By Prosper Junior Bakiny
Publication Date: 2026-05-13 04:15:00
May 20 will be an important day for the stock market, as Nvidia (NVDA +0.64%), the largest company in the world, is set to release its first-quarter fiscal year 2027 results for the period ending April 26. No single earnings release has commanded the attention of Wall Street as much as Nvidia’s in recent years, and the upcoming one will be no different. Should investors consider purchasing the company’s shares before then?
My view is that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do so, as there are good reasons to think Nvidia might be heading toward a beat-and-raise quarter that could send its stock price soaring. Of course, we can’t predict these things with certainty, but let’s consider several arguments as to why Nvidia’s shares might jump on the heels of its upcoming earnings release.
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Major hyperscalers are on a spending spree
Nvidia’s biggest customers are likely major hyperscalers — or leading cloud services providers — such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet. All three reported their latest quarterly results about a couple of weeks ago. All three are seeing accelerating cloud revenue. And all three are spending small fortunes on capex, largely to fund their artificial intelligence (AI)-related ambitions. For instance, Microsoft said it would spend $190 billion during the calendar year 2026.
Amazon still plans to dish out roughly $200 billion, and, as of the end of the first quarter, it had spent less than a quarter of that. Alphabet’s…
