NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2026

  • Record revenue of $57.0 billion, up 22% from Q2 and up 62% from a year ago
  • Record Data Center revenue of $51.2 billion, up 25% from Q2 and up 66% from a year ago
     

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported record revenue for the third quarter ended October 26, 2025, of $57.0 billion, up 22% from the previous quarter and up 62% from a year ago.

For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were 73.4% and 73.6%, respectively.

For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were both $1.30.

“Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Compute demand keeps accelerating and compounding across training and inference — each growing exponentially. We’ve entered the virtuous cycle of AI. The AI ecosystem is scaling fast — with more new foundation model makers, more AI startups, across more industries, and in more countries. AI is going everywhere, doing everything, all at once.”

During the first nine months of fiscal 2026, NVIDIA returned $37.0 billion to shareholders in the form of shares repurchased and cash dividends. As of the end of the third quarter, the company had $62.2 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization.

NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share on December 26, 2025, to all shareholders of record on December 4, 2025.

Q3 Fiscal 2026 Summary

GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share) Q3 FY26 Q2 FY26 Q3 FY25 Q/Q Y/Y
Revenue $57,006 $46,743 $35,082 22% 62%
Gross margin 73.4% 72.4% 74.6% 1.0 pts (1.2) pts
Operating expenses $5,839 $5,413 $4,287 8% 36%
Operating income $36,010 $28,440 $21,869 27% 65%
Net income $31,910 $26,422 $19,309 21% 65%
Diluted earnings per share $1.30 $1.08 $0.78 20% 67%
Non-GAAP
($ in millions, except earnings per share) Q3 FY26 Q2 FY26 Q3 FY25 Q/Q Y/Y
Revenue $57,006 $46,743 $35,082 22% 62%
Gross margin 73.6% 72.7% 75.0% 0.9 pts (1.4) pts
Operating expenses $4,215 $3,795 $3,046 11% 38%
Operating income $37,752 $30,165 $23,276 25% 62%
Net income $31,767 $25,783 $20,010 23% 59%
Diluted earnings per share $1.30 $1.05 $0.81 24% 60%

Outlook
NVIDIA’s outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 is as follows:

  • Revenue is expected to be $65.0 billion, plus or minus 2%.
  • GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.8% and 75.0%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points.
  • GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $6.7 billion and $5.0 billion, respectively.
  • GAAP and non-GAAP other income and expense are expected to be an income of approximately $500 million, excluding gains and losses from non-marketable and publicly-held equity securities.
  • GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates are expected to be 17.0%, plus or minus 1%, excluding any discrete items.
     

Highlights 

Data Center

  • Third-quarter revenue was a record $51.2 billion, up 25% from the previous quarter and up 66% from a year ago.
  • Revealed that NVIDIA Blackwell achieved the highest performance and best overall efficiency in the SemiAnalysis InferenceMAX benchmarks, while delivering 10x throughput per megawatt compared with the previous generation.
  • Announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure.
  • Partnered with industry leaders, including Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle and xAI, to build America’s AI infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Announced that, for the first time, Anthropic will run and scale on NVIDIA infrastructure, initially adopting 1 gigawatt of compute capacity with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.
  • Announced a collaboration with Intel to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products with NVIDIA NVLink.
  • Revealed plans to accelerate seven new supercomputers, including with Oracle to build the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest AI supercomputer, Solstice, featuring 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, plus another system, Equinox, featuring 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
  • Celebrated the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer produced on U.S. soil at TSMC’s Arizona facility, representing revitalization of U.S. manufacturing as Blackwell reached volume production.
  • Unveiled NVIDIA Rubin CPX, a new class of GPU purpose-built for massive-context processing.
  • Introduced NVIDIA NVQLink™, an open system architecture for tightly coupling the extreme performance of NVIDIA GPU computing with quantum processors, which will be adopted by more than a dozen supercomputing centers globally.
  • Revealed that Arm is extending its Neoverse platform with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion™ to accelerate AI data center adoption.
  • Revealed that Meta, Microsoft and Oracle will boost their AI data center networks with NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking switches.
  • Introduced NVIDIA Omniverse™ DSX, a comprehensive, open blueprint for designing and operating gigawatt-scale AI factories.
  • Launched NVIDIA BlueField-4, the processor for the operating system of AI factories, with industry leaders including CoreWeave, Dell Technologies, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat and VAST Data building next-generation BlueField®-accelerated data center platforms.
  • Partnered with Nokia to add NVIDIA-powered AI-RAN products to Nokia’s industry-leading RAN portfolio, enabling communication service providers to launch AI-native 5G-Advanced and 6G networks on NVIDIA platforms.
  • Unveiled the all-American AI-RAN stack to accelerate the path to 6G with industry-leading partners Booz Allen, Cisco, MITRE, ODC and T-Mobile.
  • Teamed with Palantir Technologies to build a first-of-its-kind integrated technology stack for operational AI.
  • Set records on the new MLPerf Inference v5.1 benchmark with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra, and won every MLPerf Training v5.1 benchmark.
  • Revealed that NVIDIA is working with partners including CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nscale to build the U.K.’s next generation of AI infrastructure, and announced an investment of £2 billion in the U.K. market.
  • Launched the world’s first Industrial AI Cloud with Deutsche Telekom to power the AI era of Germany’s industrial transformation.
  • Announced that NVIDIA is working with the South Korea government and industrial leaders, including Hyundai Motor Group, Samsung Electronics, SK Group and NAVER Cloud, to expand the nation’s AI infrastructure with over a quarter-million NVIDIA GPUs.
     

