英伟达上一季度营收达到 960 亿美元,同比增长 106%,环比增长 18%。公司对第三季度的指引为 1080 亿美元,上下浮动 2%。
这一指引意味着单季度营收将突破 1000 亿美元大关。没有任何一家半导体公司曾达到过这一门槛,也没有任何一家公司在保持三位数增长的同时达到过这一水平。
仅第二季度年化营收就已达 3850 亿美元。按 1080 亿美元计算,英伟达年化营收将达到 4320 亿美元,使其成为全球第六大公司,超越苹果、McKesson 和 Alphabet。
排在其前面的只剩亚马逊、沃尔玛、国家电网、联合健康集团和沙特阿美,这些公司的年复合增长率在 -3% 到 14% 之间。而英伟达的增速是 106%。
从毛利润来看,数字更加惊人。由于英伟达的毛利率高达 75.0%,1080 亿美元的季度营收年化后对应 3240 亿美元的年毛利润,位居全球第二。
但营收构成正在发生变化。
Colette Kress 给出了具体拆分:
“超大规模云厂商营收同比增长超过一倍,环比增长 13%……ACIE 营收同比增长 138%,环比增长 25%,增长动力来自 AI 原生企业、企业客户和主权客户的终端需求。”
新云厂商(neoclouds)首次贡献了数据中心净新增营收的大部分。这一转变表明英伟达的业务比以往更健康、更多元化,但也引发了一个问题:超大规模云厂商的自研芯片、Google TPU、Amazon Trainium 和 Meta MTIA 是否最终会减缓大型科技公司的需求。
Jensen Huang 这样描述替代需求:
“去年这个时候,只有一家实验室在推动建设;而今天,我们正迎来新 AI 实验室和创业公司的黄金时代,多个前沿实验室并行扩展,开源模型生态蓬勃发展,物理 AI 也正在落地。”
这也改变了信用风险格局。非超大规模云厂商的资产负债表明显弱于大型科技公司,现金流也更小,这意味着英伟达很可能需要提供更多供应商融资来支撑它们的增长。这一点已经反映在应收账款上。
应收账款周转天数(DSO)在一个季度内从 45 天跃升至 60 天。在此之前的八个季度里,DSO 一直保持在 43 到 46 天的区间内。营收环比增长 18%,而应收账款增长了 64%。
Kress 将其归因于“与某些投资级客户签订的大型、跨季度协议中延长的付款条款”。
下个季度请关注 DSO(应收账款周转天数)。如果 60 天只是一次性的重置,那么该指标会持平或回落。如果它继续攀升,则表明 NVIDIA 正在提供更多信贷,以维持那些无法自行负担增长成本的买家的需求。
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基于《财富》世界 500 强的年收入:亚马逊(7170 亿美元)、沃尔玛(7130 亿美元)、国家电网(6550 亿美元)、联合健康(4480 亿美元)和沙特阿美(4460 亿美元)。↩︎
NVIDIA booked $96b of revenue last quarter, up 106% from a year ago & 18% from the quarter before. The company guided Q3 to $108b ±2%.
That guide crosses $100b of revenue in a single quarter. No semiconductor company has ever reached that threshold, & no company of any kind has reached it while growing triple digits.
Q2 alone runs at $385b a year. At $108b, NVIDIA annualizes to $432b of revenue, making it the sixth largest company in the world, leapfrogging Apple, McKesson & Alphabet.
The only companies still ahead of it are Amazon, Walmart, State Grid, UnitedHealth & Saudi Aramco,1 all of which compound between -3% & 14% a year. NVIDIA is growing 106%.
On gross profit, the math is even more extreme. Because NVIDIA operates at 75.0% gross margins, that $108b quarterly run-rate generates $324b of annual gross profit, ranking it second in the world.
But the revenue contribution is shifting.
Colette Kress gave the split :
“Hyperscale revenue more than doubled from a year ago and increased 13% sequentially… ACIE revenue increased 138% from a year ago and 25% sequentially driven by end-demand from AI natives, enterprises, and sovereign customers.”
For the first time, neoclouds contributed the majority of net-new Data Center revenue. This shift suggests NVIDIA’s business is healthier & more diversified than before, but it raises the question of whether hyperscaler custom silicon, Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium & Meta MTIA, will eventually slow Big Tech’s demand.
Jensen Huang described the replacement demand :
“This time last year, one lab alone was driving the buildout; today, we have a golden age of new AI labs and startups, multiple frontier labs scaling in parallel, a thriving open-model ecosystem and physical AI coming online.”
It also changes the credit risk. Non-hyperscalers have significantly weaker balance sheets & smaller cash flows than Big Tech, meaning NVIDIA will likely provide more supplier financing to sustain their growth. We are already seeing that show up in the receivables.
Days sales outstanding jumped from 45 to 60 in one quarter. For eight quarters before this, DSO sat in a band between 43 & 46 days. Revenue grew 18% sequentially. Receivables grew 64%.
Kress attributed it to “extended payment terms on large, multi-quarter agreements with certain investment-grade customers.”
Watch DSO next quarter. If 60 days was a one-time reset, it holds or falls. If it climbs, it signals that NVIDIA is extending more credit to sustain demand from buyers who cannot self-fund their growth.
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Annual revenues based on Fortune Global 500 : Amazon ($717b), Walmart ($713b), State Grid ($655b), UnitedHealth ($448b), & Saudi Aramco ($446b). ↩︎