Nvidia: A Chip, a Fortune, and a Whispered Prayer

The twenty-fifth of February looms, a date etched in the calendars of those who traffic in such ephemeral things as stock valuations. Nvidia will unveil its quarterly earnings, and the vultures – I mean, analysts – will descend, eager to pick over the bones of the report. They speak of earnings per share, a figure so precise, so utterly divorced from the messy reality of commerce, that one suspects it is calculated by a committee of ghosts. A projected increase of seventy-one percent, they say. Seventy-one percent! As if a company could simply will itself to grow at such a rate, as if it were a particularly robust turnip.







