NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal 2027

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported record revenue for the first quarter ended April 26, 2026, of $81.6 billion, up 20% from the previous quarter and up 85% from a year ago. For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were 74.9% and 75.0%, respectively. For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $2.39 and $1.87, respectively. “The buildout of AI factories — the largest infrastructure expansion in human history — is accelerating at extraordinary speed,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Agentic AI has arrived, doing productive work, generating real value and scaling rapidly across companies and industries. NVIDIA is uniquely positioned at the center of this transformation as the only platform that runs in every cloud, powers every frontier and open source model, and scales everywhere AI is produced — from hyperscale data centers to the edge.” During the first quarter of fiscal 2027, NVIDIA returned a record level of approximately $20.0 billion to shareholders in the form of shares repurchased and cash dividends. As of the end of the first quarter, the company had $38.5 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization. On May 18, 2026, the Board of Directors approved an additional $80.0 billion to the Company’s share repurchase authorization, without expiration. NVIDIA is increasing its quarterly cash dividend from $0.01 per share to $0.25 per share of common stock, which will be paid on June 26, 2026, to all shareholders of record on June 4, 2026. NVIDIA is transitioning to a new reporting framework that better reflects its current and future growth drivers. NVIDIA will have two market platforms — Data Center and Edge Computing. Within Data Center, NVIDIA will report two sub-markets, Hyperscale and ACIE, which incorporates AI Clouds, Industrial and Enterprise. Hyperscale will include revenue from the public clouds and the world’s largest consumer internet companies, while ACIE addresses NVIDIA’s growth opportunity in diverse AI purpose-built data centers and AI factories across industries and countries. Edge Computing highlights data processing devices for agentic and physical AI including PCs, game consoles, workstations, AI-RAN base stations, robotics and automotive. Under the previous sub-markets, Data Center compute revenue was a record $60.4 billion, up 77% from a year ago and up 18% sequentially. Data Center networking revenue was a record $14.8 billion, up 199% from a year ago and up 35% sequentially. Q1 Fiscal 2027 Summary GAAP ($ in millions, except earnings per share) Q1 FY27 Q4 FY26 Q1 FY26 Q/Q Y/Y Revenue $81,615 $68,127 $44,062 20% 85% Gross margin 74.9% 75.0% 60.5% (0.1) pts 14.4 pts Operating expenses $7,621 $6,794 $5,030 12% 52% Operating income $53,536 $44,299 $21,638 21% 147% Net income $58,321 $42,960 $18,775 36% 211% Diluted earnings per share $2.39 $1.76 $0.76 36% 214%   Non-GAAP ($ in millions, except earnings per share) Q1 FY27 Q4 FY26 Q1 FY26 Q/Q Y/Y Revenue $81,615 $68,127 $44,062 20% 85% Gross margin 75.0% 75.1% 60.8% (0.1) pts 14.2 pts Operating expenses $7,449 $6,666 $4,993 12% 49% Operating income $53,783 $44,474 $21,801 21% 147% Net income $45,548 $38,969 $19,094 17% 139% Diluted earnings per share $1.87 $1.59 $0.78 18% 140%             Outlook NVIDIA’s outlook for the second quarter of fiscal 2027 is as follows: Revenue is expected to be $91.0 billion, plus or minus 2%. NVIDIA is not assuming any Data Center compute revenue from China in its outlook. GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.9% and 75.0%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points. GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $8.5 billion and $8.3 billion, respectively. For the full year fiscal 2027, NVIDIA expects GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates to be between 16.0% and 18.0%, excluding any discrete items and material changes to NVIDIA’s tax environment. Highlights Data Center First-quarter revenue was a record $75.2 billion, up 21% from the previous quarter and up 92% from a year ago. Announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, including the NVIDIA Vera CPU, the world’s first processor purpose-built for agentic AI, and NVIDIA BlueField®-4 STX, accelerated storage infrastructure for agentic AI factories. Entered production with NVIDIA Dynamo 1.0, open source software that boosts generative and agentic inference on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs by up to 7x, with widespread global adoption. Announced NVIDIA NemoClaw™ for the OpenClaw agent platform, NVIDIA OpenShell™ with privacy and security controls for autonomous AI agents, and NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, an open source platform for building autonomous enterprise AI agents. Advanced open AI model development with new NVIDIA Nemotron™, NVIDIA BioNeMo™ and NVIDIA Ising models, and the launch of the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition. Expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to advance agentic and physical AI, including new NVIDIA Vera Rubin-powered A5X instances and a preview of Google Gemini models on Google Distributed Cloud running on NVIDIA Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra GPUs. Expanded the AI ecosystem through a strategic partnership with Marvell via NVIDIA NVLink Fusion™, and collaboration on silicon photonics technology. Announced multi-year strategic agreements with Coherent, Corning and Lumentum to accelerate innovation in advanced optics technologies. Announced the NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. Edge Computing First-quarter Edge Computing revenue was $6.4 billion, up 10% from the previous quarter and up 29% from a year ago. Released NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and previewed the next generation of DLSS 3D-guided neural rendering model, DLSS 5, NVIDIA’s most significant graphics breakthrough since ray tracing in 2018. Accelerated and optimized key local agentic models, including Gemma 4, Qwen, Mistral and NVIDIA Nemotron for NVIDIA RTX™ and edge devices. Announced the NVIDIA Alpamayo 1.5 open model and NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec technologies that enable autonomous driving systems at scale. Expanded partnership with Hyundai Motor Company and Kia for next-generation autonomous driving built on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion™ platform, and expanded partnership with Uber to launch a fleet of autonomous vehicles powered by full-stack NVIDIA DRIVE AV software. Announced that BYD, Geely, Isuzu and Nissan are building level 4-ready vehicles on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform, and introduced NVIDIA Halos OS, a unified safety architecture for AI-driven vehicles. Announced new NVIDIA Cosmos™ and NVIDIA Isaac™ GR00T N models, new Isaac simulation frameworks, the general availability of NVIDIA IGX Thor™ and physical AI leaders building on NVIDIA technology. Partnered with global industrial software leaders to accelerate AI-driven design, engineering and manufacturing using NVIDIA CUDA-X™, NVIDIA Omniverse™ and accelerated computing. Announced collaboration with T-Mobile and Nokia to integrate physical AI applications on AI-RAN-ready infrastructure, as well as a commitment with global telecom leaders to build 6G wireless networks on AI-native, open and secure platforms. CFO Commentary Commentary on the quarter by Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, is available at https://investor.nvidia.com. Conference Call and Webcast Information NVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its first quarter fiscal 2027 financial results and current financial prospects today at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time). A live webcast (listen-only mode) of the conference call will be accessible at NVIDIA’s investor relations website, https://investor.nvidia.com. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until NVIDIA’s conference call to discuss its financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2027. Non-GAAP Measures To supplement NVIDIA’s condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, the company uses non-GAAP measures of certain components of financial performance. These non-GAAP measures include non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP other income (expense), net, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income, or earnings, per diluted share, and free cash flow. For NVIDIA’s investors to be better able to compare its current results with those of previous periods, the company has shown a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. These reconciliations adjust the related GAAP financial measures to exclude acquisition-related and other costs, other, gains/losses from equity securities, net, certain other income and expense, and the associated tax impact of these items where applicable. Beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, NVIDIA’s non-GAAP financial measures no longer exclude stock-based compensation expense. The historical non-GAAP financial information presented has been updated to include stock-based compensation expense. Free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less both purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets and principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets. NVIDIA believes the presentation of its non-GAAP financial measures enhances the users’ overall understanding of the company’s historical financial performance. The presentation of the company’s non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the company’s financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the company’s non-GAAP measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.   NVIDIA CORPORATION CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (In millions, except per share data) (Unaudited)                               Three Months Ended       April 26,   April 27,         2026       2025               Revenue $ 81,615     $ 44,062   Cost of revenue   20,458       17,394   Gross profit   61,157       26,668               Operating expenses         Research and development   6,321       3,989     Sales, general and administrative   1,300       1,041       Total operating expenses   7,621       5,030               Operating income   53,536       21,638     Interest income   540       515     Interest expense   (102 )     (63 )   Other income (expense), net   15,929       (180 )     Total other income, net   16,367       272               Income before income tax   69,903       21,910   Income tax expense   11,582       3,135   Net income $ 58,321     $ 18,775               Net income per share:         Basic $ 2.40     $ 0.77     Diluted $ 2.39     $ 0.76               Weighted average shares used in per share computation:         Basic   24,286       24,441     Diluted   24,391       24,611                 NVIDIA CORPORATION CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In millions) (Unaudited)                                     April 26,   January 25,         2026   2026 ASSETS                       Current assets:           Cash and cash equivalents   $ 13,237   $ 10,605   Marketable debt securities     37,098     39,065   Marketable equity securities     30,237     12,886   Accounts receivable, net     40,710     38,466   Inventories     25,797     21,403   Prepaid expenses and other current assets     3,916     3,180     Total current assets     150,995     125,605               Property and equipment, net     12,403     10,383 Operating lease assets     4,258     2,867 Goodwill     20,894     20,832 Intangible assets, net     3,120     3,306 Deferred income tax assets     11,707     13,258 Non-marketable securities     43,364     22,251 Other assets     12,733     8,301     Total assets   $ 259,474   $ 206,803               LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY                       Current liabilities:           Accounts payable   $ 13,097   $ 9,812   Accrued and other current liabilities     29,787     21,352   Short-term debt     1,000     999     Total current liabilities     43,884     32,163               Long-term debt     7,470     7,469 Long-term operating lease liabilities     3,878     2,572 Other long-term liabilities     8,768     7,306     Total liabilities     64,000     49,510               Shareholders' equity     