NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024

February 21, 2024

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Record quarterly revenue of $22.1 billion, up 22% from Q3, up 265% from year ago

Record quarterly Data Center revenue of $18.4 billion, up 27% from Q3, up 409% from year ago

Record full-year revenue of $60.9 billion, up 126%

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the fourth quarter ended January 28, 2024, of $22.1 billion, up 22% from the previous quarter and up 265% from a year ago.

For the quarter, GAAP earnings per diluted share was $4.93, up 33% from the previous quarter and up 765% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share was $5.16, up 28% from the previous quarter and up 486% from a year ago.

For fiscal 2024, revenue was up 126% to $60.9 billion. GAAP earnings per diluted share was $11.93, up 586% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share was $12.96, up 288% from a year ago.

“Accelerated computing and generative AI have hit the tipping point. Demand is surging worldwide across companies, industries and nations,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

“Our Data Center platform is powered by increasingly diverse drivers — demand for data processing, training and inference from large cloud-service providers and GPU-specialized ones, as well as from enterprise software and consumer internet companies. Vertical industries — led by auto, financial services and healthcare — are now at a multibillion-dollar level.

“NVIDIA RTX, introduced less than six years ago, is now a massive PC platform for generative AI, enjoyed by 100 million gamers and creators. The year ahead will bring major new product cycles with exceptional innovations to help propel our industry forward. Come join us at next month’s GTC, where we and our rich ecosystem will reveal the exciting future ahead,” he said.

NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share on March 27, 2024, to all shareholders of record on March 6, 2024.

Q4 Fiscal 2024 Summary

GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)		Q4 FY24		Q3 FY24		Q4 FY23	Q/Q	Y/Y
Revenue	$22,103		$18,120		$6,051		Up 22%	Up 265%
Gross margin		76.0%		74.0%		63.3%	Up 2.0 pts	Up 12.7 pts
Operating expenses	$3,176		$2,983		$2,576		Up 6%	Up 23%
Operating income	$13,615		$10,417		$1,257		Up 31%	Up 983%
Net income	$12,285		$9,243		$1,414		Up 33%	Up 769%
Diluted earnings per share	$4.93		$3.71		$0.57		Up 33%	Up 765%

Non-GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)		Q4 FY24		Q3 FY24		Q4 FY23	Q/Q	Y/Y
Revenue	$22,103		$18,120		$6,051		Up 22%	Up 265%
Gross margin		76.7%		75.0%		66.1%	Up 1.7 pts	Up 10.6 pts
Operating expenses	$2,210		$2,026		$1,775		Up 9%	Up 25%
Operating income	$14,749		$11,557		$2,224		Up 28%	Up 563%
Net income	$12,839		$10,020		$2,174		Up 28%	Up 491%
Diluted earnings per share	$5.16		$4.02		$0.88		Up 28%	Up 486%

Fiscal 2024 Summary

GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)		FY24		FY23	Y/Y
Revenue	$60,922		$26,974		Up 126%
Gross margin		72.7%		56.9%	Up 15.8 pts
Operating expenses	$11,329		$11,132		Up 2%
Operating income	$32,972		$4,224		Up 681%
Net income	$29,760		$4,368		Up 581%
Diluted earnings per share	$11.93		$1.74		Up 586%

Non-GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)		FY24		FY23	Y/Y
Revenue	$60,922		$26,974		Up 126%
Gross margin		73.8%		59.2%	Up 14.6 pts
Operating expenses	$7,825		$6,925		Up 13%
Operating income	$37,134		$9,040		Up 311%
Net income	$32,312		$8,366		Up 286%
Diluted earnings per share	$12.96		$3.34		Up 288%

Outlook

NVIDIA’s outlook for the first quarter of fiscal 2025 is as follows:

Revenue is expected to be $24.0 billion, plus or minus 2%.

GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 76.3% and 77.0%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.

GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $3.5 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively.

GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are expected to be an income of approximately $250 million, excluding gains and losses from non-affiliated investments.

GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are expected to be 17.0%, plus or minus 1%, excluding any discrete items.

Highlights

NVIDIA achieved progress since its previous earnings announcement in these areas:

Data Center

Gaming

Fourth-quarter revenue was $2.9 billion, flat from the previous quarter and up 56% from a year ago. Full-year revenue rose 15% to $10.4 billion.

Launched GeForce RTX™ 40 SUPER Series GPUs, starting at $599, which support the latest NVIDIA RTX™ technologies, including DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction and NVIDIA Reflex.

Announced generative AI capabilities for its installed base of over 100 million RTX AI PCs, including Tensor-RT™ LLM to accelerate inference on large language models, and Chat with RTX, a tech demo that lets users personalize a chatbot with their own content.

Introduced microservices for the NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine, allowing game and application developers to integrate state-of-the-art generative AI models into non-playable characters.

Reached the milestone of 500 AI-powered RTX games and applications utilizing NVIDIA DLSS, ray tracing and other NVIDIA RTX technologies.

Professional Visualization

Fourth-quarter revenue was $463 million, up 11% from the previous quarter and up 105% from a year ago. Full-year revenue rose 1% to $1.6 billion.

