NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Upgraded at Wall Street Zen

Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) from a buy rating to a strong-buy rating in a research report report published on Saturday,Wall Street Zen reports.

Several other equities analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. Mizuho set a $315.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $300.00 target price (up from $275.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Needham & Company LLC upped their target price on NVIDIA from $270.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. President Capital raised their price target on NVIDIA from $280.00 to $295.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Susquehanna reaffirmed a “positive” rating and set a $275.00 price target (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, May 12th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $324.23.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $220.60 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 4.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. NVIDIA has a 52 week low of $164.07 and a 52 week high of $236.54. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $208.33 and its two-hundred day moving average is $201.08. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.32 trillion, a P/E ratio of 27.89, a P/E/G ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.23.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.05 EPS. Research analysts forecast that NVIDIA will post 9.1 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has initiated a share buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company’s management believes its stock is undervalued.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be issued a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 12.64%.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. The trade was a 11.77% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 1,400,500 shares of company stock valued at $299,259,265 in the last 90 days. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 12.4% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 324,901 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $43,631,000 after purchasing an additional 35,815 shares in the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% in the fourth quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,346,417 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $315,100,000 after buying an additional 22,929 shares in the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 6.7% in the fourth quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 58,396 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $7,842,000 after buying an additional 3,653 shares in the last quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 30.7% during the fourth quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC now owns 50,658 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $6,805,000 after acquiring an additional 11,900 shares during the period. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. raised its position in NVIDIA by 15.7% in the first quarter. Wealth Group Ltd. now owns 6,598 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $715,000 after acquiring an additional 896 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek and expanded their partnership across data-center, edge-computing and automotive AI. MediaTek will adopt NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion technology to develop custom chips that can connect to NVIDIA-based AI systems, potentially broadening NVIDIA’s platform and ecosystem reach. NVIDIA MediaTek partnership
• Positive Sentiment: Anthropic reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud agreement backed by NVIDIA, reinforcing demand for NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure and supporting the broader investment case for continued hyperscaler and AI-cloud spending. Anthropic cloud deal
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised price targets while retaining Buy ratings, including China Renaissance at $330 and Phillip Securities at $300. Recent commentary highlights NVIDIA’s strong cash generation, integrated AI platform and management’s expectation for roughly 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028. China Renaissance price target
• Positive Sentiment: ARK Invest, led by Cathie Wood, purchased approximately $53 million of NVIDIA stock following the earnings-related selloff, providing a notable vote of confidence from a prominent growth investor. ARK Invest NVIDIA purchase
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA’s exceptional demand is exposing supply-chain bottlenecks in memory, networking, optical components, power and copper. Higher input costs and supply commitments could pressure gross margins even as they signal that customer demand remains ahead of available capacity.
• Neutral Sentiment: Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation validated NVIDIA’s Nemotron models for private-cloud deployment, supporting enterprise adoption and data-sovereignty use cases, though the announcement provided no specific customer or revenue figures. AI models validated on VMware Cloud Foundation
• Negative Sentiment: A reported NVIDIA program designed to participate in cloud profits from chips it had already sold was paused after internal concerns about potential antitrust exposure, highlighting regulatory risk around NVIDIA’s growing influence over AI infrastructure. NVIDIA cloud revenue program
• Negative Sentiment: Investors also face risks from a possible September market pullback, elevated valuation expectations, insider selling and emerging competition from custom AI chips, including reports of an OpenAI-designed processor.

About NVIDIA

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.