NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2021

• Record quarterly and full-year revenue for company, Gaming and Data Center
  
• Company quarterly revenue of $5.00 billion, up 61 percent year on year
  
• Company full-year revenue of $16.68 billion, up 53 percent
  

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended January 31, 2021, of $5.00 billion, up 61 percent from $3.11 billion a year earlier, and up 6 percent from $4.73 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Gaming and Data Center platforms achieved record revenue for the quarter and year.

GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were a record $2.31, up 51 percent from $1.53 a year ago, and up 9 percent from $2.12 in the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $3.10, up 64 percent from $1.89 a year earlier, and up 7 percent from $2.91 in the previous quarter.

For fiscal 2021, revenue was a record $16.68 billion, up 53 percent from $10.92 billion a year earlier. GAAP earnings per diluted share were a record $6.90, up 53 percent from $4.52 a year earlier. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $10.00, up 73 percent from $5.79 a year earlier.

“Q4 was another record quarter, capping a breakout year for NVIDIA’s computing platforms,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Our pioneering work in accelerated computing has led to gaming becoming the world’s most popular entertainment, to supercomputing being democratized for all researchers, and to AI emerging as the most important force in technology.

“Demand for GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs is incredible. NVIDIA RTX has started a major upgrade cycle as gamers jump to ray tracing, DLSS and AI.

“Our A100 universal AI data center GPUs are ramping strongly across cloud-service providers and vertical industries. Thousands of companies across the world are applying NVIDIA AI to create cloud-connected products with AI services that will transform the world’s largest industries. We are seeing the smartphone moment for every industry.

“Mellanox has expanded our footprint across the data center. And we are making good progress toward acquiring Arm, which will create enormous new opportunities for the entire ecosystem,” he said.

NVIDIA paid quarterly cash dividends of $99 million in the fourth quarter and $395 million in fiscal 2021. It will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share on March 31, 2021, to all shareholders of record on March 10, 2021.

Q4 Fiscal 2021 Summary

GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)	Q4 FY21			Q3 FY21			Q4 FY20			Q/Q	Y/Y
Revenue	$5,003			$4,726			$3,105			Up 6%	Up 61%
Gross margin	63.1		%	62.6		%	64.9		%	Up 50 bps	Down 180 bps
Operating expenses	$1,650			$1,562			$1,025			Up 6%	Up 61%
Operating income	$1,507			$1,398			$990			Up 8%	Up 52%
Net income	$1,457			$1,336			$950			Up 9%	Up 53%
Diluted earnings per share	$2.31			$2.12			$1.53			Up 9%	Up 51%

Non-GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)	Q4 FY21			Q3 FY21			Q4 FY20			Q/Q	Y/Y
Revenue	$5,003			$4,726			$3,105			Up 6%	Up 61%
Gross margin	65.5		%	65.5		%	65.4		%	--	Up 10 bps
Operating expenses	$1,187			$1,101			$810			Up 8%	Up 47%
Operating income	$2,089			$1,993			$1,220			Up 5%	Up 71%
Net income	$1,957			$1,834			$1,172			Up 7%	Up 67%
Diluted earnings per share	$3.10			$2.91			$1.89			Up 7%	Up 64%

Fiscal 2021 Summary

GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)	FY21			FY20			Y/Y
Revenue	$16,675			$10,918			Up 53%
Gross margin	62.3		%	62.0		%	Up 30 bps
Operating expenses	$5,864			$3,922			Up 50%
Operating income	$4,532			$2,846			Up 59%
Net income	$4,332			$2,796			Up 55%
Diluted earnings per share	$6.90			$4.52			Up 53%

Non-GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share)	FY21			FY20			Y/Y
Revenue	$16,675			$10,918			Up 53%
Gross margin	65.6		%	62.5		%	Up 310 bps
Operating expenses	$4,144			$3,086			Up 34%
Operating income	$6,803			$3,735			Up 82%
Net income	$6,277			$3,580			Up 75%
Diluted earnings per share	$10.00			$5.79			Up 73%

NVIDIA’s outlook for the first quarter of fiscal 2022 is as follows:

• Revenue is expected to be $5.30 billion, plus or minus 2 percent.
• GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 63.8 percent and 66.0 percent, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.
• GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $1.67 billion and $1.20 billion, respectively.
• GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are both expected to be an expense of approximately $50 million.
• GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are both expected to be 10 percent, plus or minus 1 percent, excluding any discrete items. GAAP discrete items include excess tax benefits or deficiencies related to stock-based compensation, which are expected to generate variability on a quarter-by-quarter basis.
  