195,474     157,293     Total liabilities and shareholders' equity   $ 259,474   $ 206,803                 NVIDIA CORPORATION CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (In millions) (Unaudited)                               Three Months Ended       April 26,   April 27,         2026       2025               Cash flows from operating activities:       Net income $ 58,321     $ 18,775   Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash       provided by operating activities:         Stock-based compensation expense   1,928       1,474     Deferred income taxes   1,584       (2,177 )   Depreciation and amortization   997       611     (Gains) losses from equity securities, net   (15,936 )     175     Other   (94 )     (98 ) Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:         Accounts receivable   (2,243 )     933     Inventories   (4,420 )     (1,258 )   Prepaid expenses and other assets   (983 )     560     Accounts payable   2,210       941     Accrued and other current liabilities   7,763       7,128     Other long-term liabilities   1,217       350   Net cash provided by operating activities   50,344       27,414               Cash flows from investing activities:         Proceeds from maturities of marketable debt securities   1,946       3,122     Proceeds from sales of non-marketable securities   26       -     Proceeds from sales of marketable debt securities   25       467     Purchases of non-marketable securities   (18,582 )     (649 )   Purchases of marketable debt and equity securities   (8,000 )     (6,546 )   Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets   (1,757 )     (1,227 )   Acquisitions, net of cash acquired   (87 )     (383 ) Net cash used in investing activities   (26,429 )     (5,216 )             Cash flows from financing activities:         Proceeds related to employee stock plans   515       370     Payments related to repurchases of common stock   (19,312 )     (14,095 )   Payments related to employee stock plan taxes   (2,129 )     (1,532 )   Dividends paid   (243 )     (244 )   Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets     (33 )     (52 )   Other   (81 )     -   Net cash used in financing activities   (21,283 )     (15,553 )             Change in cash and cash equivalents   2,632       6,645   Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period   10,605       8,589   Cash and cash equivalents at end of period $ 13,237     $ 15,234                 NVIDIA CORPORATION RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES ($ in millions, except per share data) (Unaudited)                       Three Months Ended       April 26,   January 25,   April 27,         2026       2026       2025                   GAAP cost of revenue $ 20,458     $ 17,034     $ 17,394   GAAP gross profit $ 61,157     $ 51,093     $ 26,668   GAAP gross margin   74.9 %     75.0 %     60.5 %   Acquisition-related and other costs (A)   47       48       123     Other     28       (1 )     3   Non-GAAP cost of revenue $ 20,383     $ 16,987     $ 17,268   Non-GAAP gross profit $ 61,232     $ 51,140     $ 26,794     Non-GAAP gross margin*     75.0 %     75.1 %     60.8 %                 GAAP operating expenses $ 7,621     $ 6,794     $ 5,030     Acquisition-related and other costs (A)   (172 )     (90 )     (37 )   Other     -       (38 )     -   Non-GAAP operating expenses $ 7,449     $ 6,666     $ 4,993                   GAAP operating income $ 53,536     $ 44,299     $ 21,638     Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to operating income   247       175       163   Non-GAAP operating income* $ 53,783     $ 44,474     $ 21,801                   GAAP total other income, net $ 16,367     $ 6,098     $ 272     (Gains) losses from equity securities, net   (15,936 )     (5,491 )     175     Other (B)     26       13       1   Non-GAAP total other income, net $ 457     $ 620     $ 448                   GAAP net income $ 58,321     $ 42,960     $ 18,775     Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments   (15,663 )     (5,303 )     339     Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments   2,890       1,312       (20 ) Non-GAAP net income* $ 45,548     $ 38,969     $ 19,094                   Diluted net income per share             GAAP   $ 2.39     $ 1.76     $ 0.76     Non-GAAP*   $ 1.87     $ 1.59     $ 0.78                   Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation   24,391       24,432       24,611                   GAAP net cash provided by operating activities $ 50,344     $ 36,190     $ 27,414     Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets   (1,757 )     (1,284 )     (1,227 )   Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets   (33 )     (4 )     (52 ) Free cash flow   $ 48,554     $ 34,902     $ 26,135                   *Includes H20 charges/(releases), net, which was $4.5 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, insignificant for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, and none for the first quarter of fiscal 2027.                 (A) Acquisition-related and other costs are comprised of amortization of intangible assets, transaction costs, and certain compensation charges and are included in the following line items:       Three Months Ended       April 26,   January 25,   April 27,         2026       2026       2025     Cost of revenue $ 47     $ 48     $ 123     Research and development $ 167     $ 83     $ 28     Sales, general and administrative $ 5     $ 7     $ 9                                   (B) Comprised of interest expense related to acquisition consideration discount to be paid in the future, dividend income on equity securities, share of net (earnings)/losses related to equity method investments, and amortization of debt discount.       NVIDIA CORPORATION RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP OUTLOOK             Q2 FY27 Outlook     ($ in millions)       GAAP gross margin   74.9 %   Impact of acquisition-related costs and other costs   0.1 % Non-GAAP gross margin   75.0 %       GAAP operating expenses $ 8,500     Acquisition-related costs and other costs   (200 ) Non-GAAP operating expenses $ 8,300        
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