NVIDIA’s (NVDA) Overweight Rating Reiterated at Cantor Fitzgerald

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)‘s stock had its “overweight” rating restated by equities research analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald in a report released on Thursday,Benzinga reports. They currently have a $300.00 price target on the computer hardware maker’s stock. Cantor Fitzgerald’s price objective suggests a potential upside of 64.33% from the stock’s current price.

Other equities research analysts also recently issued reports about the company. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $250.00 price target on NVIDIA and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $250.00 to $265.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $240.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. DZ Bank reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $260.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, March 2nd. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $273.64.

NVIDIA Trading Down 1.9%

Shares of NVIDIA stock traded down $3.47 during trading on Thursday, hitting $182.56. The stock had a trading volume of 51,633,939 shares, compared to its average volume of 177,790,578. NVIDIA has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a current ratio of 3.91 and a quick ratio of 3.24. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $185.59 and its 200-day simple moving average is $184.07. The stock has a market cap of $4.44 trillion, a PE ratio of 37.26, a PEG ratio of 0.63 and a beta of 2.33.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $68.13 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The firm’s revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.89 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that NVIDIA will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total transaction of $40,087,825.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,373,157,187.01. This trade represents a 2.84% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.52, for a total transaction of $54,756,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 3,318,547 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $605,701,198.44. The trade was a 8.29% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold 1,388,120 shares of company stock valued at $251,344,814 in the last ninety days. 4.17% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the fourth quarter valued at about $26,000. Winnow Wealth LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at about $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 47.9% in the 2nd quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $33,000 after buying an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at about $40,000. Finally, Inspire Investing LLC purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter worth approximately $44,000. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA agreed to a $2 billion strategic investment in Nebius to help build hyperscale AI cloud capacity — a move that deepens demand visibility for NVIDIA GPUs and supports multi‑year infrastructure revenue. Nvidia to invest $2 billion in AI cloud firm Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super, an advanced open AI model aimed at agentic AI — this expands NVIDIA’s software/IP stack and could increase monetization per GPU over time. NVIDIA Releases New Nemotron 3 Super Model
• Positive Sentiment: Significant partnership/investment with Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab — another validation of demand for NVIDIA systems and planned compute deployments. Nvidia makes ‘significant investment’ in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA‑backed Scintil Photonics began customer testing of laser chips, highlighting progress in optics/supply‑chain areas that support future data‑center interconnect demand. Nvidia-backed startup Scintil Photonics starts testing laser chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are watching NVIDIA’s upcoming GTC event as a potential catalyst for product/guidance news — outcome could swing sentiment either way. Nvidia stock stuck below $190: can GTC event be a catalyst?
• Neutral Sentiment: Technically NVDA has been range‑bound since December; traders may be waiting for a clean breakout or reversal, which keeps intraday volatility elevated. Stock Of The Day: Will Nvidia Ever Break Out?
• Negative Sentiment: EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares (~$55M), a sizable insider sale that can be read negatively by some traders despite his large remaining stake. NVIDIA EVP Sells $54,756,000.00 in Stock
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation and “bubble” concerns are resurfacing (articles flag investor worry about the “B‑word”), and high‑profile critics such as Michael Burry have amplified headline risk — this can cap near‑term upside despite strong fundamentals. Investors Worry About The ‘B Word’ With Nvidia Stock at These Levels Michael Burry warns Nvidia ‘is mafia-like’

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.