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NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025
Globe Newswire 28-Aug-2024 4:20 PM
Record quarterly revenue of $30.0 billion, up 15% from Q1 and up 122% from a year ago
Record quarterly Data Center revenue of $26.3 billion, up 16% from Q1 and up 154% from a year ago
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 28, 2024, of $30.0 billion, up 15% from the previous quarter and up 122% from a year ago.
For the quarter, GAAP earnings per diluted share was $0.67, up 12% from the previous quarter and up 168% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share was $0.68, up 11% from the previous quarter and up 152% from a year ago.
"Hopper demand remains strong, and the anticipation for Blackwell is incredible," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "NVIDIA achieved record revenues as global data centers are in full throttle to modernize the entire computing stack with accelerated computing and generative AI."
"Blackwell samples are shipping to our partners and customers. Spectrum-X Ethernet for AI and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software are two new product categories achieving significant scale, demonstrating that NVIDIA is a full-stack and data center-scale platform. Across the entire stack and ecosystem, we are helping frontier model makers to consumer internet services, and now enterprises. Generative AI will revolutionize every industry."
During the first half of fiscal 2025, NVIDIA returned $15.4 billion to shareholders in the form of shares repurchased and cash dividends. As of the end of the second quarter, the company had $7.5 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization. On August 26, 2024, the Board of Directors approved an additional $50.0 billion in share repurchase authorization, without expiration.
NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share on October 3, 2024, to all shareholders of record on September 12, 2024.
On June 7, 2024, NVIDIA completed a ten-for-one forward stock split. All share and per-share amounts presented have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the stock split.
Q2 Fiscal 2025 Summary
GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)
Q2 FY25
Q1 FY25
Q2 FY24
Q/Q
Y/Y
Revenue
$30,040
$26,044
$13,507
Up 15%
Up 122%
Gross margin
75.1%
78.4%
70.1%
Down 3.3 pts
Up 5.0 pts
Operating expenses
$3,932
$3,497
$2,662
Up 12%
Up 48%
Operating income
$18,642
$16,909
$6,800
Up 10%
Up 174%
Net income
$16,599
$14,881
$6,188
Up 12%
Up 168%
Diluted earnings per share
$0.67
$0.60
$0.25
Up 12%
Up 168%
Non-GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)
Q2 FY25
Q1 FY25
Q2 FY24
Q/Q
Y/Y
Revenue
$30,040
$26,044
$13,507
Up 15%
Up 122%
Gross margin
75.7%
78.9%
71.2%
Down 3.2 pts
Up 4.5 pts
Operating expenses
$2,792
$2,501
$1,838
Up 12%
Up 52%
Operating income
$19,937
$18,059
$7,776
Up 10%
Up 156%
Net income
$16,952
$15,238
$6,740
Up 11%
Up 152%
Diluted earnings per share
$0.68
$0.61
$0.27
Up 11%
Up 152%
Outlook NVIDIA's outlook for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 is as follows:
Revenue is expected to be $32.5 billion, plus or minus 2%.
GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.4% and 75.0%, 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 $4.3 billion and $3.0 billion, respectively. Full-year operating expenses are expected to grow in the mid- to upper-40% range.
GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are expected to be an income of approximately $350 million, excluding gains and losses from non-affiliated investments and publicly-held equity securities.
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:
Data Center
Second-quarter revenue was a record $26.3 billion, up 16% from the previous quarter and up 154% from a year ago.
Announced that the combination of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core and NVIDIA Blackwell architecture B200 Tensor Core processors swept the latest industry-standard MLPerf benchmark results for inference.
Revealed that H200 GPU-powered systems are now available on CoreWeave, the first cloud service provider to announce general availability.
Unveiled an array of Blackwell systems featuring NVIDIA Grace™ CPUs, networking and infrastructure from top manufacturers such as GIGABYTE, QCT and Wiwynn.
Reported broad adoption of the NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking platform by cloud service providers, GPU cloud providers and enterprises, as well as partners incorporating it into their offerings.
Released NVIDIA NIM™ for broad availability to developers globally and announced more than 150 companies are integrating microservices into their platforms to speed generative AI application development.
