Nvidia earnings beats revenue expectations, but fall short on bottom line

Graphics chip giant Nvidia (NVDA) announced its Q3 earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday, beating analysts’ expectations on revenue, but falling short on earnings per share.

Here are the most important numbers from the report, compared to what Wall Street was looking for, as compiled by Bloomberg.

Revenue: $5.93 billion versus $5.79 billion expected
Adjusted EPS: $0.58 versus $0.70 expected
Gaming revenue: $1.57 billion versus $1.32 billion expected
Data Center revenue: $3.83 billion versus $3.7 billion expected

Nvidia Q4 revenue guidance fell just short of Wall Street expectations, coming in at $6 billion. Analysts were hoping for $6.09 billion.

Shares of Nvidia were up roughly 2% following the report.

Data Center revenue jumped some 31% year-over-year in the quarter, but gaming revenue collapsed 51% year-over-year

Chip stocks have been hammered this year, as consumer and business demand for electronics has ebbed following the explosive growth the industry saw during the pandemic. Consumers don’t need as many computers, after buying them up during shutdowns, and companies already have plenty of machines for their remote and hybrid workers.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, makes a point at his keynote address at CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 7, 2018. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Nvidia cut down on chip production in Q2, with CEO Jensen Huang telling investors that the company is working to realign inventory with customer demand for chips.

Nvidia’s graphics chips were in such high demand during the pandemic that they were selling for hundreds of dollars more than their retail prices. But with consumers returning to their pre-pandemic lives, demand for chips has declined, and prices have dropped to normal levels.

Nvidia is also working to ensure that it can still sell its high-end products in China. Nvidia began offering its new A800 chip in the country during Q3 as a replacement for the A100 chip, which the U.S. government said was too powerful to ship to China. The government fears China will use the technology for military applications.

Ahead of its earnings on Wednesday, Nvidia announced a partnership with Microsoft (MSFT) to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world using Nvidia’s chips and Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure. The computer is designed to help train large scale AI systems.

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