Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says company has never issued earnings guidance a year in advance

Jensen Huang wants to be very clear about something: Nvidia doesn’t do crystal balls. The CEO stated that his company has never issued earnings guidance a year in advance, a comment that underscores a deliberate strategy of keeping forecasts tight and timelines short in one of the fastest-moving sectors in technology. The quarter-by-quarter playbook Nvidia has adhered strictly to quarterly revenue guidance across its recent earnings cycles. For fiscal year 2027, the company issued revenue estimates of $78B for Q1, $91B for Q2, and $108B for Q3, each one arriving as a single-quarter projection rather than part of a broader annual outlook. Q2 FY2027 revenue came in at $96.22B, more than doubling the year-ago period and comfortably surpassing the $91B guidance the company had put out. That pattern of beating its own forecasts has become something of a tradition in Huang’s corner of Silicon Valley. Backlogs versus forecasts: a careful distinction Huang’s insistence on quarterly-only guidance doesn’t mean Nvidia stays silent about the future entirely. The company has shared longer-term demand indicators, including projections of $500B in orders through 2026 and $1 trillion through 2027....