- Record revenue of $2.23 billion, up 56 percent from a year ago
- GAAP EPS of $0.92, up 124 percent from a year ago
- Non-GAAP EPS of $1.01, up 91 percent from a year ago
- Broad growth across all platforms
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GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.92, up 124 percent from $0.41 a year ago and up 16 percent from $0.79 in the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $1.01, up 91 percent from $0.53 a year earlier and up 19 percent from $0.85 in the previous quarter.
"Adoption of NVIDIA GPU computing is accelerating, driving growth across our businesses," said Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. "Datacenter revenue increased more than two and a half times. A growing number of car and robot-taxi companies are choosing our DRIVE PX self-driving computing platform. And in Gaming, increasingly the world's most popular form of entertainment, we power the fastest growing platforms - GeForce and Nintendo Switch.
"Nearly every industry and company is awakening to the power of AI. Our new Volta GPU, the most complex processor ever built, delivers a 100-fold speedup for deep learning beyond our best GPU of four years ago. This quarter, we shipped Volta in volume to leading AI customers. This is the era of AI, and the NVIDIA GPU has become its brain. We have incredible opportunities ahead of us," he said.
Capital Return
During the first half of fiscal 2018, NVIDIA paid $758 million in share repurchases and $166 million in cash dividends. For fiscal 2018, NVIDIA intends to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases.
NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.14 per share on September 18, 2017, to all shareholders of record on August 24, 2017.
Q2 FY2018 Summary
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GAAP
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($ in millions except earnings
per share) Q2 FY18 Q1 FY18 Q2 FY17 Q/Q Y/Y
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Revenue $2,230 $1,937 $1,428 Up 15% Up 56%
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Gross margin 58.4% 59.4% 57.9% Down 100 Up 50 bps
bps
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Operating expenses $614 $596 $509 Up 3% Up 21%
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Operating income $688 $554 $317 Up 24% Up 117%
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Net income $583 $507 $261 Up 15% Up 123%
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Diluted earnings per share $0.92 $0.79 $0.41 Up 16% Up 124%
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Non-GAAP
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($ in millions except earnings
per share) Q2 FY18 Q1 FY18 Q2 FY17 Q/Q Y/Y
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Revenue $2,230 $1,937 $1,428 Up 15% Up 56%
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Gross margin 58.6% 59.6% 58.1% Down 100 Up 50 bps
bps
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Operating expenses $533 $517 $448 Up 3% Up 19%
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Operating income $773 $637 $382 Up 21% Up 102%
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Net income $638 $533 $313 Up 20% Up 104%
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Diluted earnings per share $1.01 $0.85 $0.53 Up 19% Up 91%
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