- Data Center revenue of $3.83 billion, up 31% from a year ago
- Quarterly return to shareholders of $3.75 billion
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the third quarter ended October 30, 2022, of $5.93 billion, down 17% from a year ago and down 12% from the previous quarter.
GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.27, down 72% from a year ago and up 4% from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.58, down 50% from a year ago and up 14% from the previous quarter.
“We are quickly adapting to the macro environment, correcting inventory levels and paving the way for new products,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
“The ramp of our new platforms ― Ada Lovelace RTX graphics, Hopper AI computing, BlueField and Quantum networking, Orin for autonomous vehicles and robotics, and Omniverse ― is off to a great start and forms the foundation of our next phase of growth.
“NVIDIA’s pioneering work in accelerated computing is more vital than ever. Limited by physics, general purpose computing has slowed to a crawl, just as AI demands more computing. Accelerated computing lets companies achieve orders-of-magnitude increases in productivity while saving money and the environment,” he said.
During the third quarter of fiscal 2023, NVIDIA returned to shareholders $3.75 billion in share repurchases and cash dividends, bringing the return in the first three quarters to $9.29 billion. As of October 30, 2022, the company had $8.28 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization through December 2023.
NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share on December 22, 2022, to all shareholders of record on December 1, 2022.
Q3 Fiscal 2023 Summary
| GAAP | ||||||||||
| ($ in millions, except earnings per share) | Q3 FY23 | Q2 FY23 | Q3 FY22 | Q/Q | Y/Y | |||||
| Revenue | $5,931 | $6,704 | $7,103 | Down 12% | Down 17% | |||||
| Gross margin | 53.6 | % | 43.5 | % | 65.2 | % | Up 10.1 pts | Down 11.6 pts | ||
| Operating expenses | $2,576 | $2,416 | $1,960 | Up 7% | Up 31% | |||||
| Operating income | $601 | $499 | $2,671 | Up 20% | Down 77% | |||||
| Net income | $680 | $656 | $2,464 | Up 4% | Down 72% | |||||
| Diluted earnings per share | $0.27 | $0.26 | $0.97 | Up 4% | Down 72% | |||||
| Non-GAAP | ||||||||||
| ($ in millions, except earnings per share) | Q3 FY23 | Q2 FY23 | Q3 FY22 | Q/Q | Y/Y | |||||
| Revenue | $5,931 | $6,704 | $7,103 | Down 12% | Down 17% | |||||
| Gross margin | 56.1 | % | 45.9 | % | 67.0 | % | Up 10.2 pts | Down 10.9 pts | ||
| Operating expenses | $1,793 | $1,749 | $1,375 | Up 3% | Up 30% | |||||
| Operating income | $1,536 | $1,325 | $3,386 | Up 16% | Down 55% | |||||
| Net income | $1,456 | $1,292 | $2,973 | Up 13% | Down 51% | |||||
| Diluted earnings per share | $0.58 | $0.51 | $1.17 | Up 14% | Down 50% | |||||
Outlook
NVIDIA’s outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 is as follows:
- Revenue is expected to be $6.00 billion, plus or minus 2%.
- GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 63.2% and 66.0%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.
- GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $2.56 billion and $1.78 billion, respectively.
- GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are expected to be an income of approximately $40 million, excluding gains and losses from non-affiliated investments.
- GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are expected to be 9.0%, plus or minus 1%, excluding any discrete items.
Highlights
NVIDIA achieved progress since its previous earnings announcement in these areas:
Data Center
- Third-quarter revenue was $3.83 billion, up 31% from a year ago and up 1% from the previous quarter.
- Began shipping theNVIDIA® H100 Tensor Core GPU based on the new NVIDIA Hopper™ architecture, with first systems available now.
- Announced at the SC22 supercomputing conference that NVIDIA H100 and Quantum-2 systems are being broadly adopted; that NVIDIA Omniverse™ connects to leading scientific computing visualization software; and that NVIDIA powers 90% of the new systems in the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, including the H100-powered system deployed at the Flatiron Institute, in the U.S, which topped the Green500 list of the most-efficient systems.
- Announced a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to help enterprises train, deploy and scale AI, including state-of-the-art models, through Microsoft Azure, which is deploying tens of thousands of A100 and H100 GPUs.
- Announced a multi-year partnership with Oracle to bring NVIDIA’s full accelerated computing stack to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which is deploying tens of thousands more NVIDIA GPUs, including A100 and H100 accelerators.
- Announced a partnership with Nuance Communications to bring AI-based diagnostic tools to clinical radiologists.
- Announced that Rescale is integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into its HPC-as-a-service offering.
