NVIDIA Q2 FY27 Earnings Preview: Date, Expectations and What to Watch

NVIDIA earnings for the second quarter of fiscal 2027 land tonight, after the US close on Wednesday, 26 August. For anyone watching from India the numbers hit the tape at roughly 1:50 AM IST on Thursday, with the management call half an hour later at 2:30 AM IST. Analysts expect revenue of about $92.2 billion, close to double the same quarter a year ago, and options markets are pricing a swing of 6% to 7% in a single session. At NVIDIA’s size that is roughly $313 billion of market value riding on one release.

What makes this the most closely watched print of the quarter is not the size of the number. NVIDIA stock fell for seven straight sessions into this report, its longest losing streak since 2022, before recovering 2.2% on Tuesday to close at $213.05. A company expected to post one of the largest quarters in semiconductor history was being sold ahead of the result, and Wednesday night is when that disagreement gets settled.

Metric	The number
Report date	Wednesday, 26 August 2026, after the US close
Results on the tape	About 1:20 PM PT, roughly 1:50 AM IST on Thursday, 27 August
Management call	2:00 PM PT or 5:00 PM ET, roughly 2:30 AM IST
Company guidance	$91.0 billion revenue, plus or minus 2%
Analyst consensus	About $92.2 billion revenue and $2.09 EPS
Options implied move	About 6% to 7% in either direction

When Is the NVIDIA Earnings Report and What Time Does It Land in India?

NVIDIA reports after the US market closes on Wednesday, 26 August. For anyone following from India, this falls in the early hours of Thursday morning, well before Indian markets open. There are two separate moments to track, and they are half an hour apart.

Event	US time	India time
Results press release	About 1:20 PM PT on Wednesday	About 1:50 AM IST on Thursday
Management call begins	2:00 PM PT or 5:00 PM ET on Wednesday	About 2:30 AM IST on Thursday

The gap between those two timestamps matters. Prices often move sharply on the headline numbers and then move again, sometimes in the opposite direction, once management explains the outlook. If earnings events are new ground, our guide to what earnings season is covers how these releases are structured and why the forward guidance usually matters more than the quarter being reported.

What Analysts Expect from the Quarter

NVIDIA guided itself to about $91 billion in revenue, plus or minus 2%, putting the official range between roughly $89.2 billion and $92.8 billion. Consensus sits at about $92.2 billion, just 1.3% above the midpoint of the company’s own forecast, which tells you the street barely disagrees with management.

The table below covers the lines worth watching, including several that rarely make headlines but tend to determine how the stock trades.

Metric	Consensus or watch level	Why it matters
Revenue	About $92.2B	The headline figure and the basis for any beat or miss framing
EPS	About $2.09	The second headline number and the most widely quoted line in coverage
Non-GAAP gross margin	At or above 75%	The clearest read on pricing power. The market treats 75% as a threshold
Data Center revenue	Above the $75.2B recorded last quarter	Over 90% of the business. Everything else is rounding by comparison
Hyperscaler revenue	Was about half of Data Center last quarter	Shows whether the largest customers are still expanding orders
AI cloud, industrial and enterprise	Was the other half last quarter	The direct measure of whether AI demand is broadening beyond a few buyers
Q3 FY27 revenue guidance	Whisper figures well above $100B	The single most important number in the release

How NVIDIA Performed Last Quarter

The quarter before this one was Q1 FY27, reported on 20 May 2026. It was a record on almost every line and the stock still fell afterwards, which is the most useful context going into Wednesday.

Note that NVIDIA changed its non-GAAP presentation that quarter. Stock-based compensation is no longer excluded and prior periods were restated, so older comparisons circulating online may not line up.

Metric	Actual	Estimate	Beat or miss
Revenue	$81.6B, up 85% year on year	About $78.8B	3.6% beat
EPS, non-GAAP	$1.87, up 140% year on year	About $1.75	6.9% beat
Non-GAAP gross margin	75.0%	75.0% guided	In line
Data Center revenue	$75.2B, up 92% year on year	About $73B	Beat
Stock reaction	Dipped about 1.5% after hours, closed up 1.93% next day	Not applicable	Muted, despite a record quarter

Two capital return decisions from that quarter carry into this one. The board raised the quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.25 per share and added $80 billion to the share repurchase authorization. Our full breakdown of the Q1 FY27 results covers what that quarter revealed about the business.

Why a Beat May Not Be Enough This Quarter

NVIDIA has not missed a revenue estimate in more than four years, so a beat is the base case rather than a surprise. With consensus only 1.3% above the company’s own guidance, clearing the bar delivers almost no new information, and the reaction has to come from somewhere else.

• Strong quarters have repeatedly failed to lift the stock.

NVIDIA stock has seen a negative reaction after six of its last eight reports, despite clearing expectations every time. Across seventeen reports since early 2022 the median one-day move was essentially flat, and the median return seven days later was negative 3.5%. Even Q1 FY27, a record on almost every line, produced only a 1.93% gain the following session.

• Guidance is the number nobody can model.

The Q3 outlook depends on supply allocation and order timing that only management can see, which is why it creates the reaction. Whisper figures have drifted well above $100 billion, comfortably ahead of anything the company has signalled publicly.

The Hyperscaler and Enterprise Split Is the Real Test

NVIDIA changed how it reports Data Center revenue last quarter, separating hyperscale customers from AI clouds, industrial, enterprise and sovereign buyers. Data Center revenue was a record $75.2 billion, more than 92% of the company total, with hyperscale accounting for roughly half.

