By Zev Fima
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 16:20:00
At this point, it’s undeniable that the issue with Nvidia stock is sentiment, or rather disbelief. Yep, that’s it. Disbelief. There’s no other way to explain the muted stock reaction to Nvidia’s quarterly report — not only after Wednesday night’s blowout, but over the past several quarters. “Demand has gone parabolic,” CEO Jensen Huang said to close out the call. Last quarter, he said demand was “skyrocketing.” You almost feel bad for him. He’s going to run out of words soon to describe the demand. Arguably, the most interesting part of Nvidia’s report is its new reporting framework — specifically, breaking down its data center business by the hyperscalers ( Amazon , Alphabet , Meta , and Microsoft ) and non-hyperscale customers. Listen, the hyperscalers are important. They’re spending hundreds of billions on capital expenditures to build new data centers. They’ve been the main course for the last $200 worth of Nvidia stock gains. But what if they were only the appetizer? On the call, Huang said Nvidia revenue will grow faster than the growth of hyperscale capex. So, if hyperscale capex is what got us here, and Huang expects Nvidia revenue to outpace future hyperscale capex growth going forward, where does the upside come from? Everyone and everywhere else. We covered this in our earnings analysis Wednesday night. But let’s spend a minute going deeper into these non-hyperscalers. That group consists of purpose-built AI computing providers called neoclouds (think…
