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While everyone's focused on the Trump Iran crisis, they're missing one of the most important turning points in the history of technology. Just days before this latest wave of geopolitical chaos, Nvidia's earnings quietly confirmed the start of a new phase of the AI revolution.
Yes, the world is crazy right now. Yes, stocks could absolutely collapse in the short term, but that's exactly where millionaires get made, especially if you can be greedy when others are fearful without getting distracted. Your time is valuable, so let's get right into it.
In a world where everyone's focused on the latest headlines and panic trades around every dip, the real winners will always be the investors who were ready for this moment ahead of time. The ones who trust facts over feelings and actually understand the science behind the stocks. I want to make the best use of your time with this video. And to do that, we have to focus on the long-term signals that actually matter for investors.
So, here's how I've organized this video: what Nvidia's latest earnings call actually means for the AI revolution, how AI agents are taking over the future of digital infrastructure right now, the massive impact this will have on Nvidia's long-term valuation and every other stock in the AI ecosystem, and of course, my new price target for Nvidia stock as a result. There's a ton to talk about, so let's dive right into their latest earnings.
Nvidia reported record revenues of $68.1 billion for the quarter, which is up 20% quarter-over-quarter and 73% year-over-year. They made $216 billion in revenue for the full fiscal year, which is a 65% increase from the year before. Earnings per share came in at $4.90 for the year with $1.76 of that from just this past quarter. That's up 98% year-over-year. At this rate, I expect their earnings per share to more than double again by the end of 2026 to around $11 per share for the year and about $3.60 per quarter.
Just think about these numbers for a second. The biggest company on Earth is still growing revenues and earnings by over 70% per year. When's the last time the market saw so much growth at such a massive scale? But Nvidia's revenues aren't just growing, they're actually accelerating as Blackwell Ultra production continues to ramp. Year-over-year revenue growth was 55% in quarter 2, 62% in quarter 3, and now 73% in quarter 4. Just like I said would happen after Nvidia GTC last year.
But topline revenue and earnings only tell half the story. And to really understand Nvidia's growth, we need to look at where it's coming from and how profitable it is. Gross margins came in at 75% for the quarter with operating margins over 60%. That makes Nvidia one of the most profitable semiconductor companies ever. In fact, they're as profitable as most market-leading software companies, except without all the risk of being disrupted by AI agents. That's a joke. Well, kind of.
Most of that profitability comes from their data center segment, which hit $62.3 billion in revenue this past quarter. That's up 22% quarter-over-quarter and 75% year-over-year. Data Center now accounts for over 91% of Nvidia's total revenues. But here's where things get interesting. Within that segment, networking revenues came in at $31 billion for the year and $11 billion in quarter 4 alone. An increase of $263 from a year ago. That insane growth is driven by NVLink, Spectrum X Ethernet, and Infiniband. And that makes Nvidia the largest networking company in the world for AI data centers and high-performance computing.
Networking isn't just a side business. It's a great way for Nvidia to diversify their offerings beyond GPUs. Every hyperscaler still needs huge amounts of high-speed, low-latency interconnects, even when they deploy their own custom AI chips. That means Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure can build clusters around Nvidia's networking stack, even when some of their compute comes from TPUs or in-house ASICs. My point is, networking doesn't just increase NVIDIA's revenues. It extends their reach across the entire AI data center landscape.
That's why Nvidia's CFO, Colette Crest, said they now have visibility into over half a trillion dollars of Blackwell and Rubin revenues through 2027. That's their real revenue pipeline, not some hypothetical demand. And that pipeline is turning into huge cash flows. Nvidia generated $35 billion in free cash flows just this past quarter with over $96 billion for the full year. They returned over $40 billion to shareholders through share buybacks and dividends with another $58 billion still authorized.
And for next quarter, Nvidia is projecting around $78 billion in revenues. That would imply 77% year-over-year growth from an already massive base. And that guidance still assumes zero data center sales to China, which means it doesn't depend on export approvals or tariffs. That also means that any sales to China would effectively be pure upside for the stock.
On the earnings call, Jensen Huang boiled Nvidia's entire quarter down into a single sentence: "Compute equals revenue." That's the inflection point we're at right now, where AI systems, applications, and even entire digital workforces directly turn compute into income. And that's exactly why Nvidia's revenues, profit margins, and cash flows are all accelerating as Agentic AI systems start to scale in almost every market.
