Nvidia: Expect Shares To Soar Higher On 2025's AI Spending Frenzy

Seeking Alpha2025-01-07

SummaryNvidia Corporation's 2024 revenue surged 86% to $113.3 billion, driven by hyperscaler spending on data center capital expenditures, with operating income doubling to $71 billion.Hyperscalers ...

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Over the trailing twelve months vs. Nvidia's FY ending January 2024, Nvidia's revenues jumped by 86%, to $113.3 billion. Over the same period, operating income more than doubled, to $71 billion.NVDA income statementAfter such an enormously strong year, market participants may worry that Nvidia sees a slowdown in growth. But in my view, it is far too early to worry on such a thesis. In fact, looking forward to 2025, data center capital spending continues to surge as cloud providers expand their AI and machine learning infrastructure. In fact, all major tech companies including Amazon Web Services (AMZN), Microsoft Azure (MSFT), Meta Platforms (META), and Google Cloud (GOOG) are aggressively investing in high-performance computing capabilities to support the exponential growth of generative AI, large language models, and other AI applications.During 2024, the big four hyperscalers are expected to have invested about $200 billion worth of data center capital expenditure …Hyperscaler CAPEX over time… and looking at 2025, this number is expected to grow at 50% year-over-year, to approximately $300 billion, according to Morgan Stanley research. Amazon and Microsoft are projected to lead in capital expenditures, with investments of $96.4 billion and $89.9 billion, respectively, while Google and Meta are expected to follow closely behind, allocating $62.6 billion and $52.3 billion. To give some more color on the expected 2025 spending boom, see below direct quotes.Google's CFO said: (emphasis added):And as you think about the next quarter and going into next year, as I've mentioned in my prepared remarks, we will be investing in Q4 at approximately the same level of what we've invested in Q3, approximately $13 billion. As we think into 2025, we do see an increase coming in 2025. And we will provide more color on that on the Q4 call, likely not the same percent step-up that we saw between '23 and '24 but an additional increase.Mark Zuckerberg said: (emphasis added):Turning now to the capex outlook. We anticipate our full year 2024 capital expenditures will be in the range of $38-40 billion, updated from our prior range of $37-40 billion. We continue to expect significant capital expenditures growth in 2025. Given this, along with the back-end weighted nature of our 2024 capex, we expect a significant acceleration in infrastructure expense growth next year as we recognize higher growth in depreciation and operating expenses of our expanded infrastructure fleet.Microsoft's Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said: (emphasis added):Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads, the company said in a Friday blog post. Over half of Microsoft’s $80 billion in spending will take place in the U.S.Moreover, I highlight an interesting quote from Dylan Patel, founder of the independent research firm SemiAnalysis, in a conversation with the tech investment professionals Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley: (emphasis added):The plans for hyperscalers are pretty firm: they gonna spend a crap load more next year. The growth rate for Nvidia is gonna be stupendous next year.Are hyperscalers ok of bringing free cash flow to zero? I think the are, btw. I think Meta and Microsoft may even bring their free cash flow close to zero and just spend.Based on the above analysis, I clearly do not expect a slowdown in the AI spending backdrop for 2025. And with this, Nvidia is poised for more commercial upside over the next 12 months.For context, Nvidia commands an estimated 90% share of the AI GPU market in 2024. Thus, if CAPEX spending by the hyperscalers is set to grow 50% in 2025 vs. 2024, which estimates from Morgan Stanley imply, then Nvidia should see a similar jump in its revenues. Indeed, this is what analysts currently expect: According to data collected by Refinitv, Nvidia is projected to achieve revenue growth of 50-55% in 2025, with analyst estimates still trending up.Nvidia 2025 revenueBut how likely will Nvidia defend a 90% market share over the next 12 months? Very likely, in my opinion. I highlight that in early 2025, Nvidia is set to ship its next-generation Blackwell architecture, which is projected to be a game-changing development in AI and high-performance computing. The architecture is designed to cater to a wide range of use cases, including air-cooled, liquid-cooled, x86, and ARM-based configurations, ensuring widespread adoption among enterprises and data centers. Early feedback from industry insiders indicates that Blackwell GPUs deliver up to 2.5 times the performance of Hopper GPUs in AI training workloads. Moreover, in certain benchmarks, Blackwell GPUs have demonstrated up to 15 times higher inference performance compared to Hopper. At the same time, Nvidia’s hardware innovations are complemented by the company's proprietary CUDA platform, which has become the industry standard for AI and HPC applications. This ecosystem of hardware and software leadership creates a significant competitive moat for Nvidia.To underscore how Nvidia's hardware and software ecosystem create a moat that is difficult to breach for competitors, I highlight recent research by SemiAnalysis. It has done an in-depth benchmark analysis for Nvidia’s H100 and H200 vs. Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) MI300X. The research firm wrote: (emphasis added)SemiAnalysis has been on a five-month long quest to settle the reality of MI300X. In theory, the MI300X should be at a huge advantage over Nvidia’s H100 and H200 in terms of specifications and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). However, the reality is that the on paper specs as given below are not representative of performance that can be expected in a real-world environment ...... In short, when comparing Nvidia’s GPUs to AMD’s MI300X, we found that the potential on paper advantage of the MI300X was not realized due to a lack within AMD public release software stack and the lack of testing from AMD.In addition to AMD, Broadcom (AVGO) is also a potential challenger to Nvidia's market share due to the company's value proposition for developing custom AI accelerators and network infrastructure. However, despite the emergence of ASICs and custom silicon as potential competitors, Nvidia’s competitive advantages remain unassailable. Custom silicon, while attractive for specific workloads, lacks the versatility and ecosystem support that Nvidia GPUs provide. Moreover, custom silicon projects will take time to complete, likely not challenging Nvidia's market share before 2026, or even 2027.Over the past 5 years, Nvidia shares have seldom traded below 50x. And in my view, there is no reason why Nvidia should start trading below 50x in 2025 — pointing to a 50-55% revenue CAGR with an enormous competitive moat.NVDA P/E over the past 5 yearsAnalyst consensus estimates currently see Nvidia's earnings for 2025 at around $4.5. If we apply a 50x multiple to the earnings projection, then the implied valuation for Nvidia stock is around $225 per share.Nvidia 2025 EPSConcluding, Nvidia’s explosive growth in 2024, with an 86% revenue surge to $113.3 billion and operating income doubling to $71 billion, shows no signs of slowing. Hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft, Meta, and Google are set to pour $300 billion into AI-driven data centers in 2025—a 50% jump—fueling Nvidia’s dominance. With a 90% AI GPU market share and its upcoming Blackwell architecture delivering up to 15x performance gains, Nvidia is positioned to capitalize on this spending spree. Competitors like AMD and Broadcom face hurdles in software optimization and ecosystem support, leaving Nvidia’s hardware-software moat firmly intact for the foreseeable future. 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