NVDA NVIDIA Corporation

bearish · high conviction 6/10 calls correct ↓ $174.40 +9.23 (+5.6%)
Mkt Cap $4.1T P/E 34.1 fwd 15.1 52wk $86.62 - $212.19 Earnings beating
bearish for 2d | 15 signals · latest 7h ago | updated 14h ago
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Insider selling: $163,747,347 sold by 11 insiders (30d)
Factor divergence: DIVERGENCE: estimate_revisions, analyst_revisions bullish vs price_momentum, filing_risk_change bear
Est. revisions: +5.6% (31 up, 1 down in 30d)

Blackwell boom masks China cliff; ecosystem bets emerge

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Factors: +0.36 est. revisions -0.51 momentum +0.95 analyst divergence

Watch: May 27 earnings: if gross margin holds 72%+ and management quantifies China recovery path or Vera Rubin revenue timing, re-rating begins; sub-70% margins with silence confirms downside to $140.

Full analysis

Q1 revenue of $44B beat estimates with Blackwell driving 70% of data center compute, but April 9 H20 export ban erases ~$8B from Q2 guidance—management took a $4.5B inventory write-down and acknowledged no compliant China alternative. Stock fell 19% to $172 from peak, trading at 15.1x forward PE (seven-year low). Counterbalance: NVDA invested $2B in Marvell for NVLink Fusion platform; Mistral raised $830M for Paris data center with 13,800 NVDA chips live Q2 2026; BofA maintains $300 price target; insider selling totaled $613M in recent weeks, signaling executive doubt about near-term recovery.

H20 ban is structural, not cyclical—it eliminates roughly $50B of China AI accelerator TAM with no announced recovery path, risking the 100%+ ROE model and gross margin floor. Without margin recovery to 75%+ by late FY2026 or quantified China offset by earnings, stock stays pinned below consensus $268 target. Vera Rubin (space data centers) and sovereign European capacity via Mistral are optionality, not recovery catalysts yet.

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What We Found Primary source analysis others skip
SEC Filing Changes
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Dollar amounts or specificity changes

Revenue increased from $130.5B in fiscal 2025 to $215.9B in fiscal 2026 overall. Compute Networking revenue went from $116,193M to $193,479M, a 67% increase in current vs 145% prior year increase. Graphics revenue increased 57% in current vs 6% prior. Operating income for Compute Networking rose 57% currently vs 159% prior. Notable adjustment in the magnitude of growth rates reflects evolving business dynamics.

10-K · Filed 2026-02-25
MEDIUM
LANGUAGE CHANGES

Current filing discloses a 29% increase in compensation and benefits plus 79% increase in compute and infrastructure driving R&D expenses increase; prior filing emphasized 32% compensation increase, 100% compute infrastructure increase, and 234% engineering development costs increase, showing a shift in focus of the contributors.

10-K · Filed 2026-02-25
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LANGUAGE CHANGES

Prior filing highlights demand driven by Hopper platform and Ethernet for AI revenue, whereas current filing highlights transition to Blackwell computing platform and NVLink fabric ramp as key drivers. Graphics revenue growth drivers changed from GeForce RTX 40 Series to Blackwell architecture sales.

10-K · Filed 2026-02-25
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LANGUAGE CHANGES

Current filing specifies one direct customer representing 22% and another 14% of total revenue in fiscal 2026, compared to prior filing where sales to direct customers represented 12%, 11%, and 11% for the top customers in fiscal 2025. Indirect customers include AI model makers, enterprises, and public sector entities in current, versus consumer internet companies previously. The method of designating geographic revenue and shifting percentages outside the US also changed (31% in 2026 vs. 41% previously, compared to 53%/56% in prior years).

10-K · Filed 2026-02-25
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NEW items added

The current filing introduces a significant charge of $4.5 billion related to H20 excess inventory and purchase obligations in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, which was not mentioned in the prior filing. This impacted Compute Networking segment operating income and gross margin, reducing the gross margin to 71.1% from 75.0% and contributing to unfavorable inventory provision effects.

10-K · Filed 2026-02-25
Material Events (8-K)
8-K
Adoption of Compensation Plan

On March 2, 2026, NVIDIA's Compensation Committee adopted the Fiscal Year 2027 Variable Compensation Plan, which allows eligible executive officers to earn variable cash payments based on achieving fi...

