9 Companies With Nvidia's Consistency In Delivering Upside To EPS Estimates

NVIDIA Corporation NVDA has now become a sort of gold standard for companies looking to post above-consensus bottom-line performance. Earnings data since 2011 show that the company has been consistently beating consensus estimates.

The stellar financial performance has resulted in the company's stock fetching the best returns for the year among S&P 500 companies.

9 Companies Chasing The NVIDIA Gold Standard

1. American Express Company AXP has also beat earnings estimates in most quarters, except four.
2. Apple Inc. AAPL, although not as consistent as NVIDIA, has beat estimates in all but 5 quarters during the same period spanning from 2011.
3. Boeing Co BA also managed to beat estimates in all but two quarters.
4. Apart from two earnings misses and an in-line quarter, CA, Inc. CA has outperformed in all other quarters since 2011.
5. eBay Inc EBAY reported above-consensus earnings in all but three quarters since 2011, with the online auctioneer reporting in-line results in two quarters and below-consensus earnings in one.
6. Ever since it began disclosing its financial results as a public company following the listing of its shares in May 2012, Facebook Inc FB has delivered upside to earnings expectations in all but two quarters.
7. Netflix, Inc. NFLX boasts of fairly consistent earnings beats and in the period starting 2011, it missed expectations in only three quarters and reported in line bottom line results in two quarters.
8. Priceline Group Inc PCLN, like NVIDIA, reported forecasting-beating earnings in all the quarters since 2011.
9. Salesforce.com, inc. CRM has also either beaten or met earnings estimates in all the quarters since 2011, with the latter case having occurred in four quarters.