• Demand is broadening, at least on last quarter’s evidence.

The non-hyperscaler half grew faster than the hyperscaler half, which is the first hard evidence that AI spending is reaching beyond a handful of very large buyers. On the May call, management framed the distinction as a few hyperscalers on one side and roughly 250,000 companies on the other.

• The same data supports two opposite readings.

If the broader segment keeps outgrowing hyperscalers, concentration risk falls and the AI build-out looks durable. It can equally be read as the largest customers slowing as they develop their own silicon. Nobody can settle that argument before the release, which is exactly why it is the section to read first.

Gross Margin and the Blackwell to Rubin Handover

Two things beyond revenue tend to move NVIDIA stock more than the headline does, and both speak to whether the growth is durable rather than whether the quarter was good. Non-GAAP gross margin is guided to 75.0%, plus or minus 50 basis points.

• Margin direction can outweigh a revenue beat.

Holding at or above 75% signals NVIDIA is still setting its own prices in a market it dominates. A slip below that band would be read as competitive pressure or as an expensive product transition, and would likely overshadow a strong top line.

• The Blackwell to Rubin handover is the timing risk.

As Blackwell Ultra scales and the first Vera Rubin systems ship, product mix shifts can compress margins before the newer platform reaches full pricing efficiency. Commentary on where Rubin sits in that cycle matters as much as the margin figure itself.

• China is optionality rather than a base case.

Guidance assumes no Data Center compute revenue from China at all, and no Hopper Data Center products shipped there last quarter against $4.6 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Any constructive China commentary is incremental upside rather than something already in the numbers.

NVIDIA’s EPS Beat Is Not Just a Profit Story

Earnings per share will lead the coverage, but two things sit underneath the number and move it without reflecting how the business performed.

• The share count is shrinking.

NVIDIA added $80 billion to its repurchase authorization in May, on top of an existing programme. Buying back stock reduces the share count, which lifts earnings per share even when net income is flat, so EPS growth can outrun profit growth without anything improving operationally.

• The GAAP and non-GAAP relationship has changed.

NVIDIA no longer excludes stock-based compensation from its non-GAAP figures, and restated prior periods to match. Last quarter GAAP EPS of $2.39 sat above non-GAAP EPS of $1.87, an unusual ordering driven largely by gains on equity investments rather than by chip sales.

Why NVIDIA Stock Has Fallen Ahead of This Print

NVIDIA stock fell for seven consecutive sessions into this report, its longest losing streak since 2022, giving up roughly 7% before recovering 2.2% on Tuesday to close at $213.05. Selling into a quarter the market expects to be strong looks contradictory, but there are identifiable reasons behind it.

• NVIDIA has badly underperformed its own industry.

NVIDIA stock is up around 13% in 2026 while the PHLX Semiconductor Index has gained roughly 61%. A company delivering near 100% revenue growth trailing its sector by that margin suggests investors are questioning the durability of the earnings rather than the earnings themselves.

• Attention has shifted from demand to financing.

The market has moved on from asking whether AI demand exists to asking how the hundreds of billions committed to AI infrastructure will be funded and what returns they generate. NVIDIA sells into that spending, so skepticism about the buyers eventually reaches the seller.

How NVIDIA Stock Has Reacted to Recent Earnings

NVIDIA has beaten expectations in every recent quarter, and the market response has ranged from muted to negative rather than celebratory. The figures below cover the two most recent reports and the longer record since the AI cycle began.

Quarter	Revenue result	EPS result	Stock reaction
Q1 FY27, May 2026	$81.6B, a 3.6% beat	$1.87, a 6.9% beat	Dipped after hours, up 1.93% next day
Q4 FY26, February 2026	$68.1B, a 3.3% beat	$1.62, a 5.2% beat	Fell about 5.5% the next day
Last eight reports	Beat every time	Beat in most	Negative reaction in six
Seven days after the report	Not applicable	Not applicable	Median return of negative 3.5%

The seven-day row is the one most readers skip past, and it carries the more useful signal: ten of those seventeen reports had turned negative by the end of the first week.

Prices tend to move hard on the headline numbers, then give back part of that move once the market works through the guidance detail on the call. That retrace has happened often enough to be a documented tendency and not often enough to be dependable.

For context on how the last cycle was framed going in, see our Q1 FY27 earnings preview.

What NVIDIA Earnings Mean for the Wider US Market

NVIDIA is the largest single weight in both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100, which means a sharp move in one stock pulls entire indices with it. Most coverage underplays this. A single company’s earnings release has become a market-wide event, and that is the part worth understanding before Wednesday night.

For anyone following markets from India, the same catalyst shows up across several instruments, and not all carry the volatility of the stock itself.

NVIDIA reports, and this moves	Why it moves	What it means for market watchers
S&P 500	NVIDIA is roughly 8% of the index, the largest single weight on record	Broad index exposure to the same event, with far less single-name volatility
Nasdaq 100	The weighting is heavier still, in the region of 14%	The most concentrated index expression of a move in NVIDIA
AMD and semiconductor names	Read across the sector as a demand signal for AI chips	Follow-through, though May read-across was muted
TSMC and memory suppliers	NVIDIA guidance implies order volume for its supply chain	Second-day drift through the supply chain

The practical point is concentration risk. When one result can add or remove roughly $313 billion of market value in a session, NVIDIA earnings function as a scheduled volatility event for global equities.

Read more: our guide on how to trade on US stock movements from India explains how US market exposure works in INR terms for investors based here.

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