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Nvidia Posts Record Quarter and Projects About 70% Revenue Growth

The guidance signals prolonged AI infrastructure demand as investors weigh supply limits, rising memory costs and large customer‑financing commitments on Nvidia’s balance sheet.

Overview

  • Nvidia reported a record fiscal second quarter on Thursday with $96.2 billion in revenue and $2.22 in adjusted earnings per share, driven by $89 billion from its data‑center business.
  • The company guided roughly $108 billion for the current quarter and unusually issued a multi‑year outlook that implies about 70% revenue growth next fiscal year.
  • Nvidia said demand still exceeds supply and warned that shortages of high‑bandwidth memory will press gross margins down from about 75% to the mid‑70s in the near term.
  • Executives disclosed large balance‑sheet activity: roughly $99 billion in public and private equity stakes and up to about $108 billion of guarantees, most linked to an OpenAI/SB Energy data‑center project.
  • Markets reacted positively with the stock rising about 6–8% in early trading and at least ten brokerages raising targets, while the results lift chip and software peers and raise new questions about concentration and financing risk for investors.