The 5 Most Ridiculous Numbers From NVIDIA’s Q4 Fiscal 2026 Results

I love writing about NVIDIA earnings.

Not in a “this is good for diversified long-term capital allocation” kind of way. In a “did someone accidentally add an extra digit?” kind of way.

Every quarter, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) drops a press release that reads less like a financial document and more like a Marvel origin story for late-stage capitalism. This quarter? Same energy. Except somehow bigger.

Let’s talk about NVIDIA’s fourth quarter and fiscal 2026 earnings — and the five most absurd, reality-warping, “are we sure this isn’t GDP?” numbers buried inside.

If you’re googling “NVIDIA Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings,” “NVIDIA revenue $68 billion,” or “NVIDIA data center revenue growth,” congratulations. You’re in the right fever dream.

1. $68.1 Billion — In. One. Quarter.

Let’s start here.

Quarterly revenue: $68.1 billion. Up 20% from last quarter. Up 73% year over year.

Seventy-three percent.

For context: a 73% revenue increase for a normal company is “wow, nice quarter.” For a company already printing tens of billions per quarter, it feels like a math error.

Last year’s Q4 revenue was $39.3 billion. Which, at the time, felt outrageous. This year? NVIDIA added nearly $29 billion on top of that — in a single quarter.

That’s not growth. That’s a software patch for capitalism.

And the guidance for next quarter? $78 billion, plus or minus 2%. Plus or minus 2% on $78 billion is basically the annual revenue of a mid-sized tech company. NVIDIA’s margin of error is someone else’s entire business.

2. $62.3 Billion — Data Center Revenue Is Basically the Whole Company

Of that $68.1 billion in quarterly revenue, $62.3 billion came from Data Center. Up 22% quarter-over-quarter. Up 75% year-over-year.

Which means NVIDIA is now, functionally, an AI data center company with a small gaming side quest.

Full-year Data Center revenue? $193.7 billion. That’s up 68%.

You know how people say, “AI is overhyped”?

The Data Center segment just quietly grew to a number that would make most Fortune 50 CEOs sit down and breathe into a paper bag.Jensen Huang says, “Computing demand is growing exponentially — the agentic AI inflection point has arrived.”

Honestly? The numbers back him up.

When one product line generates more than $60 billion in a quarter, you’re not riding a trend. You are the trend.

3. 75% Gross Margins. Because Why Not.

Let’s talk margins. GAAP gross margin: 75.0%. Non-GAAP gross margin: 75.2%.

Three-quarters of every dollar NVIDIA makes, before operating expenses, is gross profit. For a hardware company.

This isn’t a SaaS startup selling digital PDFs. This is a company manufacturing chips with atomic-level complexity, dependent on global supply chains, geopolitics, and physics itself.

And they’re keeping 75 cents on the dollar.

Operating income for the quarter? $44.3 billion. Up 84% year-over-year.

Net income? $42.96 billion. Up 94%.

Ninety-four percent net income growth. I don’t even know what to compare that to anymore. The only thing compounding faster than NVIDIA earnings is AI-generated LinkedIn posts about “agentic transformation.”

4. $41.1 Billion Returned to Shareholders (And $58.5B Still Locked and Loaded)

During fiscal 2026, NVIDIA returned $41.1 billion to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.

That’s not a typo. Forty-one billion dollars. Sent back. And they still have $58.5 billion remaining under their repurchase authorization.

Meanwhile, the dividend? $0.01 per share. It’s almost adorable. Like, “Here’s a penny. But also, we just incinerated $40 billion worth of stock.”

What’s wild is that they can do this while also investing heavily:

• $17.5 billion in purchases of non-marketable equity securities during the year
• A $13 billion investment in Groq
• Massive capex and AI factory expansion

This isn’t “we’re profitable.”
This is “we are the monetary policy.”

5. $215.9 Billion — Full-Year Revenue That Feels Fake

Full-year fiscal 2026 revenue: $215.9 billion. Up 65%.

Just sit with that. $215.9 billion.

For comparison, that’s larger than the annual GDP of several countries. NVIDIA went from $130.5 billion last year to $215.9 billion this year — adding $85 billion in revenue in twelve months.

Adding $85 billion in one year is something entire industries attempt. NVIDIA did it while also launching:

• Blackwell Ultra (50x performance for agentic AI vs Hopper)
• Vera Rubin platform (10x reduction in inference token cost vs Blackwell)
• Nemotron 3 open models
• Earth-2 AI weather models
• Major partnerships with Meta, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle
• Deep technology partnership with Anthropic
• AI labs with Lilly
• AI factories with CoreWeave

At this point, the earnings release reads like a list of “companies NVIDIA is casually reshaping.”

Bonus Absurdity: Other Income, Net = $6.1 Billion (Thanks, Equity Gains)

One sneaky gem: GAAP total other income, net: $6.1 billion in the quarter.

Driven largely by gains on non-marketable and public equity securities. NVIDIA isn’t just making money from GPUs. It’s making money from owning pieces of the AI ecosystem. When your side hustle generates billions, you’ve achieved final boss status.

The China Zero Assumption Plot Twist

One subtle but important note in the outlook:

For Q1 fiscal 2027, NVIDIA is not assuming any Data Center compute revenue from China. And still guiding to $78 billion. That’s the equivalent of saying, “We’re going to ignore an entire major market… and still grow.” It’s either wildly conservative. Or wildly confident. Or both.

The Real Story Behind NVIDIA Earnings

Underneath the snark, here’s what’s actually happening:

• AI infrastructure demand is not slowing.
• Hyperscalers are racing to build AI factories.
• Enterprise AI agents are moving from experiment to production.
• NVIDIA owns the hardware layer of this industrial shift.

The press release uses phrases like “AI industrial revolution,” and normally I’d roll my eyes.

But when you’re generating $62.3 billion in Data Center revenue in a single quarter? It starts to feel less like marketing copy and more like an accounting summary of a paradigm shift.

Why I’ll Keep Writing About NVIDIA Earnings

Because every quarter feels like: “Surely this is peak,” followed by, “Oh. It wasn’t.”

The company grew revenue 73% year-over-year at a $68 billion quarterly scale. It posted 75% gross margins. It generated over $102 billion in operating cash flow for the year. It returned $41 billion to shareholders.

These numbers don’t just “beat expectations.” They bend them.

So yes. I love writing about NVIDIA earnings. Not because they’re subtle, but because they feel like financial science fiction that keeps accidentally being real. And if next quarter comes in at $78 billion, I’ll be right back here, asking once again: “Are we absolutely sure this is still Earth?”