NVIDIA's Q4 profit surges 80% to $22B amid AI demand
What's the story
Leading AI chipmaker NVIDIA has posted a whopping 78% YoY jump in its revenue for the fourth quarter ending January 26, 2025.
The company's earnings stood at a whopping $39.3 billion, compared to $22.1 billion in the same quarter last year. This marks a sequential growth of 12%. Its profit rose 80% to $22.09 billion, beating market estimates.
For FY25, NVIDIA's total revenue stood at $130.5 billion, up 114% from last fiscal's $60.9 billion.
Financial performance
NVIDIA's earnings per share and dividend announcement
NVIDIA also saw a massive jump in its Q4 FY25 earnings per share.
The company's earnings per diluted share, as per Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), jumped 82% to $0.89, up from $0.49 in the same period last fiscal year. This is a 10% sequential jump.
NVIDIA also announced a quarterly dividend of $0.01 per share, which will be paid on April 2, 2025 (record date: March 12, 2025).
Executive insights
CEO Jensen Huang comments on NVIDIA's performance
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang credited the company's stellar performance to the high demand for its Blackwell AI supercomputers.
He said that "demand for Blackwell is amazing as reasoning AI adds another scaling law — increasing compute for training makes models smarter and increasing compute for long thinking makes the answer smarter."
"We delivered $11 billion of Blackwell architecture revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, the fastest product ramp in our company's history," said NVIDIA CFO Colette Kress.
Future projections
NVIDIA projects strong outlook for Q1 FY26
Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon—collectively known as "hyperscalers"—purchased an estimated $44 billion worth of NVIDIA GPUs in the 2024 calendar year.
Looking ahead, NVIDIA expects its revenue to be approximately $43 billion (plus or minus 2%) in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.
Shares of NVIDIA were almost flat in after-hours trading, after a 3.7% surge on Wednesday. The tech giant remains the world's second-most-valuable publicly traded company, behind Apple.