Unveiled an inference service with Hugging Face powered by NIM microservices on NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud to enable developers to deploy popular large language models.
Introduced an NVIDIA AI Foundry service and NIM inference microservices to accelerate generative AI for the world's enterprises with the Llama 3.1 collection of models.
Announced Japan advanced its sovereign AI capabilities with its ABCI 3.0 supercomputer, integrating H200 GPUs and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.
Second-quarter Gaming revenue was $2.9 billion, up 9% from the previous quarter and up 16% from a year ago.
Announced NVIDIA ACE, a suite of generative AI technologies that bring digital humans to life, now includes NVIDIA Nemotron-4 4B, a small language model for on-device inference, and is available in early access for RTX AI PCs.
Introduced Project G-Assist, a technology preview demonstrating the power of AI agents to assist gamers and creators in real time.
Announced new NVIDIA GeForce RTX and DLSS titles, including Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Dune: Awakening and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, bringing the total number of RTX games and apps to over 600.
Surpassed 2,000 games on GeForce NOW, expanded the service into Japan and announced launches of Black Myth: Wukong and Star Wars Outlaws.
Professional Visualization
Second-quarter revenue was $454 million, up 6% from the previous quarter and up 20% from a year ago.
Introduced generative AI models and NIM microservices for OpenUSD to accelerate workflows and the development of industrial digital twins and robotics.
Announced major Taiwanese electronics makers are creating more autonomous factories with a new reference workflow that combines NVIDIA Metropolis vision AI, NVIDIA Omniverse™ simulation and NVIDIA Isaac™ AI robot development.
Automotive and Robotics
Second-quarter Automotive revenue was $346 million, up 5% from the previous quarter and up 37% from a year ago.
Unveiled the world's leaders in robot development, including BYD Electronics, Siemens and Teradyne Robotics, are adopting the Isaac robotics platform for R&D and production.
Won the Autonomous Grand Challenge at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in the category of End-to-End Driving at Scale for advances in building physical, generative AI applications for autonomous vehicle development.
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 second 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 third 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 from non-affiliated investments and publicly-held equity securities, net, 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.
NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(In millions, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended
Six Months Ended
July 28,
July 30,
July 28,
July 30,
2024
2023
2024
2023
Revenue
$
30,040
$
13,507
$
56,084
$
20,699
Cost of revenue
7,466
4,045
13,105
6,589
Gross profit
22,574
9,462
42,979
14,110
Operating expenses
Research and development
3,090
2,040
5,810
3,916
Sales, general and administrative
842
622
1,618
1,253
Total operating expenses
3,932
2,662
7,428
5,169
Operating Income
18,642
6,800
35,551
8,941
Interest income
444
187
803
338
Interest expense
(61
)
(65
)
(125
)
(131
)
Other, net
189
59
264
42
Other income (expense), net
572
181
942
249
Income before income tax
19,214
6,981
36,493
9,190
Income tax expense
2,615
793
5,013
958
Net income
$
16,599
$
6,188
$
31,480
$
8,232
Net income per share:
Basic
$
0.68
$
0.25
$
1.28
$
0.33
Diluted
$
0.67
$
0.25
$
1.27
$
0.33
Weighted average shares used in per share computation:
Basic
24,578
24,729
24,599
24,716
Diluted
24,848
24,994
24,869
24,948
NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
July 28,
January 28,
2024
2024
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities
$
34,800
$
25,984
Accounts receivable, net
14,132
9,999
Inventories
6,675
5,282
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
4,026
3,080
Total current assets
59,633
44,345
Property and equipment, net
4,885
3,914
Operating lease assets
1,556
1,346
Goodwill
4,622
4,430
Intangible assets, net
952
1,112
Deferred income tax assets
9,578
6,081
