Erste Group Bank Predicts Increased Earnings for NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) – Investment analysts at Erste Group Bank lifted their FY2027 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of NVIDIA in a report issued on Wednesday, February 18th. Erste Group Bank analyst H. Engel now expects that the computer hardware maker will earn $7.41 per share for the year, up from their prior forecast of $7.40. The consensus estimate for NVIDIA’s current full-year earnings is $2.77 per share.

NVDA has been the topic of several other reports. Tigress Financial restated a “strong-buy” rating and set a $350.00 price target (up from $280.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, December 18th. New Street Research reissued a “buy” rating and set a $307.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, October 30th. Morgan Stanley restated an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday. William Blair reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, January 6th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $240.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, February 18th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have given a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $267.73.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NVDA stock opened at $191.55 on Monday. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $185.50 and a 200 day simple moving average of $183.73. NVIDIA has a 52 week low of $86.62 and a 52 week high of $212.19. The stock has a market cap of $4.65 trillion, a P/E ratio of 47.53, a P/E/G ratio of 0.57 and a beta of 2.31. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a current ratio of 4.47.

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

Hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Drake & Associates LLC boosted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 11.2% in the fourth quarter. Drake & Associates LLC now owns 18,945 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $3,533,000 after acquiring an additional 1,904 shares during the period. Wealth Preservation Advisors LLC raised its stake in NVIDIA by 4.2% during the 4th quarter. Wealth Preservation Advisors LLC now owns 94,181 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $17,565,000 after purchasing an additional 3,826 shares during the last quarter. Monetary Solutions Ltd bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at $161,000. Kera Capital Partners Inc. grew its position in NVIDIA by 0.9% in the 4th quarter. Kera Capital Partners Inc. now owns 391,382 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $74,805,000 after purchasing an additional 3,606 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Walser Wealth Management Company A Ltd Liability Co acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter worth $3,075,000. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity

In other NVIDIA news, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 200,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, January 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $180.04, for a total transaction of $36,008,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 3,618,547 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $651,483,201.88. The trade was a 5.24% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total value of $44,332,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 6,933,280 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,229,478,542.40. This represents a 3.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 1,610,848 shares of company stock valued at $291,619,375 in the last quarter. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street is pricing in enormous Q4 revenue (reports citing ~$65B consensus), which is driving pre-earnings optimism that NVDA will again show explosive datacenter/AI demand. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple brokerages have reaffirmed/raised bullish ratings and price targets this week (examples: DA Davidson, KeyCorp, Wedbush), supporting upside sentiment ahead of results. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: New commercial partnerships and product pushes broaden NVDA’s TAM — notable items include expanded hyperscaler wins (Meta tie‑ups highlighted by analysts) and a push into cybersecurity with partners to protect critical infrastructure using NVIDIA BlueField DPUs. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Product roadmap and ecosystem stories (laptop chip launch plans, supply‑chain narratives) keep the long-term AI infrastructure case intact but are incremental near-term catalysts versus the earnings print. Read More. — and Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Regulatory/export risk surfaced: Reuters reports a Chinese AI firm trained a model on NVIDIA’s top Blackwell chip despite U.S. export controls — this raises potential compliance risks and political scrutiny that could affect China sales or trigger sanctions. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Analysts remain skeptical on the near‑term China revenue recovery and on structural demand shifts (private‑credit drying for data‑center builds; some arguing inference demand could shift toward CPUs/custom ASICs), which could temper growth after a beat. Read More. and Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Pre-earnings options positioning and high implied volatility mean a large post‑earnings IV collapse is possible — even a beat could see a sharp short‑term price drop as premiums unwind. This raises event‑risk for traders around the print. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Macro/geopolitical headlines (tariff rulings and related market jitters) are driving rotation out of growth names today; that can amplify NVDA’s intraday volatility despite company‑specific positives. Read More.

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a global technology company that designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies. Co-founded by Jensen Huang, who serves as president and chief executive officer, along with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA has grown from a graphics-focused chipmaker into a broad provider of accelerated computing hardware and software for multiple industries.

The company’s product portfolio spans discrete GPUs for gaming and professional visualization (marketed under the GeForce and NVIDIA RTX lines), high-performance data center accelerators used for AI training and inference (including widely adopted platforms such as the A100 and H100 series), and Tegra SoCs for automotive and edge applications.