Nvidia(US:NVDA) Tianfeng Securities·2025-03-14 08:23Investment Rating - The investment rating for NVIDIA is "Buy" with a target of over 20% relative return within the next six months [6]. Core Insights - NVIDIA reported record revenue of $39.3 billion for Q4 FY2024, a 78% year-over-year increase and a 12% quarter-over-quarter increase, surpassing Bloomberg consensus estimates of $38.2 billion [1]. - The data center business achieved a record revenue of $35.6 billion, exceeding Bloomberg consensus estimates of $34.1 billion, driven by strong sales of the Blackwell architecture [2]. - The company anticipates continued growth in computing power demand, supported by advancements in multi-modal models and inference optimization, with Blackwell architecture showing a 25-fold improvement in inference throughput compared to the previous generation [4]. Revenue and Profit Performance - NVIDIA's GAAP gross margin was 73%, in line with Bloomberg consensus, while net profit reached $22.1 billion, exceeding expectations of $19.8 billion, resulting in a GAAP net profit margin of 56.2% [1]. - The GAAP earnings per share (EPS) was $0.89, reflecting an 82% year-over-year increase and a 14% quarter-over-quarter increase [1]. Business Segment Highlights - The Blackwell architecture's initial production capacity reached 15,000 GPUs, with deployments across major cloud service providers like Azure, AWS, and GCP [3]. - The networking segment is expected to recover growth in the next quarter, with significant revenue increases from Spectrum X and NVLink Switch, as cloud service providers build large AI infrastructures [5]. - Enterprise AI revenue nearly doubled year-over-year, driven by demand for model fine-tuning and GPU-accelerated data processing [5]. Future Projections - Revenue forecasts for FY2026-2028 have been raised to $228 billion, $335 billion, and $374.2 billion respectively, with GAAP net profit projections of $124.9 billion, $175 billion, and $200 billion [6].