NVIDIA Corporation operates in the Semiconductors and related devices sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares NVIDIA with three other companies in this sector in UNITED STATES : Micron Technology, Inc. (2020 sales of $21.44 billion of which 43% was Compute and Networking Business Unit), Applied Materials, Inc. (2020 sales: $17.20 billion of which 66% was Semiconductor Systems), and Texas Instruments Incorporated (2020 sales of $14.46 billion of which 75% was Analog).

Sales Analysis. Sales were up sharply during the first calendar quarter of 2021 versus the previous year's first quarter. During the first calendar quarter of 2021, sales at NVIDIA totalled $5.66 billion. This is an increase of 83.8% from the $3.08 billion in sales at the company during the first quarter of 2020. This was the biggest same quarter rise in sales at NVIDIA in the previous 30 quarters. During the previous 6 quarters, sales at NVIDIA have increased compared with the same quarter in the previous year. There appears to be at least some degree of seasonality in the sales at NVIDIA: during 7 of the previous 8 calendar years, sales were highest during the fourth quarter. The exception to this was during 2018, when the first quarter was the best quarter, accounting for 27% of sales (during that same year, the fourth quarter accounted for 19% of sales). NVIDIA reported sales of $16.68 billion for the fiscal year ending January of 2021. This represents an increase of 52.7% versus 2020, when the company's sales were $10.92 billion.