By Brian Sozzi
Publication Date: 2026-03-01 13:30:00
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Nothing could get mighty Nvidia’s (NVDA) stock rocking into the weekend, two days after its much-awaited earnings.
Not founder and CEO Jensen Huang doing three TV interviews in his iconic leather motorcycle jacket on earnings day. Not the usual glowing Wall Street analyst reports where you would think all 61 sell-side analysts are somehow related to Huang.
Not even what l reasoned in a live post-earnings show on my X account was an old-school blowout Nvidia quarter and guide.
Digging more into Nvidia’s report:
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Almost $60 billion left on its share repurchase plan (thank you, 10-K). It’s likely that is used by Nvidia to buy the post-earnings dip.
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About an $11 billion paper gain on its investment in struggling Intel (thank you, 10-K)
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Current-quarter revenue outlook $6 billion ahead of consensus. This was a major reset to expectations.
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Revenue growth reaccelerating (see chart below).
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Profit margins sequentially improving.
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CEO Jensen Huang says “compute demand is skyrocketing.”
“Generational growth at inspirational valuation,” said one Wall Street tech analyst I follow in a client note.
What am I missing here on Nvidia?
Apparently, the next hot catalyst.
“There is no catalyst,” head of Visible Alpha research at S&P Global Melissa Otto said on Opening Bid (see video…
