Applied Digital reports Q4 EPS (36c), consensus (22c)

Reports Q4 revenue $43.7M, consensus $37.6M. Wes Cummins, Chairman and CEO of Applied Digital commented: “By the end of June, we successfully resolved all transformer issues at our Ellendale Data Center Hosting facility, restoring it to full power capacity. Despite these short-term setbacks, we made significant progress on our key growth initiatives, particularly in expanding our Cloud Services business and executing an LOI with a U.S.-based hyperscaler for 400 MW capacity, which includes our 100 MW facility currently under construction and two future buildings. Our state-of-the-art, 369,000-square-foot facility is designed for HPC applications such as Artificial Intelligence. We believe the hyperscaler has completed their technical due diligence on the facility and we are now working to finalize the details of the lease. This would then be followed by working towards finalizing the project-level financing for this investment-grade tenant. Our vision is to become a development platform, capable of building and operating multiple HPC data centers. This starts with our Ellendale campus and continues with three additional campuses we are actively marketing totaling 1.4 GW. To support this vision, we have added several industry veterans to our team and are already working on the design of our next two buildings which will provide 300 MW of capacity. We are incredibly proud of the progress made this quarter and look forward to providing further updates as we move into fiscal 2025. Looking ahead, we believe fiscal fourth quarter marked the bottom of our revenues and anticipate sequential improvements in the top line as we enter the first quarter of fiscal 2025.”