Supermicro Q1 FY27: revenue up 297.5% to $19.95 billion, margin slips
Supermicro's Q1 FY27 was a demand shock, not a margin story: revenue hit $19.95 billion, up 297.5% from a year ago, and GAAP EPS of $1.75 beat the $1.2587 consensus by 39.0%. But gross margin fell to 12.7% from 17.5% last quarter and operations burned $434 million of cash. Read the revenue line as real, the margin line as the open question, and the $77.0 billion FY27 midpoint as management's flat hand.
1 · Expected vs. Actual
Free preview belowGAAP diluted EPS of $1.75 landed 39.0% above the $1.2587 consensus, and non-GAAP EPS of $1.81 was 43.8% above it. The beat came from volume: operating expenses of $476.6 million were just 2.4% of revenue, leaving $2.06 billion of operating income. Gross margin of 12.7% is the counterweight, down 4.8 points from last quarter's 17.5%.
Revenue of $19.95 billion is 297.5% above the $5.02 billion reported a year ago and 79.4% above the $11.12 billion booked last quarter. That is a step change in scale, not a seasonal bounce. No revenue consensus was supplied, so the EPS line is the only hard comparison point in this file.
Management guided Q2 FY27 revenue to $19.5–21.5 billion, a $20.5 billion midpoint that implies only 2.8% sequential growth, with non-GAAP EPS of $1.66–1.90 against the $1.81 just delivered. The FY27 revenue range of $72.0–82.0 billion has a $77.0 billion midpoint, below the $79.8 billion that four quarters at Q1's pace would produce. Guidance is explicitly not extrapolating the quarter.
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