Nvidia smashes earnings with $81.62 billion revenue, drops $80 billion buyback and dividend to $0.25, stock stays flat after hours

Wall Street spins the massive beat narrative, hides the post earnings selloff reality…

Retail call buyers get wrecked on volatility crush, Nvidia degens chase the next pop…

Adjusted EPS $1.87

Revenue $81.62B, est. $79.19B (+20% QoQ, +85% YoY)

Sees Q2 Revenue $91.0B ±2%, est. $87.36B

Adjusted Gross Margin 75.0%

Sees Q2 Adjusted Gross Margin 74.5%–75.5%

Sees Q2 Adjusted Operating Expenses ~$8.3B, est. $7.93B

Data Center Revenue $75.2B, est. $73.48B (+21% QoQ, +92% YoY)

Edge Computing revenue $6.4B (+10% QoQ, +29% YoY)

Hyperscale revenue ~50% of Data Center revenue

Hyperscale revenue increased sequentially in Q1

Boosts quarterly cash dividend to $0.25/share vs. $0.01/share prior

Reports additional $80B share buyback authorization

Moving to a new reporting framework with two platforms

Q2 revenue outlook topped estimates

No shipments of data center hopper products to China

Press release: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-first-quarter-fiscal-2027

Unrelated: Anthropic expects a 130% revenue surge to $10.9 billion in the June quarter and its first operating profit – WSJ.

h/t deepserket