NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Given Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by Brokerages

Shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) have been given a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by the fifty-four ratings firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, forty-eight have assigned a buy recommendation and two have given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is $322.6104.

Several equities analysts have commented on NVDA shares. Citic Securities increased their price target on NVIDIA from $242.00 to $315.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 22nd. Raymond James Financial set a $515.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Thursday. DA Davidson reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday. Finally, Craig Hallum lifted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st.

Insider Activity

In other NVIDIA news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was 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 $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 is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value 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. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold a total of 1,900,500 shares of company stock valued at $410,449,265 in the last three months. 3.94% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On NVIDIA

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Formuepleje A S lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.7% in the 2nd quarter. Formuepleje A S now owns 460,938 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $92,229,000 after acquiring an additional 3,410 shares during the period. Tucker Asset Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 2.8% during the 2nd quarter. Tucker Asset Management LLC now owns 108,000 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $21,610,000 after purchasing an additional 2,930 shares in the last quarter. HORAN Wealth LLC increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 5.6% during the second quarter. HORAN Wealth LLC now owns 57,377 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $11,480,000 after purchasing an additional 3,018 shares during the period. Wellington Grp LLC increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 8.7% during the second quarter. Wellington Grp LLC now owns 29,558 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $5,914,000 after purchasing an additional 2,376 shares during the period. Finally, Brown Financial Advisors raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 21.3% in the second quarter. Brown Financial Advisors now owns 42,229 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $8,450,000 after purchasing an additional 7,404 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Record results exceeded expectations: Fiscal Q2 revenue reached $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, while Data Center revenue rose 117% to $89.0 billion. Non-GAAP EPS was $2.22 versus the $2.09 consensus, and gross margin remained 75%. NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2027
• Positive Sentiment: Guidance reinforced the AI growth story: NVIDIA forecast approximately $108 billion in fiscal Q3 revenue and indicated that fiscal 2028 revenue could grow about 70%, well above prior Wall Street expectations. Management said demand is exceeding available supply across memory, packaging, power and computing capacity. Nvidia rises after signaling longer AI spending runway
• Positive Sentiment: Customer commitments and product expansion support visibility: AWS plans to add two million NVIDIA GPUs, while the Vera Rubin platform is entering full production. The company also announced financing partnerships intended to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. NVIDIA quarterly results
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised their targets: JPMorgan lifted its target to $320, RBC to $330, and other firms set targets as high as $345-$352, citing NVIDIA’s growth, margins and CUDA ecosystem. What Wall Street is saying about NVIDIA
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly pursuing a roughly $12.9 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which could broaden its software ecosystem but remains unconfirmed and may carry integration and valuation risks. Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face, report says
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring profitability and execution risks: Fiscal Q3 gross-margin guidance of 74% is below the latest quarter, reflecting higher memory and infrastructure costs. NVIDIA also excludes China Data Center compute revenue from its outlook. NVIDIA earnings call puts supply limits at center of outlook
• Negative Sentiment: The company paused some revenue-sharing and financing arrangements with AI cloud firms, raising questions about customer funding, circular financing concerns and the sustainability of AI returns. Nvidia pauses revenue-sharing deals

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NVDA opened at $227.98 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $5.52 trillion, a PE ratio of 28.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.23. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $207.95 and a 200-day moving average of $200.66. NVIDIA has a 52-week low of $164.07 and a 52-week high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a current ratio of 3.44.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 107.00% and a net margin of 63.66%.The business had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.05 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that NVIDIA will post 8.8 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization allows the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company’s board believes its stock is undervalued.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 15.31%.

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.