NVIDIA Drops Q4 Revenue Expectations by Half a Billion Dollars, mentioning the lack of sales on their High-End GPUs due to consumers waiting for lower prices.
NVIDIA lowered its Q4 revenue guidance just before the stock market opened this Monday, reports CNBC. In a statement NVIDIA mentions “weaker than forecasted sales of its Gaming and Datacenter platforms,” then a “deteriorating economic conditioning in China”. The company has lowered its projection in revenue towards $2.2 billion coming from $2.7 billion.
“Q4 was an extraordinary, unusually turbulent and disappointing quarter,” Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang, said in a statement. “Looking forward, we are confident in our strategies and growth drivers.”
| Previous Q4 Fiscal 2019 Guidance |
Updated Q4 Fiscal 2019 Guidance |
|
| Revenue | $2.70 billion, plus or minus 2% | $2.20 billion, plus or minus 2% |
| Gross margin – GAAP Gross margin – non-GAAP |
62.3%, plus or minus 50 bps 62.5%, plus or minus 50 bps |
55.0%, plus or minus 100 bps 56.0%, plus or minus 100 bps |
| Operating expenses – GAAP Operating expenses – non-GAAP |
$915 million $755 million |
$915 million $755 million |
| GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense | $21 million | $25 million |
| GAAP and non-GAAP tax rate, excluding discrete items | 8%, plus or minus 1% | 6%, plus or minus 1% |
NVIDIA mentions that sales of “certain high-end GPUs using Nvidia’s new Turing architecture” didn’t meet expectations because some customers are “waiting for lower price points and further demonstrations of RTX technology in actual games.”
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