Nvidia trades around $209 a share, off its 52-week high of $236.54 but still up sharply from its $164.07 low. On Investily's report card, it scores 96 out of 100 — one of the highest marks we hand out to any large-cap stock. That score is not driven by one great quarter. It shows up in nearly every pillar we grade: growth, returns, and balance-sheet strength. The only real question left is whether the price already assumes all of it.
The Investily score: 96/100
Investily breaks every stock down into four pillars — Growth, Returns, Ratios, and Valuation — scored from live financial statements, not guesswork. Here's how Nvidia grades across the components that make up the score:
- Revenue growth: exceptional
- Operating income growth: exceptional
- Free cash flow growth: exceptional
- Return on capital employed: strong
- Debt, liquidity, and profit margin: near-perfect marks
There is no weak pillar to point to. That's rare — most companies trade off growth for balance-sheet strength, or margin for scale. Nvidia's report card doesn't show that trade-off right now.
Growth: still accelerating, not just large
Revenue is up 85.3% over the trailing year and 111.5% over the trailing three years — meaning the business has more than doubled in that window even as it started from an already-massive base. Operating income grew 108.0% over the same trailing year, and free cash flow grew 78.2%. When operating income grows faster than revenue, it means the business is getting more profitable as it scales, not just bigger.
Profitability & returns
Nvidia's net margin sits at 52.4% — more than half of every dollar of revenue converts to profit, a level almost no hardware company reaches. Return on capital employed over the trailing year is 82.4%, meaning the capital Nvidia has invested in the business is generating an unusually high return on that capital. That's the kind of number that shows up when a company has genuine pricing power, not just demand.
Balance sheet & ratios
This is where Nvidia's report card is cleanest. Debt levels, liquidity, and current ratio all land at or near the top of Investily's scoring range. The company is funding its growth out of its own cash flow rather than leaning on debt, which matters more the longer a growth story runs — it means a slowdown wouldn't threaten the balance sheet.
Valuation: is it priced in?
At today's price, Nvidia trades at roughly 27x earnings and 22.6x book value. On the surface that looks rich for a hardware company — but relative to its own growth rate, the picture changes. Its PEGY ratio (price- to-earnings weighted against growth) sits at just 0.22, well under the 1.0 mark that usually separates cheap from expensive. In plain terms: the stock is not cheap on an absolute basis, but it is priced well below what its growth rate alone would justify. The stock is currently trading above both its 50-day ($207.75) and 200-day ($195.53) moving averages, which points to a market still in an uptrend rather than one pricing in doubt.
The bottom line
Nvidia's 96/100 score reflects a business compounding growth, margin, and balance-sheet strength at the same time — not one metric propping up the story. The valuation isn't a bargain in absolute terms, but it's not disconnected from the growth rate behind it either. The real risk with a score this high isn't the business — it's how much further the growth rate has to run before the market starts asking harder questions about the next chapter.