What does Nvidia do?

NVDA · Plain-English company overview

A stock is a share of ownership in a company. Owning one means you own a small piece of that business.

In the company's own words, from Item 1 (Business) of its latest annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the SEC on 2026-02-25.

NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to help solve the most challenging computational problems. NVIDIA is now a data center scale AI infrastructure company reshaping all industries.

Our technology stack includes the foundational NVIDIA CUDA development platform that runs on all NVIDIA GPUs, as well as hundreds of domain-specific software libraries, frameworks, algorithms, software development kits, or SDKs, and application programming interfaces, or APIs. This deep and broad software stack accelerates the performance and facilitates the deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing for computationally intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence, or AI, model training and inference, data analytics, scientific computing, robotics, and 3D graphics, with vertical-specific optimizations to address industries ranging from healthcare and telecom to automotive and manufacturing.

Read the full 10-K on SEC.gov →

How did Nvidia's latest earnings compare?

An earnings release is a company's quarterly report of how much money it made. Analysts predict these numbers ahead of time, and the actual results are compared against those predictions.

In the most recent quarter (2026-06-30), Nvidia reported earnings of $1.87 per share. Analysts expected $1.7922 per share, so the company beat expectations.

SEC Filings

Key filings
Annual report (10-K)
The company's big yearly financial report.
2026-02-25
Quarterly report (10-Q)
A financial update covering the last 3 months.
2026-08-26
Material event (8-K)
A heads-up about something important that just happened.
2026-08-26
Most recent filings
Quarterly report (10-Q)
A financial update covering the last 3 months.
2026-08-26
Material event (8-K)
A heads-up about something important that just happened.
2026-08-26
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-24
Material event (8-K)
A heads-up about something important that just happened.
2026-08-17
SEC filing (13F-HR)
An official filing with the SEC.
2026-08-14
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-12
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-07
SEC filing (SCHEDULE 13G)
An official filing with the SEC.
2026-07-20
Insider ownership (3)
A new insider's first report of the shares they hold.
2026-07-15
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-07-06
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