- Quarterly revenue of $6.05 billion, down 21% from a year ago
- Fiscal-year revenue of $27.0 billion, flat from a year ago
- Quarterly and annual return to shareholders of $1.15 billion and $10.44 billion, respectively
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the fourth quarter ended January 29, 2023, of $6.05 billion, down 21% from a year ago and up 2% from the previous quarter.
GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.57, down 52% from a year ago and up 111% from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.88, down 33% from a year ago and up 52% from the previous quarter.
For fiscal 2023, revenue was $26.97 billion, flat from a year ago. GAAP earnings per diluted share were $1.74, down 55% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $3.34, down 25% from a year ago.
"AI is at an inflection point, setting up for broad adoption reaching into every industry,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “From startups to major enterprises, we are seeing accelerated interest in the versatility and capabilities of generative AI.
“We are set to help customers take advantage of breakthroughs in generative AI and large language models. Our new AI supercomputer, with H100 and its Transformer Engine and Quantum-2 networking fabric, is in full production.
“Gaming is recovering from the post-pandemic downturn, with gamers enthusiastically embracing the new Ada architecture GPUs with AI neural rendering,” he said.
NVIDIA AI Cloud Service Offerings
NVIDIA is partnering with leading cloud service providers to offer AI-as-a-service that provides enterprises access to NVIDIA’s world-leading AI platform.
Customers will be able to engage each layer of NVIDIA AI – the AI supercomputer, acceleration libraries software or pretrained generative AI models – as a cloud service.
Using their browser, they will be able to engage an NVIDIA DGX™ AI supercomputer through the NVIDIA DGX Cloud, which is already offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and others expected soon. At the AI platform software layer, they will be able to access NVIDIA AI Enterprise for training and deploying large language models or other AI workloads. And at the AI-model-as-a-service layer, NVIDIA will offer its NeMo™ and BioNeMo™ customizable AI models to enterprise customers who want to build proprietary generative AI models and services for their businesses.
Further details will be shared at the company’s GTC developer conference, taking place virtually March 20-23.
Return to Shareholders
During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023, NVIDIA returned to shareholders $1.15 billion in share repurchases and cash dividends, bringing the return in the fiscal year to $10.44 billion.
NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share on March 29, 2023, to all shareholders of record on March 8, 2023.
Q4 Fiscal 2023 Summary
| GAAP | ||||||||
| ($ in millions, except earnings per share) | Q4 FY23 | Q3 FY23 | Q4 FY22 | Q/Q | Y/Y | |||
| Revenue | $6,051 | $5,931 | $7,643 | Up 2% | Down 21% | |||
| Gross margin | 63.3% | 53.6% | 65.4% | Up 9.7 pts | Down 2.1 pts | |||
| Operating expenses | $2,576 | $2,576 | $2,029 | -- | Up 27% | |||
| Operating income | $1,257 | $601 | $2,970 | Up 109% | Down 58% | |||
| Net income | $1,414 | $680 | $3,003 | Up 108% | Down 53% | |||
| Diluted earnings per share | $0.57 | $0.27 | $1.18 | Up 111% | Down 52% | |||
