NVIDIA Corporation
Revenue
$82B
Net Income
$58B
NVIDIA Corporation
Revenue
$82B
Net Income
$58B
NVIDIA Corporation
CIK: 0001045810
Earnings Analysis
Analyzed 11 of 12 reports
Performance Summary - Q1 2026bullish (92)not_provided
Reality-Based Sentiment Analysisbullish92/100
Based on actual market data, not just management spin. Weighted score: 10% management tone + 40% earnings beat/miss + 30% price action + 20% guidance accuracy.
Financial Performance Trend
Overall Analysis & Outlook
Over the past 5 quarters, NVIDIA Corporation has been consistently bullish with stable guidance. Revenue has grown 504.2% during this period. The latest quarter shows bullish sentiment with neutral tone from management.
Latest Quarter Highlights:
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q1 FY2027 results with revenue of $81.6B (+85% YoY) and net income of $58.3B (+211% YoY), driven by strong Blackwell platform adoption and data center acceleration demand. Gross margins expanded significantly to 74.9% from 60.5% YoY due to non-recurrence of H20 excess inventory charges, though management highlighted macroeconomic headwinds including tariffs, geopolitical risks, and energy/capital constraints as potential future challenges. The company deployed $18.6B in strategic investments in private companies and infrastructure funds while maintaining strong operating cash flow of $50.3B, demonstrating confidence in the AI infrastructure buildout cycle despite competitive and regulatory uncertainties.
Detailed Quarterly Reports
In-depth analysis of each quarter's earnings filing
Q1 2026
10-Q • Filed 5/20/2026
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q1 FY2027 results with revenue of $81.6B (+85% YoY) and net income of $58.3B (+211% YoY), driven by strong Blackwell platform adoption and data center acceleration demand. Gross margins expanded significantly to 74.9% from 60.5% YoY due to non-recurrence of H20 excess inventory charges, though management highlighted macroeconomic headwinds including tariffs, geopolitical risks, and energy/capital constraints as potential future challenges. The company deployed $18.6B in strategic investments in private companies and infrastructure funds while maintaining strong operating cash flow of $50.3B, demonstrating confidence in the AI infrastructure buildout cycle despite competitive and regulatory uncertainties.
Revenue
$81.61B
Net Income
$58.32B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$1.76B(+43.2% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"The availability of data centers, energy, and capital to support the buildout of NVIDIA AI infrastructure by our customers and partners is crucial, and any shortage of these or other necessary resources could impact our future revenue and financial performance."
"Hyperscaler revenue increased sequentially and remained at approximately 50% of Data Center revenue, while the remaining 50% came from a continued diversification of customers, including AI Clouds, industrial, enterprise, and sovereign customers."
"Revenue from sales to customers headquartered outside of the United States accounted for 22% of total revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 and 42% of total revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026."
Q4 2025
10-K • Filed 2/25/2026
Summary
NVIDIA delivered strong FY2026 revenue growth of 65% to $215.9B driven by AI/accelerated computing demand, but management tone is defensive due to significant regulatory headwinds. A $4.5B H20 inventory charge from export control licensing requirements reflects structural challenges in accessing the China market. The company faces multiple regulatory pressures including antitrust investigations, data privacy compliance burden, and AI regulation complexity, combined with tight supply chain constraints expected to persist.
Revenue
$68.13B
Net Income
$42.96B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$6.10B(+79.4% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"We incurred a $4.5 billion charge in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 associated with H20 for excess inventory and purchase obligations, as the demand for H20 products diminished."
"As of the end of fiscal year 2026, we were effectively foreclosed from competing in China's data center computing/compute market, and our effective foreclosure from the China market helped our competitors build larger developer and customer ecosystems to challenge us worldwide."
"Export controls have in the past and may in the future negatively impact demand for our products and services not only in China, but also in other markets, such as Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia."
