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Friday, 5 June 2026

A summary and discussion of NVIDIA’s income statements

A summary and discussion of NVIDIA’s income statements, based on the latest five quarters (April 2025 – April 2026) and the last five fiscal years (2022–2026).

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Over the latest five quarters, NVIDIA’s revenue has shown remarkable and accelerating momentum. Starting at $44.1 billion in April 2025, revenue rose to $46.7 billion in July 2025 (6.1% growth), then jumped to $57.0 billion in October 2025 (22.0% growth), $68.1 billion in January 2026 (19.5% growth), and finally $81.6 billion in April 2026 (19.8% growth). This sequence demonstrates that after a relatively subdued quarter in mid‑2025, growth re‑accelerated into the high teens. The company’s gross income expanded in lockstep, from $26.7 billion to $61.2 billion over the same period, with the gross profit margin holding exceptionally steady at 71.07% in the most recent quarter – a sign of stable pricing and limited cost pressures despite surging volumes. Operating leverage is evident in selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses, which grew at a much slower pace (12–16% sequentially) than revenue, allowing pretax income to climb from $21.9 billion to $69.9 billion. Consequently, the pretax margin reached 65.5% in April 2026, and net income (after tax) soared from $18.8 billion to $58.3 billion, translating into a net margin of 55.6%. Diluted earnings per share rose from $0.76 to $2.39, helped also by a modest reduction in share count. Notably, the company consistently recorded negative “unusual expense” (i.e., gains or reversals of provisions), which added to bottom‑line results, while interest expense remained negligible.

Looking at the annual picture for the five fiscal years ending in January 2026 (labelled 2022 through 2026), the transformation is even more dramatic. Revenue was essentially flat from 2022 ($26.9 billion) to 2023 ($27.0 billion), but then exploded: $60.9 billion in 2024 (+125.9%), $130.5 billion in 2025 (+114.2%), and $215.9 billion in 2026 (+65.5%). The slowdown in the growth rate (from over 100% to 65%) is natural as the base expands, but absolute dollar increases remain massive – nearly $85 billion more revenue in 2026 than in 2025. Gross profit margin improved sharply from about 57% in 2023 (a trough year) to over 71% in 2026, reflecting the shift toward high‑margin data center AI products and away from lower‑margin legacy segments. Operating expenses (SG&A), which include a rapidly growing R&D budget ($5.3 billion in 2022 to $18.5 billion in 2026), increased at a much slower rate than revenue, driving extraordinary operating leverage. As a result, EBITDA rose from $11.2 billion in 2022 to $133.2 billion in 2026, and net income surged from $9.75 billion to $120.07 billion. The net margin widened from 36% (2022) to a stunning 55.6% in both 2025 and 2026, despite a temporary dip in 2023 when margins fell to 16% due to inventory adjustments and weaker gaming demand. Diluted EPS followed the same trajectory – $0.38 (2022), $0.17 (2023), then $1.19, $2.94, and $4.90 in 2026. The company has also been reducing its share count through buybacks (basic shares outstanding fell from 24.96 million in 2022 to 24.36 million in 2026), further boosting per‑share metrics.

Several themes deserve discussion.

First, NVIDIA’s financial performance is now structurally different from any traditional semiconductor company – its net income alone exceeds the total revenue of most large tech firms.
Second, the combination of 71% gross margins and 55%+ net margins is typically found only in software or platform companies, underscoring the value of NVIDIA’s compute ecosystem and the pricing power of its AI accelerators.
Third, the negative “unusual expense” in every recent period (ranging from –$63 million to –$2.6 billion quarterly) suggests recurring non‑operating gains, possibly from investments or legal settlements, which provide a small but consistent tailwind.
Fourth, interest expense has remained flat at around $250 million annually despite higher cash balances, meaning NVIDIA carries almost no net debt.
Finally, the sequential growth rate in the latest quarter (19.8%) is still extremely robust but has moderated from the 22% peak in October 2025. Investors will watch whether this deceleration continues as competitors (AMD, custom ASICs) gain traction and as large cloud customers digest massive AI chip purchases.

Nevertheless, the income statements paint a picture of a company executing exceptionally well on a once‑in‑a‑generation technology shift, with profit growth far outpacing revenue growth and operational efficiency reaching levels few corporations ever achieve.

