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Nvidia’s revenue hits record $81B — easily topping Wall Street estimates — on massive demand for AI chips

Nypost · · 366 words · By Reuters; Associated Press
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Nvidia’s revenue hits record $81B”
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The claim states revenue hit $81B. However, official financial reports from NVIDIA for the most recent record quarter cited in the evidence show revenue of $68.1 billion, and another report mentions Data Center revenue of $62.3 billion. There is no evidence supporting a total revenue of $81B for the period described.
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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA Revenue 2010-2024 | NVDA - Macrotrends macrotrends.net.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/revenu…
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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2026.Record quarterly Data Center revenue of $62.3 billion, up 22% from Q3 and up 75% from a year ago.
https://investor.nvidia.com/financial-info/financial-reports…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia sold about a million RIVA 128 units within four months,[27] and used the revenue to fund development of its next generation of products.[36] In 1998, the release of the RIVA TNT helped solidify…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
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“The company said Wednesday it earned $58.32 billion, or $2.39 per share, in the February-April period”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general company descriptions and Wikipedia entries about the NV1 chip; none of the sources provide financial figures for earnings or per-share data for the February-April period.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia's first graphics accelerator, the NV1, was designed to process quadrilateral primitives (forward texture mapping), a feature that set it apart from competitors, who preferred triangle primitive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html
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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA invents the GPU and drives advances in AI, HPC, gaming, creative design, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/
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“up from $18.78 billion, or 76 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier”
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While the evidence mentions a record quarterly revenue of $68.1 billion, it does not provide the specific earnings figure of $18.78 billion or the 76 cents per share for the previous year's corresponding period.
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web search NEUTRAL — Find annual and quearterly earnings data for NVIDIA Corporation Common Stock (NVDA) including earnings per share, earnings forecasts at Nasdaq.com.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/nvda/earnings
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia (NVDA) will release its next earnings report on May 20, 2026.― ― The table shows recent earnings report dates and whether the forecast was beat or missed. See the change in forecast and EPS fro…
https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/nvda/earnings
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web search NEUTRAL — Latest Report Earnings Release 2026. NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2026. Record quarterly revenue of $68.1 billion, up 20% from Q3 and up 73% from a year ago.
https://investor.nvidia.com/financial-info/financial-reports…
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“Excluding one-time items, Nvidia earned $1.76 per share.”
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The evidence provided for this claim contains general information about NVIDIA's history and products, but no financial data regarding non-GAAP earnings per share.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia's first graphics accelerator, the NV1, was designed to process quadrilateral primitives (forward texture mapping), a feature that set it apart from competitors, who preferred triangle primitive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html
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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA invents the GPU and drives advances in AI, HPC, gaming, creative design, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/
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“Revenue jumped 85% to $81.62 billion from $44.01 billion.”
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The claim states revenue jumped to $81.62 billion from $44.01 billion. However, the evidence from NVIDIA's financial reports and other news sources indicates a record quarterly revenue of $68.1 billion, and analysts expected around $78 billion, contradicting the $81.62 billion figure.
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web search NEUTRAL — In July 2008, Nvidia took a write-down of approximately $200 million on its first-quarter revenue, after reporting that certain mobile chipsets and GPUs produced by the company had "abnormal failure r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA Revenue 2010-2024 | NVDA - Macrotrends macrotrends.net.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/revenu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia is expected to announce its first-quarter earnings for fiscal year 2027 next week. Analysts expect the company to report around $78 billion in revenue. The company previously reported $68 billi…
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/nvi…
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“Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of $1.75 per share and revenue of $78.91 billion, according to a poll by FactSet.”
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One source (Citi analysis via web search) mentions a Wall Street consensus of $78.62 billion for revenue, which is close to the claim's $78.91 billion, but the specific FactSet poll figures for both EPS and revenue are not corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Citi separately published analysis projecting Nvidia’s first-quarter revenue could beat the current Wall Street consensus of $78.62 billion by approximately $1.4 billion, which would represent a 78% y…
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2026/05/14/nvidia-nasda…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia’s revenue and profit details.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/revenu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/
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“Nvidia’s operating expenses increased by 49% to $7.75 billion.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of general company descriptions and does not contain any data regarding operating expenses.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia's first graphics accelerator, the NV1, was designed to process quadrilateral primitives (forward texture mapping), a feature that set it apart from competitors, who preferred triangle primitive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html
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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA invents the GPU and drives advances in AI, HPC, gaming, creative design, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/
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“For the current quarter, Nvidia forecast revenue of about $91 billion.”
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Three independent sources (Bloomberg, Shacknews, and TechCrunch) all explicitly state that Nvidia forecasted revenue of approximately $91 billion for the next/current quarter.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia’s forecast for revenue in the current quarter of $91 billion beat the average analyst estimate, but underwhelmed the market. Some on Wall Street had been forecasting revenue of as much as $96 b…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2026-05-20/nvidia-f…
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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA is expecting a revenue of around 91 billion for Q2 FY27, but it is not currently factoring “data center compute revenue” from China in that forecasted revenue estimate.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/149230/nvidia-nvda-q2-fy27…
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web search NEUTRAL — Notably, Nvidia did project a slowdown in revenue growth, forecasting $91 billion in revenue for the next quarter, which will be 12% growth. Chinese exports did not make any significant impact on the …
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/nvidia-posts-another-recor…
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“Analysts are forecasting $87.29 billion.”
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No evidence was found in the search results to support or refute the specific analyst forecast of $87.29 billion.
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“Nvidia’s market value soar from $400 billion at the end of 2022 to $5.4 trillion as of Wednesday.”
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No evidence was found in the search results regarding the specific market value growth from $400 billion in 2022 to $5.4 trillion.
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“Shares of the Santa Clara, California-based company dipped slightly after-hours to $222.12 after closing at $223.47 in the regular trading session.”
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“As of Wednesday’s close, Nvidia had a market value of $5.4 trillion.”
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“It authorized a plan to buy back $80 billion worth of stock”
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“increased its quarterly cash dividend to 25 cents per share from 1 cent.”
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