Who is Colette Kress? Nvidia results on 18 November, India time: The numbers to watch after Huang's exit

Nvidia will report results for the quarter that ended on 25 October on Tuesday, 17 November, at about 1:20 pm Pacific time, the company has confirmed. That is about 2:50 am on 18 November in India. The earnings call follows at 3:30 am IST. It is Nvidia's first results since Jensen Huang resigned on 12 November.

Kress joined Nvidia as CFO in September 2013, according to Nvidia's filing at the time. She came from Cisco, where she was a finance chief from 2010, after 13 years at Microsoft and eight at Texas Instruments. She will remain CFO while running the company, until the board names a permanent CEO.

In August, Nvidia guided for revenue of about $108 billion, plus or minus 2%, for this quarter. That is a range of about $105.8 billion to $110.2 billion. Last quarter it reported $96.2 billion, so the midpoint would be about 12% higher.

Of last quarter's $96.2 billion, $89 billion, or about 92%, came from Nvidia's data centre business, which sells the AI chips and systems used by cloud companies. That segment grew 117% from a year earlier, and total revenue grew 106%. Gross margin was 75%.

Nvidia's outlook for this quarter assumes no data centre compute revenue from China, FourWeekMBA noted from its August commentary. Any change to that assumption would be one of the first things to look for in the new forecast.

FourWeekMBA lists several figures from Nvidia's last report to watch. Inventory rose to $31.6 billion from $25.8 billion. Supply commitments rose to $279 billion from $119 billion. One customer made up 16% of revenue. Customers also took longer to pay, about 60 days against 45 before.

Look at actual revenue against the $105.8-110.2 billion range, the forecast for the next quarter, and anything Kress says about the CEO search. Nvidia's board chair, Harvey Jones, has said operations and the product roadmap will continue "without interruption". The share price closed at $166.19 on 12 November.