NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Upgraded at Wall Street Zen

Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research report sent to investors on Sunday morning.

Several other equities research analysts have also issued reports on NVDA. Arete Research raised their price objective on NVIDIA from $244.00 to $261.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, November 25th. HSBC set a $320.00 price target on NVIDIA and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 15th. Barclays boosted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $240.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Argus restated a “buy” rating and issued a $220.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, November 20th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $275.00 price target (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Friday, January 16th. Four 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 stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $263.41.

NVIDIA Trading Up 1.1%

Shares of NVDA opened at $188.52 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.58 trillion, a PE ratio of 46.78, a P/E/G ratio of 0.91 and a beta of 2.31. The company’s fifty day moving average is $183.52 and its 200 day moving average is $182.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a current ratio of 4.47. NVIDIA has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $212.19.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November 19th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.23 by $0.07. NVIDIA had a net margin of 53.01% and a return on equity of 99.24%. The business had revenue of $57.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $54.66 billion. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.81 EPS. The business’s revenue was up 62.5% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts expect that NVIDIA will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

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

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 80,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, December 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $178.90, for a total value of $14,312,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 1,494,443 shares in the company, valued at approximately $267,355,852.70. This represents a 5.08% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 200,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, January 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $187.82, for a total value of $37,564,000.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 3,818,547 shares in the company, valued at $717,199,497.54. The trade was a 4.98% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 1,611,474 shares of company stock worth $293,285,232 over the last three months. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On NVIDIA

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of NVDA. Harbor Asset Planning Inc. bought a new stake in NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at about $28,000. Winnow Wealth LLC purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC raised its stake in shares of 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 in the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at approximately $40,000. Finally, Sellwood Investment Partners LLC acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the third quarter valued at approximately $50,000. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia agreed to a $2 billion strategic investment in CoreWeave to accelerate a multi‑GW AI data‑center build‑out — a direct vote of confidence in demand for Nvidia GPUs and software, and a move that helps secure deployment capacity for future GPU sales. Nvidia invests $2 billion in CoreWeave
• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia released open‑source AI weather models — boosts its software/ecosystem positioning, increases GPU utilization cases, and reinforces the company’s role beyond hardware into model and platform leadership. Nvidia unveils AI models for weather forecasts
• Positive Sentiment: Industry and analyst commentary remain supportive (including views that Nvidia is becoming TSMC’s largest customer), reinforcing the growth narrative tied to AI training demand and helping underpin multiples. Nvidia set to supplant Apple as TSMC’s top customer
• Neutral Sentiment: Microsoft’s Maia 200 launch (a cost‑efficient inference accelerator) could reduce some hyperscaler spend on third‑party inference hardware over time, but it mainly targets inference while Nvidia remains dominant for training — competitive dynamics are evolving but not yet decisive. Microsoft’s Maia 200: The Profit Engine AI Needs
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader tech earnings and macro events (Magnificent 7 reports, Fed meeting) are creating short‑term volatility that could swing NVDA intraday; these are market‑level catalysts rather than company‑specific. Magnificent 7 earnings season kicks off
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling: an NVDA executive recently sold roughly $36M of stock, which can be read as a near‑term negative signal for sentiment even if not unusual among executives. Insider selling: NVIDIA EVP sells stock
• Negative Sentiment: Competitive pressure is increasing as hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, AWS) push their own silicon and software stacks — this is a medium‑term risk to Nvidia’s premium pricing on certain inference workloads. Microsoft rolls out next generation of its AI chips

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.