Other assets
4,001
4,500
Total assets
$
85,227
$
65,728
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable
$
3,680
$
2,699
Accrued and other current liabilities
10,289
6,682
Short-term debt
-
1,250
Total current liabilities
13,969
10,631
Long-term debt
8,461
8,459
Long-term operating lease liabilities
1,304
1,119
Other long-term liabilities
3,336
2,541
Total liabilities
27,070
22,750
Shareholders' equity
58,157
42,978
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity
$
85,227
$
65,728
NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended
Six Months Ended
July 28,
July 30,
July 28,
July 30,
2024
2023
2024
2023
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income
$
16,599
$
6,188
$
31,480
$
8,232
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Stock-based compensation expense
1,154
842
2,164
1,576
Depreciation and amortization
433
365
843
749
Gains on investments in non-affiliated entities and publicly-held equity securities, net
(193
)
(60
)
(264
)
(45
)
Deferred income taxes
(1,699
)
(746
)
(3,276
)
(1,881
)
Other
(144
)
(69
)
(288
)
(102
)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable
(1,767
)
(2,986
)
(4,133
)
(3,239
)
Inventories
(803
)
296
(1,380
)
861
Prepaid expenses and other assets
714
(376
)
(12
)
(592
)
Accounts payable
823
777
801
789
Accrued liabilities and other current liabilities
(888
)
1,986
3,314
2,675
Other long-term liabilities
260
131
584
236
Net cash provided by operating activities
14,489
6,348
29,833
9,259
Cash flows from investing activities:
Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities
4,094
2,598
8,098
5,111
Proceeds from sales of marketable securities
15
-
164
-
Purchases of marketable securities
(5,744
)
(2,542
)
(15,047
)
(5,343
)
Purchase related to property and equipment and intangible assets
(977
)
(289
)
(1,346
)
(537
)
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired
(279
)
-
(317
)
(83
)
Purchases of investments in non-affiliated entities
(344
)
(235
)
(534
)
(456
)
Proceeds from sales of investments in non-affiliated entities
50
-
105
-
Other
-
21
-
21
Net cash used in investing activities
(3,185
)
(447
)
(8,877
)
(1,287
)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds related to employee stock plans
-
1
285
247
Payments related to repurchases of common stock
(7,158
)
(3,067
)
(14,898
)
(3,067
)
Repayment of debt
(1,250
)
(1,250
)
(1,250
)
(1,250
)
Payments related to tax on restricted stock units
(1,637
)
(672
)
(3,389
)
(1,179
)
Dividends paid
(246
)
(99
)
(344
)
(199
)
Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets
(29
)
(11
)
(69
)
(31
)
Net cash used in financing activities
(10,320
)
(5,098
)
(19,665
)
(5,479
)
Change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
984
803
1,291
2,493
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period
7,587
5,079
7,280
3,389
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period
$
8,571
$
5,882
$
8,571
$
5,882
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash to the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet:
Cash and cash equivalents
$
8,563
$
5,783
$
8,563
$
5,783
Restricted cash, included in Prepaid expenses and other current assets
8
99
8
99
Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
$
8,571
$
5,882
$
8,571
$
5,882
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Cash paid for income taxes, net
$
7,208
$
227
$
7,449
$
328
NVIDIA CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(In millions, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended
Six Months Ended
July 28,
April 28,
July 30,
July 28,
July 30,
2024
2024
2023
2024
2023
GAAP gross profit
$
22,574
$
20,406
$
9,462
$
42,979
$
14,110
GAAP gross margin
75.1
%
78.4
%
70.1
%
76.6
%
68.2
%
Acquisition-related and other costs (A)
118
119
119
238
239
Stock-based compensation expense (B)
40
36
31
75
58
Other (C)
(3
)
(1
)
2
(4
)
10
Non-GAAP gross profit
$
22,729
$
20,560
$
9,614
$
43,288
$
14,417
Non-GAAP gross margin
75.7
%
78.9
%
71.2
%
77.2
%
69.7
%
GAAP operating expenses
$
3,932
$
3,497
$
2,662
$
7,428
$
5,169
Stock-based compensation expense (B)
(1,114
)
(975
)
(811
)
(2,089
)
(1,518
)
Acquisition-related and other costs (A)
(26
)
(21
)
(18
)
(48
)
(72
)
Other (C)
-
-
5
-
10
Non-GAAP operating expenses
$
2,792
$
2,501
$
1,838
