Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) reported fourth-quarter financial results after market close on Tuesday.
Below are the transcripts from the Q4 earnings call:
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Cameron(Conference Operator)
Michael Steger(Senior Vice President of Corporate Development)
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
Michael Steger(Senior Vice President of Corporate Development)
Great Cameron. Let’s turn it over to question and answer session.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
Simon M. Leopold(Equity Analyst)
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Simon M. Leopold(Equity Analyst)
And is any of this related to customers perhaps waiting for GV3 hundreds or is that not a factor?
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Yes, you are right. Some customers always waiting for coming soon technology like a B300 and GB300. So the good thing is we have a B300 and GB300 pretty much ready to go just waiting for our partner Nvidia to support us.
Simon M. Leopold(Equity Analyst)
Great. Thanks for taking the question.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
The next question is from the line of Rupley Bhattacharyo with Bank of America. You may proceed.
Rupley Bhattacharyo(Equity Analyst)
Hi, thanks for taking my questions. I have two of them. The first one is a higher level question. Can you talk about management strategy for competing in the AI server market? Is your focus on revenue growth and gaining market share or is your focus on margin expansion? And if it’s both then what gives you confidence that you can grow revenues and grow margins in this competitive market? And I have a follow up.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Rupley Bhattacharyo(Equity Analyst)
Okay, thanks for that price. Can I for my follow up can you talk about the opportunity with sovereigns? You announced an agreement with data wall during the quarter. Can you give us your thoughts on expected rollout of that opportunity? And David, what margin uplift should we expect from sovereign customers versus your existing customer base suggest here to CSPs? I mean how should we think about the revenue and margin opportun opportunity here?
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Thank you. Yeah, solving AI putting us very good chance. There are so many country need to build their AI infrastructure and those countries, those people really appreciate our DCPS data center infrastructure total solution. So we help them to design their AI infrastructure and help them build AI infrastructure quicker and better. So we see a very good doom, very big room to grow in that area. David.
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, and Ruploo, on the gross margin side we are optimistic that we will be able to sell more complete data center BBS solutions with sovereigns and so therefore we don’t have enough experience to be forecasting specific gross margins. But we’re very optimistic that with the additional offerings that we will have that there’s upside there.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Yeah there are so many countries especially in Europe, in Europe, in Mid east, in Asia. So they all are very aggressively to build their AI infrastructure for their country, for their company and we are working very closely with them.
Rupley Bhattacharyo(Equity Analyst)
All right, thank you for all the details.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
The next question is from the line of Ananda Barua with Loop Capital. You may proceed.
Ananda Barua(Equity Analyst)
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Ananda Barua(Equity Analyst)
And just as a follow up can you guys any context you can give. Us. Guys around the comment of large scale data center customers expanding to 6 to 8 in fiscal 26 what you know, sort of what, what flavor of customers might that be? You know when do you consider someone to be large scale and what what market domains like those those additional large scale data set of customers into.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Thanks. Yes, most of the large scale AI CSP continue to have a strong demand and we are, we are prepared to support them as well. The good thing is that we much strong cash flow now so we are ready to support a more large scale data center as well.
Ananda Barua(Equity Analyst)
Okay, thanks guys. Appreciate it.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
The next question comes from the line of Samik Chatterjee with JP Morgan. You may proceed.
Samik Chatterjee(Equity Analyst)
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Samik Chatterjee(Equity Analyst)
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, I think that as Charles mentioned we have been providing these services already. We’ve had customers with very large deployments that we’ve helped them in the build out of their data center and with specific services. And so it’s something that we’re really focused on and we know that it’ll contribute to our profitability.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Yeah, as a Silicon Valley based company for sure we are able and we like to provide more value to customer not just hardware, not just high volume product but all different kind of service solution optimization and to make a customer’s job much easier. Great, thank you.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
The next question is from the line of Michael Ng with Goldman Sachs. You may proceed.
Michael Ng(Equity Analyst)
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Yeah, especially with our DCBBs, especially our TCPPs. We are able to have a customer increase a speed of their time to online. Right. Kind of traditionally, for example two years we have them improve to a speed to 18 months, 16 months. So lots of customers are very interested to those service. Thank you, Charles. Thank you.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
The next question is from the line of Nihal Chokshi with Northland. You may proceed.
