NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) — the earnings record
As of the 2026-08-26 card — updated after each print. An investment research diary, not advice.
The record at a glance
Reactions across the covered prints span -14.0% to +20.0% — the beat column and the reaction column frequently disagree, which is the whole reason the record scores them separately. The street carries est revenue ~$108.69B into the next print.
Print by print
| Date | EPS | Revenue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 | 2026-08-26 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| May 26 | 2026-05-20 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| Feb 26 | 2026-02-25 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| Nov 25 | 2025-11-19 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| Aug 25 | 2025-08-27 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| May 25 | 2025-05-28 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| Feb 25 | 2025-02-26 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| Nov 24 | 2024-11-20 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| Aug 24 | 2024-08-28 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| May 24 | 2024-05-22 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
| Feb 24 | 2024-02-21 | ✓ beat | ✓ beat |
The per-print reaction chart, the load-bearing metric and the behavior read live on the full NVDA print-record card — free registration.
FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-08-26
Quick answers
How often does NVIDIA Corporation beat earnings estimates?
Across the last 11 covered prints (as of the 2026-08-26 card), NVIDIA Corporation beat EPS estimates 11 of 11 times and revenue estimates 11 of 11 times, with 11 double beats.
How does NVDA stock react to earnings?
Measured close-of-print-day to the close three sessions later: 3 of the last 11 prints resolved up (beyond +3%), 2 flat, 6 down — reactions spanning -14.0% to +20.0%. Beat-or-miss and reaction are scored separately because they frequently disagree.
What was NVDA's biggest earnings reaction?
+20% over the three sessions after the May 24 print (2024-05-22).
When does NVIDIA Corporation report earnings next?
2026-11-18 (Window closed 31 August: +5.3% — the first paid Nvidia window since May 2024. Next print 18 November — est EPS $2.46 · est revenue ~$108.69B). The full print-record card — reaction chart, the load-bearing metric and the behavior read — updates after each print; registration is free. An investment research diary, not advice.
Mentioned on Closelook
Where NVDA appears in the diary — 51 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.
Go deeper
- NVIDIA 2030The Operating System of Global Intelligence. Investment Thesis & Valuation Framework.Dossier · $49 one-time, or included in C+
- Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030Simulation · Digital Twins · Robotics · Embodied AI — Who Owns the StackDossier · $29 one-time, or included in C+
Long reads
- NVIDIA 2030
The market still prices NVIDIA as a chipmaker.
- Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030
On the physical AI platform layer, NVIDIA's Omniverse has become the de facto operating system for industrial digital twins — Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, Rockwell, Schaeffler, PepsiCo, and BMW all build on its libraries.
- Where to Invest in the AI Chip Constraint Chain
The market is paying a massive premium for AI chip design (Nvidia, AMD) while underpricing the physical supply chain that makes those chips real.
- Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration Layer
The release of NVIDIA's BlueField-4 DPU serves as final confirmation that the data center is being re-architected for agents.
- Who Owns the AI Chip Buildout?
SK Hynix sole primary Nvidia HBM supplier.
- AI Economy — Three Futures for 2030, and the One the Model Leaves Out
The capital stock that the extreme scenario needs — 56% above its no-AI path by 2030, 14% in the substantial case — is being ordered now, and the ordering is itself a demand shock the model does not carry: Alphabet’s…
- Google and RSI — The Loop Nobody Has Closed
- Magnificent Seven — The Seven at the Shelf
Nvidia guided to a demand book it cannot fully supply, the market spent the week selling beats across the software tape, and the indices went nowhere: the Nasdaq 100 fund +0.42% on the week at 716.43.
101 and glossary
- ABR — Agent Beneficiary Ratio: Scoring AI Disruption Impact
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- AI Infrastructure Outlook 2026: Layers, Risks, and Positioning
NVIDIA Blackwell is ramping, but the stock prices in perfection.
- Inference Economics: How the Training-to-Inference Shift Changes Everything
The companies that win the training phase (NVIDIA) may not be the same ones that dominate inference.
- NVIDIA Investor's Timeline: Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin and Beyond
NVIDIA releases new GPU architectures on roughly annual cadence: Hopper (2022), Blackwell (2024-2025), Rubin (2026), and a next-generation architecture (2027+).
