Super Micro Computer stock was surging in Wednesday's premarket after the server maker's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings smashed Wall Street estimates on accelerating artificial-intelligence demand.
Super Micro reported adjusted earnings of $1.70 per share on revenue of $11.1 billion after the bell Tuesday. Analysts surveyed by FactSet were expecting earnings of 92 cents per share on revenue of $11.6 billion.
In the same period last year, Super Micro reported earnings of 41 cents per share on revenue of $5.8 billion.
Shares surged 9% to $34.45 in premarket trading Wednesday.
"We added several hundred enterprise and other customers in the past year, generated more than $60 billion in new orders, and booked record backlog entering fiscal 2027," CEO Charles Liang said in the earnings release.
The company also said that gross margins for the fourth quarter were 17.6%. That comes after Super Micro announced preliminary fourth-quarter financial results on July 21, and said that gross margins were estimated to be between of 15% to 17%.
Super Micro has seen a massive boost in demand for its servers as companies look to build out the infrastructure needed to power AI. Because demand is so strong, Super Micro has pricing power, helping to boost margins.
That demand isn't expected to slow down soon. Super Micro expects first-quarter revenue to be between $14.5 billion and $15.5 billion, which would be a 189% to 209% increase from the prior year's $5.02 billion. That's also ahead of analyst estimates for revenue of $11.8 billion.
Fiscal 2027 revenue is expected to be between $65 billion to $72 billion, compared with Wall Street estimates of $53 billion.
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