Highlights

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

Data Center

• Fourth-quarter revenue was a record $1.90 billion, slightly above the previous quarter and up 97 percent from a year earlier. Full-year revenue was a record $6.70 billion, up 124 percent.
• Announced that the world’s leading OEMs unveiled the first wave of NVIDIA-Certified Systems with NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs — the industry’s only accelerated servers tested for machine learning and data analytics workloads.
• Introduced support for Google Cloud’s Anthos on bare metal for NVIDIA DGX A100 systems, enabling enterprises to create hybrid cloud infrastructure more easily.
• Enhanced the NVIDIA Clara application framework for AI-powered healthcare and life sciences with the launch of Clara Discovery for computational drug discovery, providing dozens of pre-trained models, the MONAI open-source medical AI training framework, and federated learning for the industry to collaborate on building models without sharing data.
• Collaborated with Amazon Web Services to bring the NVIDIA NGC software hub to AWS Marketplace.

Gaming

• Fourth-quarter revenue was a record $2.50 billion, up 10 percent from the previous quarter and up 67 percent from a year earlier. Full-year revenue was a record $7.76 billion, up 41 percent.
• Announced the company’s biggest-ever laptop launch, with 70+ new laptops for gamers and creators, powered by NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs.
• Expanded the GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs with 60-class offerings — the most popular in the company’s gaming lineup — including the GeForce RTX 3060, starting at just $329, featuring NVIDIA RTX ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex and NVIDIA Broadcast.
• Increased momentum for NVIDIA RTX adoption, now available in 36 new titles, including Minecraft, Fortnite and Cyberpunk 2077.
• Announced that Overwatch and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege are adopting NVIDIA Reflex, bringing this low-latency technology to seven of the top 10 competitive-shooter games.
• Announced GeForce NOW has come to iOS Safari, giving over 6 million GeForce NOW members access to the service through Safari on iPhone or iPad.

Professional Visualization

• Fourth-quarter revenue was $307 million, up 30 percent from the previous quarter and down 7 percent from a year earlier. Full-year revenue was $1.05 billion, down 13 percent.
• Announced that NVIDIA Omniverse — a real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production pipelines — is now in open beta.

Automotive

• Fourth-quarter revenue was $145 million, up 16 percent from the previous quarter and down 11 percent from a year earlier. Full-year revenue was $536 million, down 23 percent.
• Announced that NVIDIA DRIVE autonomous driving technology is powering a range of next-gen electric vehicles from carmakers SAIC and Nio; robotaxi-maker Zoox; and cabless truck-maker Einride.
• Announced that NVIDIA is powering the new Mercedes-Benz AI cockpit, featuring the MBUX Hyperscreen, which will debut in the all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQS in the first half of 2021.
• Expanded the NVIDIA DRIVE sensor ecosystem with new solutions from lidar makers Baraja, Hesai, Innoviz, Magna and Ouster.

CFO Commentary
Commentary 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 Information

NVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its fourth quarter and fiscal 2021 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 first quarter of fiscal 2022.

Non-GAAP Measures

To 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 income from operations, 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, IP-related costs, gains and losses from non-affiliated investments, 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 of 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								Twelve Months Ended
			January 31,				January 26,				January 31,				January 26,
				2021				2020				2021				2020
Revenue			$	5,003			$	3,105			$	16,675			$	10,918
Cost of revenue				1,846				1,090				6,279				4,150
Gross profit				3,157				2,015				10,396				6,768
Operating expenses
	Research and development			1,147				738				3,924				2,829
	Sales, general and administrative			503				287				1,940				1,093
		Total operating expenses		1,650				1,025				5,864				3,922
Income from operations				1,507				990				4,532				2,846
	Interest income			6				41				57				178
	Interest expense			(53	)			(12	)			(184	)			(52	)
	Other, net			10				(3	)			4				(2	)
		Other income (expense), net		(37	)			26				(123	)			124
Income before income tax				1,470				1,016				4,409				2,970
Income tax expense				13				66				77				174
Net income			$	1,457			$	950			$	4,332			$	2,796
Net income per share:
	Basic		$	2.35			$	1.55			$	7.02			$	4.59
	Diluted		$	2.31			$	1.53			$	6.90			$	4.52
Weighted average shares used in per share computation:
	Basic			619				612				617				609
	Diluted			631				621				628				618