- Sovereign AI: The National Compute Arms Race and Its Investment Map
The investment implications span from NVIDIA (selling DGX Cloud to governments globally) to Nebius (Yandex spin-off building European sovereign cloud) to Dell and HPE (on-premises AI infrastructure for nations with data residency…
- The 6-Layer Model: How Closelook Maps the AI Supply Chain
Compute (Layer 4) is where NVIDIA dominates but custom ASICs are emerging.
- The Greeks: Reading the Options Dashboard
The same nominal trade — “sell a put on NVDA” — can have completely different risk profiles depending on strike, expiry, and IV environment.
Dailies
- Fed day — relief before the decision: 10-year 4.96%, Brent under $107.63, chips reclaim $505, Nasdaq-100 above $708.69
The semiconductor ETF is $508.60, up 2.0% and back above the $505 line it lost on Monday — AMD +4.2% to $525.62, Marvell +3.3%, Arm +2.8%, Nvidia +1.9% to $216.19, and the equipment names green (KLA +1.5%, Lam +0.8%) — while the memory…
- Rates — Fed day at a 5% 10-year: the hike is priced, the cycle is not; Yardeni cuts the S&P target to 7,900
The AI sort paused and softened at the close: the semiconductor ETF +1.0% to $502.07, still under $505, with AMD +2.8%, Marvell +2.4%, Arm +1.7%, Nvidia +1.1% and the equipment names — Lam, Applied Materials, KLA — recovering from −1% to…
- AI trade — sellers of compute sold, buyers bought: chips −5.6%, software +5%, SoftBank +7% in Tokyo
The semiconductor ETF lost 5.6% to $497.40, through the $505 line we have written about since August and below Thursday’s $517.43; Nvidia −3.4%, AMD −4.4%, Micron −5.3%, SanDisk −5.0%.
- Rates — the 10-year hits 5.01%: Dow −0.9%, Russell −1.2%, the AI sort pauses, Oracle and Adobe hold their lines
Inside chips the split we flagged yesterday as the one that leans toward a volume question is still there: the equipment names are sold again — Lam Research −2.3%, Applied Materials −1.2%, KLA −0.9% — and Broadcom is −1.4%, TSMC’s US line…
- AI trade — the labs ask for a slowdown: Kospi −3.3%, SoftBank −11%, Nasdaq futures −1.2%, oil back above $106
The sort on Friday: chips bought back in the order they were sold — semiconductor ETF +1.9% to $527.07, Marvell +4.0%, Intel +2.6%, AMD +2.5%, Astera +2.4%, Nvidia flat — while memory and storage stayed sold, SanDisk −3.5%, Western…
- AI trade — the pacing call splits tech: chips −5%, software +4.5%, security +12–15%, 10-year hits 5%
The semiconductor ETF is down 5.2% at $499.81, through Thursday’s $517.43 and through the $505 line we have carried since August, with Astera −9.9%, Arm −8.9%, SK Hynix’s US line −7.3%, Lam −7.2%, Marvell −6.3%, SanDisk −6.3%, Micron…
- Oil settles at $107.63, the 10-year hits 4.95% and the 30-year 5.36%, its highest since 2007: chips lead a fourth down day, Oracle beats and jumps 4% after hours, Adobe beats and slips — and Asia sells its chipmakers 3% to 7%
Among the largest names Apple +3.6% to $326.57 was the one big stock up, a day after an event that introduced the $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro and the $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo; Nvidia −2.4%, Meta −1.4% after Wednesday’s +6.6%, Oracle −5.4% into…
- Stocks snap a four-day losing streak as oil slips under $100 and chips bounce 2% — despite core inflation hotter than hoped and Fed hike odds at 82%; Oracle gives back its entire after-hours jump
Chips bought back in the order they were sold: Marvell +4.7%, Intel +2.9%, Arm +2.6%, AMD +2.1%, Astera +1.8%, Broadcom +1.3%, Lam +1.2%, Nvidia +0.7% — while SanDisk −3.4%, Western Digital −2.4% and Micron −0.1% do not come back
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