The results, while confirming that demand for AI infrastructure remains solid, left investors underwhelmed and shares of Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, declined 4% to around the $175 mark in extended trading Wednesday evening.
“[The stock movements are] probably just an initial reaction to a so-so number,” Scott Bickley, an advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, told Fortune before the earnings call. “Which is kind of insane that we’re viewing $46.7 billion in a quarter as ‘so-so,’” he said.
Nvidia’s revenue increased 56% from the same period a year ago to $46.74 billion, exceeding Wall Street’s projection of $46.52 billion, per data compiled by Visible Alpha. Profits came in at $26.4 billion, a 40.8% increase from $18.78 billion last quarter. Nvidia posted diluted earnings per share at $1.08, beating projections of $1.02 for the second quarter. Nvidia’s gross margins grew to 72.4%, up significantly from 61% last quarter.
“To date the USG has not published a regulation codifying such requirement,” CFO Colette Kress said on the company’s earnings call.
Nvidia said it was not including H20 in its financial forecast for the current quarter, though it estimated that $2 billion to $5 billion worth of H20 chips could be shipped to China if “geopolitical” issues were resolved. The company also repeated its call for the U.S. government to allow it to sell a modified version of its more advanced “Blackwell” generation of products to China.
Nvidia’s datacenter revenue, which accounts for the bulk of its business, grew 56% year-over-year, and 5% sequentially, to $41.1 billion. The company’s automotive and robotics segment grew the most at 69% year over year.
“Expectations were sky-high, but Nvidia exceeded them again,” Michael Smith, senior portfolio manager and head of the growth equity team at Allspring Global Investments, told Fortune. Allspring owns Nvidia in some of its funds. “Margins are rising as Blackwell ramps; China remains a massive untapped opportunity post–export controls; and a $60 billion buyback is an extra sweetener amid record free cash flow.”