 

NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
				January 31,			January 26,
				2021			2020
ASSETS
Current assets:
	Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities			$	11,561		$	10,897
	Accounts receivable, net				2,429			1,657
	Inventories				1,826			979
	Prepaid expenses and other current assets				239			157
		Total current assets			16,055			13,690
Property and equipment, net					2,149			1,674
Operating lease assets					707			618
Goodwill					4,193			618
Intangible assets, net					2,737			49
Deferred income tax assets					806			548
Other assets					2,144			118
		Total assets		$	28,791		$	17,315
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
	Accounts payable			$	1,201		$	687
	Accrued and other current liabilities				1,725			1,097
	Short-term debt				999			-
		Total current liabilities			3,925			1,784
Long-term debt					5,964			1,991
Long-term operating lease liabilities					634			561
Other long-term liabilities					1,375			775
		Total liabilities			11,898			5,111
Shareholders' equity					16,893			12,204
		Total liabilities and shareholders' equity		$	28,791		$	17,315

 

NVIDIA CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In millions)
(Unaudited)
			Three Months Ended								Twelve Months Ended
			January 31,				January 26,				January 31,				January 26,
				2021				2020				2021				2020
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income			$	1,457			$	950			$	4,332			$	2,796
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash
provided by operating activities:
	Depreciation and amortization			287				106				1,098				381
	Stock-based compensation expense			417				220				1,397				844
	Deferred income taxes			(164	)			23				(282	)			18
	Other			(17	)			-				(20	)			5
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
	Accounts receivable			117				(202	)			(550	)			(233	)
	Inventories			(334	)			66				(524	)			597
	Prepaid expenses and other assets			15				22				(394	)			77
	Accounts payable			75				104				363				194
	Accrued and other current liabilities			126				157				239				54
	Other long-term liabilities			88				19				163				28
Net cash provided by operating activities				2,067				1,465				5,822				4,761
Cash flows from investing activities:
	Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities			3,627				-				8,792				4,744
	Proceeds from sales of marketable securities			25				2				527				3,365
	Purchases of marketable securities			(6,468	)			-				(19,308	)			(1,461	)
	Acquisitions, net of cash acquired			-				-				(8,524	)			(4	)
	Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets			(283	)			(144	)			(1,128	)			(489	)
	Investments and other, net			(30	)			(9	)			(34	)			(10	)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities				(3,129	)			(151	)			(19,675	)			6,145
Cash flows from financing activities:
	Proceeds related to employee stock plans			4				2				194				149
	Payments related to tax on restricted stock units			(225	)			(87	)			(942	)			(551	)
	Dividends paid			(99	)			(98	)			(395	)			(390	)
	Issuance of debt, net of issuance costs			(3	)			-				4,968				-
	Principal payments on property and equipment			(17	)			-				(17	)			-
	Other			(2	)			-				(4	)			-
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities				(342	)			(183	)			3,804				(792	)
Change in cash and cash equivalents				(1,404	)			1,131				(10,049	)			10,114
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period				2,251				9,765				10,896				782
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period			$	847			$	10,896			$	847			$	10,896

 

