BN · rank #2 · 2026-07-21
NVDA
NASDAQ · $4.92T (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | 1.06 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +42.3% |
| Forward net margin Consensus forward net margin. | +63.3% |
| 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. | +48.7% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | +6% |
| Market cap (USD) | $4.92T |
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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
The bottleneck_solver thesis is directly reinforced — NVIDIA is the literal rate-limiting constraint on AI infrastructure scaling, with a 0.56 forward PEG against 42% revenue growth and 63% net margins confirming the market is not yet pricing the structural moat at full value.
Material risks
- 1Hyperscalers (Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, Microsoft Maia) are actively scaling in-house AI silicon, which is the canonical disqualifier for a sole-supplier bottleneck thesis — if even one major cloud provider meaningfully reduces GPU dependency, NVDA loses both volume and pricing leverage at its largest customer concentration.
- 2U.S. export controls have already structurally excised China from NVIDIA's addressable market, with management explicitly excluding it from guidance, capping the TAM ceiling and creating binary regulatory risk on any remaining China-adjacent product approvals.
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