- Record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% from a year ago
- Record Data Center revenue of $75.2 billion, up 92% from a year ago
- NVIDIA announces $80.0 billion additional share repurchase authorization and increases its quarterly cash dividend from $0.01 per share to $0.25 per share
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported record revenue for the first quarter ended April 26, 2026, of $81.6 billion, up 20% from the previous quarter and up 85% from a year ago.
For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were 74.9% and 75.0%, respectively.
For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $2.39 and $1.87, respectively.
“The buildout of AI factories — the largest infrastructure expansion in human history — is accelerating at extraordinary speed,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Agentic AI has arrived, doing productive work, generating real value and scaling rapidly across companies and industries. NVIDIA is uniquely positioned at the center of this transformation as the only platform that runs in every cloud, powers every frontier and open source model, and scales everywhere AI is produced — from hyperscale data centers to the edge.”
During the first quarter of fiscal 2027, NVIDIA returned a record level of approximately $20.0 billion to shareholders in the form of shares repurchased and cash dividends. As of the end of the first quarter, the company had $38.5 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization. On May 18, 2026, the Board of Directors approved an additional $80.0 billion to the Company’s share repurchase authorization, without expiration. NVIDIA is increasing its quarterly cash dividend from $0.01 per share to $0.25 per share of common stock, which will be paid on June 26, 2026, to all shareholders of record on June 4, 2026.
NVIDIA is transitioning to a new reporting framework that better reflects its current and future growth drivers. NVIDIA will have two market platforms — Data Center and Edge Computing. Within Data Center, NVIDIA will report two sub-markets, Hyperscale and ACIE, which incorporates AI Clouds, Industrial and Enterprise. Hyperscale will include revenue from the public clouds and the world’s largest consumer internet companies, while ACIE addresses NVIDIA’s growth opportunity in diverse AI purpose-built data centers and AI factories across industries and countries. Edge Computing highlights data processing devices for agentic and physical AI including PCs, game consoles, workstations, AI-RAN base stations, robotics and automotive.
Under the previous sub-markets, Data Center compute revenue was a record $60.4 billion, up 77% from a year ago and up 18% sequentially. Data Center networking revenue was a record $14.8 billion, up 199% from a year ago and up 35% sequentially.
Q1 Fiscal 2027 Summary
GAAP($ in millions, except earnings per share)Q1 FY27Q4 FY26Q1 FY26Q/QY/YRevenue$81,615$68,127$44,06220%85%Gross margin74.9%75.0%60.5%(0.1) pts14.4 ptsOperating expenses$7,621$6,794$5,03012%52%Operating income$53,536$44,299$21,63821%147%Net income$58,321$42,960$18,77536%211%Diluted earnings per share$2.39$1.76$0.7636%214%Outlook
NVIDIA’s outlook for the second quarter of fiscal 2027 is as follows:
- Revenue is expected to be $91.0 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 74.9% and 75.0%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.
- GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $8.5 billion and $8.3 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
Data Center
- First-quarter revenue was a record $75.2 billion, up 21% from the previous quarter and up 92% from a year ago.
- Announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, including the NVIDIA Vera CPU, the world’s first processor purpose-built for agentic AI, and NVIDIA BlueField®-4 STX, accelerated storage infrastructure for agentic AI factories.
- Entered production with NVIDIA Dynamo 1.0, open source software that boosts generative and agentic inference on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs by up to 7x, with widespread global adoption.
- Announced NVIDIA NemoClaw™ for the OpenClaw agent platform, NVIDIA OpenShell™ with privacy and security controls for autonomous AI agents, and NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, an open source platform for building autonomous enterprise AI agents.
- Advanced open AI model development with new NVIDIA Nemotron™, NVIDIA BioNeMo™ and NVIDIA Ising models, and the launch of the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition.
- Expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to advance agentic and physical AI, including new NVIDIA Vera Rubin-powered A5X instances and a preview of Google Gemini models on Google Distributed Cloud running on NVIDIA Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra GPUs.
- Expanded the AI ecosystem through a strategic partnership with Marvell via NVIDIA NVLink Fusion™, and collaboration on silicon photonics technology.
- Announced multi-year strategic agreements with Coherent, Corning and Lumentum to accelerate innovation in advanced optics technologies.
- Announced the NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPU.
Edge Computing
- First-quarter Edge Computing revenue was $6.4 billion, up 10% from the previous quarter and up 29% from a year ago.
- Released NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and previewed the next generation of DLSS 3D-guided neural rendering model, DLSS 5, NVIDIA’s most significant graphics breakthrough since ray tracing in 2018.
- Accelerated and optimized key local agentic models, including Gemma 4, Qwen, Mistral and NVIDIA Nemotron for NVIDIA RTX™ and edge devices.
- Announced the NVIDIA Alpamayo 1.5 open model and NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec technologies that enable autonomous driving systems at scale.
