Nvidia (NVDA) earnings report Q1 2025
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief government officer of Nvidia Corp., throughout the Nvidia GPU Expertise Convention (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
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Nvidia stories fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell.
Here is what Wall Road expects, per LSEG consensus estimates:
- Earnings Per Share: $5.59, adjusted
- Income: $24.65 billion
The chipmaker, which a decade in the past was a distinct segment developer of 3D gaming {hardware}, has discovered itself on the center of the action in expertise.
Nvidia’s report comes a couple of yr after the corporate first signaled to buyers that it was about to embark on a stretch of torrid development powered by demand for artificial intelligence chips from corporations similar to Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and OpenAI.
Income has elevated by greater than 200% in every of the previous two quarters, and Wall Road is anticipating that development to proceed, with estimates displaying a 243% surge within the first quarter from a yr earlier. Internet earnings is anticipated to be up greater than fivefold from a yr in the past.
Nvidia shares have greater than tripled for the reason that firm reported fiscal first-quarter earnings final yr and supplied surprisingly robust steerage for the second quarter.
The corporate’s present technology of AI graphics processing models (GPUs), referred to as Hopper, are required by the highest AI scientists to develop chatbots, translators and picture mills. For the previous yr, clients have been shopping for them up in droves, with the highest cloud and web corporations spending billions of {dollars} on the expertise to construct out their infrastructure.
However questions are swirling concerning the sustainability of Nvidia’s meteoric development as many purchasers have to start out displaying a revenue from all their hefty expenditures. AI software program prices considerably extra to run than conventional software program, partially because of the outlay mandatory for Nvidia GPUs.
Nvidia can be beginning to ship its next-generation AI GPUs, referred to as Blackwell. Some companies could also be eyeing the upcoming chips, inflicting a potential lull in gross sales of the prevailing expertise.
Beginning within the fiscal second quarter, Nvidia will bump up in opposition to robust year-over-year comparisons to the preliminary days of AI-driven development. Analysts anticipate enlargement to dip beneath 100% within the July quarter and decelerate considerably over the next two durations.
