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Wall Street quibbles about lower margins and revenue guidance amid stunning growth. Nvidia Corp. investors showed their disappointment in the chip maker's earnings by obsessing over a previously anticipated slight drop in gross profit margins, but they are missing the forest for the trees.Nvidia's GAAP gross margins - forecast at 73% for the company's fiscal fourth quarter - are still enviable across the semiconductor industry. As one analyst told MarketWatch on Wednesday, "Many companies would chew their arm off for a mark-up of over 70%.". Nvidia's shares fell 2.5% in after-hours trading Wednesday. Its shares have risen almost 200% so far this year, so clearly Wall Street wanted more, even as some analysts had already been discussing the margin issue, which is related to a major product transition to Nvidia's new Blackwell line of chips.Analysts also may have had another quibble and were slightly disappointed that the revenue forecast for the fiscal fourth quarter, ending in January

** Nvidia forecast its slowest revenue growth in seven quarters on Wednesday, with the artificial intelligence chipmaker failing to meet lofty expectations of some investors who have made it the wo

NVIDIA reported quarterly earnings of $0.81 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $0.75 by 8 percent. The company reported quarterly sales of $35.100 billion which beat the analystNVIDIA reported quarterly earnings of $0.81 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $0.75 by 8 percent.The company reported quarterly sales of $35.100 billion which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $33.125 billion by 5.96 percent. This is a 93.71 percent increase over sales of $1

Nvidia reported fiscal Q3 non-GAAP earnings late Wednesday of $0.81 per diluted share, up from $0.40 a year earlier.Analysts polled by FactSet expected $0.75.Revenue in the three months ended Oct. 27 rose to $35.08 billion from $18.12 billion a year earlier.Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $33.17 billion.The company expects fiscal Q4 revenue of $37.5 billion, plus or minus 2%. Analysts expect $37.09 billion.Nvidia shares fell 0.8% in recent after-hours activity.

The dream of a $25,000 electric vehicle for U.S. drivers is in trouble.Elon Musk has abandoned it. President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to help. And the current economics of the U.S. auto industry don't support it.The key problem: America doesn't really sell cheap new cars anymore.Why would any automaker offer an EV -- with all of that costly technology -- at a price point that's half of what the average new vehicle goes for these days?Lucid which has begun taking orders for its coming $90,000 version of the new electric SUV called the Gravity, aims to bring out a more affordable midsize vehicle to compete against the Tesla Model Y in late 2026. That vehicle is said to cost less than $50,000, but a cheap EV is something Rawlinson said he would only support by licensing his technology to another company.A slowdown in the rate of EV sales growth has complicated the picture. So has the growing anticipation that the new Trump administration will eliminate federal tax credits that have

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