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Nvidia (NVDA) reports its latest earnings after the closing bell today.
And given its importance to the whole AI story – and the market more broadly – you can be sure plenty of folks will be watching closely.
The market’s focus will naturally turn to things like revenue and profit growth. And perhaps even more importantly, we’ll see what management has to say about future demand.
But investors need to keep one thing clearly in mind: what has the market already priced in.
The challenge for NVDA is that its incredible success has created a problem. The better NVDA performs and the more it beats earnings expectations, the more investors come to expect. Eventually, producing another great result might no longer be enough.
That’s what makes today’s earnings result so interesting.
NVDA doesn’t necessarily need to disappoint for its shares to fall. It might simply need to beat earnings by less than investors had come to expect…
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Markets always look to the future. When you buy a stock like NVDA today, you aren’t paying for what the company earned a year or two ago. You’re paying for what you believe it can generate in the years ahead.
And when those expectations become extremely high, the hurdle becomes ever harder to clear.
NVDA could report another quarter of extraordinary revenue growth, strong margins, and booming demand for its chips. But if investors were expecting something even better, the stock could still fall.
We see this phenomenon all the time around earnings. A company reports great news, only for its shares to dive. Other times, a company reports seemingly disappointing results, yet its stock price rallies strongly. That can all seem quite irrational until you dig a little deeper to understand what the market’s doing.
Stocks don’t simply trade on whether news is good or bad. They trade on the difference between actual results and investor expectations. And they also trade off the back of positioning.
When everyone is already bullish and heavily invested, there might be relatively few new buyers left to help push the stock higher. That leaves NVDA investors vulnerable. Even slightly disappointing news could send folks heading for the exit.
That’s why I’m less interested in trying to predict NVDA’s exact numbers than I am in seeing what investors do once they’ve had time to digest them. But there’s an important distinction here.
I’m not talking about the knee-jerk reaction once the numbers are released. What happens after that initial reaction can tell us much more about expectations and positioning…
NVDA’s first move after earnings could be dramatic in either direction. The stock might surge, or it could suddenly tank as algorithms and traders react and rapidly adjust their positions.
That first move doesn’t necessarily tell you where the stock is ultimately heading. What I’ll be watching is the reaction to the reaction.
If NVDA initially sells off but buyers quickly step in and drive it back higher, that tells you something important about the underlying demand for the stock. Likewise, an initial rally that soon runs out of steam could suggest that investors are using that move as an opportunity to take profits.
That’s why you don’t want to be sucked into that first burst of volatility. Let the initial move play out and then watch what happens next. Does the market confirm that move, reject it, or completely reverse course?
For me, that second move often provides the much stronger signal. By then, investors have had more time to digest the numbers. They can consider the outlook and decide whether the initial reaction was justified.
And with expectations around NVDA already so high, that could be particularly telling.
Today’s numbers will tell us how the business is performing.
But what happens after the initial reaction could tell us something even more important – whether investors believe those results are strong enough to justify pushing NVDA higher from here.
Happy Trading,
Larry Benedict
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