NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Shares Up 2.2% on Analyst Upgrade

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s stock price traded up 2.2% during mid-day trading on Tuesday after Raymond James Financial raised their price target on the stock from $330.00 to $352.00. Raymond James Financial currently has a strong-buy rating on the stock. NVIDIA traded as high as $214.73 and last traded at $213.05. 119,048,714 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 25% from the average session volume of 158,504,047 shares. The stock had previously closed at $208.48.

NVDA has been the topic of several other reports. Wells Fargo & Company reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $315.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, August 11th. Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $300.00 price objective (up from $275.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Oppenheimer set a $265.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, August 20th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $282.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Evercore reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $413.00 target price (up from $352.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-nine have assigned a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $308.46.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was 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 directly owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015 over the last three months. 3.94% of the stock is owned by insiders.

More NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: New edge-AI and inference products support the growth story. NVIDIA announced that its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is in full production, with reported benchmark speeds of 3,400 output tokens per second. Nebius is expected to be the first AI cloud provider to deploy it, expanding NVIDIA’s reach into agentic AI workloads. The company also launched the Jetson Orin Nano 2 robotics computer, which offers twice the inference performance of its predecessor in the same form factor and 40% lower power use at comparable performance. NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 announcement
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts remain bullish ahead of earnings. Raymond James raised its price target to $352 and assigned a strong-buy rating, while Rosenblatt, KeyBanc and Cantor Fitzgerald maintained bullish ratings with targets ranging from $325 to $350. The consensus view is that AI infrastructure demand, Rubin shipments and NVIDIA’s full-stack platform can sustain rapid growth. NVIDIA analyst ratings
• Neutral Sentiment: The earnings event carries unusually high volatility. Options markets imply a potential market-value swing of approximately $280 billion after the report. NVIDIA has repeatedly exceeded estimates, but its shares have often declined following earnings, raising the risk that a strong quarter may already be priced in. NVIDIA options volatility ahead of earnings
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are concerned about sustainability and financing risks. NVIDIA’s recent losing streak reflects worries about hyperscalers’ heavy capital spending, potential AI demand fatigue, rising memory costs and reported server price increases of more than 15%. Analysts are also scrutinizing the company’s investments and financing commitments to AI customers, while alleged illegal server exports involving NVIDIA employees add regulatory risk. NVIDIA growth and AI financing risks

Institutional Investors Weigh In On NVIDIA

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its stake in shares of 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 acquiring an additional 35,815 shares during the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG grew its position in NVIDIA by 1.0% during the 4th quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,346,417 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $315,100,000 after acquiring an additional 22,929 shares during the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE increased its stake in NVIDIA by 6.7% in the 4th quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 58,396 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $7,842,000 after purchasing an additional 3,653 shares during the period. Hudson Value Partners LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA by 30.7% in the fourth quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC now owns 50,658 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $6,805,000 after purchasing an additional 11,900 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. lifted 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 valued at $715,000 after purchasing an additional 896 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

The stock has a market cap of $5.16 trillion, a PE ratio of 32.63, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.42 and a beta of 2.23. 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 business has a 50 day moving average price of $207.39 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $199.81.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to repurchase up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

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.