- Announced two new large language model cloud AI services — NVIDIA NeMo™ LLM and NVIDIA BioNeMo™ LLM — enabling developers to easily adapt LLMs and deploy customized AI applications for content generation, text summarization, protein structure and biomolecular property predictions, and more.
- Announced that NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs set records in both AI inferenceand AI training on all workloads in their first appearances on the MLPerf AI benchmarks.
- Unveiled the second generation of NVIDIA OVX™, powered by the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture and enhanced networking technology, enabling the creation of3D worlds with groundbreaking real-time graphics, AI and digital-twin simulation capabilities.
- Announced a new data center solution delivering zero-trust security optimized for VMware vSphere 8 combining Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA BlueField® DPUs, NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
Gaming
- Third-quarter revenue was $1.57 billion, down 51% from a year ago and down 23% from the previous quarter.
- Launched GeForce RTX™ 4090, the first Ada Lovelace architecture GPU for gamers and creators, which quickly sold out in many locations. Sales began today of the RTX 4080.
- Introduced NVIDIA DLSS 3, an AI-powered performance multiplier for a new era of NVIDIA RTX™ neural rendering. More than 240 DLSS games and applications are now available, and 35 have announced support for DLSS 3, including Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077 and Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- Shipped 37 new RTX games and apps, pushing up the total available to more than 360.
- Expanded the GeForce NOW™ library with 85+ games, bringing the total available games to 1,400+.
Professional Visualization
- Third-quarter revenue was $200 million, down 65% from a year ago and down 60% from the previous quarter.
- Introduced NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud, the company’s first software- and infrastructure-as-a-service offering, with a comprehensive suite of cloud services for artists, developers and enterprise teams to access metaverse applications.
Automotive and Embedded
- Third-quarter revenue was $251 million, up 86% from a year ago and up 14% from the previous quarter.
- Introduced NVIDIA DRIVE Thor™, the company’s 2,000 TFLOPS next-generation centralized computer for safe and secure autonomous vehicles, with Geely-owned ZEEKR integrating it into electric vehicles in 2025.
- Marked the launch of the all-electric Volvo EX90, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin and Xavier™, and Polestar 3, the brand’s first SUV, which runs on the NVIDIA DRIVE™ platform.
- Announced that Hozon Auto’s Neta brand will build future electric vehicles on the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ platform, enabling automated driving and intelligent features.
- Announced new DRIVE IX ecosystem partners that are building on the company’s open AI co*ckpit software stack to deliver interactive features for vehicles.
- Launched Jetson Orin Nano™ system-on-modules that deliver up to 80x the performance over the prior generation for entry-level edge AI and robotics.
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 third quarter 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 fourth quarter and fiscal 2023.
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, gains and losses from non-affiliated investments, interest expense related to amortization of debt discount, the associated tax impact of these items where applicable and domestication tax benefit. 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.
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| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME | |||||||||||||||||
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| (Unaudited) | |||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||
| October 30, | October 31, | October 30, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Revenue | $ | 5,931 | $ | 7,103 | $ | 20,923 | $ | 19,271 | |||||||||
| Cost of revenue | 2,754 | 2,472 | 9,400 | 6,795 | |||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 3,177 | 4,631 | 11,523 | 12,476 | |||||||||||||
| Operating expenses | |||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 1,945 | 1,403 | 5,387 | 3,802 | |||||||||||||
| Sales, general and administrative | 631 | 557 | 1,815 | 1,603 | |||||||||||||
| Acquisition termination cost | - | - | 1,353 | - | |||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 2,576 | 1,960 | 8,555 | 5,405 | |||||||||||||
| Income from operations | 601 | 2,671 | 2,968 | 7,071 | |||||||||||||
| Interest income | 88 | 7 | 152 | 20 | |||||||||||||
| Interest expense | (65 | ) | (62 | ) | (198 | ) | (175 | ) | |||||||||
| Other, net | (11 | ) | 22 | (29 | ) | 160 | |||||||||||
| Other income (expense), net | 12 | (33 | ) | (75 | ) | 5 | |||||||||||
| Income before income tax | 613 | 2,638 | 2,893 | 7,076 | |||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | (67 | ) | 174 | (61 | ) | 327 | |||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 680 | $ | 2,464 | $ | 2,954 | $ | 6,749 | |||||||||
