Top-performing IPO stock Astera Labs (ALAB) late Tuesday easily beat expectations for the first quarter, also its first as a publicly traded company. Plus, Astera gave guidance above views for the current period. But ALAB stock fell in extended trading.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker earned an adjusted 10 cents a share on sales of $65.3 million in the March quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of 4 cents a share on sales of $56.7 million. In the year-earlier period, Astera lost an adjusted 12 cents a share on sales of $17.7 million.
For the current quarter, Astera predicted adjusted earnings of 11 cents a share on sales of $72.5 million. That's based on the midpoint of its outlook. Analysts had been looking for earnings of 6 cents a share on sales of $62.8 million.
Astera's Q1 sales growth of 269% year over year was driven by the accelerating AI infrastructure buildout.
Astera Labs makes connectivity chips for cloud and artificial intelligence data centers. Astera's products are focused on high-speed data transfer and overall system bandwidth expansion in data center computing systems.
Guidance is pretty good too.