- Expanded partnership with Hyundai Motor Company and Kia for next-generation autonomous driving built on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion™ platform, and expanded partnership with Uber to launch a fleet of autonomous vehicles powered by full-stack NVIDIA DRIVE AV software.
- Announced that BYD, Geely, Isuzu and Nissan are building level 4-ready vehicles on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform, and introduced NVIDIA Halos OS, a unified safety architecture for AI-driven vehicles.
- Announced new NVIDIA Cosmos™ and NVIDIA Isaac™ GR00T N models, new Isaac simulation frameworks, the general availability of NVIDIA IGX Thor™ and physical AI leaders building on NVIDIA technology.
- Partnered with global industrial software leaders to accelerate AI-driven design, engineering and manufacturing using NVIDIA CUDA-X™, NVIDIA Omniverse™ and accelerated computing.
- Announced collaboration with T-Mobile and Nokia to integrate physical AI applications on AI-RAN-ready infrastructure, as well as a commitment with global telecom leaders to build 6G wireless networks on AI-native, open and secure platforms.
CFO Commentary
Commentary on the quarter by Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, is available at https://investor.nvidia.com.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
NVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its first quarter fiscal 2027 financial results and current financial prospects today at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time). A live webcast (listen-only mode) of the conference call will be accessible at NVIDIA’s investor relations website, https://investor.nvidia.com. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until NVIDIA’s conference call to discuss its financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2027.
Non-GAAP Measures
To supplement NVIDIA’s condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, the company uses non-GAAP measures of certain components of financial performance. These non-GAAP measures include non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP other income (expense), net, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income, or earnings, per diluted share, and free cash flow. For NVIDIA’s investors to be better able to compare its current results with those of previous periods, the company has shown a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. These reconciliations adjust the related GAAP financial measures to exclude acquisition-related and other costs, other, gains/losses from equity securities, net, certain other income and expense, and the associated tax impact of these items where applicable. Beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, NVIDIA’s non-GAAP financial measures no longer exclude stock-based compensation expense. The historical non-GAAP financial information presented has been updated to include stock-based compensation expense. Free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less both purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets and principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets. NVIDIA believes the presentation of its non-GAAP financial measures enhances the users’ overall understanding of the company’s historical financial performance. The presentation of the company’s non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the company’s financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the company’s non-GAAP measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
2026
ASSETS Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $13,237 $10,605 Marketable debt securities 37,098 39,065 Marketable equity securities 30,237 12,886 Accounts receivable, net 40,710 38,466 Inventories 25,797 21,403 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 3,916 3,180 Total current assets 150,995 125,605 Property and equipment, net 12,403 10,383Operating lease assets 4,258 2,867Goodwill 20,894 20,832Intangible assets, net 3,120 3,306Deferred income tax assets 11,707 13,258Non-marketable securities 43,364 22,251Other assets 12,733 8,301 Total assets $259,474 $206,803 LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY Current liabilities: Accounts payable $13,097 $9,812 Accrued and other current liabilities 29,787 21,352 Short-term debt 1,000 999 Total current liabilities 43,884 32,163 Long-term debt 7,470 7,469Long-term operating lease liabilities 3,878 2,572Other long-term liabilities 8,768 7,306 Total liabilities 64,000 49,510 Shareholders' equity 195,474 157,293 Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $259,474 $206,803
75.0% 75.1% 60.8% GAAP operating expenses$7,621 $6,794 $5,030 Acquisition-related and other costs (A) (172) (90) (37) Other - (38) - Non-GAAP operating expenses$7,449 $6,666 $4,993 GAAP operating income$53,536 $44,299 $21,638 Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to operating income 247 175 163 Non-GAAP operating income*$53,783 $44,474 $21,801 GAAP total other income, net$16,367 $6,098 $272 (Gains) losses from equity securities, net (15,936) (5,491) 175 Other (B) 26 13 1 Non-GAAP total other income, net$457 $620 $448 GAAP net income$58,321 $42,960 $18,775 Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments (15,663) (5,303) 339 Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments 2,890 1,312 (20)Non-GAAP net income*$45,548 $38,969 $19,094 Diluted net income per share GAAP $2.39 $1.76 $0.76 Non-GAAP* $1.87 $1.59 $0.78 Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation 24,391 24,432 24,611 GAAP net cash provided by operating activities$50,344 $36,190 $27,414 Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets (1,757) (1,284) (1,227) Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets (33) (4) (52)Free cash flow $48,554 $34,902 $26,135 *Includes H20 charges/(releases), net, which was $4.5 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, insignificant for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, and none for the first quarter of fiscal 2027. (A) Acquisition-related and other costs are comprised of amortization of intangible assets, transaction costs, and certain compensation charges and are included in the following line items: Three Months Ended April 26, January 25, April 27, 2026 2026 2025 Cost of revenue$47 $48 $123 Research and development$167 $83 $28 Sales, general and administrative$5 $7 $9 (B) Comprised of interest expense related to acquisition consideration discount to be paid in the future, dividend income on equity securities, share of net (earnings)/losses related to equity method investments, and amortization of debt discount.
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