{"id":579076,"date":"2026-07-10T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/579076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:27:11","slug":"ais-15-trillion-opportunity-is-just-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/579076\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s $15 Trillion Opportunity Is Just Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         Quick Read      <\/p>\n<ul class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">NVIDIA guided $91 billion for Q2 FY27 (excluding China) after Q1 Data Center revenue surged 92% and Networking soared 199% year over year.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Jensen Huang called the AI factory buildout &#8216;the largest infrastructure expansion in human history,&#8217; with Google Cloud among partners deepening NVIDIA commitments.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Don&#8217;t wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/lp\/top-10-ai-stocks\/?i=8de53867-4aee-466f-b461-93b1905bce3c&amp;p=aded526a-f78d-426a-9c96-82c54af7e0ab&amp;pos=keypoints&amp;tpid=1618908&amp;l=b17ce983-5361-4dba-a2fd-2469b8705237&amp;c=3af9b05b-bac6-4a46-815a-254223a80206&amp;utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=feed&amp;utm_content=feed||1618908\" data-ylk=\"slk:See%20the%20full%20list%20FREE%20now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;See the full list FREE now&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">See the full list FREE now<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><strong>NVIDIA<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/NVDA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:NASDAQ%3ANVDA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NASDAQ:NVDA&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASDAQ:NVDA<\/a>) told investors to expect $91.0 billion in revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2027, plus or minus 2%. That figure is guidance, not a reported result, and it excludes any Data Center compute revenue from China.  <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/8E9A41B3B7243B70561781BBD0A31DE13596075FD5F2FFF2D92AA28CD020D496\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2F24_7_wall_st__718%2F040ac240ea7fdac0668977af3a230958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"A symmetrical, futuristic data center corridor lined with tall, dark server racks on both sides. The servers glow intensely with intricate golden and amber circuit-like patterns, suggesting active data processing. The floor is a dark, reflective tile, and the ceiling features multiple rows of bright white rectangular lights, creating a high-tech and busy atmosphere.\" height=\"672\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/><\/a> 24\/7 Wall St.           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Now, this figure is significantly higher than the $81.61 billion the company just delivered in Q1 FY27, which itself was up 85.2% year over year and topped consensus expectations. For a company already generating roughly a quarter-trillion dollars of trailing revenue, the guide implies sequential acceleration on a base that most industries could not reach in a decade.  <\/p>\n<p>            What It Means          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Break the Q1 result apart and the story sharpens. Data Center revenue landed at $75.25 billion, up 92% year over year. Inside that, Data Center Networking pulled in $14.8 billion, up 199%, as InfiniBand, NVLink, and Spectrum-X demand tripled. Non-GAAP gross margin printed at 75.0%, and net income reached $58.32 billion, up 210.63%. Perhaps most importantly, free cash flow (what the market is growing increasingly concerned with) came in at $48.55 billion. The company has now beaten consensus EPS four quarters in a row, most recently with $1.87 versus a $1.77 estimate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">This $91 billion guide carries additional weight because it is stated to exclude Chinese Data Center compute revenue. NVIDIA shipped no H20 units to China in the quarter, versus $4.6 billion in the year-ago period. Whatever comes back from that market is upside optionality on top of the guide, not baked in. Supporting that outlook is a stated $119.0 billion in total supply-related commitments and $30.0 billion in multi-year cloud service commitments.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t wait:<\/strong> the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/lp\/top-10-ai-stocks\/?i=8de53867-4aee-466f-b461-93b1905bce3c&amp;p=92103f51-044f-4669-8ba5-a79fcf7642bd&amp;pos=mid_content&amp;tpid=1618908&amp;l=b17ce983-5361-4dba-a2fd-2469b8705237&amp;c=3af9b05b-bac6-4a46-815a-254223a80206&amp;utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=feed&amp;utm_content=feed||1618908\" data-ylk=\"slk:See%20the%20full%20list%20FREE%20now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;See the full list FREE now&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">See the full list FREE now<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>        Market Reaction           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">NVDA stock closed at $194.83 on July 2, 2026. Over the past week, shares are down 0.46%, and over the past month down 12.46%, moving from $222.57 on June 2 to the current level. Year to date, the stock is up 4.59%, and one-year performance stands at up 24.06%. On the day the Q1 FY27 report hit, May 20, 2026, shares were at $221.54.  <\/p>\n<p>    Story Continues  <\/p>\n<p>        Bull Case         <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The bull case for Nvidia starts with acceleration on a base that was already very large. The AI giant grew its revenue in Q1 by 85.2%, and the Q2 guide points higher in absolute dollars. Networking growth of 199% shows the buildout extending beyond GPUs into the interconnect fabric that ties them together. These numbers were driven by an absolutely incredible gross margin of 75% with Q2 guidance holding at 75% plus or minus 50 basis points, given strong pricing power as Blackwell ramps.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Capital return has changed investors&#8217; perspective on NVDA stock, in my view. The company&#8217;s board approved a new $80.0 billion share repurchase authorization in May 2026 on top of $38.5 billion remaining under the prior program, with roughly $20.0 billion was returned in Q1 alone. Nvidia&#8217;s quarterly dividend was raised from $0.01 to $0.25 per share, declared May 18, 2026 and paid June 26, 2026. Analyst consensus target price sits at $301.62, with 10 Strong Buy and 48 Buy ratings against 2 Hold and 1 Sell. Forward P\/E is 23, which is 30 on a trailing basis.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">CEO Jensen Huang framed the setup on the earnings call: &#8220;The buildout of AI factories, the largest infrastructure expansion in human history, is accelerating at extraordinary speed.&#8221; He added that &#8220;Agentic AI has arrived, doing productive work, generating real value and scaling rapidly across companies and industries.&#8221; Partnerships announced or expanded in the quarter include Google Cloud on Vera Rubin A5X instances, Marvell on NVLink Fusion, Coherent, Corning, and Lumentum on optics, plus automotive tie-ins with Hyundai, Kia, Uber, BYD, Geely, and Nissan, and telecom collaboration with T-Mobile and Nokia on AI-RAN and 6G.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Risks aren&#8217;t to be ignored, however. Nvidia&#8217;s Q2 guide already excludes China Data Center compute, a substantial Q2 cash tax increase is expected, consumer PC demand is softer, and third-party manufacturing reliance concentrates supply chain risk. None of those items alter the anchor, that the company is guiding to $91.0 billion in a single quarter, with China stripped out.  <\/p>\n<p>       Bottom Line         <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">For long-term holders, the $91 billion guide is the number that keeps the AI infrastructure thesis intact on hard math rather than narrative. Data Center growth of 92%, Networking growth of 199%, gross margin at 75.0%, and a new $80.0 billion buyback authorization together describe a business compounding at scale while returning cash.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The next reported result will test whether that guide holds. Until then, the number on the page is the story.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t wait:<\/strong> the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/lp\/top-10-ai-stocks\/?i=8de53867-4aee-466f-b461-93b1905bce3c&amp;p=ea93966a-680e-4e83-abfa-2ea9e7c81711&amp;pos=end_of_article&amp;tpid=1618908&amp;c=3af9b05b-bac6-4a46-815a-254223a80206&amp;l=b17ce983-5361-4dba-a2fd-2469b8705237&amp;utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=feed&amp;utm_content=feed||1618908\" data-ylk=\"slk:See%20the%20full%20list%20FREE%20now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;See the full list FREE now&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">See the full list FREE now<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Contact <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/technology\/ai\/articles\/mailto:editorial@247wallst.com?subject=Feedback%3A%20AI%E2%80%99s%20%2415%20Trillion%20Opportunity%20Is%20Just%20Getting%20Started&amp;body=Please%20share%20your%20feedback%20here%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A---%0D%0A%0D%0ARegarding%20this%20article%3A%20https%3A%2F%2F247wallst.com%2Finvesting%2F2026%2F07%2F10%2Fais-15-trillion-opportunity-is-just-getting-started%2F\" data-ylk=\"slk:editorial%40247wallst.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;editorial@247wallst.com&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">editorial@247wallst.com<\/a> for any questions or corrections.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick Read NVIDIA guided $91 billion for Q2 FY27 (excluding China) after Q1 Data Center revenue surged 92%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,381,5527,18,4830,17503,19,17,3573,11979,292,15378,82,173533],"class_list":["post-579076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-data-center","tag-eire","tag-google-cloud","tag-gross-margin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jensen-huang","tag-networking","tag-nvidia","tag-revenue","tag-technology","tag-top-10-ai-stocks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116897097105621416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}