Filed 2026-03-06 · Jen-Hsun Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer, Colette M. Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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NVIDIA Corporation Technology · Semiconductors
Mkt Cap
$4.1T
P/E
34.1 fwd 15.1
Beta
2.38
Div Yield
2.00%
52w Range
$86.62 - $212.19
Short Interest
229.2M 0.98%
Days to Cover
1.3 -10%
Technicals downtrend
vs 20d MA
-7.5%
vs 50d MA
-9.8%
from 52w Hi
-20.2%
Vol (20d)
30%
1w return
-6.0%
1m return
-6.8%
3m return
-13.3%
Vol ratio
1.0x
Insiders
selling 0B / 8S
Analysts
mixed
Earnings
beating 5B / 0M
EPS Estimate
$1.78 +5.6% 30d 31up / 1dn
Est. Dispersion
17% 38 analysts
Analyst Target
$268 $140 - $380
Options P/C
0.83 7C / 7P unusual
Insider Cluster
strong sell 0B / 10S
Fund Convergence
strong Citadel, D.E. Shaw, Tiger Global, Coatue, Two Sigma
Financials
Revenue
$68.1B +73% YoY
FCF
$34.9B
Gross Margin
75%
Op Margin
65%
Momentum: decelerating
Top Holders
Citadel $28.8B
D.E. Shaw $26.2B
Tiger Global $2.1B
Coatue $1.7B
Two Sigma $1.7B
Recent Filings & Data
insider trade 19
net selling · $163,747,347 sold
11 insiders · 19 transactions (30d)
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2026Q1 · 7672 words
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Operator (Operator): Good afternoon. My name is Sarah, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA Corporation's First Quarter Fiscal 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, please press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. Thank you. Toshiya Hari, you may begin your conference. Toshiya Hari (Investor Relations): Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to NVIDIA Corporation's conference call for the first quarter fiscal 2026. With me today from NVIDIA Corporation are Jensen Huang, president and chief executive officer, and Colette Kress, executive vice president and chief financial officer. I'd like to remind you that our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA Corporation's investor relations website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2026. The content of today's call is NVIDIA Corporation's property. It cannot be reproduced or transcribed without our prior written consent. During this call, we may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties, and our actual results may differ materially. For a discussion of factors that could affect our future financial results and business, please refer to the disclosure in today's earnings release, our most recent forms 10-K and 10-Q, and the reports that we may file on form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All our statements are made as of today, May 28, 2025, and based on information currently available to us. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update any such statements. During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website. With that, let me turn the call over to Colette. Colette Kress (CFO): Thank you, Toshiya. We delivered another strong quarter, with revenue of $44 billion, up 69% year over year, exceeding our outlook in what proved to be a challenging operating environment. Data center revenue of $39 billion grew 73% year on year. The AI workloads have transitioned strongly to inference, and AI factory build-outs are driving significant revenue. Our customers' commitments are firm. On April 9, the U.S. government issued new export controls on H20, our data center GPU designed specifically for the China market. We sold H20 with the approval of the previous administration. Although our H20 has been in the market for over a year and does not have a market outside of China, the new export controls on H20 did not provide a grace period to allow us to sell through our inventory. In Q1, we recognized $4.6 billion in H20 revenue, which occurred prior to April 9, but also recognized a $4.5 billion charge as we wrote down inventory and purchase obligations tied to orders we had received prior to April 9. We were unable to ship $2.5 billion in H20 revenue in the first quarter due to the new export controls. The $4.5 billion charge was less than what we initially anticipated as we were able to reuse certain materials. We are still evaluating our limited options to supply data center compute products compliant with the U.S. government's revised export control rules. Losing access to the China AI accelerator market, which we believe will grow to nearly $50 billion, would have a material adverse impact on our business going forward and benefit our foreign competitors in China and worldwide. Our Blackwell ramp, the fastest in our company's history, drove a 73% year-on-year increase in data center revenue. Blackwell contributed nearly 70% of data center compute revenue in the quarter, with a transition from Hopper nearly complete. The introduction of GB200 NBL was a fundamental architectural change to enable data center scale workloads and to achieve the lowest cost per inference token. These systems are complex to build. We have seen a significant improvement in manufacturing yields, and rack shipments are moving to strong rates to end customers. GB200 and VO racks are now generally available for model builders, enterprises, and sovereign customers to develop and deploy AI. On average, major hyperscalers are each deploying nearly 1,000 NBL72 racks, or 72,000 Blackwell GPUs per week, and are on track to further ramp output this quarter. Microsoft, for example, has already deployed tens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs and is expected to ramp to hundreds of thousands of GB200s with OpenAI as one of its key customers. Key learnings from the GB200 ramp will allow for a smooth transition to the next phase of our product roadmap ... [transcript truncated at 5,000 chars — full text available via API]
2025Q4 · 6874 words
