U.S. stocks edge higher; solid earnings season continues
Investing.com -- Shares of Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) sank over 16% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company missed fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue expectations and issued guidance for the current quarter that came in below Wall Street forecasts.
Adjusted earnings per share for the reported quarter were $0.41, missing analyst estimates of $0.44.
Revenue came in at $5.8 billion, shy of the $5.96 billion consensus.
For the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (FY26), Super Micro projected earnings of $0.40 to $0.52 per share and revenue of $6 billion to $7 billion, both trailing Wall Street expectations of $0.59 and $6.59 billion, respectively.
Management expects Q1 gross margin to be in line with 9.5% in Q4, which fell short of the Street’s 10% forecast.
For the full year, SMCI expects sales of around $33 billion, ahead of the consensus estimate of $30.1 billion. The company expects FY26 revenue growth to accelerate to roughly 50%, from 47% in FY25.
"Margin weakness will be a focal point," Raymond (NSE:RYMD) James analysts commented. "Despite this, the revenue growth outlook remains robust; management forecast growth accelerating to 50% in FY26 - better than we envisioned."
"Investors will not be satisfied with profitless prosperity, but we believe an improving customer and product mix will lead to margin improvement," they added.
SMCI has benefited from growing demand for servers tailored to artificial intelligence workloads, mostly among cloud providers and large enterprises.
Full-year revenue grew 47%, amid expansion in its AI product portfolio and data center deployments.
(Additional reporting by Vahid Karaahmetovic.)