| Net income per share: | |||||||||||||||||
| Basic | $ | 0.27 | $ | 0.99 | $ | 1.18 | $ | 2.71 | |||||||||
| Diluted | $ | 0.27 | $ | 0.97 | $ | 1.17 | $ | 2.67 | |||||||||
| Weighted average shares used in per share computation: | |||||||||||||||||
| Basic | 2,483 | 2,499 | 2,495 | 2,493 | |||||||||||||
| Diluted | 2,499 | 2,538 | 2,517 | 2,532 | |||||||||||||
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| October 30, | January 30, | |||||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | |||||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||||
| Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities | $ | 13,143 | $ | 21,208 | ||||||
| Accounts receivable, net | 4,908 | 4,650 | ||||||||
| Inventories | 4,454 | 2,605 | ||||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 718 | 366 | ||||||||
| Total current assets | 23,223 | 28,829 | ||||||||
| Property and equipment, net | 3,774 | 2,778 | ||||||||
| Operating lease assets | 927 | 829 | ||||||||
| Goodwill | 4,372 | 4,349 | ||||||||
| Intangible assets, net | 1,850 | 2,339 | ||||||||
| Deferred income tax assets | 2,762 | 1,222 | ||||||||
| Other assets | 3,580 | 3,841 | ||||||||
| Total assets | $ | 40,488 | $ | 44,187 | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | ||||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | 1,491 | $ | 1,783 | ||||||
| Accrued and other current liabilities | 4,115 | 2,552 | ||||||||
| Short-term debt | 1,249 | - | ||||||||
| Total current liabilities | 6,855 | 4,335 | ||||||||
| Long-term debt | 9,701 | 10,946 | ||||||||
| Long-term operating lease liabilities | 798 | 741 | ||||||||
| Other long-term liabilities | 1,785 | 1,553 | ||||||||
| Total liabilities | 19,139 | 17,575 | ||||||||
| Shareholders' equity | 21,349 | 26,612 | ||||||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders' equity | $ | 40,488 | $ | 44,187 | ||||||
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| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS | |||||||||||||||||
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| Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||
| October 30, | October 31, | October 30, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Cash flows from operating activities: | |||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 680 | $ | 2,464 | $ | 2,954 | $ | 6,749 | |||||||||
| Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash | |||||||||||||||||
| provided by operating activities: | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | 745 | 559 | 1,971 | 1,453 | |||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 406 | 298 | 1,118 | 865 | |||||||||||||
| Losses (gains) on investments in non affiliates, net | 11 | (21 | ) | 35 | (152 | ) | |||||||||||
| Deferred income taxes | (532 | ) | (20 | ) | (1,517 | ) | (182 | ) | |||||||||
| Acquisition termination cost | - | - | 1,353 | - | |||||||||||||
| Other | (45 | ) | 10 | (27 | ) | 25 | |||||||||||
| Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions: | |||||||||||||||||
| Accounts receivable | 410 | (366 | ) | (258 | ) | (1,523 | ) | ||||||||||
| Inventories | (563 | ) | (118 | ) | (1,848 | ) | (400 | ) | |||||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other assets | 247 | (1,575 | ) | (1,307 | ) | (1,557 | ) | ||||||||||
| Accounts payable | (917 | ) | 141 | (358 | ) | 385 | |||||||||||
| Accrued and other current liabilities | (92 | ) | (8 | ) | 1,175 | 159 | |||||||||||
| Other long-term liabilities | 42 | 155 | 102 | 253 | |||||||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | 392 | 1,519 | 3,393 | 6,075 | |||||||||||||
| Cash flows from investing activities: | |||||||||||||||||
| Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities | 5,809 | 2,545 | 16,792 | 7,780 | |||||||||||||
| Proceeds from sales of marketable securities | 75 | 211 | 1,806 | 916 | |||||||||||||
| Purchases of marketable securities | (2,188 | ) | (6,752 | ) | (9,764 | ) | (16,020 | ) | |||||||||
| Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets | (530 | ) | (221 | ) | (1,324 | ) | (703 | ) | |||||||||
| Acquisitions, net of cash acquired | - | (203 | ) | (49 | ) | (203 | ) | ||||||||||
| Investments and other, net | (18 | ) | (18 | ) | (83 | ) | (14 | ) | |||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | 3,148 | (4,438 | ) | 7,378 | (8,244 | ) | |||||||||||
| Cash flows from financing activities: | |||||||||||||||||
| Proceeds related to employee stock plans | 143 | 149 | 349 | 277 | |||||||||||||
| Payments related to repurchases of common stock | (3,485 | ) | - | (8,826 | ) | - | |||||||||||
| Payments related to tax on restricted stock units | (294 | ) | (440 | ) | (1,131 | ) | (1,282 | ) | |||||||||
| Dividends paid | (100 | ) | (100 | ) | (300 | ) | (298 | ) | |||||||||
| Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets | (18 | ) | (22 | ) | (54 | ) | (62 | ) | |||||||||
| Issuance of debt, net of issuance costs | - | (8 | ) | - | 4,977 | ||||||||||||
| Repayment of debt | - | (1,000 | ) | - | (1,000 | ) | |||||||||||
| Other | 1 | - | 1 | (2 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | (3,753 | ) | (1,421 | ) | (9,961 | ) | 2,610 | ||||||||||
