Although the tech firm Broadcom's full-year prediction failed to excite investors, it indicated that it anticipates $10 billion in sales this year from semiconductors connected to artificial intelligence. Despite this, the price fell.
Due to lower-than-expected revenue, smaller rival Marvell Technologies' stock fell more than 6% during extended trading.
Investors, who think they will benefit from the explosion of AI technologies like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, are keeping a careful eye on both firms.
In addition to helping customers create custom AI chips, Marvell and Broadcom both sell networking chips that facilitate the movement of the massive volumes of data required for AI computing.
Hock Tan, the CEO of Broadcom, stated on an analyst call that the company's custom AI chip business in 2024 will be derived from assisting just two significant clients in designing unique chips, accounting for roughly $7 billion of total revenue. Although Tan did not identify the clients, experts generally concur that they are Meta Platforms, the company that owns Google and Facebook within Alphabet.
Additionally, according to Tan, the custom chip industry "can command margins similar to our corporate gross margin." On an adjusted basis, that gross margin for the first quarter of the fiscal year was almost 75%. According to a Reuters story from last month, Nvidia intends to take on Broadcom in the market for customised AI chips.
While indicating a 40% gain, Broadcom did not revise its $50 billion annual revenue projection, which probably disappointed investors.
Expectations for growth at Broadcom's Palo Alto, California-based company are high after a 26% surge in the company's shares in 2024, mostly due to confidence about artificial intelligence. In after-hours trading, the shares fell more than 1% as the company did not raise its prediction.
"For companies whose chips are more tangentially related to the AI gold rush, there will inevitably be starts and stalls in growth rates that can’t easily be mapped to the big AI trends," said Bob O'Donnell of TECHnalysis Research.
Marvell and Broadcom both saw over 4% gains ahead of their results, setting records after recent months of gains.
Because of the increased investment on data centres by Microsoft and other computer giants, where Broadcom provides a large portion of the networking chips, the company has been heralded as a beneficiary of a generative AI drive across the tech landscape.
According to Tan, the present cyclical slowdown in enterprise and telcos was more than compensated by Broadcom's AI revenue, which doubled from a year earlier to $2.3 billion during the fiscal first quarter that ended on February 4.
Its semiconductor solutions division saw a 4% increase in revenue in the first quarter, coming in just short of Visible Alpha's $7.45 billion expectation.
Growth of the Software Sector
Although it is best known for making chips, Broadcom currently owns a number of IT companies, including CA Technologies, a software company, and VMware.
Revenue from infrastructure software increased by 153% to $4.57 billion, above $4.49 billion in Visible Alpha projections.
LSEG data shows that the company's quarterly net sales of $11.96 billion above analysts' average expectation of $11.72 billion.
Analysts had projected $5.01 billion for Broadcom's first-quarter net profits; the company instead posted adjusted net income of $5.25 billion. Earnings per share, adjusted for equity compensation, were $10.99 as opposed to projections of $10.30 per share.
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Due to lower-than-expected revenue, smaller rival Marvell Technologies' stock fell more than 6% during extended trading.
Investors, who think they will benefit from the explosion of AI technologies like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, are keeping a careful eye on both firms.
In addition to helping customers create custom AI chips, Marvell and Broadcom both sell networking chips that facilitate the movement of the massive volumes of data required for AI computing.
Hock Tan, the CEO of Broadcom, stated on an analyst call that the company's custom AI chip business in 2024 will be derived from assisting just two significant clients in designing unique chips, accounting for roughly $7 billion of total revenue. Although Tan did not identify the clients, experts generally concur that they are Meta Platforms, the company that owns Google and Facebook within Alphabet.
Additionally, according to Tan, the custom chip industry "can command margins similar to our corporate gross margin." On an adjusted basis, that gross margin for the first quarter of the fiscal year was almost 75%. According to a Reuters story from last month, Nvidia intends to take on Broadcom in the market for customised AI chips.
While indicating a 40% gain, Broadcom did not revise its $50 billion annual revenue projection, which probably disappointed investors.
Expectations for growth at Broadcom's Palo Alto, California-based company are high after a 26% surge in the company's shares in 2024, mostly due to confidence about artificial intelligence. In after-hours trading, the shares fell more than 1% as the company did not raise its prediction.
"For companies whose chips are more tangentially related to the AI gold rush, there will inevitably be starts and stalls in growth rates that can’t easily be mapped to the big AI trends," said Bob O'Donnell of TECHnalysis Research.
Marvell and Broadcom both saw over 4% gains ahead of their results, setting records after recent months of gains.
Because of the increased investment on data centres by Microsoft and other computer giants, where Broadcom provides a large portion of the networking chips, the company has been heralded as a beneficiary of a generative AI drive across the tech landscape.
According to Tan, the present cyclical slowdown in enterprise and telcos was more than compensated by Broadcom's AI revenue, which doubled from a year earlier to $2.3 billion during the fiscal first quarter that ended on February 4.
Its semiconductor solutions division saw a 4% increase in revenue in the first quarter, coming in just short of Visible Alpha's $7.45 billion expectation.
Growth of the Software Sector
Although it is best known for making chips, Broadcom currently owns a number of IT companies, including CA Technologies, a software company, and VMware.
Revenue from infrastructure software increased by 153% to $4.57 billion, above $4.49 billion in Visible Alpha projections.
LSEG data shows that the company's quarterly net sales of $11.96 billion above analysts' average expectation of $11.72 billion.
Analysts had projected $5.01 billion for Broadcom's first-quarter net profits; the company instead posted adjusted net income of $5.25 billion. Earnings per share, adjusted for equity compensation, were $10.99 as opposed to projections of $10.30 per share.
(Source:www.usnews.com)