NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2025

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the third quarter ended October 27, 2024, of $35.1 billion, up 17% from the previous quarter and up 94% from a year ago.

For the quarter, GAAP earnings per diluted share was $0.78, up 16% from the previous quarter and up 111% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share was $0.81, up 19% from the previous quarter and up 103% from a year ago.

“The age of AI is in full steam, propelling a global shift to NVIDIA computing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Demand for Hopper and anticipation for Blackwell — in full production — are incredible as foundation model makers scale pretraining, post-training and inference.

“AI is transforming every industry, company and country. Enterprises are adopting agentic AI to revolutionize workflows. Industrial robotics investments are surging with breakthroughs in physical AI. And countries have awakened to the importance of developing their national AI and infrastructure,” he said.

NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share on December 27, 2024, to all shareholders of record on December 5, 2024.

Q3 Fiscal 2025 Summary

GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)	Q3 FY25			Q2 FY25			Q3 FY24			Q/Q	Y/Y
Revenue	$	35,082		$	30,040		$	18,120		Up 17%	Up 94%
Gross margin		74.6	%		75.1	%		74.0	%	Down 0.5 pts	Up 0.6 pts
Operating expenses	$	4,287		$	3,932		$	2,983		Up 9%	Up 44%
Operating income	$	21,869		$	18,642		$	10,417		Up 17%	Up 110%
Net income	$	19,309		$	16,599		$	9,243		Up 16%	Up 109%
Diluted earnings per share*	$	0.78		$	0.67		$	0.37		Up 16%	Up 111%

Non-GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)	Q3 FY25			Q2 FY25			Q3 FY24			Q/Q	Y/Y
Revenue	$	35,082		$	30,040		$	18,120		Up 17%	Up 94%
Gross margin		75.0	%		75.7	%		75.0	%	Down 0.7 pts	--
Operating expenses	$	3,046		$	2,792		$	2,026		Up 9%	Up 50%
Operating income	$	23,276		$	19,937		$	11,557		Up 17%	Up 101%
Net income	$	20,010		$	16,952		$	10,020		Up 18%	Up 100%
Diluted earnings per share*	$	0.81		$	0.68		$	0.40		Up 19%	Up 103%

*All per share amounts presented herein have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the ten-for-one stock split, which was effective June 7, 2024.

OutlookNVIDIA’s outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 is as follows:

• Revenue is expected to be $37.5 billion, plus or minus 2%.
• GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 73.0% and 73.5%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.
• GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $4.8 billion and $3.4 billion, respectively.
• GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are expected to be an income of approximately $400 million, excluding gains and losses from non-affiliated investments and publicly-held equity securities.
• GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are expected to be 16.5%, plus or minus 1%, excluding any discrete items.

Highlights

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

Data Center

• Third-quarter revenue was a record $30.8 billion, up 17% from the previous quarter and up 112% from a year ago.
• Announced the availability of NVIDIA Hopper H200-powered instances in several cloud services, including AWS, CoreWeave and Microsoft Azure, with Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure coming soon.
• Launched Denmark’s largest sovereign AI supercomputer, an NVIDIA® DGX SuperPOD™ driven by 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and interconnected using NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.
• Introduced the NVIDIA AI Aerial platform for telecommunications providers and began working with T-Mobile, Ericsson and Nokia to accelerate the commercialization of AI-RAN.
• Announced that SoftBank Corp. is building Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer with the NVIDIA Blackwell platform and has successfully piloted the world’s first combined AI and 5G telecom network using NVIDIA AI Aerial.
• Revealed that cloud leaders in India, Japan and Indonesia are building AI infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing, while consulting leaders are helping speed AI adoption across industries with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
• Accelerated xAI’s Colossus supercomputer cluster, using 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, with the NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking platform.
• Unveiled a partnership with Foxconn to build Taiwan’s fastest AI supercomputer with NVIDIA Blackwell.
• Announced that Blackwell debuted on MLPerf Training, completed all tests and delivered up to 2.2x performance gains on large language model benchmarks.
• Contributed foundational elements of the NVIDIA Blackwell design to the Open Compute Project and broadened NVIDIA Spectrum-X support for OCP standards.
• Revealed that U.S. technology companies including Accenture, Deloitte and Google Cloud are tapping NVIDIA AI software to create custom AI applications, transforming industries worldwide.
• Announced the expansion of a partnership with Lenovo to launch new hybrid AI solutions and systems optimized to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.

