Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – May 21, 2026: Nvidia has done it again, beating on the top and bottom line and guiding the current quarter well above Wall Street estimates, yet the share price barely moved. That tepid reaction has become the new normal for the world’s most valuable company, and it tells us exactly how high the bar has been set in the AI trade.

According toJosh Gilbert, Lead Analyst, Middle East at eToro:Revenue of USD$81.6 billion was up 85% on the same quarter last year, with the all-important data centre business pulling in USD$75.2 billion, growth of 92%. For a company of this size to still deliver that level of growth is staggering. Guidance for the July quarter came in at around USD$91 billion, comfortably ahead of the USD$87 billion consensus, while management lifted the quarterly dividend to 25 cents from 1 cent and authorised another USD$80 billion in buybacks. The buyback and dividend hike show that Nvidia wants to keep shareholders on side, even as the eye-watering share price gains of recent years become harder to repeat.
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