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All right, Nvidia's earnings are really just the scorecard for the AI revolution. Their revenues, margins, and cash flows are accelerating because demand for AI processing is accelerating. And like Jensen said on the earnings call, compute equals revenue. Not because more people are typing more prompts into more chatbots. That can't scale forever.
This acceleration is all about AI agents. Tools like Claude Co-work, OpenClaw, and Perplexity Computer aren't just answering questions. They're doing work, creating and coordinating with other agents, moving money, and running almost non-stop in the background. It took me a long time to understand the economics around AI agents. But I finally wrapped my head around it. So, let me tell you something that will put you ahead of almost every Wall Street analyst trying to cover this area of AI.
First, these agents are not going to replace most jobs. They'll either support the people doing them or they'll do the work that most companies would never pay a human to do in the first place. Think about boring, low-value, and continuous work like manual data entry, standardizing thousands of documents, monitoring internal systems, or answering frequently asked questions. So, it's better to think of AI agents more like a utility, like the internet, electricity, or gas. We measure AI in terms of tokens and the goal is to spend those tokens to do something productive, just like we use the internet, electricity, and gas to create value. Once you look at it that way, the returns on AI start to make a lot more sense.
Let me show you what I mean. When a company hires someone, they usually aim for at least a 2x return on that person's total cost, including their salary, benefits, training, their computer, and so on. So, if somebody costs $100,000 a year after everything, the company wants to make at least $200,000 of value from their work. So, that person has a 50% profit margin. Now, let's give them access to an AI agent. The top-tier plans for tools like Claude Co-work or Perplexity Computer cost roughly $2,000 per user per year, but let's be generous and double that to $4,000 to cover all the enterprise extras like higher limits, security, admin controls, and so on. Let's say an AI agent makes that person just 50% more productive by doing only the most obvious things that we all know AI can do today: basic research, formatting emails and reports, taking notes in meetings, answering basic questions about articles we all pretend to read, and making rough first drafts of documents and code. Most studies show much higher productivity gains, especially when it comes to coding and writing. But we're being ultra-conservative here.
So now with an AI agent, that same employee costs $104,000 a year, but generates $300,000 worth of value instead of $200,000. So their profit margin jumps from 50% to 65%. Or, set another way, the company made an extra $100,000 for a $4,000 investment. And that's assuming the AI agent can only help one person. Nothing says these systems can't support two people, or five, or an entire team.
Charlie Munger famously said, "Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome." Well, when the incentive is a 10x, 20x, or even 30x return per AI agent, the outcome is crystal clear. Any company not investing in AI will eventually get outcompeted by one that is.
But here's what most investors haven't really realized yet. These AI agents are now working with tools and other agents to push those productivity gains even further. AI models are building skills using shells and they're able to run longer workflows autonomously. Skills are basically reusable tools like using APIs, updating spreadsheets, filing tickets, and committing code. Shell access lets agents run commands, install packages, call other programs, and manage files and computers, not just inside their own chat windows. And workflow engines let them chain these skills and tools together. So, one agent can research while another one plans. A third executes the plan and a fourth one can QA the result. All running autonomously instead of relying on human prompts at every step.
Another thing investors may not realize is that the web itself is becoming more agent-friendly. More websites and APIs are creating machine-readable endpoints, structures, markdown files, and protocols that let agents find things and call each other directly. So instead of pages designed for human readability, we're starting to see content structured specifically for parsing, reasoning, and chaining into the next action.
Now, put that all together. One agent calls a skill to fetch some data. Another agent takes that output, runs an analysis in a shell, writes its own files, and calls a third agent to push changes into a test environment. Then another agent tests the code and if something looks off, it can wake up a fourth agent to roll back those changes or open a ticket for a human to resolve the issue. This is a huge shift in how people and AIs work together. Instead of short bursts of back-and-forth chats, people are kicking off long-running multi-step inference jobs with lots of tool calls, shell usage, and agent-to-agent communications. That means more tokens per task, more context held in memory, more bandwidth across the network, and more jobs running at once. Or, said another way, more compute equals more revenue.
