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Updated · Trefis · Aug 19
NVIDIA Trades at 33.4x Earnings Despite 71% Growth and 64% Margins
Updated
Updated · Trefis · Aug 19

NVIDIA Trades at 33.4x Earnings Despite 71% Growth and 64% Margins

3 articles · Updated · Trefis · Aug 19

Summary

  • NVIDIA trades at 33.4 times earnings—fourth out of five key peers—even though it leads the group with 71% trailing revenue growth and 64% operating margins.
  • That discount reflects investor concern that NVIDIA’s rapid product cycle could stumble as VeraRubin shipments begin in the third quarter after the record-fast Blackwell ramp.
  • China is another drag on sentiment: management again excluded any China data-center compute revenue from its outlook, raising pressure on other businesses to sustain growth.
  • A new CPU push could test whether the market is too cautious, with NVIDIA targeting a $200 billion addressable market and saying it has visibility to nearly $20 billion in CPU revenue this year.
  • The mismatch is also visible in the stock’s 22% one-year gain, which ranks fourth in the peer group despite stronger current growth and profitability than pricier rivals such as AMD and Marvell.

Insights

Why is Wall Street valuing the dominant AI chipmaker like a laggard while it quietly builds a $20 billion CPU empire?
Will the unprecedented speed of the Vera Rubin rollout secure NVIDIA's monopoly or expose it to catastrophic execution failures?
Could NVIDIA's aggressive push into agentic AI CPUs trigger the downfall of traditional x86 architecture in modern data centers?