Nihal Chokshi(Equity Analyst)
Yeah, thank you. I have two questions. First one is what what is going. To be the driver to projected Q. Uptick the September quarter revenue. And maybe that can also help us. Understand why you’re guiding to no operating leverage. I believe effectively the guidance implies about. A flat operating margin from the June quarter September.
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
So in terms of the customers we have a lot of customers that are building out really good deployments and so that’s what gives us our guide to the first quarter. So we’ve been shipping AMI355X and GB300 and so we expect that to ramp in Q1 and that’s really what’s giving us our guide.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Yeah. We are also gaining many more customers in Europe, Middle east and Asia now. So basically the near future should be pretty strong. And why would the incremental billion dollars of revenue we won’t see any operating margin leverage?
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
Well, whenever there is a, you know, in changing over to these new platform technologies, there’s always a little bit of a ramp for us. And so that, that creates a little, a little bit of a, of a production learning curve.
Nihal Chokshi(Equity Analyst)
Okay. And then my second question is that the data center building block solutions, is. That being pitched for as a discrete service where the value of that discrete. Service is fractional to gen AI factory. Or is it bundled in to gen.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
And as Charles mentioned, the time to delivery and time to online, you know, for our customers is critical because they have, you know, they have end customers that they’re waiting for. So that’s, that’s a huge, you know, selling point.
Nihal Chokshi(Equity Analyst)
Yeah. So is data center building block solutions. At least going to be representative of. 10% of the deals that 10% of the deal value that you’re going to. Be doing in September quarter.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
It will be stablely growing. I hope very soon it will be more than 20% or even more than 30% because so many people provide a system computing power but we instead not just computing power but total solution, a data center or cloud total solution.
Nihal Chokshi(Equity Analyst)
Great, thank you very much.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
Thank you.
Brandon Nispel(Equity Analyst)
The next question is from the line of Brandon Nispel with Key Corp. You may proceed. Hey guys, thanks for taking the question. I was hoping you could unpack gross margins during the quarter. Last quarter you had provided some adjusted gross margins based on inventory reserves. Hoping you could help us understand whether there were any inventory reserves this quarter and if you’re expecting any in 1Q including maybe potential impact from tariffs. Thank you.
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, thanks Brandon. So we did mention a little bit about that last last quarter and what I would say is that they came, they did come in as expected. However, we believe that that’s not going to be the case going forward. So we think that we’re anticipating a stabilization in that area.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Yeah, especially with our TCPPs and with our service function. So we have customer build a data center and make sure they go for online mostly and that will kind of make customers business much more smooth and drills. I mean it’s good for our inventory control as well. That’s our main less return product. So that will help less slow moving, less product write down as well. Yeah, but we expect we will improve in that area. Yeah.
David Wiegand(Chief Financial Officer)
And Brandon, with respect to tariffs, you know the situation is dynamic. We’re actively monitoring the tariff environment. We know there’s news coming out next week. You know, if we have any updates, we’ll share it with you. But we, we, we, we can only watch and react as, as every other business is. Thanks for taking the questions.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
The next question is from the line of Quinn Bolton with Needham and Company. You may receive.
Shady Mitwali(Equity Analyst)
John Tom Wanseng(Equity Analyst)
The next question is from the line of John Tom Wanseng with CJS Securities. You may proceed.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
John Tom Wanseng(Equity Analyst)
Right.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Vijay Rakesh(Equity Analyst)
The last question is from the line of Vijay Rakesh with Mizuho. You may proceed. Yeah, hey, it’s Al Sundavid. Just a quick question on this. On the 33 billion guide for fiscal 26 wondering what is contemplated in terms. Of revenues from the data vault win that you announced.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
We don’t make a comment for specific customer but we do have a growing customer base in Europe and in Middle East. So we feel exciting to grow business in the territory Middle East BV and believe it will be a good percentage for supermarket business to grow. Got it. And then on the dcbbs obviously nice move with the racks and enabling your go to market timing I guess. Just wondering what would be the split of a full NVL 72 rack versus.
Vijay Rakesh(Equity Analyst)
HGX that you that you’re shipping now or into end of the year? End of fiscal 26.
Charles Liang(Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Vijay Rakesh(Equity Analyst)
Got it. Thanks.
Cameron(Conference Operator)
Thank you. Thank you. That was our last question. Thank you for joining Today’s Call. That will now conclude today’s Call. Thank you for your participation and enjoy the rest of your day.
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