Thursday, November 10th 2016
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2017
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the third quarter ended October 30, 2016, of $2.00 billion, up 54 percent from $1.30 billion a year earlier, and up 40 percent from $1.43 billion in the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.83, up 89 percent from $0.44 a year ago and up 102 percent from $0.41 in the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.94, up 104 percent from $0.46 a year earlier and up 77 percent from $0.53 in the previous quarter.
"We had a breakout quarter - record revenue, record margins and record earnings were driven by strength across all product lines," said Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA. "Our new Pascal GPUs are fully ramped and enjoying great success in gaming, VR, self-driving cars and datacenter AI computing. "We have invested years of work and billions of dollars to advance deep learning. Our GPU deep learning platform runs every AI framework, and is available in cloud services from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Alibaba, and in servers from every OEM. GPU deep learning has sparked a wave of innovations that will usher in the next era of computing," he said.
Capital Return
During the first nine months of fiscal 2017, NVIDIA paid $509 million in share repurchases and $185 million in cash dividends. As a result, the company has returned an aggregate of $694 million to shareholders in the first nine months of the fiscal year. The company intends to return $1.0 billion to shareholders in fiscal 2017.
For fiscal 2018, NVIDIA intends to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases. The company's board of directors has authorized an additional $2.00 billion under the company's stock repurchase program for a total of $2.96 billion available through the end of December 2020. The company announced a 22 percent increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $0.14 per share from $0.115 per share, to be paid with its next quarterly cash dividend on December 19, 2016, to all shareholders of record on November 28, 2016.
NVIDIA's outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 is as follows:
Gaming:
"We had a breakout quarter - record revenue, record margins and record earnings were driven by strength across all product lines," said Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA. "Our new Pascal GPUs are fully ramped and enjoying great success in gaming, VR, self-driving cars and datacenter AI computing. "We have invested years of work and billions of dollars to advance deep learning. Our GPU deep learning platform runs every AI framework, and is available in cloud services from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Alibaba, and in servers from every OEM. GPU deep learning has sparked a wave of innovations that will usher in the next era of computing," he said.
During the first nine months of fiscal 2017, NVIDIA paid $509 million in share repurchases and $185 million in cash dividends. As a result, the company has returned an aggregate of $694 million to shareholders in the first nine months of the fiscal year. The company intends to return $1.0 billion to shareholders in fiscal 2017.
For fiscal 2018, NVIDIA intends to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases. The company's board of directors has authorized an additional $2.00 billion under the company's stock repurchase program for a total of $2.96 billion available through the end of December 2020. The company announced a 22 percent increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $0.14 per share from $0.115 per share, to be paid with its next quarterly cash dividend on December 19, 2016, to all shareholders of record on November 28, 2016.
NVIDIA's outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 is as follows:
- Revenue is expected to be $2.10 billion, plus or minus two percent.
- GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 59.0 percent and 59.2 percent, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.
- GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $572 million. Non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $500 million.
- GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 are both expected to be 20 percent, plus or minus one percent.
Gaming:
- Announced that NVIDIA gaming technology will power the Nintendo Switch home gaming system.
- Expanded its line of Pascal GPUs with GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti, letting new gamers discover the joy of GeForce PC gaming.
- Introduced GeForce GTX 1080, 1070 and 1060 for notebooks, giving gamers a state-of-the-art gaming platform in beautifully designed notebooks.
- Expanded the GPU Technology Conference with a world tour of eight cities that broadened its reach this year to 18,000 developers, researchers, scientists and others.
- Launched Tesla P40 and P4 GPUs, and the NVIDIA TensorRT deep learning inferencing framework. These expand NVIDIA's deep learning platform beyond training to speed up AI inferencing production workloads in hyperscale datacenters.
- Began shipping the NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputer to research organizations, including OpenAI, Germany's DFKI and Switzerland's ITSIA; to universities, including Stanford, New York University and UC Berkeley; and to multinationals, such as SAP.
- Announced a collaboration with Japan's FANUC to implement AI to increase robotics productivity and bring new capabilities to automated factories.
- Announced that its NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 platform will power a new AutoPilot system in all of Tesla Motors' factory produced vehicles - the Model S, Model X and upcoming Model 3.
- Unveiled its next-generation Tegra processor, codenamed Xavier, an AI supercomputer on a chip for self-driving cars.
- Partnered with China's Baidu to develop a self-driving, artificially intelligent car and mapping system.
- Announced an AI partnership with Europe's TomTom to create a cloud-to-car mapping system for self-driving cars using NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2.
39 Comments on NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2017
Damn those are very strong results :eek:
2017 or something.
Sure, if AMD didn't screw up and came with something that would scale beyond the RX480, we would see some competition at the high end and prices would be a bit lower (you're not expecting 1080 for $400, are you?), but "ransom"? Seriously?
Also I agree that this is part AMD's fault for not providing a product to compete with the 1080...
I do tend to cut them some slack because I don't buy high-end anyway and the mid-range has been well served this round, but at the same time I see why others may be upset.
In 2014, the MSRP of the GTX980 at launch was $549. Adjusted for today, that's just a shade under $560 ($559.88 to be exact).
Launch MSRP of the GTX1080 was $599.
Increase of ~$40. Not exactly earth shattering.
I am not going to go into how "NO GTX 1080 WAS EVER AVAILABLE FOR $599 AT LAUNCH!!!!". Truth is you never really can find any card for MSRP at launch as everyone is scrambling for the cards at launch. Currently you can get an MSI Armor 1080 for $599 or less (has an aftermarket dual-fan cooler)
And when appears amd vega, nvidia dont stay worried because amd gift around 10 months without competition (if vega appears in march as amd said)
For this moment nvidia now sell when them wait sell with big earnings, thanks to pascal inflated prices for lack of competition
I quick look at a site like Scan.co.uk often shows it's actually the more expensive AIB cards that are hot sellers too. /shrug
www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/all/gpu-nvidia/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080