NVIDIA’s outlook for the first quarter of fiscal 2024 is as follows:
- Revenue is expected to be $6.50 billion, plus or minus 2%.
- GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 64.1% and 66.5%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.
- GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $2.53 billion and $1.78 billion, respectively.
- GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are expected to be an income of approximately $50 million, excluding gains and losses from non-affiliated investments.
- GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are expected to be 13.0%, plus or minus 1%, excluding any discrete items.
Highlights
NVIDIA achieved progress since its previous earnings announcement in these areas:
Data Center
- Fourth-quarter revenue was $3.62 billion, up 11% from a year ago and down 6% from the previous quarter. Fiscal-year revenue rose 41% to a record $15.01 billion.
- Announced a partnership with Deutsche Bank to extend the use of AI in the financial-services sector.
- Launched, together with Dell Technologies, 15 next-generation Dell PowerEdge systems available with NVIDIA® acceleration, enabling enterprises to use AI to efficiently transform their business.
- Announced that NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs showed unrivaled throughput and top latency in the latest STAC-ML benchmarks for financial services.
Gaming
- Fourth-quarter revenue was $1.83 billion, down 46% from a year ago and up 16% from the previous quarter. Fiscal-year revenue was down 27% to $9.07 billion.
- Unveiled the GeForce RTX™ 40 Series for laptops, providing the company’s largest-ever generational leap in performance and power efficiency.
- Launched the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, featuring NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture and NVIDIA DLSS 3 technology.
- Announced that DLSS 3 is available on, or coming soon to, more than 50 games and apps — including Cyberpunk 2077, Portal with RTX and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
- Launched the GeForce NOW™ Ultimate membership tier, delivering GeForce RTX 4080-class performance with NVIDIA Reflex, full ray tracing and DLSS 3.
- Signed a 10-year agreement with Microsoft to bring the Xbox PC game lineup, including Minecraft, Halo and Flight Simulator, to GeForce NOW. Following the close of Microsoft’s Activision acquisition, GeForce NOW will add titles like Call of Duty and Overwatch.
Professional Visualization
- Fourth-quarter revenue was $226 million, down 65% from a year ago and up 13% from the previous quarter. Fiscal-year revenue was down 27% to $1.54 billion.
- Enhanced NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise’s capabilities to help teams build connected 3D pipelines and develop large-scale 3D works through increased performance, generational leaps in real-time RTX ray and path tracing, and streamlined workflows.
- Announced a collaboration with Lockheed Martin to build a digital twin of global weather conditions, enabling the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to better monitor global environmental conditions, including extreme weather events.
- Shared news that Mercedes-Benz is taking the next step to digitalize its production process, using NVIDIA Omniverse to design and plan manufacturing and assembly facilities.
Automotive and Embedded
- Fourth-quarter revenue was a record $294 million, up 135% from a year ago and up 17% from the previous quarter. Fiscal-year revenue rose 60% to a record $903 million.
- Announced a strategic partnership with Foxconn to develop automated and autonomous vehicle platforms based on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ and DRIVE Hyperion™.
- Released
major updates to the NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ robotics simulation tool, including AI capabilities and cloud access, enabling the building and testing of virtual robots in realistic environments.
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 fourth quarter and fiscal 2023 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 first quarter of fiscal 2024.
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 acquisition termination costs, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related and other costs, contributions, IP-related costs, legal settlement costs, restructuring costs and other, gains and losses from non-affiliated investments, interest expense related to amortization of debt discount, the associated tax impact of these items where applicable, foreign tax benefit and domestication tax adjustments. Free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less both purchases of 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.
| NVIDIA CORPORATION | ||||||||||||||||||
| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME | ||||||||||||||||||
| (In millions, except per share data) | ||||||||||||||||||
| (Unaudited) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | Twelve Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| January 29, | January 30, | January 29, | January 30, | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||||
| Revenue | $ | 6,051 | $ | 7,643 | $ | 26,974 | $ | 26,914 | ||||||||||
| Cost of revenue | 2,218 | 2,644 | 11,618 | 9,439 | ||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 3,833 | 4,999 | 15,356 | 17,475 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses | ||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 1,951 | 1,466 | 7,339 | 5,268 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales, general and administrative | 625 | 563 | 2,440 | 2,166 | ||||||||||||||
| Acquisition termination cost | - | - | 1,353 | - | ||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 2,576 | 2,029 | 11,132 | 7,434 | ||||||||||||||
| Income from operations | 1,257 | 2,970 | 4,224 | 10,041 | ||||||||||||||
| Interest income | 115 | 9 | 267 | 29 | ||||||||||||||
| Interest expense | (65 | ) | (61 | ) | (262 | ) | (236 | ) | ||||||||||
| Other, net | (18 | ) | (53 | ) | (48 | ) | 107 | |||||||||||
| Other income (expense), net | 32 | (105 | ) | (43 | ) | (100 | ) | |||||||||||
| Income before income tax | 1,289 | 2,865 | 4,181 | 9,941 | ||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | (125 | ) | (138 | ) | (187 | ) | 189 | |||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 1,414 | $ | 3,003 | $ | 4,368 | $ | 9,752 | ||||||||||
| Net income per share: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Basic | $ | 0.57 | $ | 1.20 | $ | 1.76 | $ | 3.91 | ||||||||||
| Diluted | $ | 0.57 | $ | 1.18 | $ | 1.74 | $ | 3.85 | ||||||||||
| Weighted average shares used in per share computation: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Basic | 2,464 | 2,504 | 2,487 | 2,496 | ||||||||||||||
| Diluted | 2,477 | 2,545 | 2,507 | 2,535 | ||||||||||||||
