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5 min readNvidia reported $96.2 billion in revenue for a single quarter—more than a billion dollars a day in chip sales, up 106% from the same period last year. The company generated $60 billion in profit in those three months, with gross margins of 75%. That means Nvidia sells its chips for roughly four times what it costs to make them. The business is now valued at about $5 trillion.
But the hosts of this episode of Motley Fool Money are not here to cheerlead. They spend most of the conversation wrestling with the uncomfortable question those numbers raise: can a company with 75% hardware margins and a $5 trillion market cap keep those margins intact long enough to justify its current price?
The margin problem nobody wants to talk about
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What you'll learn
- 1 Investing Lessons from Nvidia’s Blowout Quarter
- 2 (00:07) **Opening & Nvidia’s Staggering Numbers** - Scott Phillips and Andrew Page introduce Nvidia’s second-quarter results, calling the numbers “bananas”
- 3 (03:34) **Why This Isn’t the Dot-Com Bubble** - Andrew argues the tech-boom comparisons miss the point because Nvidia is actually making money
- 4 (06:19) **The Margin Problem: Your Margin Is My Opportunity** - Scott raises the classic competitive threat to high-margin businesses
- 5 (08:40) **Assessing the Upside vs. Downside at Today’s Price** - Andrew frames the Nvidia decision as a risk-reward question for current buyers
- 6 (10:06) **The Hardware Moat: IP and Manufacturing Complexity** - The hosts discuss why Nvidia’s position may be more defensible than it appears
- 7 (12:12) **The Investor’s Job: Keep Pulling the Thread** - Andrew distills a broader investing principle from the Nvidia discussion
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Show Notes
– Lessons from Nvidia’s blow-out quarter
– Bitcoin on a tear… again
– Bathla collapses… now what?
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