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  • Third-quarter revenue was $760 million, up 26% from the previous quarter and up 56% from a year ago.
  • Began shipping NVIDIA DGX Spark™, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, delivering NVIDIA’s AI stack in a compact form factor.
     

Automotive and Robotics

  • Third-quarter Automotive revenue was $592 million, up 1% from the previous quarter and up 32% from a year ago.
  • Introduced the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion™ 10 autonomous vehicle development platform, a reference compute and sensor architecture designed to enable automakers and developers to build safe, scalable level 4 fleets.
  • Partnered with Uber to scale the world’s largest level 4-ready mobility network starting in 2027, targeting 100,000 vehicles.
  • Revealed that NVIDIA and U.S. manufacturing and robotics leaders, including Agility Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Belden, Caterpillar, Foxconn, Figure, Lucid Motors, Skild AI, Toyota, TSMC and Wistron, are driving America’s reindustrialization with physical AI.
  • Announced that leading industrial solutions providers, including PTC and Siemens, introduced new services that bring
    NVIDIA Omniverse™-powered digital twin workflows to their extensive installed base of customers.
  • Unveiled NVIDIA IGX Thor™, a powerful, industrial-grade platform built to bring real-time physical AI directly to the edge.
     

CFO Commentary
Commentary on the quarter by Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, is available at https://investor.nvidia.com.

Conference Call and Webcast Information
NVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its third quarter fiscal 2026 financial results and current financial prospects today at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time). A live webcast (listen-only mode) of the conference call will be accessible at NVIDIA’s investor relations website, https://investor.nvidia.com. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until NVIDIA’s conference call to discuss its financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal 2026.

Non-GAAP Measures
To supplement NVIDIA’s condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, the company uses non-GAAP measures of certain components of financial performance. These non-GAAP measures include non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP other income (expense), net, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income, or earnings, per diluted share, and free cash flow. For NVIDIA’s investors to be better able to compare its current results with those of previous periods, the company has shown a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. These reconciliations adjust the related GAAP financial measures to exclude stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related and other costs, other, gains/losses from non-marketable and publicly-held equity securities, net, interest expense related to amortization of debt discount, and the associated tax impact of these items where applicable. Free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less both purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets and principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets. NVIDIA believes the presentation of its non-GAAP financial measures enhances the user’s overall understanding of the company’s historical financial performance. The presentation of the company’s non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the company’s financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the company’s non-GAAP measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.

NVIDIA CORPORATION  
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME  
(In millions, except per share data)  
(Unaudited)  
                     
                     
      Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended  
      October 26,   October 27,   October 26,   October 27,  
      2025   2024   2025   2024  
                     
Revenue $ 57,006     $ 35,082     $ 147,811     $ 91,166    
Cost of revenue   15,157       8,926       45,441       22,031    
Gross profit   41,849       26,156       102,370       69,135    
                     
Operating expenses                
  Research and development   4,705       3,390       12,985       9,200    
  Sales, general and administrative   1,134       897       3,297       2,516    
    Total operating expenses   5,839       4,287       16,282       11,716    
                     
Operating income   36,010       21,869       86,088       57,419    
  Interest income   624       472       1,732       1,275    
  Interest expense   (61 )     (61 )     (186 )     (186 )  
  Other income, net   1,363       36       3,418       301    
    Total other income, net   1,926       447       4,964       1,390    
                     
Income before income tax   37,936       22,316       91,052       58,809    
Income tax expense   6,026       3,007       13,945       8,020    
Net income $ 31,910     $ 19,309     $ 77,107     $ 50,789    
                     
Net income per share:                
  Basic $ 1.31     $ 0.79     $ 3.16     $ 2.07    
  Diluted $ 1.30     $ 0.78     $ 3.14     $ 2.04    
                     
Weighted average shares used in per share computation:                
  Basic   24,327       24,533       24,378       24,577    
  Diluted   24,483       24,774       24,542       24,837    
                     

 

NVIDIA CORPORATION  
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS  
(In millions)  
(Unaudited)  
               
