NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Receives $275.95 Average Price Target from Analysts

Shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) have been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Buy” from the fifty-three research firms that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, forty-seven have issued a buy recommendation and four have assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 1-year price target among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $275.9478.

NVDA has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. William Blair set a $300.00 price target on NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, March 12th. Truist Financial lifted their target price on NVIDIA from $283.00 to $287.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, March 18th. Fundamental Research set a $218.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Cantor Fitzgerald reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a $300.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, March 23rd. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $250.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, January 8th.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $165.17 on Tuesday. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $182.99 and its 200 day simple moving average is $184.30. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.01 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.71, a P/E/G ratio of 0.56 and a beta of 2.33. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. NVIDIA has a 1 year low of $86.62 and a 1 year high of $212.19.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data 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 business had revenue of $68.13 billion during 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 company’s revenue was up 73.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts expect that NVIDIA will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 0.82%.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In other news, CFO Colette Kress sold 42,650 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, March 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $174.89, for a total value of $7,459,058.50. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 881,387 shares in the company, valued at approximately $154,145,772.43. This represents a 4.62% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 221,682 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $173.68, for a total value of $38,501,729.76. Following the sale, the director directly owned 7,399,771 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,285,192,227.28. This trade represents a 2.91% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 1,401,616 shares of company stock worth $253,555,407. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at about $62,244,133,000. J. Stern & Co. LLP grew its stake in NVIDIA by 13,709.1% during the fourth quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $23,454,297,000 after purchasing an additional 124,849,603 shares during the period. Cardano Risk Management B.V. increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 896.4% in the fourth quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. now owns 78,123,960 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $14,570,119,000 after purchasing an additional 70,283,539 shares in the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 16.1% in the third quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $30,855,564,000 after purchasing an additional 22,896,705 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 15,496.1% in the second quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 21,865,525 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $3,454,534,000 after buying an additional 21,725,326 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA is accelerating cloud demand via a $2 billion investment/partnership with Nebius to build a full‑stack, NVIDIA‑powered AI cloud and support multiple gigawatts of capacity through 2030 — a long‑dated demand outlet for GPUs and data‑center chips. AI Infrastructure Wars Are Officially Here — Nvidia’s $2B Nebius Push Just Turned Up the Heat
• Positive Sentiment: Large AI customers continue to back NVIDIA hardware: French startup Mistral raised debt to build an NVIDIA‑powered data center (plans to use tens of thousands of GPUs), signaling meaningful near‑term procurement for high‑end chips. That supports revenue visibility for NVDA’s data‑center segment. Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center
• Positive Sentiment: Enterprise adoption: Coupang announced an “AI factory” built with NVIDIA tech to automate logistics and delivery — another example of vertical integration that should sustain recurring GPU/cloud spend from large platform customers. Coupang (CPNG) and Nvidia Build AI Factory for Logistics Operations
• Positive Sentiment: Wall‑street/strategist support: Bank of America and other outlets keep NVIDIA among top AI/semiconductor picks, which could underpin buy‑side interest if near‑term earnings continue to beat. BofA Reveals Top AI Semiconductor Picks: NVIDIA (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), and AMD Lead
• Neutral Sentiment: Ecosystem recognition and partnerships (eg. IGEL partner awards, Dassault Systèmes integrations) highlight broad platform adoption but are incremental vs. large data‑center orders. IGEL Recognizes Nutanix, Omnissa, NVIDIA, HP and Imprivata as 2026 IGEL Ready Partners of the Year
• Neutral Sentiment: Smaller ecosystem news (startups naming NVIDIA as a customer, like Qodo) validate enterprise traction but are not material revenue drivers on their own. Qodo Raises $70M to Accelerate Fight Against Software Slop From OpenClaw and Claude Code
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation and sentiment drag: NVDA’s P/E has fallen to multi‑year lows amid geopolitical risk and market risk‑off, compressing multiples even as revenue growth stays strong — that increases downside if macro volatility persists. Nvidia’s PE sinks to seven-year low as war and AI angst weigh
• Negative Sentiment: Institutional repositioning: Reports say institutions cut >$70B of NVDA exposure in recent filings — large outflows or rebalancing can amplify volatility and pressure price in the near term. Institutions have dumped over $70 billion of Nvidia stock
• Negative Sentiment: Operational/supply risks: Reports flag potential production headwinds (eg. helium shortages for chip manufacturing) that could constrain supply or increase costs if they persist. Nvidia: Helium Shortage Problems

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.