BN · rank #1 · 2026-09-07
NVDA
NASDAQ · $5.56T (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | 1.31 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +63.7% |
| Forward net margin Consensus forward net margin. | +64.6% |
| Net margin TTM Trailing twelve month net margin. | +63.7% |
| Margin expansion Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points). | +0.9% |
| 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. | 0.31× |
| Analyst upside Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price. | +42.0% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | +6% |
| Market cap (USD) | $5.56T |
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Summary
NVIDIA designs and sells data center AI accelerator platforms (Hopper, Blackwell) bundled with its CUDA software stack, commanding ~80–85% of the AI GPU market by revenue.
Rationale
With $279B in cumulative AI supply agreements, Blackwell sold out into 2027, 63.7% forward revenue growth, a 0.58 forward PEG, and 42% analyst upside, NVDA is the textbook bottleneck-solver — it holds the scarce CoWoS packaging capacity and sole-source GPU position that the strategy targets.
Material risks
- 1U.S.–China export controls on H200/Blackwell create case-by-case licensing and volume caps that could materially curtail a meaningful revenue segment with little warning, directly threatening the supply-agreement visibility underpinning the thesis.
- 2Cloud hyperscalers co-developing custom silicon (e.g., the MediaTek partnership NVIDIA itself joined) signals that sole-source dependency is being actively engineered away, which is the canonical long-run disqualifier for a bottleneck-solver thesis.
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