NVIDIA Corporation's latest earnings press release, filed Aug 26, 2026, scored line by line for tone, guidance and what changed since the prior release.
New outlook issued58 lines scoredFiled Aug 26, 2026SEC 8-K · Exhibit 99
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GuidanceNew outlook issuedWhat this release does to the company's outlook
Tone change▼ 9.4pointsvs the prior release (May 20, 2026)
Hedging language0.29per 100 words▼ 0.12 vs prior
New this quarter42of 58 linesWording that was not in the prior release
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Announced strategic partnerships to establish independent compute financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital for the buildout of AI infrastructure over time, subject to definitive agreements.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Aug. 26, 2026― NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 26, 2026, of $96.2 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 106% from a year ago.
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Revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year ago
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Data Center revenue of $89.0 billion, up 117% from a year ago
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Second-quarter revenue was $89.0 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 117% from a year ago.
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Second-quarter Edge Computing revenue was $7.2 billion, up 13% from the previous quarter and up 27% from a year ago.
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Expanded Korea’s AI factory ecosystem through strategic partnerships with SK Telecom, NAVER and Brookfield to build sovereign AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale on the NVIDIA DSX platform, as part of a broader NVIDIA-powered national AI push across Korea’s industries and research institutions.
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Expanded the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion™ robotaxi-ready platform ecosystem, including strategic collaborations with Foxconn, VinFast, Uber and HUMAIN.
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3Revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year ago
4Data Center revenue of $89.0 billion, up 117% from a year ago
2SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Aug. 26, 2026― NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 26, 2026, of $96.2 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 106% from a year ago.
For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were both 75.0%.
GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $2.46 and $2.22, respectively.
Management commentary
“AI has reached its inflection point.
It’s doing useful work.
Its tokens are productive and profitable.
Now, compute is revenue,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
“And demand is accelerating.
This time last year, one lab alone was driving the buildout; today, we have a golden age of new AI labs and startups, multiple frontier labs scaling in parallel, a thriving open-model ecosystem and physical AI coming online — with strong momentum across the U.S. and around the world.
The AI infrastructure buildout is at full steam.
Vera Rubin, now in full production, was built to power exactly this moment.”
Capital return
During the second quarter of fiscal 2027, NVIDIA returned approximately $26.0 billion to shareholders in the form of shares repurchased and cash dividends.
As of the end of the second quarter, the company had approximately $99.0 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization.
NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.25 per share on October 1, 2026, to all shareholders of record on September 10, 2026.
Results
Q2 Fiscal 2027 Summary
Outlook
Outlook
NVIDIA’s outlook for the third quarter of fiscal 2027 is as follows:
Revenue is expected to be $108.0 billion, plus or minus 2%.
NVIDIA is not assuming any Data Center compute revenue from China in its outlook.
GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.0%, plus or minus 50 basis points.
GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $9.2 billion and $9.0 billion, respectively.
For the full year fiscal 2027, NVIDIA expects GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates to be between 16.0% and 18.0%, excluding any discrete items and material changes to NVIDIA’s tax environment.
Highlights
Results
Data Center
5Second-quarter revenue was $89.0 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 117% from a year ago.
Corporate events
Announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is ramping into full production with racks running at partners including CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Nebius.
Management commentary
Revealed that NVIDIA Spectrum™-6 switch systems — supporting both pluggable and co-packaged optics as part of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform — are arriving across the world’s gigascale AI factories.
Corporate events
Unveiled NVIDIA Vera, the first CPU built for AI agents, with broad adoption planned across the world’s leading technology providers.
Announced that NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, the interactive AI inference accelerator, is now in full production.
Introduced new security innovations for NVIDIA Vera BlueField™-4 STX, delivering agentic AI storage processing with in-silicon security for AI factories.
Launched the NVIDIA DSX™ platform, providing infrastructure builders a complete playbook to design, build and operate AI factories at scale.
1Announced strategic partnerships to establish independent compute financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital for the buildout of AI infrastructure over time, subject to definitive agreements.
Announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications.
Secured land, power and shell capacity through a partnership with SB Energy at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio to host NVIDIA compute.
Management commentary
Revealed that NVIDIA Blackwell led across every category in the MLPerf Training 6.0 benchmarks and in AgentPerf, the industry’s first agentic AI infrastructure benchmark.
Corporate events
Announced new software, open source models and partnerships with the world’s leading software platform providers to build autonomous AI agents for industries and enterprises;
expanded NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo and new and updated NVIDIA CUDA-X™ libraries.
Launched NVIDIA BioNeMo™ Agent Toolkit, which provides domain-specific tools and skills for the agentic life sciences era.
Formed the Open Secure AI Alliance with industry leaders to advance AI safety and security.
Revealed that NVIDIA GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute.
7Expanded Korea’s AI factory ecosystem through strategic partnerships with SK Telecom, NAVER and Brookfield to build sovereign AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale on the NVIDIA DSX platform, as part of a broader NVIDIA-powered national AI push across Korea’s industries and research institutions.
Announced a multiyear technology partnership with SK hynix to advance next-generation memory for the global AI factory buildout.
Partnered with the Japan government and industrial leaders to launch the world’s first national AI infrastructure; revealed that Japan’s leading enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models with NVIDIA Nemotron™ open models.
Announced that the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform delivers world-class supercomputers for science; announced a record 35 new NVIDIA AI HPC supercomputers in development across Europe.
Management commentary
Edge Computing
Results
6Second-quarter Edge Computing revenue was $7.2 billion, up 13% from the previous quarter and up 27% from a year ago.
Corporate events
Partnered with Microsoft to reinvent the Windows PC with NVIDIA RTX Spark™ — a 1-petaflop superchip with the full CUDA™ and NVIDIA RTX™ ecosystem.
Announced NVIDIA DGX Station™ for Windows, the world’s most powerful deskside AI supercomputer for developing and running agents on Windows.
Launched a local AI initiative with optimizations for top open models — DeepSeek v4 Flash, Diffusion Gemma, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Qwen 3.8 — and agent harnesses Hermes Agent and OpenClaw across RTX and DGX platforms.
8Expanded the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion™ robotaxi-ready platform ecosystem, including strategic collaborations with Foxconn, VinFast, Uber and HUMAIN.
Introduced NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the frontier open reasoning model for safe robotaxi and autonomous vehicle development, for commercial use.
Launched NVIDIA Cosmos™ 3, the world’s first fully open frontier omnimodel for physical AI.
Announced the NVIDIA Isaac™ GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, the first open humanoid robot reference design built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor™ and the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open development platform.
Announced NVIDIA Halos for Robotics, the industry’s first full-stack safety system for physical AI, unifying AI compute and safety in a single comprehensive platform.
Released a major collection of open source agent tools and skills for physical AI, enabling developers to turn complex robotics, autonomous vehicle and vision AI workflows into agent-executable tasks.
Management commentary
CFO Commentary
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How this is scored
Source: the press release NVIDIA Corporation filed with the SEC as Exhibit 99 to Form 8-K (Item 2.02). Financial statements and boilerplate are set aside.
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