Nvidia reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results and issued revenue guidance that topped estimates. The stock jumped 4% on the company’s forecast for next fiscal year.
Here’s how the company did versus analysts’ expectations, according to LSEG.
- Earnings per share: $2.22 adjusted vs. $2.10 estimated
- Revenue: $96.22 billion vs. $92.17 billion estimated
Nvidia sits at the center of the artificial intelligence world and has grown fiercely on the back of the AI boom.
The company’s chips have been used to build and serve the most advanced AI models, and increasingly Nvidia is providing financial support through backstops and other arrangements that allow new AI data centers to get funded and built.
Almost four years since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Nvidia is still seeing massive growth, with revenue more than doubling in the latest quarter from $46.7 billion a year earlier.
CFO Colette Kress said on a call with analysts that Nvidia expects fiscal 2028 revenue growth of 70%, while analysts were expecting 44%. Kress said that customer forecasts “point to our growth doubling next year,” but she said guidance reflects supply constraints.
Net income in the quarter more than doubled to $53.95 billion, or $2.22 per share, from $24.76 billion, or $1.87 per share in the year-ago period.
But following a historic three-year rally, investors have somewhat cooled on the stock this year, sending it up just 13% as of Wednesday’s close, slightly outperforming the Nasdaq. While the business continues to hum along, competition is on the horizon from Advanced Micro Devices, Google and others. And the company faces soaring memory costs as a worldwide shortage shows no signs of abating.
CNBC’s reporters are covering Nvidia earnings from bureaus in San Francisco and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Nvidia breaks out ‘indebtedness’ as standalone risk factor
Nvidia’s quarterly filing on Wednesday identified indebtedness as a risk factor, with the company cautioning that rising obligations could “adversely affect” its financial condition and cash flows.
As of July 26, Nvidia had $33.5 billion in senior notes outstanding, and a $25 billion commercial paper program.
Earlier this year, Nvidia said it could raise up to $25 billion through issuance of unsecured commercial paper notes, in what turned into the chipmakers’ first bond sale since the start of the AI boom.
The quarterly filing said $15 billion of debt is due in one to five years. In its last quarterly filing, Nvidia reported $2.75 billion of debt due in one to five years.
″Maintenance of our indebtedness, contractual restrictions, and additional issuances of indebtedness could cause us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flows from operations towards debt service obligations and principal repayments,” the company said.
— Lora Kolodny
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