Nvidia: UBS Note Should Raise Alarms

seekingalpha02-16

UBS raises Nvidia Corporation's earnings estimates and price target, but warns of near-term trouble for growth due to decreased lead times.Nvidia's lead times for GPU orders have decreased from 8-11 ...

Source Link

Disclaimer: Investing carries risk. This is not financial advice. The above content should not be regarded as an offer, recommendation, or solicitation on acquiring or disposing of any financial products, any associated discussions, comments, or posts by author or other users should not be considered as such either. It is solely for general information purpose only, which does not consider your own investment objectives, financial situations or needs. TTM assumes no responsibility or warranty for the accuracy and completeness of the information, investors should do their own research and may seek professional advice before investing.

Comments

OpenMind
02-16
OpenMind
How is it genuinely bad news with decreasing lead time? This is as though if you improve your production capacity / productivity to take on more orders, getting more market share is actually bad news? In addition, there is product life cycles, and uptake from smaller companies after interest rates reduced...
gordieeee
02-16
gordieeee
so we dumping?

Leave a comment

{"i18n":{"language":"en_US"},"isChannel":false,"data":{"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2411254211?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","thumbnail":"","is_english":true,"pubTime":"2024-02-16 10:56","share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","id":"2411254211","market":"us","top_or_hot":-1,"title":"Nvidia: UBS Note Should Raise Alarms","media":"seekingalpha","content":"<div>\n<p>UBS raises Nvidia Corporation's earnings estimates and price target, but warns of near-term trouble for growth due to decreased lead times.Nvidia's lead times for GPU orders have decreased from 8-11 ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4670524-nvidia-ubs-note-should-raise-alarms\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"seekingalpha","html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Nvidia: UBS Note Should Raise Alarms</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nNvidia: UBS Note Should Raise Alarms\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2024-02-16 10:56 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4670524-nvidia-ubs-note-should-raise-alarms><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>UBS raises Nvidia Corporation's earnings estimates and price target, but warns of near-term trouble for growth due to decreased lead times.Nvidia's lead times for GPU orders have decreased from 8-11 ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4670524-nvidia-ubs-note-should-raise-alarms\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","isBrief":false,"type":0,"news_type":1,"symbol":"LU0127658192.USD","symbol_name":"EASTSPRING INVESTMENTS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY \"A\" (USD) ACC","start_time":0,"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4670524-nvidia-ubs-note-should-raise-alarms","article_id":"2411254211","we_media_id":null,"thumbnails":[],"rights":null,"url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2411254211","pubTimestamp":1708052170,"sourceInfo":{"source_id":"seekingalpha","name":"Seeking Alpha"},"weMediaInfo":null,"summary":"It's necessary either for future production capacity increases to be outstripping future orders, or maybe also for Nvidia to be shipping product in excess of the orders being received. Or, given the extreme drop in lead times , likely both. Now, remember that shipments on a given quarter are satisfying both backlog and new orders. If lead times drop to the point where backlog disappears, then shipments would fall to just new orders, which are highly likely to be lower than backlog + new orders. This, in turn, would mean that in the quarter Nvidia eliminates its lead times (or just gets clos","collect":0,"end_time":0,"defaultTopTitle":"seekingalpha.com","property":[],"viewcount":null,"language":"en","relate_stocks":{"LU0127658192.USD":"EASTSPRING INVESTMENTS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0353189763.USD":"ALLSPRING  US ALL CAP GROWTH FUND \"I\" (USD) ACC","BK4551":"寇图资本持仓","IE00BJJMRY28.SGD":"Janus Henderson Balanced A Inc SGD","LU0642271901.SGD":"Janus Henderson Horizon Global Technology Leaders A2 SGD-H","LU0056508442.USD":"贝莱德世界科技基金A2","LU0820561909.HKD":"ALLIANZ INCOME AND GROWTH \"AM\" (HKD) INC","LU0061474960.USD":"天利环球焦点基金AU Acc","BK4549":"软银资本持仓","LU0170899867.USD":"EASTSPRING INVESTMENTS WORLD VALUE EQUITY  \"A\" (USD) ACC","IE00B19Z9505.USD":"美盛-美国大盘成长股A Acc","BK4548":"巴美列捷福持仓","IE00B1XK9C88.USD":"PINEBRIDGE US LARGE CAP RESEARCH ENHANCED \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0708995401.HKD":"FRANKLIN U.S. OPPORTUNITIES \"A\" (HKD) ACC","IE00B7KXQ091.USD":"Janus Henderson Balanced A Inc USD","LU0316494557.USD":"FRANKLIN GLOBAL FUNDAMENTAL STRATEGIES \"A\" ACC","BK4554":"元宇宙及AR概念","BK4532":"文艺复兴科技持仓","IE0004445015.