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My 18 points guide to Successfully compounding your money in Stocks

Be a good stock picker.
Think as a business owner.
Always look at value rather than the price. Do the homework.
Buy and hold is alright for selected stocks.
Compounding is your friend, get this to work its magic.
Mr. Market is there to be taken advantage of. Do not be the sucker instead. BFS;STS.
Always buy a lot when the price is low.
Never buy when the stock is overpriced.
It is alright to buy when the selected stock is at a fair price.
Phasing in or dollar cost averaging is safe for such stocks during a downtrend, unless the price is still obviously too high.
Do not time the market for such or any stocks.
By keeping to the above strategy, the returns will be delivered through the growth of the company's business.
So, when do you sell the stock? Almost never, as long as the fundamentals remain sound and the future prospects intact.
The downside risk is protected through only buying when the price is low or fairly priced.
Tactical dynamic asset allocation or rebalancing based on valuation can be employed but this sounds easier than is practical, except in extreme market situations.
Sell urgently when the company business fundamental has deteriorated irreversibly.
You may also wish to sell should the growth of the company has obviously slowed and you can reinvest into another company with greater growth potential of similar quality. However, unlike point 16, you can do so leisurely.
In conclusion, a critical key to successful investing is in your stock picking ability.

http://myinvestingnotes.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-18-points-guide-to-successfully.html

11 Lessons From Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch taught me:

1. Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.
2. Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.
3. Over the short term, there may be no correlation between the success of a company’s operations and the success of its stock. Over the long term, there’s a 100% correlation.
4. Buying stocks without studying the companies is the same as playing poker – and never looking at your cards.
5. Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
6. Owning stock is like having children. Don’t get involved with more than you can handle.
7. When the insiders are buying, it’s a good sign.
8. Unless you’re a short seller, it never pays to be pessimistic.
9. A stock market decline is as predictable as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you’re prepared, it can’t hurt you.
10. Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
11. Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy, or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what’s actually happening to the companies in which you’ve invested.

Lynch’s advice had a profound effect on my stock market approach. He taught me that investment success isn’t the result of developing the right macro-economic view or deciding when to jump in or out of the market. Success is about researching companies to identify those that are likely to report positive surprises.

Capital Expenditure

A great company with a Durable Competitive Advantage will have a ratio of Capital Expenditures to Net Income of less than 25%. Less is better.

Capital Expenditures are expenses on:
- fixed assets such as equipment, property, or industrial buildings
- fixing problems with an asset
- preparing an asset to be used in business
- restoring property
- starting new businesses

A good company will have a ratio of Capital Expenditures to Net Income of less than 50%.

A great company with a Durable Competitive Advantage will have a ratio of less than 25%.

Less is better.

Benjamin Graham's 113 Wise Words

The true investor scarcely ever is forced to sell his shares, and at all times he is free to disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more. Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons' mistakes of judgement."

Philip Fisher's Wise Words

"The refusal to sell at a loss, while completely natural and normal, is probably one of the most dangerous in which we can indulge ourselves in the entire investment process.

More money has probably been lost by investors holding a stock they really did not want until they could 'at least come out even' than from any other single reason. If to these actual losses are added the profits that might have been made through the proper reinvestment of these funds if such reinvestment had been made when the mistake was first realized, the cost of self-indulgence becomes truly tremendous."

(Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits)

The Ultimate Hold-versus-Sell Test

Here is the overriding primary test, followed by observations on why it is so critically important:

Knowing all that you now know and expect about the company and its stock (not what you originally believed or hoped at time of purchase), and assuming that you had available capital, and assuming that it would not cause a portfolio imbalance to do so, would you buy this stock today, at today's price?

No equivocation. Yes or no?

Answers such as maybe or probably are not acceptable since they are ways of dodging the issue. No investor probably buys a stock; they either place an order or do not.

Here is the implication of your answer to that critical test: if you did not answer with a clear affirmative, you should sell; only if you said a strong yes, are you justified to hold.

Some thoughts on Analysing Stocks (KISS)

Ideally a stock you plan to purchase should have all of the following charateristics:

• A rising trend of earnings dividends and book value per share.
• A balance sheet with less debt than other companies in its particular industry.
• A P/E ratio no higher than average.
• A dividend yield that suits your particular needs.
• A below-average dividend pay-out ratio.
• A history of earnings and dividends not pockmarked by erratic ups and downs.
• Companies whose ROE is 15 or better.
• A ratio of price to cash flow (P/CF) that is not too high when compared to other stocks in the same industry.

Margin of Safety Concept: Stocks should be bought like groceries, not like perfume

The high CAGR in the early years of the investing period, due to buying at a discount, tended to decline and approach that of the intrinsic EPS GR of the companies over a longer investment time-frame.

Chapter 20 - “Margin of Safety” as the Central Concept of Investment

A single quote by Graham on page 516 struck me:

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

Basically, Graham is saying that most stock investors lose money because they invest in companies that seem good at a particular point in time, but are lacking the fundamentals of a long-lasting stable company.

This seems obvious on the surface, but it’s actually a great argument for thinking more carefully about your individual stock investments. If most of your losses come from buying companies that seem healthy but really aren’t, isn’t that a profound argument for carefully studying any company you might invest in?

Bullbear Buffett

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A summary and discussion of NVIDIA’s income statements

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