NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)

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NVIDIA Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

The desk's reading

One flag on file, noted because using it would create new shares. No distress markers anywhere in the file.

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NVIDIA Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $216 billion in fiscal 2026, up 45.8% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-25, NVIDIA Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 44% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 172 sales (144 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-25, NVIDIA Corporation earned about 76 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 74 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 24 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.2% over the year (the filed statements).

The desk's reading

All four checks land high. This is the strongest metric on the card.

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NVIDIA Corporation's standing among 97 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $216 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 1% by size; a net margin of 55.6% ranks in the top 5%; revenue growth of 100.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 9% (its annual reports).

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NVIDIA Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Huang, Jen Hsun (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-03-14, 20.7 years (top 1% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 11.7 years (top 9%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (top 49%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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NVIDIA Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $11 billion against debt of $8.5 billion leaves 1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 29% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 44.8% of revenue (top 3%); a gross margin of 71.1% (top 7%); research spending of 8.6% of revenue (bottom 26%) (its annual report).

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NVIDIA Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 100.5% a year over the last three filed years against 45.8% over all 10, speeding up (top 4% of its family); the newest year grew 65.8% (top 13%); research spending grew 36.2% a year (top 5%); capital spending grew 49% a year (top 9%) (its annual reports). NVIDIA Corporation reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2026: Compute at $162 billion (75%), Networking at $31 billion (14%), Gaming at $16 billion (7%), and 3 more; 6 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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NVIDIA Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $216 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 25% below the $288 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 7% of its family); net income of $120 billion against a prior three-year average of $36 billion (top 11%); a net margin of 55.6% against 40.3% before (top 26%) (its annual reports).