Announced adoption of NVIDIA Omniverse™ by the global automotive-configurator ecosystem.

Announced the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, bringing the latest AI, graphics and compute technology to compact workstations.

Automotive

Fourth-quarter revenue was $281 million, up 8% from the previous quarter and down 4% from a year ago. Full-year revenue rose 21% to $1.1 billion.

Announced further adoption of its NVIDIA DRIVE^® platform, with Great Wall Motors, ZEEKR and Xiaomi using DRIVE Orin™ to power intelligent automated-driving systems and Li Auto selecting DRIVE Thor™ as its centralized car computer.

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 2024 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 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 acquisition termination costs, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related and other costs, IP-related costs, other, gains and losses from non-affiliated investments, 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						Twelve Months Ended
			January 28,			January 29,			January 28,			January 29,
				2024			2023			2024			2023

Revenue			$	22,103		$	6,051		$	60,922		$	26,974
Cost of revenue				5,312			2,218			16,621			11,618
Gross profit				16,791			3,833			44,301			15,356

Operating expenses
	Research and development			2,465			1,951			8,675			7,339
	Sales, general and administrative			711			625			2,654			2,440
	Acquisition termination cost			–			–			–			1,353
		Total operating expenses		3,176			2,576			11,329			11,132

Operating Income				13,615			1,257			32,972			4,224
	Interest income			294			115			866			267
	Interest expense			(63	)		(65	)		(257	)		(262	)
	Other, net			260			(18	)		237			(48	)
		Other income (expense), net		491			32			846			(43	)

Income before income tax				14,106			1,289			33,818			4,181
Income tax expense (benefit)				1,821			(125	)		4,058			(187	)
Net income			$	12,285		$	1,414		$	29,760		$	4,368

Net income per share:
	Basic		$	4.98		$	0.57		$	12.05		$	1.76
	Diluted		$	4.93		$	0.57		$	11.93		$	1.74

Weighted average shares used in per share computation:
	Basic			2,466			2,464			2,469			2,487
	Diluted			2,490			2,477			2,494			2,507

NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)


			January 28,		January 29,
			2024		2023
ASSETS

Current assets:
	Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities		$	25,984	$	13,296
	Accounts receivable, net			9,999		3,827
	Inventories			5,282		5,159
	Prepaid expenses and other current assets			3,080		791
		Total current assets		44,345		23,073

Property and equipment, net				3,914		3,807
Operating lease assets				1,346		1,038
Goodwill				4,430		4,372
Intangible assets, net				1,112		1,676
Deferred income tax assets				6,081		3,396
Other assets				4,500		3,820
		Total assets	$	65,728	$	41,182

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Current liabilities:
	Accounts payable		$	2,699	$	1,193
	Accrued and other current liabilities			6,682		4,120
	Short-term debt			1,250		1,250
		Total current liabilities		10,631		6,563

Long-term debt				8,459		9,703
Long-term operating lease liabilities				1,119		902
Other long-term liabilities				2,541		1,913
		Total liabilities		22,750		19,081

Shareholders’ equity				42,978		22,101
		Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity	$	65,728	$	41,182

NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)


		Three Months Ended						Twelve Months Ended
		January 28,			January 29,			January 28,			January 29,
			2024			2023			2024			2023

Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income		$	12,285		$	1,414		$	29,760		$	4,368
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash
provided by operating activities:
	Stock-based compensation expense		993			738			3,549			2,709
	Depreciation and amortization		387			426			1,508			1,544
	Deferred income taxes		(78	)		(647	)		(2,489	)		(2,164	)
	(Gains) losses on investments in non-affiliated entities, net		(260	)		10			(238	)		45
	Acquisition termination cost		–			–			–			1,353
	Other		(109	)		20			(278	)		(7	)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
	Accounts receivable		(1,690	)		1,081			(6,172	)		822
	Inventories		(503	)		(706	)		(98	)		(2,554	)
	Prepaid expenses and other assets		(1,184	)		(210	)		(1,522	)		(1,517	)
	Accounts payable		281			(193	)		1,531			(551	)
	Accrued and other current liabilities		1,072			166			2,025			1,341
	Other long-term liabilities		305			150			514			252
Net cash provided by operating activities			11,499			2,249			28,090			5,641
Cash flows from investing activities:
	Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities		1,731			2,633			9,732			19,425
	Proceeds from sales of marketable securities		50			–			50			1,806
	Purchases of marketable securities		(7,524	)		(2,133	)		(18,211	)		(11,897	)
	Purchase related to property and equipment and intangible assets		(253	)		(509	)		(1,069	)		(1,833	)
	Acquisitions, net of cash acquired		–			–			(83	)		(49	)
	Investments in non-affiliated entities and other, net		(113	)		5			(985	)		(77	)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities			(6,109	)		(4	)		(10,566	)		7,375
Cash flows from financing activities:
	Proceeds related to employee stock plans		–			5			403			355
	Payments related to repurchases of common stock		(2,660	)		(1,212	)		(9,533	)		(10,039	)
	Payments related to tax on restricted stock units		(841	)		(344	)		(2,783	)		(1,475	)
	Repayment of debt		–			–			(1,250	)		–
	Dividends paid		(99	)		(98	)		(395	)		(398	)
	Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets		(29	)		(4	)		(74	)		(58	)
	Other		–			(3	)		(1	)		(2	)
Net cash used in financing activities			(3,629	)		(1,656	)		(13,633	)		(11,617	)
Change in cash and cash equivalents			1,761			589			3,891			1,399
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period			5,519			2,800			3,389			1,990
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period		$	7,280		$	3,389		$	7,280		$	3,389