$
5,291
$
3,589
GAAP operating income
$
18,642
$
16,909
$
6,800
$
35,551
$
8,941
Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to operating income
1,295
1,150
976
2,446
1,887
Non-GAAP operating income
$
19,937
$
18,059
$
7,776
$
37,997
$
10,828
GAAP other income (expense), net
$
572
$
370
$
181
$
942
$
249
Gains from non-affiliated investments and publicly-held equity securities, net
(193
)
(69
)
(62
)
(264
)
(46
)
Interest expense related to amortization of debt discount
1
1
1
2
2
Non-GAAP other income (expense), net
$
380
$
302
$
120
$
680
$
205
GAAP net income
$
16,599
$
14,881
$
6,188
$
31,480
$
8,232
Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments
1,103
1,082
915
2,184
1,843
Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments (D)
(750
)
(725
)
(363
)
(1,475
)
(622
)
Non-GAAP net income
$
16,952
$
15,238
$
6,740
$
32,189
$
9,453
Diluted net income per share
GAAP
$
0.67
$
0.60
$
0.25
$
1.27
$
0.33
Non-GAAP
$
0.68
$
0.61
$
0.27
$
1.29
$
0.38
Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation
24,848
24,890
24,994
24,869
24,948
GAAP net cash provided by operating activities
$
14,489
$
15,345
$
6,348
$
29,833
$
9,259
Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets
(977
)
(369
)
(289
)
(1,346
)
(537
)
Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets
(29
)
(40
)
(11
)
(69
)
(31
)
Free cash flow
$
13,483
$
14,936
$
6,048
$
28,418
$
8,691
(A) Acquisition-related and other costs are comprised of amortization of intangible assets, transaction costs, and certain compensation charges and are included in the following line items:
Three Months Ended
Six Months Ended
July 28,
April 28,
July 30,
July 28,
July 30,
2024
2024
2023
2024
2023
Cost of revenue
$
118
$
119
$
119
$
238
$
239
Research and development
$
17
$
12
$
12
$
30
$
24
Sales, general and administrative
$
9
$
8
$
6
$
18
$
48
(B) Stock-based compensation consists of the following:
Three Months Ended
Six Months Ended
July 28,
April 28,
July 30,
July 28,
July 30,
2024
2024
2023
2024
2023
Cost of revenue
$
40
$
36
$
31
$
75
$
58
Research and development
$
832
$
727
$
600
$
1,559
$
1,124
Sales, general and administrative
$
282
$
248
$
211
$
530
$
394
(C) Other consists of IP-related costs and assets held for sale related adjustments.
(D) Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments, including the recognition of excess tax benefits or deficiencies related to stock-based compensation under GAAP accounting standard (ASU 2016-09).
NVIDIA CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP OUTLOOK
Q3 FY2025 Outlook
($ in millions)
GAAP gross margin
74.4
%
Impact of stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs
0.6
%
Non-GAAP gross margin
75.0
%
GAAP operating expenses
$
4,250
Stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs
(1,250
)
Non-GAAP operating expenses
$
3,000
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Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the strong demand for Hopper and the incredible anticipation for Blackwell; global data centers in full throttle to modernize the entire computing stack with accelerated computing and generative AI; the timing of Blackwell samples shipping to partners and customers; Spectrum-X Ethernet for AI and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software achieving significant scale; NVIDIA helping frontier model makers, consumer internet services, and enterprises; generative AI revolutionizing every industry; the benefits and performance of NVIDIA's products and services, including NVIDIA H200, NVIDIA Blackwell and B200, NVIDIA Spectrum-X, NVIDIA NIM, NVIDIA DGX Cloud, NVIDIA AI Foundry service, NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand, NVIDIA CUDA-Q, NVIDIA ACE, NVIDIA Nemotron-4 4B, Project G-Assist, RTX AI Toolkit, NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA Omniverse, NVIDIA Isaac and Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX; NVIDIA's next quarterly cash dividend; NVIDIA's expected full-year gross margins and operating expenses; and NVIDIA's financial outlook and expected tax rates for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; and unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems, as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
