BN · rank #2 · 2026-07-20
NVDA
NASDAQ · $4.91T (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | 1.07 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +42.2% |
| Forward net margin Consensus forward net margin. | +63.2% |
| Net margin TTM Trailing twelve month net margin. | +63.0% |
| Margin expansion Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points). | +0.3% |
| Forward PEG Forward P/E to growth. Below 1 is cheap for the growth. | 0.56 |
| Debt / FCF Net debt relative to free cash flow. Lower is safer. | 0.11× |
| Analyst upside Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price. | +49.1% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | +6% |
| Market cap (USD) | $4.91T |
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Summary
NVIDIA is the dominant supplier of AI datacenter GPUs and networking infrastructure, generating $81.6B in quarterly revenue with >90% YoY datacenter growth driven by hyperscaler and enterprise AI factory buildouts.
Rationale
NVDA screens as a textbook bottleneck-solver — it is the single-source constraint on large-scale AI training and inference capacity, with a 0.56 forward PEG against 42% revenue growth and 63% net margins confirming the moat is monetized, not merely narrative.
Material risks
- 1Hyperscalers (Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, Microsoft Maia) are actively scaling in-house AI silicon, which is the canonical disqualifier for a bottleneck-solver thesis — if NVDA loses sole-supplier status at its largest customers (~50% of datacenter revenue), the structural edge degrades.
- 2U.S. export controls have already structurally excised China from NVDA's forward revenue base, capping the total addressable market and creating binary regulatory risk on any remaining China-adjacent product approvals.
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