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NVDA Fair Value Stress Test: what has to be true

NVDA — NVIDIA Corporation
Framework: Fair Value Stress Test only
Run date: September 16, 2026
Report type: Dated snapshot
Data used: NVIDIA Q2 FY2027 8-K (filed Aug 26, 2026), 10-Q for the period ended July 26, 2026, and CFO commentary — not training-cutoff memory.
Snapshot, not a live price target.
$96.221B
Q2 FY2027 revenue
+106%
Revenue, y/y
75.0%
GAAP gross margin
low-$210s
Price context, mid-Sept 2026
Price context only — not a target, not a valuation call. Figures below are as reported in NVIDIA's own Q2 FY2027 filings; see sources under the table.

Quick answer: NVIDIA's Q2 FY2027 results (quarter ended July 26, 2026) showed $96.221B in revenue, up 106% year over year, with GAAP gross margin holding at 75.0%. This page runs those numbers through Framework 03 — Fair Value Stress Test — alone: bull, base, and bear assumptions, not a price target, not a buy or sell call.

What this page is

A single-framework, dated snapshot built from NVIDIA's own Q2 FY2027 8-K and 10-Q. It exists to show what the Fair Value Stress Test framework actually does — name the assumption an optimistic case depends on, rather than hand you a number to anchor on. It does not run the other 14 AlphaLens frameworks (moat, earnings quality, management, macro, and the rest); a live run in the app does that on demand.

The Q2 FY2027 figures

MetricValue
QuarterQ2 FY2027, ended July 26, 2026
Revenue$96.221B (+18% q/q, +106% y/y)
Data Center revenue$89.023B (+18% q/q, +117% y/y)
GAAP gross margin75.0% (74.9% q/q, 72.4% y/y)
GAAP diluted EPS$2.46 · Non-GAAP $2.22
GAAP operating income$63.734B
Q3 FY2027 revenue outlook$108.0B ±2%, assumes no China Data Center compute revenue
Q3 FY2027 gross margin outlook74.0% ±50 bps
Commitments$279B
Senior notes issued in Q2$25.0B

Sources: NVIDIA Q2 FY2027 8-K, filed Aug 26, 2026; 10-Q for the period ended July 26, 2026; Q3 outlook disclosed in that same 8-K; CFO commentary on the Q2 FY2027 results. No figure above is estimated or adjusted — all are as reported.

Three facts from the filing

  • Data Center revenue of $89.023B was approximately 92.5% of total Q2 revenue ($89.023B of $96.221B) — the business is now overwhelmingly a data-center company, not a diversified GPU maker.
  • GAAP gross margin of 75.0% was higher than the 74.9% posted the prior quarter and well above the 72.4% from a year earlier, even as the mix shifted further toward newer, more complex data-center products.
  • The Q3 FY2027 outlook of $108.0B explicitly assumes zero China Data Center compute revenue — a disclosed exclusion in the guidance itself, not an analyst assumption layered on top of it.

Bull / base / bear — assumptions, not targets

The Fair Value Stress Test framework's job is to name what has to hold true for each scenario, not to publish a price. None of the three below is a target:

ScenarioWhat has to be true
BullData-center revenue continues growing at something close to Q2's +18% q/q pace through the balance of FY2027, and China Data Center compute is later restored to the guidance base rather than staying excluded.
BaseQ3 lands inside the guided $108.0B ±2% range, gross margin holds inside the guided 74.0% ±50 bps band, and the China Data Center exclusion persists through FY2027 as currently guided.
BearSequential data-center growth decelerates well below Q2's +18% q/q pace and/or gross margin prints below the low end of the guided 74.0% ±50 bps band as newer product costs pressure margins.
Three flags worth watching
Flag 1 — China exclusion

Q3 guidance of $108.0B explicitly assumes no China Data Center compute revenue. Any change to that assumption — in either direction — moves the base case, not the framework's math.

Flag 2 — new leverage

NVIDIA issued $25.0B in senior notes during Q2 — a balance-sheet change worth tracking against the $279B in disclosed commitments, not something the prior capital structure carried.

Flag 3 — commitment size

$279B in commitments is a large forward obligation relative to a single quarter's $96.221B in revenue. That's a fact about scale and concentration, not a verdict on whether it's manageable.

What this page does not do

It does not publish a live price target, a buy/sell/hold call, or an "undervalued by X%" figure. It does not update in real time — the numbers above are fixed to the Q2 FY2027 filing and the mid-September 2026 price context stated at the top. It does not run the other 14 AlphaLens frameworks — moat, earnings quality, management, macro sensitivity, and the rest need their own pass, live, in the app.

This is one framework. AlphaLens runs 15.

Fair Value Stress Test is one of 15 named research frameworks. Run all 15 on NVDA — or any US-listed stock — against live prices, current SEC filings, and today's news, not a fixed September snapshot.

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How this page was generated
Analysis run: September 16, 2026
Framework used: Fair Value Stress Test
Data as of: NVIDIA Q2 FY2027 8-K, filed Aug 26, 2026
Last verified: September 16, 2026
A NorrisAI AlphaLens editorial analysis. Figures were current as of the dates above and change continuously.
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