Q3 2025
10-Q • Filed 11/19/2025
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q3 FY2026 results with $57.0B revenue (62% YoY growth) and $31.9B net income (65% YoY growth), driven by dominant Blackwell architecture momentum in Data Center (66% YoY growth to $51.2B). The company maintains strong pricing power and market leadership across accelerated computing and AI platforms, though facing regulatory headwinds from U.S. export controls on China products and upcoming policy uncertainty. Aggressive capex spending (+120% YoY to $4.8B) and AI venture investments signal confidence in long-term demand despite near-term supply chain complexity and customer concentration risks.
Revenue
$57.01B
Net Income
$31.91B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$4.76B(+120.3% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"Data Center revenue was $51.2 billion, up 66% from a year ago and up 25% sequentially, driven by three platform shifts –accelerated computing, powerful AI models, and agentic applications. Blackwell Ultra is now our leading architecture across all customer categories while our prior Blackwell architecture saw continued strong demand."
"The availability of data centers, energy, and capital to support the buildout of NVIDIA AI infrastructure by our customers is crucial, and any shortage of these resources could impact our future revenue and financial performance."
"In April 2025, the U.S. government informed us that a license is required for exports of our H20 product into the China market. As a result of these new requirements, we incurred a $4.5 billion charge in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 associated with H20 for excess inventory and purchase obligations."
Q2 2025
10-Q • Filed 8/27/2025
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q2 FY2026 results with $46.7B revenue (+56% YoY) and $26.4B net income (+59% YoY), driven by massive Data Center demand for accelerated computing and AI solutions, particularly Blackwell architecture ramping successfully. Gross margins expanded sequentially to 72.4% despite near-term H20 regulatory headwinds ($4.5B charge in Q1), demonstrating strong underlying business momentum with two direct customers representing 39% of revenue. Strong cash generation ($42.8B operating cash flow, $39.7B free cash flow) and aggressive capital deployment ($9.7B share repurchases in Q2 alone) underscore management confidence, though regulatory uncertainty around export controls and potential new AI-related licensing requirements present material near-term risks.
Revenue
$46.74B
Net Income
$26.42B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$3.12B(+131.9% YoY)
Key Quotes
"We continue to ramp our Blackwell architecture, which grew 17% sequentially, including our newest architecture, Blackwell Ultra. We recognized Blackwell revenue across all customer categories, led by large cloud service providers, which represented approximately 50% of Data Center revenue."
"In April 2025, the U.S. government informed us that a license is required for exports of our H20 product into the China market. As a result of these new requirements, we incurred a $4.5 billion charge in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 associated with H20 for excess inventory and purchase obligations."
"Indirect customers primarily purchase our products through system integrators and distributors. For the second quarter of fiscal year 2026, two indirect customers—primarily purchasing our products through Direct Customers A and B—are each estimated to represent 10% or more of total revenue and attributable to the Compute & Networking segment."
Q1 2025
10-Q • Filed 5/28/2025
Summary
NVIDIA delivered strong Q1 FY2026 results with $44.1B revenue (up 69% YoY) driven by Blackwell AI accelerator demand, but the company took a devastating $4.5B charge related to H20 product export restrictions imposed by the U.S. government on April 9, 2025. Gross margins compressed dramatically to 60.5% from 78.4% YoY primarily due to this H20 charge and higher system costs, while the company faces material headwinds from Chinese market foreclosure and pending regulatory uncertainty around AI export controls that could significantly impact future competitiveness.