| Change in cash and cash equivalents | (213 | ) | (4,340 | ) | 810 | 441 | |||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period | 3,013 | 5,628 | 1,990 | 847 | |||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at end of period | $ | 2,800 | $ | 1,288 | $ | 2,800 | $ | 1,288 | |||||||||
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| October 30, | July 31, | October 31, | October 30, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| GAAP gross profit | $ | 3,177 | $ | 2,915 | $ | 4,631 | $ | 11,523 | $ | 12,476 | ||||||||||||
| GAAP gross margin | 53.6 | % | 43.5 | % | 65.2 | % | 55.1 | % | 64.7 | % | ||||||||||||
| Acquisition-related and other costs (A) | 120 | 121 | 86 | 335 | 258 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense (B) | 32 | 38 | 44 | 108 | 102 | |||||||||||||||||
| IP-related costs | - | - | - | - | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP gross profit | $ | 3,329 | $ | 3,074 | $ | 4,761 | $ | 11,966 | $ | 12,844 | ||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP gross margin | 56.1 | % | 45.9 | % | 67.0 | % | 57.2 | % | 66.6 | % | ||||||||||||
| GAAP operating expenses | $ | 2,576 | $ | 2,416 | $ | 1,960 | $ | 8,555 | $ | 5,405 | ||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense (B) | (713 | ) | (611 | ) | (515 | ) | (1,863 | ) | (1,351 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Acquisition-related and other costs (A) | (54 | ) | (54 | ) | (70 | ) | (164 | ) | (224 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Restructuring costs (C) | (16 | ) | - | - | (16 | ) | - | |||||||||||||||
| Contributions | - | (2 | ) | - | (2 | ) | - | |||||||||||||||
| Acquisition termination cost | - | - | - | (1,353 | ) | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Legal settlement costs | - | - | - | (7 | ) | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP operating expenses | $ | 1,793 | $ | 1,749 | $ | 1,375 | $ | 5,150 | $ | 3,830 | ||||||||||||
| GAAP income from operations | $ | 601 | $ | 499 | $ | 2,671 | $ | 2,968 | $ | 7,071 | ||||||||||||
| Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to income from operations | 935 | 826 | 715 | 3,848 | 1,943 | |||||||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP income from operations | $ | 1,536 | $ | 1,325 | $ | 3,386 | $ | 6,816 | $ | 9,014 | ||||||||||||
| GAAP other income (expense), net | $ | 12 | $ | (24 | ) | $ | (33 | ) | $ | (75 | ) | $ | 5 | |||||||||
| (Gains) losses from non-affiliated investments | 11 | 7 | (20 | ) | 36 | (153 | ) | |||||||||||||||
| Interest expense related to amortization of debt discount | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP other income (expense), net | $ | 24 | $ | (16 | ) | $ | (52 | ) | $ | (36 | ) | $ | (145 | ) | ||||||||
| GAAP net income | $ | 680 | $ | 656 | $ | 2,464 | $ | 2,954 | $ | 6,749 | ||||||||||||
| Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments | 947 | 833 | 696 | 3,887 | 1,793 | |||||||||||||||||
| Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments (D) | (171 | ) | (197 | ) | (187 | ) | (649 | ) | (381 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Domestication tax adjustments | - | - | - | - | (252 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP net income | $ | 1,456 | $ | 1,292 | $ | 2,973 | $ | 6,192 | $ | 7,909 | ||||||||||||
| Diluted net income per share | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| GAAP | $ | 0.27 | $ | 0.26 | $ | 0.97 | $ | 1.17 | $ | 2.67 | ||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP | $ | 0.58 | $ | 0.51 | $ | 1.17 | $ | 2.46 | $ | 3.12 | ||||||||||||
| Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation | 2,499 | 2,516 | 2,538 | 2,517 | 2,532 | |||||||||||||||||
| GAAP net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 392 | $ | 1,271 | $ | 1,519 | $ | 3,393 | $ | 6,075 | ||||||||||||
| Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets | (530 | ) | (432 | ) | (221 | ) | (1,324 | ) | (703 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Principal payments on property and equipment | (18 | ) | (15 | ) | (22 | ) | (54 | ) | (62 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Free cash flow | $ | (156 | ) | $ | 824 | $ | 1,276 | $ | 2,015 | $ | 5,310 | |||||||||||
| (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: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| October 30, | July 31, | October 31, | October 30, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenue | $ | 120 | $ | 121 | $ | 86 | $ | 335 | $ | 258 | ||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 10 | $ | 10 | $ | 7 | $ | 29 | $ | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Sales, general and administrative | $ | 44 | $ | 44 | $ | 63 | $ | 135 | $ | 214 | ||||||||||||
| (B) Stock-based compensation consists of the following: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| October 30, | July 31, | October 31, | October 30, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenue | $ | 32 | $ | 38 | $ | 44 | $ | 108 | $ | 102 | ||||||||||||
| Research and development | $ | 530 | $ | 452 | $ | 363 | $ | 1,365 | $ | 935 | ||||||||||||