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Operator (Operator): Good afternoon. My name is Christa, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA Corporation's Fourth Quarter Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. And if you would like to withdraw your question, thank you. Stewart Stecker. You may begin your conference. Thank you. Stewart Stecker (Moderator): Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to NVIDIA Corporation's conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. With me today from NVIDIA Corporation are Jensen Huang, president and chief executive officer, and Colette Kress, executive vice president and chief financial officer. I'd like to remind you that our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA Corporation's Investor website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026. The content of today's call is NVIDIA Corporation's property. It cannot be reproduced or transcribed without prior written consent. During this call, we may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations; these are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties, and our actual results may differ materially. A discussion of factors that could affect our future financial results and business can be found in today's earnings release. Our most recent forms 10-K and 10-Q, and the reports that we may file on form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All our statements are made as of today, February 26, 2025, based on information currently available to us. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update any such statements. During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures is in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website. With that, let me turn the call over to Colette. Colette Kress (CFO): Thanks, Stewart. Q4 was another record quarter. Revenue of $39.3 billion was up 12% sequentially and up 78% year on year. And above our outlook of $37.5 billion. For fiscal 2025, revenue was $130.5 billion, up 114% from the prior year. Let's start with data center. Data center revenue for fiscal 2025 was $115.2 billion, more than doubling from the prior year. In the fourth quarter, it is in a revenue of $35.6 billion was a record, up 16% sequentially and 93% year on year. As the Blackwell ramp commenced, and Hopper 200 continued to contribute growth. In Q4, Blackwell sales exceeded our expectations. We delivered $11 billion of Blackwell revenue to meet strong demand. This is the fastest product ramp in our company's history, unprecedented in its speed and scale. Blackwell production is in full gear across multiple configurations, and we are increasing supply quickly, expanding customer adoption. Our Q4 data center compute revenue jumped 18% sequentially and over 2x year on year. Customers are racing to scale infrastructure to train the next generation of cutting-edge models and unlock the next level of AI capabilities. With Blackwell, it will be common for these clusters to start with 100,000 GPUs or more. Shipments have already started for multiple infrastructures of this size. Post-training and model customization are fueling demand for NVIDIA Corporation infrastructure and software as developers and enterprises leverage techniques such as fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and distillation to tailor models for domain-specific use cases. Hugging Face alone hosts over 90,000 derivatives traded from the Llama Foundation model. The scale of post-training and model customization is massive and can collectively demand orders of magnitude more compute than pretraining. Our inference demand is accelerating, driven by test time scaling and new reasoning models. Like OpenAI's O3, DeepSeq R1, and Grok 3. Long-thinking reasoning AI can require 100x more compute per task compared to one-shot inferences. Blackwell was architected for reasoning AI inference. Blackwell supercharges reasoning AI models with up to 25x higher token throughput and 20x lower cost versus Hopper 100. It is revolutionary. The transformer engine is built for LLM and mixer of experts inference. Its NVLink domain delivers 14x the throughput of PCIe Gen 5, ensuring the response time, throughput, and cost efficiency needed to tackle the growing complexity of inference scale. Companies across industries are tapping into NVIDIA Corporation's full-stack inference platform to boost performance and slash costs. Now tripled inference throughput and cut cost by 66% using NVIDIA Corporation TensorRT for its screenshot feature. Perplexity sees 435 million monthly queries and reduced its inference costs by ... [transcript truncated at 5,000 chars — full text available via API]
2025Q3 · 7576 words
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Operator (Operator): Good afternoon. My name is Joel, and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA's Third Quarter Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. Stewart Stecker, you may begin your conference. Stewart Stecker (Host): Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to NVIDIA's conference call for the third quarter of fiscal 2025. With me today from NVIDIA are Jensen Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. I'd like to remind you that our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA's Investor Relations website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. The content of today's call is NVIDIA's property. It can't be reproduced or transcribed without our prior written consent. During this call, we may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties and our actual results may differ materially. For a discussion of factors that could affect our future financial results and business, please refer to the disclosure in today's earnings release, our most recent Forms 10-K and 10-Q, and the reports that we may file on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All our statements are made as of today, November 20, 2024, based on information currently available to us. