Apple Inc. vs NVIDIA CORP. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
These two keep trading the title of most valuable company, and their income statements explain the rivalry. Nvidia keeps an astonishing 54 cents of every revenue dollar as net profit to Apple's 27, and earns a 70% return on equity off a barely-levered balance sheet. Apple's 115% return on equity reads higher only because buybacks have left so little equity to measure against. On price, Nvidia sits near 37 times earnings to Apple's 35, the two priced within a whisker even though Nvidia carries the fatter margins. The market is paying up for the iPhone's durability and for the AI buildout in roughly equal measure.
Comparison updated 2026-06-15.
| Metric | AAPL | NVDA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $315.32 | $210.99 |
| Market cap | $4.64T | $5.15T |
| Sector | Computer Hardware | Semiconductors |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +32.1% | — |
| P/E | 38.2 | 32.3 |
| P/B | 43.60 | 26.33 |
| P/S | 10.29 | 20.30 |
| EV/EBITDA | 31.1 | 31.5 |
| Revenue growth | +12.4% | +69.1% |
| Gross margin | 49.3% | 74.9% |
| Operating margin | 32.3% | 65.6% |
| Net margin | 27.1% | 54.3% |
| Return on equity | 115.1% | 70.4% |
| Return on assets | 33.0% | 53.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 61.6% | 66.1% |
| FCF yield | 2.8% | 2.3% |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | 0.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.85 | 0.05 |
| Current ratio | 1.07 | 3.44 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.61 | 9.15 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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