Gaming and AI PC

• Third-quarter Gaming revenue was $3.3 billion, up 14% from the previous quarter and up 15% from a year ago. 
• Celebrated the 25th anniversary of GeForce® 256, the world’s first GPU, which marked a breakthrough for gaming and laid the foundation for an AI-driven future.
• Demonstrated NVIDIA ACE and digital human technologies in Mecha BREAK, featuring the Minitron 4B model for better in-game character responses, at Gamescom.
• Introduced 20 GeForce RTX and DLSS titles, including Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
• Began shipping new RTX AI PCs with 321 AI trillion operations per second of performance from ASUS and MSI, with Microsoft Copilot+ capabilities anticipated next quarter.

Professional Visualization

• Third-quarter revenue was $486 million, up 7% from the previous quarter and up 17% from a year ago.
• Announced that Foxconn is using digital twins and industrial AI built on NVIDIA Omniverse™ to bring online faster three factories used to manufacture NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips.
• Revealed that leading industrial manufacturers in India, including Reliance and Ola Motors, and Japan, including Toyota, Yaskawa, and Seven and I Holdings, are using NVIDIA AI and Omniverse to automate workflows and drive more efficient operations.
• Unveiled NVIDIA Holoscan for Media, an AI-enabled, software-defined platform that allows live media and video pipelines to run on the same infrastructure as AI, enhancing production delivery.

Automotive and Robotics

• Third-quarter Automotive revenue was $449 million, up 30% from the previous quarter and up 72% from a year ago.
• Revealed that Volvo is releasing a new electric SUV built on NVIDIA accelerated computing.
• Introduced Project GR00T AI and simulation tools for robot learning and humanoid development, and new generative AI tools and perception workflows for robotics developers.
• Announced that Japanese and Indian companies including Toyota and Ola Motors are using NVIDIA Isaac™ and Omniverse to build the next wave of physical AI.

CFO CommentaryCommentary 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 InformationNVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its third quarter fiscal 2025 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 fourth quarter and fiscal 2025.

Non-GAAP MeasuresTo 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 operating income, 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 stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related and other costs, other, gains and losses from non-affiliated investments and publicly-held equity securities, net, 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								Nine Months Ended
			October 27,				October 29,				October 27,				October 29,
				2024				2023				2024				2023
Revenue			$	35,082			$	18,120			$	91,166			$	38,819
Cost of revenue				8,926				4,720				22,031				11,309
Gross profit				26,156				13,400				69,135				27,510
Operating expenses
	Research and development			3,390				2,294				9,200				6,210
	Sales, general and administrative			897				689				2,516				1,942
		Total operating expenses		4,287				2,983				11,716				8,152
Operating Income				21,869				10,417				57,419				19,358
	Interest income			472				234				1,275				572
	Interest expense			(61	)			(63	)			(186	)			(194	)
	Other, net			36				(66	)			301				(24	)
		Other income (expense), net		447				105				1,390				354
Income before income tax				22,316				10,522				58,809				19,712
Income tax expense				3,007				1,279				8,020				2,237
Net income			$	19,309			$	9,243			$	50,789			$	17,475
Net income per share (A):
	Basic		$	0.79			$	0.37			$	2.07			$	0.71
	Diluted		$	0.78			$	0.37			$	2.04			$	0.70
Weighted average shares used in per share computation (A):
	Basic			24,533				24,680				24,577				24,700
	Diluted			24,774				24,940				24,837				24,940
(A) Reflects a ten-for-one stock split on June 7, 2024.

NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
				October 27,			January 28,
				2024			2024
ASSETS
Current assets:
	Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities			$	38,487		$	25,984
	Accounts receivable, net				17,693			9,999
	Inventories				7,654			5,282
	Prepaid expenses and other current assets				3,806			3,080
		Total current assets			67,640			44,345
Property and equipment, net					5,343			3,914
Operating lease assets					1,755			1,346
Goodwill					4,724			4,430
Intangible assets, net					838			1,112
Deferred income tax assets					10,276			6,081
Other assets					5,437			4,500
		Total assets		$	96,013		$	65,728
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
	Accounts payable			$	5,353		$	2,699
	Accrued and other current liabilities				11,126			6,682
	Short-term debt				-			1,250
		Total current liabilities			16,479			10,631
Long-term debt					8,462			8,459
Long-term operating lease liabilities					1,490			1,119
Other long-term liabilities					3,683			2,541
		Total liabilities			30,114			22,750
Shareholders’ equity					65,899			42,978
		Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity		$	96,013		$	65,728

NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
			Three Months Ended								Nine Months Ended
			October 27,				October 29,				October 27,				October 29,
				2024				2023				2024				2023
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income			$	19,309			$	9,243			$	50,789			$	17,475
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash
provided by operating activities:
	Stock-based compensation expense			1,252				979				3,416				2,555
	Depreciation and amortization			478				372				1,321				1,121
	(Gains) losses on investments in non-affiliated entities and publicly-held equity securities, net			(37	)			69				(302	)			24
	Deferred income taxes			(602	)			(529	)			(3,879	)			(2,411	)
	Other			(79	)			(66	)			(365	)			(170	)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
	Accounts receivable			(3,561	)			(1,243	)			(7,694	)			(4,482	)
	Inventories			(978	)			(457	)			(2,357	)			405
	Prepaid expenses and other assets			(714	)			254				(726	)			(337	)
	Accounts payable			1,689				461				2,490				1,250
	Accrued and other current liabilities			606				(1,722	)			3,918				953
	Other long-term liabilities			266				(28	)			849				208
Net cash provided by operating activities				17,629				7,333				47,460				16,591
Cash flows from investing activities:
	Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities			1,386				2,891				9,485				8,001
	Proceeds from sales of marketable securities			154				-				318				-
	Purchases of marketable securities			(4,518	)			(5,345	)			(19,565	)			(10,688	)
	Purchase related to property and equipment and intangible assets			(813	)			(278	)			(2,159	)			(815	)
	Acquisitions, net of cash acquired			(147	)			-				(465	)			(83	)
	Purchases of investments in non-affiliated entities			(473	)			(441	)			(1,008	)			(897	)
	Proceeds from sales of investments in non-affiliated entities			66				-				171				-
	Other			-				4				-				25
Net cash used in investing activities				(4,345	)			(3,169	)			(13,223	)			(4,457	)
Cash flows from financing activities:
	Proceeds related to employee stock plans			204				156				489				403
	Payments related to repurchases of common stock			(10,998	)			(3,806	)			(25,895	)			(6,874	)
	Repayment of debt			-				-				(1,250	)			(1,250	)
	Payments related to tax on restricted stock units			(1,680	)			(764	)			(5,068	)			(1,942	)
	Dividends paid			(245	)			(99	)			(589	)			(296	)
	Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets			(29	)			(13	)			(97	)			(44	)
	Other			-				(1	)			-				(1	)
Net cash used in financing activities				(12,748	)			(4,527	)			(32,410	)			(10,004	)
Change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash				536				(363	)			1,827				2,130
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period				8,571				5,882				7,280				3,389
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period			$	9,107			$	5,519			$	9,107			$	5,519
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Cash paid for income taxes, net			$	3,540			$	4,348			$	10,989			$	4,676