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update any such statements. During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website. With that, let me turn the call over to Colette. Colette Kress (CFO): Thank you, Stewart. Q3 was another record quarter. We continued to deliver incredible growth. Revenue of $35.1 billion was up 17% sequentially and up 94% year-on-year and, well above our outlook of $32.5 billion. All market platforms posted strong sequential and year-over-year growth, fueled by the adoption of NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI. Starting with Data Center, another record was achieved in Data Center. Revenue of $30.8 billion, up 17% sequential and up 112% year-on-year. NVIDIA Hopper demand is exceptional and sequentially, NVIDIA H200 sales increased significantly to double-digit billions, the fastest product ramp in our company's history. The H200 delivers up to 2 times faster inference performance and up to 50% improved TCO. Cloud service providers were approximately half of our data center sales with revenue increasing more than 2 times year-on-year. CSPs deployed NVIDIA H200 infrastructure and high-speed networking with installations scaling to tens of thousands of GPUs to grow their business and serve rapidly rising demand for AI training and inference workloads. NVIDIA H200-powered cloud instances are now available from AWS, CoreWeave, and Microsoft Azure with Google Cloud and OCI coming soon. Alongside significant growth from our large CSPs, NVIDIA GPU regional cloud revenue jumped 2 times year-on-year as North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions ramped NVIDIA cloud instances and sovereign cloud buildout. Consumer Internet revenue more than doubled year-on-year as companies scaled their NVIDIA Hopper infrastructure to support next-generation AI models, training, multimodal and agentic AI, deep learning recommender engines, and generative AI inference and content creation workloads. NVIDIA's Ampere and Hopper infrastructures are fueling inference revenue growth for customers. NVIDIA is the largest inference platform in the world. Our large installed base and rich software ecosystem encourage developers to optimize for NVIDIA and deliver continued performance and TCL improvements. Rapid advancements in NVIDIA's software algorithms boosted Hopper inference throughput by an incredible 5 times in one year and cut the time to first token by 5 times. Our upcoming release of NVIDIA NIM will boost Hopper Inference performance by an additional 2.4 times. Continuous performance optimizations are a hallmark of NVIDIA and drive increasingly economic returns for the entire NVIDIA installed base. Blackwell is in full production after a successfully executed mass change. We shipped 13,000 GPU samples to customers in the third quarter, including one of the first Blackwell DGX engineering samples to OpenAI. Blackwell is a full stack, full infrastructure, AI data center scale system with customizable configurations needed to address a diverse and growing AI market from x86 to ARM, training to inferencing GPUs, InfiniBand to Ethernet switches, and NVLINK. Every customer is racing to be the first to market. Blackwell is now in the hands of all o ... [transcript truncated at 5,000 chars — full text available via API]
2025Q2 · 7068 words
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Operator (Operator): Good afternoon. My name is Abby and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA's Second Quarter Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. And Mr. Stewart Stecker, you may begin your conference. Stewart Stecker (Moderator): Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to NVIDIA's conference call for the second quarter of fiscal 2025. With me today from NVIDIA are Jensen Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. I would like to remind you that our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA's Investor Relations website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2025. The content of today's call is NVIDIA's property. It cannot be reproduced or transcribed without prior written consent. During this call, we may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These are subject to a number of risks, significant risks, and uncertainties, and our actual results may differ materially. For a discussion of factors that could affect our future financial results and business, please refer to the disclosure in today's earnings release, our most recent Forms 10-K, and 10-Q, and the reports that we may file on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All our statements are made as of today, August 28th, 2024, based on information currently available to us. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update any such statements. During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website. Let me highlight an upcoming event for the financial community. We will be attending the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference on September 11 in San Francisco, where Jensen will participate in a keynote fireside chat. Our earnings call to discuss the results of our third quarter of fiscal 2025 is scheduled for Wednesday, November 20th, 2024. With that, let me turn the call over to Colette. Colette Kress (CFO): Thanks, Stewart. Q2 was another record quarter. Revenue of $30 billion was up 15% sequentially and up 122% year-on-year and well above our outlook of $28 billion. Starting with data center, data center revenue of $26.3 billion was a record, up 16% sequentially and up 154% year-on-year, driven by strong demand for NVIDIA Hopper, GPU computing, and our networking platforms. Compute revenue grew more than 2.5 times, networking revenue grew more than 2 times from the last year. Cloud service providers represented roughly 45% of our data center revenue and more than 50% stemmed from the consumer, Internet, and enterprise companies. Customers continue to accelerate their Hopper architecture purchases while gearing up to adopt Blackwell. Key workloads driving our data center growth include generative AI, model training, and inferencing. Video, image, and text data pre and post-processing with CUDA and AI workloads, synthetic data generation, AI-powered recommender systems, SQL, and vector database processing as well. Next-generation models will require 10 to 20 times more compute to train with significantly more data. The trend is expected to continue. Over the trailing four quarters, we estimate that inference drove more than 40% of our data center revenue. CSPs, consumer Internet companies, and enterprises benefit from the incredible throughput and efficiency of NVIDIA's inference platform. Demand for NVIDIA is coming from frontier model makers, consumer Internet services, and tens of thousands of companies and startups building generative AI applications for consumers, advertising, education, enterprise, healthcare, and robotics. Developers desire NVIDIA's rich ecosystem and availability in every cloud. CSPs appreciate the broad adoption of NVIDIA and are growing their NVIDIA capacity given the high demand. The NVIDIA H200 platform began ramping in Q2, shipping to large CSPs, consumer Internet, and enterprise companies. The NVIDIA H200 builds upon the strength of our Hopper architecture and offering, over 40% more memory bandwidth compared to the H100. Our data center revenue in China grew sequentially in Q2 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. We continue to expect the China market to be very competitive going forward. The latest round of MLPerf inference benchmarks highlighted NVIDIA's inference leadership with both NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell platforms combining to win gold medals on all tasks. At Computex, NVIDIA with the top compu ... [transcript truncated at 5,000 chars — full text available via API]
