BN · rank #2 · 2026-07-24
NVDA
NASDAQ · $5.06T (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | 1.08 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +42.5% |
| 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. | 0.58 |
| 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. | +45.1% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | +6% |
| Market cap (USD) | $5.06T |
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Summary
NVIDIA designs and sells AI accelerators and systems—led by the Blackwell GPU platform—that dominate data center compute for large-scale AI training and inference, generating $75.2B in data center revenue in Q1 FY2027 alone.
Rationale
The bottleneck-solver thesis is directly reinforced: NVIDIA holds ~55–60% of TSMC's 2026 CoWoS allocation and primary HBM supply agreements with SK hynix, giving it a structural chokehold on the advanced packaging and memory bandwidth that no hyperscaler can replicate in-house at scale, with named backlog providing revenue visibility rather than sentiment-driven upside.
Material risks
- 1Escalating U.S. export controls requiring licenses for all Blackwell shipments to China-headquartered entities—combined with Chinese customs blocks on H200 and mandates to pair NVIDIA silicon with Huawei Ascend—could materially shrink addressable demand and accelerate a credible domestic alternative, the clearest path to eroding the sole-supplier position the thesis depends on.
- 2Concentrated upstream exposure to TSMC CoWoS-L and SK hynix HBM means a yield disruption, capacity renegotiation, or supply shock at either vendor could compress shipment volumes and gross margin precisely when the $91B Q2 guide is priced in.
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