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A2\" (USD) ACC","LU0820561818.USD":"安联收益及增长平衡基金Cl AM DIS","LU0082616367.USD":"摩根大通美国科技A（dist）","LU0348723411.USD":"ALLIANZ GLOBAL HI-TECH GROWTH \"A\" (USD) INC","IE00BFSS8Q28.SGD":"Janus Henderson Balanced A Inc SGD-H","LU0466842654.USD":"HSBC ISLAMIC GLOBAL EQUITY INDEX \"A\" (USD) ACC","BK4534":"瑞士信贷持仓","BK4567":"ESG概念","IE0034235188.USD":"PINEBRIDGE GLOBAL FOCUS EQUITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","BK4533":"AQR资本管理(全球第二大对冲基金)","LU0053666078.USD":"摩根大通基金-美国股票A（离岸）美元","LU0079474960.USD":"联博美国增长基金A","LU0353189680.USD":"富国美国全盘成长基金Cl A Acc","LU0109391861.USD":"富兰克林美国机遇基金A Acc","LU0689472784.USD":"安联收益及增长基金Cl AM AT Acc","IE00BD6J9T35.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN NEXT GENERATION MOBILITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","IE00BKDWB100.SGD":"PINEBRIDGE US LARGE CAP RESEARCH ENHANCED \"A5H\" (SGDHDG) ACC","LU0256863811.USD":"ALLIANZ US EQUITY \"A\" INC","BK4559":"巴菲特持仓","GB00BDT5M118.USD":"天利环球扩展Alpha基金A Acc","IE0009356076.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION \"A2\" (USD) ACC","LU0109392836.USD":"富兰克林科技股A","IE0004445239.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON US FORTY \"A2\" (USD) ACC","LU0061475181.USD":"THREADNEEDLE (LUX) AMERICAN \"AU\" (USD) ACC","IE00BJJMRX11.SGD":"Janus Henderson Balanced A Acc SGD","BK4543":"AI","BK4550":"红杉资本持仓","NVDA":"英伟达","BK4141":"半导体产品","LU0097036916.USD":"贝莱德美国增长A2 USD","IE00B1BXHZ80.USD":"Legg Mason ClearBridge - US Appreciation A Acc USD"},"translate_title":"英伟达：瑞银纸币应该发出警报","themeId":"","isJumpTheme":false,"ttsUrl":null,"symbols_score_info":{"NVDA":1},"content_text":"UBS raises Nvidia Corporation's earnings estimates and price target, but warns of near-term trouble for growth due to decreased lead times.Nvidia's lead times for GPU orders have decreased from 8-11 months to just 3-4 months, indicating a potential future sequential growth peak.While Nvidia's current growth appears strong, the stock may not be priced for the end of its growth, posing a risk for investors.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesHere's something interesting. UBS just published a bullish note on Nvidia Corporation, on which it increased both NVDA's earnings estimates and price target, to $850.Yet, at the same time, it's easy to argue that this note ought to raise investors' alarms. This is so because something within the note points to near-term trouble for NVDA's growth. And of course, NVDA stock will fare quite poorly if its growth suddenly stops. Let me explain.Lead Times As Per UBSAs it turns out, while putting out its bullish note, UBS also claimed that over the past few months, Nvidia's lead times have come in substantially, to just 3-4 months now.Now, what does this mean? It means that someone ordering GPUs for AI compute right now, can expect them to be delivered in 3-4 months.Late last year, according to other sources, these lead times were much, much larger. As much as 36-52 weeks. That's 8-11 months.Having earned $14.5 billion on datacenter hardware in the third quarter of fiscal 2024, Nvidia clearly sold a boatload of its H100 GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). Omdia says that Nvidia sold nearly half a million A100 and H100 GPUs, and demand for these products is so high that the lead time of H100-based servers is from 36 to 52 weeks.Thus, in just 3-4 months at most, it seems evident Nvidia's lead times went from 8-11 months to just 3 months.What Does This Mean?Think about how Nvidia satisfies GPU orders:On any given quarter, Nvidia has a given production capacity (dictated by its suppliers' capacity, mostly)On any given quarter, Nvidia is shipping against both past (backlog) and new orders for its GPUs.Also, on any given (and future) quarters, production capacity isn't static. Nvidia is pushing its suppliers to be able to produce more and more GPUs.However, what does it take for lead times to decrease? It's necessary either for future production capacity increases to be outstripping future orders, or maybe also for Nvidia to be shipping product in excess of the orders being received. Or, given the extreme drop in lead times (from 8-12 months to just 3-4 months in just 3-4 months at most), likely both.Now, remember that shipments on a given quarter are satisfying both backlog and new orders. If lead times drop to the point where backlog disappears, then shipments would fall to just new orders, which are highly likely to be lower than backlog + new orders.This, in turn, would mean that in the quarter Nvidia eliminates its lead times (or just gets close to eliminating, since there are always delays), such will appear as a sequential drop in revenues. That is, at that point, growth will be gone.Now, obviously, Nvidia isn't priced for such an event. Consider the existing consensus:Seeking AlphaThere's not a single quarter-on-quarter drop in expected revenues up to the January 2026 quarter -- 9 quarters into the future.Yet, apparently more than half of the lead time was eaten in a single quarter. Meaning, we could be just 2-3 quarters away from such a negative event (end of sequential growth). And therein lies the trouble, as the stock isn't