2025Q1 · 7160 words
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Operator (Operator): Good afternoon. My name is Regina and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA's First Quarter Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. Thank you. Simona Jankowski, you may begin your conference. Simona Jankowski (Moderator): Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to NVIDIA's conference call for the first quarter of fiscal 2025. With me today from NVIDIA are Jen-Hsun Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. I'd like to remind you that our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA's Investor Relations website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025. The content of today's call is NVIDIA's property. It can't be reproduced or transcribed without our prior written consent. During this call, we may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties and our actual results may differ materially. For a discussion of factors that could affect our future financial results and business, please refer to the disclosure in today's earnings release, our most recent Forms 10-K and 10-Q and the reports that we may file on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All our statements are made as of today, May 22, 2024, based on information currently available to us. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update any such statements. During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website. Let me highlight some upcoming events. On Sunday, June 2nd, ahead of the Computex Technology Trade Show in Taiwan, Jen-Hsun will deliver a keynote which will be held in-person in Taipei as well as streamed live. And on June 5th, we will present at the Bank of America Technology Conference in San Francisco. With that let me turn the call over to Colette. Colette Kress (CFO): Thanks, Simona. Q1 was another record quarter. Revenue of $26 billion was up 18% sequentially and up 262% year-on-year and well above our outlook of $24 billion. Starting with Data Center. Data Center revenue of $22.6 billion was a record, up 23% sequentially and up 427% year-on-year, driven by continued strong demand for the NVIDIA Hopper GPU computing platform. Compute revenue grew more than 5x and networking revenue more than 3x from last year. Strong sequential data center growth was driven by all customer types, led by enterprise and consumer internet companies. Large cloud providers continue to drive strong growth as they deploy and ramp NVIDIA AI infrastructure at scale and represented the mid-40s as a percentage of our Data Center revenue. Training and inferencing AI on NVIDIA CUDA is driving meaningful acceleration in cloud rental revenue growth, delivering an immediate and strong return on cloud provider's investment. For every $1 spent on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, cloud providers have an opportunity to earn $5 in GPU instant hosting revenue over four years. NVIDIA's rich software stack and ecosystem and tight integration with cloud providers makes it easy for end customers up and running on NVIDIA GPU instances in the public cloud. For cloud rental customers, NVIDIA GPUs offer the best time to train models, the lowest cost to train models and the lowest cost to inference large language models. For public cloud providers, NVIDIA brings customers to their cloud, driving revenue growth and returns on their infrastructure investments. Leading large language model companies such as OpenAI, Adept, Anthropic, Character.AI, Cohere, Databricks, DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, and many others are building on NVIDIA AI in the cloud. Enterprises drove strong sequential growth in Data Center this quarter. We supported Tesla's expansion of their training AI cluster to 35,000 H100 GPUs. Their use of NVIDIA AI infrastructure paved the way for the breakthrough performance of FSD Version 12, their latest autonomous driving software based on Vision. Video Transformers, while consuming significantly more computing, are enabling dramatically better autonomous driving capabilities and propelling significant growth for NVIDIA AI infrastructure across the automotive industry. We expect automotive to be our largest enterprise vertical within Data Center this year, driving a multibillion revenue opportunity across on-prem and cloud consumption. Consumer Internet companies are also a strong growth vertical. A big highlight this quarter was Meta's announcement of Llama 3, their latest large language model, which was trained on a cluster of 24,000 H100 GPUs. Llam ... [transcript truncated at 5,000 chars — full text available via API]
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On March 2, 2026, NVIDIA's Compensation Committee adopted the Fiscal Year 2027 Variable Compensation Plan, which allows ... SEC↗
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MEDIUM Dollar amounts or specificity changes: Changes in reported revenue and operating income amounts and percentage changes, reflecting company growth.
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Revenue increased from $130.5B in fiscal 2025 to $215.9B in fiscal 2026 overall. Compute Networking revenue went from $116,193M to $193,479M, a 67% increase in current vs 145% prior year increase. Graphics revenue increased 57% in current vs 6% prior. Operating income for Compute Networking rose 57% currently vs 159% prior. Notable adjustment in the magnitude of growth rates reflects evolving business dynamics.