Revenue
$44.06B
Net Income
$18.77B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$1.23B(+232.5% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"On April 9, 2025, the U.S. government informed us that it requires a license for export to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) of our H20 integrated circuits...we incurred a $4.5 billion charge in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 associated with H20 excess inventory and purchase obligations"
"We may be unable to create a competitive product for China's data center market that receives approval from the USG. In that event, we would effectively be foreclosed from competing in China's data center computing/compute market, with a material and adverse impact on our business"
"The availability of data centers, energy, and capital to support the buildout of NVIDIA AI infrastructure by our customers is crucial, and any shortage of these resources could impact our future revenue and financial performance"
Q4 2024
10-K • Filed 2/26/2025
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional fiscal 2025 results with $130.5B revenue (+114% YoY) and $72.9B net income (+145% YoY), driven by explosive demand for Data Center AI solutions (up 142% YoY) on the back of Hopper architecture adoption. Despite strong financial performance, management tone is notably defensive given extensive export control headwinds, particularly the new AI Diffusion IFR announced January 2025 that imposes worldwide licensing requirements and threatens market access in China and Tier 2 countries—a material competitive risk that already reduced China Data Center revenue to well below pre-October 2023 levels.
Revenue
$39.33B
Net Income
$22.09B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$3.40B(+209% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"Data Center revenue for fiscal year 2025 was up 142% from a year ago. The strong year-on-year growth was driven by demand for our Hopper architecture accelerated computing platform used for large language models, recommendation engines, and generative AI applications."
"Our competitive position has been harmed by the existing export controls, and our competitive position and future results may be further harmed, over the long term, if there are further changes in the USG's export controls."
"On January 15, 2025, the USG published the 'AI Diffusion' IFR in the Federal Register...the worldwide licensing requirements will apply to the following NVIDIA products...A100, A800, H100, H200, H800, B100, B200, GB200, L4, L40S, and RTX 6000 Ada."
Q3 2024
10-Q • Filed 11/20/2024
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q3 FY2025 results with revenue of $35.1 billion (up 94% YoY) and net income of $19.3 billion (up 109% YoY), driven by explosive demand for Data Center AI accelerators. The company maintains strong pricing power and generated robust operating cash flow of $47.5 billion, though faces near-term supply constraints on Blackwell chips and ongoing export control headwinds in China markets. Management projects strong demand to exceed supply for several quarters into FY2026.
Revenue
$35.08B
Net Income
$19.31B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$2.16B(+165% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"Demand for the Hopper architecture is strong and our H200 offering grew significantly in the quarter. Blackwell production shipments are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 and will continue to ramp into fiscal year 2026."
"The demand for Blackwell is expected to exceed supply for several quarters in fiscal year 2026."
"Data Center revenue was up 112% from a year ago and up 17% sequentially. The strong year-on-year and sequential growth was driven by demand for our Hopper computing platform for training and inferencing of large language models, recommendation engines, and generative AI applications."
Q2 2024
10-Q • Filed 8/28/2024
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q2 FY2025 results with revenue of $30.0 billion (+122% YoY, +15% QoQ) driven by extraordinary demand for Hopper GPUs in data center AI applications, where revenue surged 154% YoY. The company maintains strong pricing power with 75.1% gross margins despite Blackwell yield-related provisions, and generated $29.8 billion in operating cash flow. However, management adopted a cautious tone regarding product transition complexities, inventory provisions, export control headwinds to China, and geopolitical risks, while providing no forward guidance beyond noting expectation of "several billion dollars" in Blackwell revenue in Q4 FY2025.
Revenue
$30.04B
Net Income
$16.60B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$1.35B(+150.5% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"Revenue growth in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 was driven by data center compute platforms and networking for accelerated computing and AI solutions. Hopper architecture demand is strong, and shipments are expected to increase in the second half of fiscal 2025."
"In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, we expect to ship several billion dollars in Blackwell revenue."
"Our Data Center revenue in China grew sequentially in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 and is a significant contributor to our Data Center revenue. As a percentage of total Data Center revenue, it remains below levels seen prior to the imposition of export controls in October 2023."
