NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Stock Price Up 2.1% After Analyst Upgrade

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares traded up 2.1% on Thursday after Rothschild & Co Redburn raised their price target on the stock from $245.00 to $268.00. Rothschild & Co Redburn currently has a buy rating on the stock. NVIDIA traded as high as $189.70 and last traded at $186.9350. 202,694,113 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 25% from the average session volume of 162,590,344 shares. The stock had previously closed at $183.14.

A number of other research analysts also recently weighed in on the company. Benchmark upped their price target on NVIDIA from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. Wells Fargo & Company restated an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, December 29th. Melius Research increased their target price on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $320.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, November 20th. Robert W. Baird restated an “outperform” rating and set a $275.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Friday, December 26th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $180.00 to $215.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $262.84.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total transaction of $44,332,500.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 6,933,280 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,229,478,542.40. This trade represents a 3.48% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 69,840 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $177.85, for a total value of $12,421,044.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 1,424,603 shares in the company, valued at $253,365,643.55. The trade was a 4.67% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 1,809,114 shares of company stock worth $330,707,331 in the last ninety days. 4.17% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: TSMC’s stronger-than-expected quarter lifted chip-sector sentiment, giving Nvidia a halo boost as investors gain confidence in industry demand and foundry capacity supporting AI GPU shipments. Chip stocks pop after TSMC’s earnings beat boosts confidence in industrywide demand
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts remain bullish: multiple firms have raised price targets and reiterated Outperform/Overweight calls, supporting upside expectations and institutional demand. Where is NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Headed According to the Street?
• Positive Sentiment: Product and platform momentum: management says the Rubin/Vera Rubin platform is in production and next‑gen architectures improve monetization and efficiency, sustaining the long‑term bull case. NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin is in Full Production, Says Jensen Huang. Time to Get Bullish?
• Positive Sentiment: Ecosystem wins: SiFive said it will integrate Nvidia’s interconnect tech for chip-to-chip links — a validation of NVDA’s IP footprint beyond GPUs. SiFive to adopt Nvidia technology for speedy links between chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Nvidia remains a favorite of options traders and active strategies, which can amplify intraday moves but also add volatility around news. NVDA Stock Has Been an Options Traders Favorite For Years
• Neutral Sentiment: Some coverage notes NVDA is “flat” relative to the sector despite strong fundamentals — signaling investors are weighing valuation vs. growth and that moves may be rotational. Nvidia Stock Is Flat
• Negative Sentiment: China friction: multiple reports say Chinese customs and regulators are drafting limits or blocking H200 imports, which threatens a sizeable addressable market and introduces sales uncertainty. China told customs H200 chips are not permitted, sources say
• Negative Sentiment: U.S. policy adds cost: the administration has approved conditional H200 sales to China but imposed a 25% surcharge/tariff on some advanced AI chips — reducing effective revenue or complicating pricing for China shipments. The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China

Institutional Investors Weigh In On NVIDIA

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. State Street Corp boosted its position in NVIDIA by 1.0% during the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 978,208,862 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $154,556,803,000 after purchasing an additional 9,554,857 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 2nd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 579,213,497 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $91,150,170,000 after buying an additional 8,521,936 shares in the last quarter. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 267,959.7% in the 2nd quarter. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC now owns 382,373,765 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $64,976,521,000 after buying an additional 382,231,120 shares during the period. Norges Bank purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $51,386,863,000. Finally, Legal & General Group Plc raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 181,203,035 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $33,808,862,000 after acquiring an additional 2,609,560 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Price Performance

The firm has a market cap of $4.54 trillion, a P/E ratio of 46.39, a PEG ratio of 0.91 and a beta of 2.31. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $184.28 and its 200-day simple moving average is $180.36. The company has a current ratio of 4.47, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 19th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.30 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.23 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $57.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $54.66 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 99.24% and a net margin of 53.01%.The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 62.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.81 earnings per share. As a group, analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 4th were issued a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 4th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is presently 0.99%.

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.