A professional trader for 20 years reveals his “MoneyLine”
Ditch your indicators and use the “MoneyLine”. A simple line tells you when to buy and sell without any guesswork. It’s a line on a chart that helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options purchases. Here’s how he does it.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional details.
Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), spearheading the artificial intelligence revolution, announced Wednesday after the close of its first quarter results that exceeded high expectations amid ever-increasing demand for its AI accelerators. Guidance for the second quarter also exceeded expectations. The company announced a 10-for-1 stock split and increased its quarterly dividend by 150%. In response to the results, Nvidia shares rose after hours.
Nvidia’s key metrics for the first quarter: Revenue rose to an all-time high, driven by record data center revenues fueled by strong demand for its high-performance AI accelerators.
| T1’25 | Consensus* | Advice | Annual growth | QoQ Growth | |
| Income | $26.04 billion | $24.64 billion | $24 billion +/- 2% | 262% | +18% |
| Non-GAAP EPS | $6.12 | $5.59 | N / A | +461% | +19% |
| Non-GAAP Gross margin |
78.9% | N / A | 77% +/- 50 basis points | +2.2 basis points | +12.1 basis points |
“The next industrial revolution has begun: Companies and countries are partnering with NVIDIA to move traditional, billion-dollar data centers to accelerated computing and build a new type of data center – industrial factories. ‘AI – to produce a new product: artificial intelligence,’ said CEO Jensen Huang.
“AI will bring significant productivity gains to almost every industry and help businesses be more cost and energy efficient, while expanding revenue opportunities. »
Before the results, analysts were concerned about the imminent launch of its next-generation AI accelerators, codenamed Blackwell, which would reduce demand for the existing H200 line.
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Nvidia Q3 Performance by Segment: Data Center broke a record, with revenue up more than 400%. In the segment.
| Income | Annual growth | QoQ Growth | |
| Data center | $22.56 billion | +427% | +23% |
| Games & AI PC | $2.65 billion | +18% | -8% |
| Professor Viz | $427 million | -8% | +45% |
| Auto | $329 million | +11% | +17% |
Data center compute revenue jumped 478% year over year to $19.4 billion, reflecting increased shipments of Hopper GPUs used for training and inference with models in broad terms, recommendations and applications of generative AI. Network revenues increased modestly by 242%, to $3.2 billion.
Nvidia said its recently unveiled Blackwell platform will power a “new era of multi-billion parameter scale AI computing and the Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD for generative AI supercomputing.”
Nvidia shareholder returns: Nvidia said its next quarterly dividend, in the amount of 10 cents per share, would be payable on June 28 to shareholders of record as of June 11. The dividend was increased by 150%.
The company announced a 10-for-1 stock split, with each record holder of common stock as of market close on Thursday, June 6 receiving nine additional common shares, which will be distributed after market close on Friday, June 6. 7. Trading is expected to begin on an adjusted basis at the market open on Monday, June 10.
Nvidia Tips: Nvidia is expected to reach $28 billion in revenue in the second quarter, plus or minus 2%. Analysts on average are currently modeling revenue of $26.66 billion and earnings per share of $5.95.
Non-GAAP gross margin expected to be 75.5%, plus or minus 50 basis points, the company said. For the full year, the company expects gross margins of around 70%.
Nvidia will host its earnings conference call at 5 p.m. EDT. Ahead of the results, Paul Marin, GraniteShares’ chief revenue officer said investors would likely hang on Huang’s every word to see how confident he was about future growth.
Deepwater Asset Management Gene Munster is bullish on Nvidia and said the company is poised to grow faster and for longer.
by Rosenblatt Hans Mosesmann raised the specter of Nvidia losing unit market share to custom ASICs, AMD’s MI300X and even Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC). But from a sales and value perspective, Nvidia is likely to maintain or even increase its market share due to its focus on platform and software stack, he said .
The company’s strategic shift toward software-centric service vectors, such as Omniverse, digital twins and AI foundry, marks a transformation of Nvidia’s business model, which is expected to focus more on intellectual property softwares. Therefore, the company is poised to extract more value across the stack, indicating growth potential.
Market impact: Ahead of the results, Louis Navellierfounder and chief investment officer of Navellier & Associates, said that a beat by Nvidia following a weak or flat market before the report suggests a significant upward move for the market during the following session. With the market closing weaker for the day, an Nvidia-led rebound could be expected on Thursday.
NVDA Price Action: Nvidia stock is up 91.74% year to date, outperforming major ETFs such as SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ), and the iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX). This follows a 240% increase in 2023.
Nvidia shares, which closed Wednesday’s regular session down 0.46% at $949.50, gained 4.1% to $988.36 in after-hours trading, according to data from Benzinga Pro.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with the GB200 Grace Blackwell superchips. Photo courtesy of Nvidia and Shutterstock.
A professional trader for 20 years reveals his “MoneyLine”
Ditch your indicators and use the “MoneyLine”. A simple line tells you when to buy and sell without any guesswork. It’s a line on a chart that helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options purchases. Here’s how he does it.
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