MEDIUM LANGUAGE CHANGES: Changes in reported operating expenses and detailed drivers, including increased compute and infrastructure and compensa...
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Current filing discloses a 29% increase in compensation and benefits plus 79% increase in compute and infrastructure driving R&D expenses increase; prior filing emphasized 32% compensation increase, 100% compute infrastructure increase, and 234% engineering development costs increase, showing a shift in focus of the contributors.

MEDIUM LANGUAGE CHANGES: Change in description of major platform shifts driving revenue growth from Hopper to Blackwell architectures and updated...
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Prior filing highlights demand driven by Hopper platform and Ethernet for AI revenue, whereas current filing highlights transition to Blackwell computing platform and NVLink fabric ramp as key drivers. Graphics revenue growth drivers changed from GeForce RTX 40 Series to Blackwell architecture sales.

HIGH LANGUAGE CHANGES: Change in revenue concentration and customer revenue breakdown between direct and indirect customers, with shifts in per...
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Current filing specifies one direct customer representing 22% and another 14% of total revenue in fiscal 2026, compared to prior filing where sales to direct customers represented 12%, 11%, and 11% for the top customers in fiscal 2025. Indirect customers include AI model makers, enterprises, and public sector entities in current, versus consumer internet companies previously. The method of designating geographic revenue and shifting percentages outside the US also changed (31% in 2026 vs. 41% previously, compared to 53%/56% in prior years).

HIGH NEW items added: Introduction of a $4.5 billion charge associated with H20 excess inventory and purchase obligations in the first quarter...
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The current filing introduces a significant charge of $4.5 billion related to H20 excess inventory and purchase obligations in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, which was not mentioned in the prior filing. This impacted Compute Networking segment operating income and gross margin, reducing the gross margin to 71.1% from 75.0% and contributing to unfavorable inventory provision effects.

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