priced for its growth to end.This Means Little For Near-Term Growth And EarningsNotice, however, that this rapid decline in lead times also comes from expanded production capacity. And that while such expanded production capacity hastens the inevitable end to growth, it also greatly increases the current apparent growth, revenues and earnings, since it allows more of the backlog to be shipped in the current and immediate quarter(s)!That is, while NVDA is plunging headlong into the end of its growth, the very dynamics which take it to this event faster, also make current growth, revenue levels and earnings higher.It's still quite possible that NVDA will thus have another monster revenue and EPS beat when it reports Q4 FY2024 on February 21st, as well as strong guidance for Q1 FY2025. And only when it reports Q1 FY2025 and guides for Q2 FY2025, will the risk from these observations really start being felt. And that's nearly 4 months away.Still, often the market starts discounting problems before they arrive. And here, the problem does seem to be arriving.This Doesn't Mean The End Of AI GrowthAnother important thing to take notice, is that NVDA's quarterly revenues (and earnings) peaking don't mean that AI capacity will stop growing. It won't. All the GPUs Nvidia will keep on shipping will continue to add to an installed GPU base, even if the number of shipped GPUs stagnates or falls qoq (quarter-on-quarter, sequentially).Moreover, Nvidia's many competitors (AMD, META, GOOG, etc.) will also be adding to that base, through their own chip sales and orders.Thus, AI capacity (for training, inference) continuing to grow is quite different from NVDA continuing to grow.ConclusionNvidia lead times decreasing is genuine bad news for Nvidia in the \"medium\" term (2-3 quarters out). Nvidia right now is shipping both against backlog and new orders. Once lead times decrease to close to zero, Nvidia will be shipping only against new orders, which will tend to represent a lower revenue level when compared to shipping to backlog+new orders.Nvidia's exhaustion of its backlog seems set to happen 2-3 quarters into the future, given that according to UBS, Nvidia turned a 8-11 month backlog into a 3-4 month backlog in just 3-4 months.Nvidia's consensus doesn't include any end to the QOQ growth even looking 9 quarters out, hence this event materializing would be quite negative for Nvidia stock.At the same time, though, increases in Nvidia's capacity to deliver GPUs, which will also be helping in reducing the backlog, mean that in the short-term (1-2 quarters), Nvidia might well continue to beat and raise estimates.Still, with Nvidia having ascended to the 3rd largest market cap in the US markets based on discounting ceaseless growth into the future, caution is certainly warranted as there's clear risk this ceaseless (sequential) growth will cease in the near future.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0},"commentList":[{"id":274519212257528,"gmtCreate":1708059086169,"gmtModify":1708059090872,"author":{"id":"3582064888282026","authorId":"3582064888282026","name":"OpenMind","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f84d87792f02cf78e80ee34979fd31e5","crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582064888282026","authorIdStr":"3582064888282026"},"htmlText":"How is it genuinely bad news with decreasing lead time? This is as though if you improve your production capacity / productivity&nbsp;to take on more orders, getting more market share is actually bad news? In addition, there is product life cycles, and uptake from smaller companies after interest rates reduced...","listText":"How is it genuinely bad news with decreasing lead time? This is as though if you improve your production capacity / productivity&nbsp;to take on more orders, getting more market share is actually bad news? In addition, there is product life cycles, and uptake from smaller companies after interest rates reduced...","text":"How is it genuinely bad news with decreasing lead time? This is as though if you improve your production capacity / productivity to take on more orders, getting more market share is actually bad news? In addition, there is product life cycles, and uptake from smaller companies after interest rates reduced...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/274519212257528","repostId":2411254211,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":274517256614104,"gmtCreate":1708058764835,"gmtModify":1708058897805,"author":{"id":"3570538196138899","authorId":"3570538196138899","name":"gordieeee","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":9,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3570538196138899","authorIdStr":"3570538196138899"},"htmlText":"so we dumping?","listText":"so we dumping?","text":"so we dumping?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/274517256614104","repostId":2411254211,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":12,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":2,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.3","shortVersion":"4.29.3","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2411254211"}