And now we've come full circle, because more complex, longer-running multi-agent workflows directly lead to more demand for Nvidia's systems. And with all that context, we can talk about my predictions and price target for Nvidia stock. And if you feel I've earned it, consider hitting the like button and subscribing to the channel. That really helps me out and it lets me know to make more content like this. Thanks.
Now, let's talk about my price target for Nvidia stock. My price target for Nvidia stock is $411 per share, which implies a $10 trillion valuation, which is about 130% upside from here. It won't get there tomorrow. It won't get there next month, and it probably won't get there next year. But I genuinely believe it'll happen much sooner than Wall Street thinks, and it will obviously bring many other AI infrastructure companies along for the ride.
Here's how I think it happens. Nvidia won't hit a $10 trillion valuation because of hype, but for the exact opposite reason. AI agents will become boring but critical infrastructure, just like the enterprise software systems we already rely on today. Today, almost nothing is run by AI agents end-to-end. And the average person uses AI to help them research, write, or code. Most AI tools are basically autocomplete with a few built-in actions like web browsing, uploading files, and automations to summarize meetings and draft emails. Almost all of our digital infrastructure still runs on traditional software: marketing and sales systems, payment processors, logistics platforms, cybersecurity tools, higher-level customer support. The list goes on and on. Sure, there are some AI agents running in the background to do things like watching logs, handling low-level tickets, and scraping data, but they're basically automated helpers bolted onto existing systems.
I think that balance will shift over the next few years. Agentic platforms will build entire libraries of complex skills. They'll learn to interface with virtually every digital tool, and they'll run for much longer without interruption, just like we expect self-driving cars to eventually take full responsibility for every step of driving, from planning and pickup to navigation and accounting for traffic to drop-off and self-parking. There will be a point where digital agents take full responsibility for monitoring, deciding, and executing end-to-end processes instead of asking for instructions at every step.
Websites and enterprise systems are already being wired up with machine-readable interfaces and agent-focused APIs so they can talk directly to customer databases like Salesforce, finance and accounting platforms like NetSuite and SAP, payment systems like Stripe and Visa, e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Shopify, ticketing tools like Zendesk and Service Now, cloud dashboards like AWS and Azure, and all the internal tools that companies use to manage their work today. As that trend continues, more of our digital infrastructure will start being handled by agents that run 24/7 and only escalate things to humans when there's an issue.
And that's just for the systems we already have today. The next wave of systems, which haven't even been built yet, will be designed from the ground up with agents in mind, where the default assumption is that AI clicks the buttons and moves the data while humans set the goals and the requirements. All of this translates into far more tokens per user and per workflow, especially as agents become users themselves. Every extra step, tool call, and agent-to-agent message means we need more network bandwidth, more context held in memory, and more compute, which is exactly what turns into more revenue for Nvidia.
Nvidia's data center revenues are already over $62 billion a quarter. A $10 trillion Nvidia would probably have on the order of $110 billion in quarterly revenues, or roughly $450 billion a year, which means their data center business has to double again from here. That assumes their gaming, professional visualization, automotive, and physical AI segments don't add any meaningful upsides of their own. That sounds like a huge leap, but Nvidia is already growing revenues at 73% year-over-year, and they're guiding for $78 billion in revenue next quarter, which implies a 77% growth rate. And that guidance assumes zero data center revenues from China.
Nvidia obviously can't grow at this rate forever. But really, they don't have to. Even if growth got cut in half to roughly 35% per year, they'd still reach $400 billion in annual revenues by the end of the decade. But on top of that, Nvidia also has to defend their current 75% gross margins and 60% operating margins. Numbers that make them look more like a top-tier software company than one designing semiconductors. If AI agents keep getting more capable, more integrated, and more central to how digital work gets done, and if rivals don't eventually force Nvidia to compete on price, then a $10 trillion valuation is the logical conclusion for the company powering the entire Agentic AI revolution.
Like I said at the start of this video, in a world where everyone is panicking over the latest headlines, the real winners are the investors who are always ready ahead of time. The ones who trust facts over feelings and actually understand the science behind the stocks. Let me know what you think about my $411 price target for Nvidia stock in the comments. Is a $10 trillion valuation impossible or is it inevitable? And if you want to see more science behind the stocks, check out this video next. Either way, thanks for watching and until next time, this is Ticker Ticker. My name is Alex, reminding you that the best investment you can make is in you.