               
        October 26,   January 26,  
        2025   2025  
ASSETS          
               
Current assets:          
  Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities   $ 60,608   $ 43,210  
  Accounts receivable, net     33,391     23,065  
  Inventories     19,784     10,080  
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets     2,709     3,771  
    Total current assets     116,492     80,126  
               
Property and equipment, net     9,780     6,283  
Operating lease assets     2,281     1,793  
Goodwill     6,261     5,188  
Intangible assets, net     936     807  
Deferred income tax assets     13,674     10,979  
Other assets     11,724     6,425  
    Total assets   $ 161,148   $ 111,601  
               
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY          
               
Current liabilities:          
  Accounts payable   $ 8,624   $ 6,310  
  Accrued and other current liabilities     16,452     11,737  
  Short-term debt     999      
    Total current liabilities     26,075     18,047  
               
Long-term debt     7,468     8,463  
Long-term operating lease liabilities     2,014     1,519  
Other long-term liabilities     6,694     4,245  
    Total liabilities     42,251     32,274  
               
Shareholders’ equity     118,897     79,327  
    Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity   $ 161,148   $ 111,601  
               

 

NVIDIA CORPORATION  
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS  
(In millions)  
(Unaudited)  
                   
                   
    Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended  
    October 26,   October 27,   October 26,   October 27,  
    2025   2024   2025   2024  
                   
Cash flows from operating activities:                
Net income $ 31,910     $ 19,309     $ 77,107     $ 50,789    
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash                
provided by operating activities:                
  Stock-based compensation expense   1,655       1,252       4,753       3,416    
  Depreciation and amortization   752       478       2,031       1,321    
  Deferred income taxes   124       (602 )     (2,035 )     (3,879 )  
  Gains on non-marketable equity securities and publicly-held equity securities, net   (1,354 )     (37 )     (3,426 )     (302 )  
  Other   (80 )     (79 )     (276 )     (365 )  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:                
  Accounts receivable   (5,583 )     (3,561 )     (10,325 )     (7,694 )  
  Inventories   (4,823 )     (978 )     (9,703 )     (2,357 )  
  Prepaid expenses and other assets   (89 )     (714 )     857       (726 )  
  Accounts payable   (223 )     1,689       2,032       2,490    
  Accrued and other current liabilities   1,129       606       4,204       3,918    
  Other long-term liabilities   332       266       1,311       849    
Net cash provided by operating activities   23,750       17,629       66,530       47,460    
                   
Cash flows from investing activities:                
  Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities   2,728       1,386       8,980       9,485    
  Proceeds from sales of non-marketable equity securities   2       66       72       171    
  Proceeds from sales of marketable securities         154       487       318    
  Purchases of marketable securities   (5,718 )     (4,518 )     (20,076 )     (19,565 )  
  Purchases of non-marketable equity securities   (3,706 )     (473 )     (4,702 )     (1,008 )  
  Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets   (1,637 )     (813 )     (4,758 )     (2,159 )  
  Acquisitions, net of cash acquired   (694 )     (147 )     (1,370 )     (465 )  
Net cash used in investing activities   (9,025 )     (4,345 )     (21,367 )     (13,223 )  
                   
Cash flows from financing activities:                
  Proceeds related to employee stock plans   274       204       643       489    
  Payments related to repurchases of common stock   (12,456 )     (10,998 )     (36,271 )     (25,895 )  
  Payments related to employee stock plan taxes   (2,429 )     (1,680 )     (5,809 )     (5,068 )  
  Dividends paid   (243 )     (245 )     (732 )     (589 )  
  Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets   (24 )     (29 )     (97 )     (97 )  
  Repayment of debt                     (1,250 )  
Net cash used in financing activities   (14,878 )     (12,748 )     (42,266 )     (32,410 )  
                   
Change in cash and cash equivalents   (153 )     536       2,897       1,827    
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period   11,639       8,571       8,589       7,280    
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period $ 11,486     $ 9,107     $ 11,486     $ 9,107    
                   
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:                
Cash paid for income taxes, net $ 4,858     $ 3,540     $ 13,309     $ 10,989    
                   

 

  NVIDIA CORPORATION
  RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
  (In millions, except per share data)
  (Unaudited)
                   
      Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended
      October 26,   July 27,   October 27,   October 26,   October 27,
      2025   2025   2024   2025   2024
                       
  GAAP cost of revenue $ 15,157     $ 12,890     $ 8,926     $ 45,441     $ 22,031  
  GAAP gross profit $ 41,849     $ 33,853     $ 26,156     $ 102,370     $ 69,135  
  GAAP gross margin   73.4 %     72.4 %     74.6 %     69.3 %     75.8 %
    Acquisition-related and other costs (A)   48       49       116       219       355  
    Stock-based compensation expense (B)   70       58       50       192       125  
    Other                     4       (4 )
  Non-GAAP cost of revenue $ 15,039     $ 12,783     $ 8,760     $ 45,026     $ 21,555  
  Non-GAAP gross profit $ 41,967     $ 33,960     $ 26,322     $ 102,785     $ 69,611  
    Non-GAAP gross margin **   73.6 %     72.7 %     75.0 %     69.5 %     76.4 %
                       
