NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Price Target Raised to $352.00

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) had its price objective increased by Raymond James Financial from $330.00 to $352.00 in a research note published on Tuesday morning,Benzinga reports. Raymond James Financial currently has a strong-buy rating on the computer hardware maker’s stock.

Several other equities research analysts have also commented on NVDA. Sanford C. Bernstein reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, June 29th. TD Cowen restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, August 18th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $282.00 target price on NVIDIA and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Daiwa Securities Group increased their price target on NVIDIA from $215.00 to $255.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Finally, Tigress Financial reiterated a “strong-buy” rating and set a $425.00 price target (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, May 27th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have given a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $322.61.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $227.98 on Tuesday. NVIDIA has a 1 year low of $164.07 and a 1 year high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 3.44 and a quick ratio of 2.85. The firm has a market cap of $5.52 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.82, a PEG ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.23. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $207.95 and a 200-day moving average price of $200.66.

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

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.4%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 15.31%.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly 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 position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold 1,900,500 shares of company stock valued at $410,449,265 in the last quarter. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On NVIDIA

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Montgomery Financial Services LLC bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at about $28,000. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at about $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. purchased a new stake in NVIDIA during the 1st quarter valued at about $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC grew its position in NVIDIA by 47.9% during the 2nd quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,000 after acquiring an additional 67 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Phillip James Consulting Co. purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the 1st quarter worth approximately $40,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA News Roundup

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

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.