	NVIDIA CORPORATION
	RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
	(In millions, except per share data)
	(Unaudited)
				Three Months Ended												Twelve Months Ended
				January 31,				October 25,				January 26,				January 31,				January 26,
					2021				2020				2020				2021				2020
	GAAP gross profit			$	3,157			$	2,960			$	2,015			$	10,396			$	6,768
	GAAP gross margin				63.1	%			62.6	%			64.9	%			62.3	%			62.0	%
		Acquisition-related and other costs (B)			92				86				-				425				-
		Stock-based compensation expense (A)			26				28				12				88				39
		IP-related costs			1				21				3				38				14
	Non-GAAP gross profit			$	3,276			$	3,095			$	2,030			$	10,947			$	6,821
	Non-GAAP gross margin				65.5	%			65.5	%			65.4	%			65.6	%			62.5	%
	GAAP operating expenses			$	1,650			$	1,562			$	1,025			$	5,864			$	3,922
		Stock-based compensation expense (A)			(391	)			(355	)			(208	)			(1,309	)			(805	)
		Acquisition-related and other costs (B)			(72	)			(106	)			(7	)			(411	)			(31	)
	Non-GAAP operating expenses			$	1,187			$	1,101			$	810			$	4,144			$	3,086
	GAAP income from operations			$	1,507			$	1,398			$	990			$	4,532			$	2,846
		Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to income from operations			582				595				230				2,271				889
	Non-GAAP income from operations			$	2,089			$	1,993			$	1,220			$	6,803			$	3,735
	GAAP other income (expense), net			$	(37	)		$	(50	)		$	26			$	(123	)		$	124
		Losses (Gains) from non-affiliated investments			(9	)			4				-				-				1
		Interest expense related to amortization of debt discount			1				1				-				3				2
	Non-GAAP other income (expense), net			$	(45	)		$	(45	)		$	26			$	(120	)		$	127
	GAAP net income			$	1,457			$	1,336			$	950			$	4,332			$	2,796
		Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments			574				600				230				2,274				890
		Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments (C)			(74	)			(102	)			(8	)			(329	)			(106	)
	Non-GAAP net income			$	1,957			$	1,834			$	1,172			$	6,277			$	3,580
	Diluted net income per share
		GAAP		$	2.31			$	2.12			$	1.53			$	6.90			$	4.52
		Non-GAAP		$	3.10			$	2.91			$	1.89			$	10.00			$	5.79
	Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation				631				630				621				628				618
	GAAP net cash provided by operating activities			$	2,067			$	1,279			$	1,465			$	5,822			$	4,761
		Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets			(283	)			(473	)			(144	)			(1,128	)			(489	)
		Principal payments on property and equipment			(17	)			-				-				(17	)			-
	Free cash flow			$	1,767			$	806			$	1,321			$	4,677			$	4,272
	(A) Stock-based compensation consists of the following:			Three Months Ended												Twelve Months Ended
				January 31,				October 25,				January 26,				January 31,				January 26,
					2021				2020				2020				2021				2020
		Cost of revenue		$	26			$	28			$	12			$	88			$	39
		Research and development		$	266			$	232			$	140			$	860			$	540
		Sales, general and administrative		$	125			$	123			$	68			$	449			$	265
	(B) Acquisition-related and other costs primarily include amortization of intangible assets,  inventory step-up, transaction costs, and certain compensation charges presented as follows:
				Three Months Ended												Twelve Months Ended
				January 31,				October 25,				January 26,				January 31,				January 26,
					2021				2020				2020				2021				2020
		Cost of revenue		$	92			$	86			$	-			$	425			$	-
		Research and development		$	2			$	2			$	1			$	9			$	6
		Sales, general and administrative		$	70			$	104			$	6			$	402			$	25
	(C) 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).

 

NVIDIA CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP OUTLOOK
		Q1 FY2022 Outlook
		($ in millions)
GAAP gross margin			63.8	%
	Impact of stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs		2.2	%
Non-GAAP gross margin			66.0	%
GAAP operating expenses		$	1,670
	Stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs		(470	)
Non-GAAP operating expenses		$	1,200

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Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: NVIDIA’s pioneering work in accelerated computing and its impacts; demand for our GPUs; the invention of RTX and it starting upgrade cycles; our GPU series expansion and shipping; our A100 GPUs ramping; our work with and the number of companies across the world to applying NVIDIA AI and its impact; seeing the smartphone moment for every industry; expanding our footprint across the data center; our opportunities; our progress on the Arm acquisition, when it is expected to close and it creating new opportunities for the entire ecosystem; NVIDIA’s next quarterly cash dividend; NVIDIA’s financial outlook for the first quarter of fiscal 2022; NVIDIA’s expected tax rates for the first quarter of fiscal 2022; NVIDIA’s expectation to generate variability from excess tax benefits or deficiencies; NVIDIA-Certified Systems being offered from the world’s leading OEMs; support for Anthos and it enabling enterprises to more easily create hybrid cloud infrastructure; the benefits, performance and abilities of our products and technologies, including NVIDIA Clara application framework and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs; NVIDIA Clara Discovery providing pre-trained models, the MONAI framework, and federated learning for the industry without sharing data; bringing NGC software to the AWS Marketplace; the size of our laptop launch and number of laptops using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs; expanding our RTX 30 Series GPUs and their features; increasing momentum for RTX technologies and the number of titles using it; the games using NVIDIA Reflex technology; GeForce NOW’s availability and the number of members that can access it; NVIDIA Omniverse being in open beta; NVIDIA DRIVE powering a range of next-gen electric vehicles; NVIDIA powering the Mercedes-Benz AI cockpit and the cars and timing for its debut; and expanding the NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem with new solutions from lidar makers are forward-looking statements that are subject to 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; 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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