| Sales, general and administrative | $ | 183 | $ | 159 | $ | 152 | $ | 498 | $ | 416 | ||||||||||||
| (C) Costs related to Russia branch office closure. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (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). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| GAAP gross margin | 63.2 | % | ||
| Impact of stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs | 2.8 | % | ||
| Non-GAAP gross margin | 66.0 | % | ||
| GAAP operating expenses | $ | 2,560 | ||
| Stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs | (780 | ) | ||
| Non-GAAP operating expenses | $ | 1,780 | ||
As a seasoned technology analyst and enthusiast with an in-depth understanding of the semiconductor industry, particularly focused on NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), I bring a wealth of knowledge to decipher the intricate details of the provided information.
Let's delve into the key concepts and components highlighted in the NVIDIA third-quarter report:
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Revenue and Financial Performance:
- NVIDIA reported a total revenue of $5.93 billion for the third quarter ended October 30, 2022.
- The revenue showed a decline of 17% from the same period a year ago and a 12% decrease from the previous quarter.
- Despite the revenue decline, the Data Center segment recorded a notable performance with revenue of $3.83 billion, up 31% from a year ago.
- The company returned $3.75 billion to shareholders during the quarter.
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Earnings and Profitability:
- GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.27, reflecting a significant drop of 72% from a year ago.
- Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.58, down 50% from a year ago but up 14% from the previous quarter.
- The gross margin for the quarter was 53.6%, showing a significant decrease from the previous year.
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CEO Commentary and Strategic Initiatives:
- Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's founder and CEO, emphasized the company's adaptability to the macro environment, addressing inventory levels, and paving the way for new products.
- The CEO highlighted the successful launch of various platforms, including Ada Lovelace RTX graphics, Hopper AI computing, BlueField and Quantum networking, Orin for autonomous vehicles and robotics, and Omniverse.
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Accelerated Computing and Market Trends:
- NVIDIA's focus on accelerated computing was underscored as a solution to overcome limitations posed by physics in general-purpose computing.
- Accelerated computing was mentioned as crucial for meeting the increased demands of AI, enabling substantial productivity improvements while being cost-effective and environmentally friendly.
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Shareholder Returns and Financial Outlook:
- NVIDIA returned $3.75 billion to shareholders in share repurchases and cash dividends during the third quarter.
- As of October 30, 2022, the company had $8.28 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization through December 2023.
- The outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 includes an expected revenue of $6.00 billion, with gross margins at 63.2% (GAAP) and 66.0% (non-GAAP).
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Segment Performance:
- The Data Center segment witnessed a robust performance with third-quarter revenue of $3.83 billion, up 31% from a year ago.
- Notable achievements include the launch of the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU and partnerships with Microsoft, Oracle, and Nuance Communications.
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Gaming, Professional Visualization, Automotive, and Embedded Segments:
- Gaming segment revenue for the third quarter was $1.57 billion, down 51% from a year ago.
- Professional Visualization revenue was $200 million, down 65% from a year ago.
- Automotive and Embedded segment revenue was $251 million, up 86% from a year ago.
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CFO Commentary and Financial Statements:
- Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, provided commentary on the quarter.
- The condensed consolidated financial statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows were presented.
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Non-GAAP Measures and Reconciliation:
- Non-GAAP measures were used to supplement GAAP financial statements, providing a clearer understanding for investors.
- The reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures was presented, including adjustments for stock-based compensation, acquisition-related costs, and other factors.
In summary, NVIDIA's third-quarter report reflects a dynamic market environment, with strategic initiatives in accelerated computing, robust performance in the Data Center segment, and an emphasis on returning value to shareholders. The outlook for the fourth quarter suggests optimism in the face of evolving market conditions.
