiliated investments, interest expense related to amortization of debt discount, and the associated tax impact of these items where applicable. Free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less both purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets and principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets. NVIDIA believes the presentation of its non-GAAP financial measures enhances the user’s overall understanding of the company’s historical financial performance. The presentation of the company’s non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the company’s financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the company’s non-GAAP measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.