Q1 2024
10-Q • Filed 5/29/2024
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q1 FY2025 results with revenue of $26.0 billion (+262% YoY, +18% QoQ) driven by extraordinary Data Center demand for Hopper GPU architecture supporting large language models and generative AI. Gross margin expanded dramatically to 78.4% from 64.6% YoY, with net income of $14.9 billion demonstrating significant operating leverage, though management noted supply constraints will persist into next year with Blackwell ramp expected in H2. The company faces material headwinds from U.S. export controls restricting sales to China, which has significantly impacted that region's Data Center revenue.
Revenue
$26.04B
Net Income
$14.88B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$369M(+48.8% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"Data Center revenue was up 427% from a year ago and up 23% sequentially. Data Center compute revenue was $19.4 billion, up 478% from a year ago and up 29% sequentially. These increases reflect higher shipments of the NVIDIA Hopper GPU computing platform used for training and inferencing with large language models, recommendation engines, and generative AI applications."
"We believe the initial demand for Blackwell is well ahead of the projected supply for this fiscal year. We expect supply constraints for our Blackwell offerings will continue into next year."
"Our Data Center revenue in China is down significantly from the level prior to the imposition of new export control restrictions in October 2023. To the extent that a customer requires products covered by the licensing requirements, we may seek a license for the customer but have no assurance that the USG will grant such a license."
Q3 2023
10-Q • Filed 11/21/2023
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q3 FY2024 results with $18.1B revenue (+206% YoY, +34% QoQ) and $9.2B net income (+1,259% YoY), driven by massive data center demand for AI training and inference. Gross margins expanded significantly to 74% from 53.6% YoY, reflecting strong product mix and lower inventory provisions. However, new U.S. export controls effective immediately are expected to reduce China/Middle East sales by 20-25% of data center revenue in Q4, though management expects this to be offset by strong growth in other regions. Supply chain remains tight with $17.1B in purchase obligations as the company scales to meet expected demand extending into next year.
Revenue
$18.12B
Net Income
$9.24B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$815M(-38.4% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"Demand for our data center systems and products has surged over the last three quarters and our demand visibility extends into next year."
"Our sales to China and other affected destinations, derived from products that are now subject to licensing requirements, have consistently contributed approximately 20-25% of Data Center revenue over the past few quarters. We expect that our sales to these destinations will decline significantly in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, though we believe the decline will be more than offset by strong growth in other regions."
"Data Center revenue was up 279% from a year ago and up 41% sequentially. Strong sales of the NVIDIA HGX platform were driven by global demand for the training and inferencing of large language models, recommendation engines, and generative AI applications."
Q2 2023
10-Q • Filed 8/28/2023
Summary
NVIDIA delivered exceptional Q2 FY2024 results with $13.5B revenue (+101% YoY) and $6.2B net income (+843% YoY), driven by explosive Data Center demand for AI accelerators. Gross margin expanded dramatically to 70.1% on strong Hopper-based HGX platform adoption and normalized inventory, though the company faces supply chain complexity, export control headwinds to China, and product transition execution risks.
Revenue
$13.51B
Net Income
$6.19B
Guidance
Tone
Capex
$537M(-32.3% YoY)
Partnerships
Key Quotes
"Demand for our data center systems and products has surged over the last two quarters and our demand visibility extends into next year."
"Data Center revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2024 was $10.32 billion, up 171% from a year ago... Strong demand for the NVIDIA HGX platform based on our Hopper and Ampere GPU architectures was primarily driven by the development of large language models and generative AI."
"A large CSP, which primarily purchases indirectly through multiple system integrators and distributors, is estimated to represent approximately 22% and 19% of total revenue for the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2024, respectively."
Sector Comparison
How NVDA performs vs Technology sector and Semiconductors peers
Sector Ranking (Technology)
Category Ranking (Semiconductors)
Key Metrics vs Averages
NVDA
$81,615M
Semiconductors Avg
$27,646.2M
Technology Avg
$27,570.096M
NVDA
43.2%
Semiconductors Avg
62.9%
Technology Avg
46.1%
Guidance: not_provided • Tone: neutral