	NVIDIA CORPORATION
	RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
	(In millions, except per share data)
	(Unaudited)
				Three Months Ended												Nine Months Ended
				October 27,				July 28,				October 29,				October 27,				October 29,
					2024				2024				2023				2024				2023
	GAAP gross profit			$	26,156			$	22,574			$	13,400			$	69,135			$	27,510
	GAAP gross margin				74.6	%			75.1	%			74.0	%			75.8	%			70.9	%
		Acquisition-related and other costs (A)			116				118				119				355				358
		Stock-based compensation expense (B)			50				40				38				125				96
		Other (C)			-				(3	)			26				(4	)			36
	Non-GAAP gross profit			$	26,322			$	22,729			$	13,583			$	69,611			$	28,000
	Non-GAAP gross margin				75.0	%			75.7	%			75.0	%			76.4	%			72.1	%
	GAAP operating expenses			$	4,287			$	3,932			$	2,983			$	11,716			$	8,152
		Stock-based compensation expense (B)			(1,202	)			(1,114	)			(941	)			(3,291	)			(2,459	)
		Acquisition-related and other costs (A)			(39	)			(26	)			(16	)			(86	)			(88	)
		Other (C)			-				-				-				-				10
	Non-GAAP operating expenses			$	3,046			$	2,792			$	2,026			$	8,339			$	5,615
	GAAP operating income			$	21,869			$	18,642			$	10,417			$	57,419			$	19,358
		Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to operating income			1,407				1,295				1,140				3,853				3,027
	Non-GAAP operating income			$	23,276			$	19,937			$	11,557			$	61,272			$	22,385
	GAAP other income (expense), net			$	447			$	572			$	105			$	1,390			$	354
		(Gains) losses from non-affiliated investments and publicly-held equity securities, net			(37	)			(193	)			69				(302	)			23
		Interest expense related to amortization of debt discount			1				1				1				3				3
	Non-GAAP other income (expense), net			$	411			$	380			$	175			$	1,091			$	380
	GAAP net income			$	19,309			$	16,599			$	9,243			$	50,789			$	17,475
		Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments			1,371				1,103				1,210				3,554				3,053
		Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments (D)			(670	)			(750	)			(433	)			(2,144	)			(1,055	)
	Non-GAAP net income			$	20,010			$	16,952			$	10,020			$	52,199			$	19,473
	Diluted net income per share (E)
		GAAP		$	0.78			$	0.67			$	0.37			$	2.04			$	0.70
		Non-GAAP		$	0.81			$	0.68			$	0.40			$	2.10			$	0.78
	Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation (E)				24,774				24,848				24,940				24,837				24,940
	GAAP net cash provided by operating activities			$	17,629			$	14,489			$	7,333			$	47,460			$	16,591
		Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets			(813	)			(977	)			(278	)			(2,159	)			(815	)
		Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets			(29	)			(29	)			(13	)			(97	)			(44	)
	Free cash flow			$	16,787			$	13,483			$	7,042			$	45,204			$	15,732
	(A) Acquisition-related and other costs are comprised of amortization of intangible assets, transaction costs, and certain compensation charges and are included in the following line items:
				Three Months Ended												Nine Months Ended
				October 27,				July 28,				October 29,				October 27,				October 29,
					2024				2024				2023				2024				2023
		Cost of revenue		$	116			$	118			$	119			$	355			$	358
		Research and development		$	23			$	17			$	12			$	52			$	37
		Sales, general and administrative		$	16			$	9			$	4			$	34			$	51
	(B) Stock-based compensation consists of the following:
				Three Months Ended												Nine Months Ended
				October 27,				July 28,				October 29,				October 27,				October 29,
					2024				2024				2023				2024				2023
		Cost of revenue		$	50			$	40			$	38			$	125			$	96
		Research and development		$	910			$	832			$	701			$	2,469			$	1,826
		Sales, general and administrative		$	292			$	282			$	240			$	822			$	633
	(C) Other consists of IP-related costs and assets held for sale related adjustments
	(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).
	(E) Reflects a ten-for-one stock split on June 7, 2024

NVIDIA CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP OUTLOOK
		Q4 FY2025 Outlook
		($ in millions)
GAAP gross margin			73.0	%
	Impact of stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs		0.5	%
Non-GAAP gross margin			73.5	%
GAAP operating expenses		$	4,750
	Stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs		(1,350	)
Non-GAAP operating expenses		$	3,400

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Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the age of AI in full steam, propelling a global shift to NVIDIA computing; demand for Hopper and anticipation for Blackwell — in full production — being incredible as foundation model makers scale pretraining, post-training and inference; AI transforming every industry, company and country; enterprises adopting agentic AI to revolutionize workflows; industrial robotics investments surging with breakthroughs in physical AI; countries awakening to the importance of developing their national AI and infrastructure; NVIDIA’s next quarterly cash dividend; and NVIDIA’s financial outlook and expected tax rates for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 are risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; and unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems, as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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