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
	Cash paid for income taxes, net	$	1,874		$	32		$	6,549		$	1,404
	Cash paid for interest	$	26		$	28		$	252		$	254

NVIDIA CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(In millions, except per share data)
(Unaudited)

		Three Months Ended									Twelve Months Ended
		January 28,			October 29,			January 29,			January 28,			January 29,
			2024			2023			2023			2024			2023

GAAP gross profit		$	16,791		$	13,400		$	3,833		$	44,301		$	15,356
GAAP gross margin			76.0	%		74.0	%		63.3	%		72.7	%		56.9	%
	Acquisition-related and other costs (A)		119			119			120			477			455
	Stock-based compensation expense (B)		45			38			30			141			138
	IP-related costs		4			26			16			40			16
Non-GAAP gross profit		$	16,959		$	13,583		$	3,999		$	44,959		$	15,965
*Non-GAAP gross margin*			*76.7*	%		*75.0*	%		*66.1*	%		*73.8*	%		*59.2*	%

GAAP operating expenses		$	3,176		$	2,983		$	2,576		$	11,329		$	11,132
	Stock-based compensation expense (B)		(948	)		(941	)		(709	)		(3,408	)		(2,572	)
	Acquisition-related and other costs (A)		(18	)		(16	)		(54	)		(106	)		(219	)
	Acquisition termination cost		–			–			–			–			(1,353	)
	Other (C)		–			–			(38	)		10			(63	)
Non-GAAP operating expenses		$	2,210		$	2,026		$	1,775		$	7,825		$	6,925

GAAP operating income		$	13,615		$	10,417		$	1,257		$	32,972		$	4,224
	Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to operating income		1,134			1,140			967			4,162			4,816
Non-GAAP operating income		$	14,749		$	11,557		$	2,224		$	37,134		$	9,040

GAAP other income (expense), net		$	491		$	105		$	32		$	846		$	(43	)
	(Gains) losses from non-affiliated investments		(260	)		69			10			(238	)		45
	Interest expense related to amortization of debt discount		1			1			1			4			5
Non-GAAP other income (expense), net		$	232		$	175		$	43		$	612		$	7

GAAP net income		$	12,285		$	9,243		$	1,414		$	29,760		$	4,368
	Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments		875			1,210			978			3,928			4,865
	Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments (D)		(321	)		(433	)		(218	)		(1,376	)		(867	)
Non-GAAP net income		$	12,839		$	10,020		$	2,174		$	32,312		$	8,366

Diluted net income per share
	GAAP	$	4.93		$	3.71		$	0.57		$	11.93		$	1.74
	Non-GAAP	$	5.16		$	4.02		$	0.88		$	12.96		$	3.34

Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation			2,490			2,494			2,477			2,494			2,507

GAAP net cash provided by operating activities		$	11,499		$	7,333		$	2,249		$	28,090		$	5,641
	Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets		(253	)		(278	)		(509	)		(1,069	)		(1,833	)
	Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets		(29	)		(13	)		(4	)		(74	)		(58	)
Free cash flow		$	11,217		$	7,042		$	1,736		$	26,947		$	3,750



(A) Acquisition-related and other costs are comprised of amortization of intangible assets and transaction costs, and are included in the following line items:
		Three Months Ended									Twelve Months Ended
		January 28,			October 29,			January 29,			January 28,			January 29,
			2024			2023			2023			2024			2023
	Cost of revenue	$	119		$	119		$	120		$	477		$	455
	Research and development	$	12		$	12		$	10		$	49		$	39
	Sales, general and administrative	$	6		$	4		$	44		$	57		$	180

(B) Stock-based compensation consists of the following:
		Three Months Ended									Twelve Months Ended
		January 28,			October 29,			January 29,			January 28,			January 29,
			2024			2023			2023			2024			2023
	Cost of revenue	$	45		$	38		$	30		$	141		$	138
	Research and development	$	706		$	701		$	527		$	2,532		$	1,892
	Sales, general and administrative	$	242		$	240		$	182		$	876		$	680

(C) Other consists of costs related to Russia branch office closure, assets held for sale related adjustments, legal settlement costs, and contributions.

(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


		Q1 FY2025 Outlook
		($ in millions)

GAAP gross margin			76.3	%
	Impact of stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs		0.7	%
Non-GAAP gross margin			77.0	%

GAAP operating expenses		$	3,480
	Stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs		(980	)
Non-GAAP operating expenses		$	2,500