Editor's note: The original version of this article did not account for the company's stock split in April when calculating the change in EPS and diluted shares outstanding. We regret the error.

On Nov. 9, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) released third-quarter earnings for the period ended Oct. 29.

  • Positive performance across all the core businesses is credited with boosting revenues by 41%.
  • GAAP EPS increased 50%, though you'd never know it from reading through the earnings release. The company never mentioned Q3 EPS from last year.
  • Our Motley Fool CAPS community collectively rates this a three-star stock.

(Figures in millions, except per-share data)

Income Statement Highlights

Q3 2007

Q3 2006

Change

Sales

$820.6

$583.4

40.6%

Net Profit

$106.5

$65.3

63.2%

EPS

$0.27

$0.18

50%

Diluted Shares

391.2

367

6.6%



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Margin Checkup

Q3 2007

Q3 2006

Change*

Gross Margin

40.7%

39.1%

1.6

Operating Margin

14.3%

12.3%

2.1

Net Margin

13%

11.2%

1.8

*Expressed in percentage points.

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Balance Sheet Highlights

An audit committee is still reviewing past stock option grants; thus we get no balance sheet info with the earnings release.

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Cash Flow Highlights

And no cash flow info, either.

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