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Nvidia delivers another sales and earnings beat in Q1, with strong Q2 revenue guidance

Shareholder returns are going up too!

Nvidia is whipsawing in postmarket trading after reporting better-than-expected Q1 results along with strong sales guidance for Q2.

Fiscal Q1 2027 marked the chip designer’s 15th consecutive top-line beat and 14th straight quarter in which the company posted adjusted earnings per share above what Wall Street had penciled in.

Management also boosted its buyback authorization by $80 billion and raised the quarterly dividend to $0.25 from $0.01.

During the conference call, analysts will be looking for potential upside to CEO Jensen Huang’s March announcement that sales of Blackwell and Rubin chips (as well as associated networking equipment) would top $1 trillion through 2027.

In particular, the outlook for its Vera CPUs as well as for products developed with Groq’s capabilities will be in focus as fresh avenues for even more growth. Both address parts of the supply chain that are seemingly facing more constraints than GPUs — CPUs thanks to the particular compute requirements of AI agents, and memory as widening context windows reduce the speed of models and increase token usage.

With this quarterly report, Nvidia is unveiling a new framework for how it reports sales: a data center segment, and edge computing. The latter segment includes “data processing devices for agentic and physical AI” — perhaps a hint that Huang’s expected evolution of demand going from agentic AI to physical AI will be reflected more meaningfully in Nvidia’s financials going forward.

For the past few quarters, Nvidia has enjoyed an initial pop following earnings only to see that fizzle out thereafter — sometimes because of what Huang has said, and other times for seemingly no reason whatsoever.

Nvidia, the First Big Thing in the AI boom, was the second-best performer in the Magnificent 7 in 2026 heading into this report, up about 20%. However, it’s more of a laggard (and a dullard) relative to its semiconductor peers, as traders have been more aggressively bidding up companies tied to memory, networking, and CPUs that are benefiting from AI-induced shortages.

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Intuit plummets after reporting slowing revenue growth

Is it a worse day to be an Intuit employee or an Intuit shareholder?

On Wednesday, the financial and business tech company announced third-quarter earnings and sweeping layoffs on the same day. The TurboTax parent company said it would cut 17% of its workers — approximately 3,000 people — to focus on its AI efforts, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.

The stock was down 3.8% during market hours. It dropped further when Intuit released third-quarter results after the bell showing the slowest year-over-year revenue growth since 2024, falling 10% after-hours.

Here are the numbers:

  • Q3 revenue of $8.56 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $8.54 billion).

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $12.80 (estimate: $12.54).

  • Raised full-year guidance for revenue of $21.34 billion to $21.37 billion (estimate: $21.24 billion).

“We delivered strong third-quarter results, driven by our AI-driven expert platform strategy,” said Sasan Goodarzi, chairman and CEO of Intuit. “As a result, we are raising our full-year revenue guidance for fiscal 2026.”

Shares of Intuit are down nearly 40% this year.

On Wednesday, the financial and business tech company announced third-quarter earnings and sweeping layoffs on the same day. The TurboTax parent company said it would cut 17% of its workers — approximately 3,000 people — to focus on its AI efforts, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.

The stock was down 3.8% during market hours. It dropped further when Intuit released third-quarter results after the bell showing the slowest year-over-year revenue growth since 2024, falling 10% after-hours.

Here are the numbers:

  • Q3 revenue of $8.56 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $8.54 billion).

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $12.80 (estimate: $12.54).

  • Raised full-year guidance for revenue of $21.34 billion to $21.37 billion (estimate: $21.24 billion).

“We delivered strong third-quarter results, driven by our AI-driven expert platform strategy,” said Sasan Goodarzi, chairman and CEO of Intuit. “As a result, we are raising our full-year revenue guidance for fiscal 2026.”

Shares of Intuit are down nearly 40% this year.

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T1 Energy spikes on record call volumes after Roth analyst calls short report a buying opportunity

Shares of T1 Energy are electric Wednesday afternoon, soaring more than 20% on record call volumes.

The stock had fallen over 13% at its lows on Tuesday after short-only fund Fuzzy Panda Research published a report calling the solar and battery storage company a “China Hustle” rather than a legitimate AI infrastructure investment, also alleging that the company has booked tax credits it won’t receive.

Retail traders have often used the dip that’s followed the announcement of a short report to load up on a company’s shares (see: POET Technologies in April).

Roth Capital Partners analyst Philip Shen responded to the report by calling T1 “a model for what the Trump administration may want in a domestic manufacturer that is transferring advanced technology and capacity to the US,” suggesting that the sell-off was a buying opportunity.

Earlier this week, T1 got an even more prominent vote of confidence when a 13F filing from Situational Awareness showed the hedge fund run by wunderkind Leopold Aschenbrenner held a 3.6% stake in the company at the end of Q1.

Airlines and cruise stocks surge as oil prices plunge

Travel stocks are surging on Wednesday, with West Texas Intermediate crude futures down 5% as of 12 p.m. ET, largely on commodity traders’ hopes of a resolution to the US war with Iran.

The decline comes despite the US Energy Information Administration reporting a record plunge in US crude inventories last week. As the country expands its oil exports to reduce the impact of the war in Iran, inventories have fallen by 7.9 million barrels, according to the EIA, indicating a significant drop in domestic supply wiggle room ahead of the summer driving season. Per Reuters, analysts had expected a drop of 2.9 million.

Bloomberg noted that US oil exports have been crucial in keeping global petroleum prices in check, as supply remains historically constrained due to the effective closure of the Straight of Hormuz. Typically, such a sharper-than-expected drop in inventories would cause oil futures to rise.

Today, however, that is not the case and oil’s pain is travel stocks’ gain, with US airlines and cruise lines surging higher on Wednesday. Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue were all up by at least 6%, while Carnival and Norwegian were up about 7%.

Royal Caribbean pared earlier losses from Mexico’s rejection of a large planned water park, but was still down about 1%.

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