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Countdown to Nvidia Earnings 5/20/26

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CNBC

Faang, Business, Cnbc, Management, Investing, Disruptors, Tech, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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CNBC’s Kristina Partsinevelos previews Nvidia earnings after the market close.

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0:00.0

Let's begin with KP on today's tech check. You've been watching sort of how volatility has been measured in the past, KP.

0:06.5

Yes. And Carl, before I actually get to that, I just need to get to some breaking news.

0:10.4

So Samsung electronics and its largest labor union just reached a last-minute deal about an hour and a half before deadline averting an 18-day strike that threatened global memory supply.

0:22.1

So it is a big relief for chip supply, or the chip supply chain heading into tonight. And surprisingly, Micron and

0:27.1

Sandusk are still holding up strong and positive territory. Now, to your point, to Nvidia,

0:31.8

nobody's really debating whether Nvidia Bs. They've done it the 18 out of the last 20 quarters.

0:37.1

The buy side is already

0:37.9

running $81 to $82 billion in revenue expectations with a July guide north of $90 billion.

0:44.2

So the beat, dare I say, is relatively baked into the stock price. The problem is the stock

0:50.4

hasn't cared. Invita has traded down the day after five of the last seven earnings

0:55.0

prints, and heading into this one, shares ran pretty hard. And just over the last seven straight

1:00.5

winning sessions through last Thursday, about $900 billion in market cap before pulling back to

1:06.0

around $224 that we're seeing today. Deutsche Bank says it's really hard to see new buyers chasing from this

1:12.8

point here. And this is the frustration with NVIDIA shareholders right now. The fundamentals

1:17.8

are about as good as it gets. Compute potentially sold out through 2027, according to Cantor Fitzgerald.

1:23.8

Hyper-scalers have collectively raised their CAPEX plans to over $700 billion for this year.

1:29.8

And CEO, Jensen Wong, put a $1 trillion-plus revenue target on just the Blackwell and Ruben chip platforms,

1:37.0

not including the CPUs and the GROC chip. The stock, though, still trades roughly at 26 times calendar year

1:42.9

2027 earnings versus its own

1:44.9

five-year average of 34 times that you can see on your screen and peers roughly at 34 times

1:50.0

as well. Bank of America says it's a 30% discount to the S&P 500. This is the world's most

1:56.8

important AI company. Trading like the market just doesn't believe the growth will persist.

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