(In the last sentence of the second paragraph, the currency has been corrected: dollars.)
SANTA CLARA (dpa-AFX) – The chip company NVIDIA continues to grow rapidly thanks to the ongoing AI boom. In addition, the business is highly profitable, so profits are bubbling up. The AI pioneer also significantly increased its dividend and has scope for further share buybacks on a large scale. However, the eagerly awaited figures and the outlook were initially met with disillusionment on the stock market. The shares fell slightly after trading.
In the first three months of the 2026/27 financial year, revenue increased by 85 percent compared to the previous year to 81.6 billion dollars (70 billion euros), as the company announced on Wednesday after the US stock exchange closed in Santa Clara. This means that growth is higher than in the fourth quarter of last year. Operating profit adjusted for special items climbed by almost 150 percent to $53.5 billion.
The bottom line is that Nvidia earned just over $58 billion, 211 percent more than a year ago. The quarterly dividend is to be increased from one cent to 25 cents. In the future, the company wants to distribute a total of around six billion dollars as profit shares directly to shareholders every quarter. In addition, the Nvidia board of directors increased the scope for further share buybacks by $80 billion to almost $120 billion.
With the numbers, the AI pioneer once again exceeded the experts’ expectations. The sales expected in the second quarter of around $91 billion are also above the experts’ average forecast. However, this initially did not help the stock market go up. The shares, which have risen by almost 40 percent since the end of March, fell by almost one percent in after-hours trading until 11 p.m.
With its products for data centers, Nvidia is the central driver of the AI boom and is benefiting the most from it. The company’s market value has increased more than 15-fold to $5.6 trillion in the past five years. This makes Nvidia currently the most valuable company in the world, followed by Google parent Alphabet (Alphabet A (ex Google)) with $4.7 trillion./zb/he
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