  GAAP operating expenses $ 5,839     $ 5,413     $ 4,287     $ 16,282     $ 11,716  
    Stock-based compensation expense (B)   (1,585 )     (1,566 )     (1,202 )     (4,561 )     (3,291 )
    Acquisition-related and other costs (A)   (39 )     (37 )     (39 )     (113 )     (86 )
    Other         (15 )           (15 )      
  Non-GAAP operating expenses $ 4,215     $ 3,795     $ 3,046     $ 11,593     $ 8,339  
                       
  GAAP operating income $ 36,010     $ 28,440     $ 21,869     $ 86,088     $ 57,419  
    Total impact of non-GAAP adjustments to operating income   1,742       1,725       1,407       5,104       3,853  
  Non-GAAP operating income $ 37,752     $ 30,165     $ 23,276     $ 91,192     $ 61,272  
                       
  GAAP total other income, net $ 1,926     $ 2,766     $ 447     $ 4,964     $ 1,390  
    Gains from non-marketable equity securities and publicly-held equity securities, net   (1,354 )     (2,247 )     (37 )     (3,426 )     (302 )
    Interest expense related to amortization of debt discount   1       1       1       3       3  
  Non-GAAP total other income, net $ 573     $ 520     $ 411     $ 1,541     $ 1,091  
                       
  GAAP net income $ 31,910     $ 26,422     $ 19,309     $ 77,107     $ 50,789  
    Total pre-tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments   389       (521 )     1,371       1,680       3,554  
    Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments (C)   (532 )     (166 )     (670 )     (1,391 )     (2,144 )
    Tax expense from OBBBA*         48             48        
  Non-GAAP net income ** $ 31,767     $ 25,783     $ 20,010     $ 77,444     $ 52,199  
                       
                       
  Diluted net income per share                  
    GAAP $ 1.30     $ 1.08     $ 0.78     $ 3.14     $ 2.04  
    Non-GAAP ** $ 1.30     $ 1.05     $ 0.81     $ 3.16     $ 2.10  
                       
  Weighted average shares used in diluted net income per share computation   24,483       24,532       24,774       24,542       24,837  
                       
  GAAP net cash provided by operating activities $ 23,750     $ 15,365     $ 17,629     $ 66,530     $ 47,460  
    Purchases related to property and equipment and intangible assets   (1,637 )     (1,894 )     (813 )     (4,758 )     (2,159 )
    Principal payments on property and equipment and intangible assets   (24 )     (21 )     (29 )     (97 )     (97 )
  Free cash flow $ 22,089     $ 13,450     $ 16,787     $ 61,675     $ 45,204  
                       
  *Tax expense included represents impact from OBBBA (One Big Beautiful Bill Act).
  **Includes H20 charges/(releases), net, which were $4.5 billion, ($180 million), and insignificant, for the first, second, and third quarter of fiscal 2026, respectively.
                       
  (A) Acquisition-related and other costs are comprised of amortization of intangible assets, transaction costs, and certain compensation charges and are included in the following line items:
      Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended
      October 26,   July 27,   October 27,   October 26,   October 27,
      2025   2025   2024   2025   2024
    Cost of revenue $ 48     $ 49     $ 116     $ 219     $ 355  
    Research and development $ 35     $ 29     $ 23     $ 93     $ 52  
    Sales, general and administrative $ 4     $ 8     $ 16     $ 20     $ 34  
                       
  (B) Stock-based compensation consists of the following:      
      Three Months Ended   Nine Months Ended
      October 26,   July 27,   October 27,   October 26,   October 27,
      2025   2025   2024   2025   2024
    Cost of revenue $ 70     $ 58     $ 50     $ 192     $ 125  
    Research and development $ 1,206     $ 1,191     $ 910     $ 3,460     $ 2,469  
    Sales, general and administrative $ 379     $ 375     $ 292     $ 1,101     $ 822  
                       
  (C) Income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments, including the recognition of excess tax benefits or deficiencies related to stock-based compensation under GAAP accounting standard (ASU 2016-09).
 
   
 

 

NVIDIA CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP OUTLOOK
 
    Q4 FY2026 Outlook
    ($ in millions)
     
GAAP gross margin   74.8 %
  Impact of stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs   0.2 %
Non-GAAP gross margin   75.0 %
     
GAAP operating expenses $ 6,650  
  Stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, and other costs   (1,650 )
Non-GAAP operating expenses $ 5,000  
     

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