NVIDIA’s (NVDA) Buy Rating Reaffirmed at Sanford C. Bernstein

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reissued by investment analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday,MarketScreener reports.

NVDA has been the subject of several other reports. Wolfe Research upped their price target on NVIDIA from $230.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. Truist Financial restated a “buy” rating and issued a $275.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, December 29th. CICC Research lifted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $200.00 to $228.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, November 21st. Evercore ISI reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday. Finally, Morgan Stanley increased their price target on NVIDIA from $235.00 to $250.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, December 1st. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have issued a Buy rating, two have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $262.14.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $190.40 on Tuesday. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $186.55 and its 200 day moving average price is $178.83. 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 has a twelve month low of $86.62 and a twelve month high of $212.19. The company has a market capitalization of $4.63 trillion, a PE ratio of 47.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.92 and a beta of 2.31.

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

Insider Activity

In other news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on 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 completion of the transaction, the director owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,373,157,187.01. The trade was a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 69,840 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Friday, December 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.85, for a total value of $12,421,044.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 1,424,603 shares in the company, valued at $253,365,643.55. The trade was a 4.67% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold a total of 1,861,474 shares of company stock valued at $340,422,492 over the last three months. Company insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 267,959.7% in the second quarter. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC now owns 382,373,765 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $64,976,521,000 after buying an additional 382,231,120 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter worth $51,386,863,000. Nuveen LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the first quarter valued at $15,089,414,000. Capital Research Global Investors boosted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 16.1% in the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $30,855,564,000 after purchasing an additional 22,896,705 shares during the period. Finally, Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 15,496.1% in the 2nd quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 21,865,525 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,454,534,000 after purchasing an additional 21,725,326 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA launched the Alpamayo family — open reasoning VLA models, a simulator and 1,700+ hours of driving data — with industry partners (JLR, Lucid, Uber) to accelerate Level‑4 autonomy; this expands NVDA’s TAM beyond chips into AV software/tooling. NVIDIA Announces Alpamayo
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA introduced the Rubin chip architecture and said its Vera Rubin design is in production — earlier than expected — supporting faster model training/inference and lowering per‑token costs, which underpins long‑term data‑center growth. TechCrunch: Rubin
• Positive Sentiment: Partner and ecosystem news is piling up: Magna widened DRIVE Hyperion integration services, CoreWeave and Red Hat announced platform tie‑ins, and manufacturing partner Foxconn reports AI server ramp — all support faster commercial adoption of NVIDIA stacks. Magna expands collaboration
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts are upbeat early in 2026 — Bank of America and others raised targets (median around $250) citing sustained AI demand and NVDA’s central role, which supports upward re‑rating risk for the stock. Analysts set price targets
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA announced plans to field a robotaxi test service with a partner as soon as 2027 — a high‑profile strategic move but one with multi‑year execution and regulatory risk. CNBC: robotaxi plans
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling remains heavy (including sizable 2025 disposals), which can fuel short‑term volatility even as institutions accumulate; investors watch whether selling is profit‑taking or signaling. Quiver: Alpamayo + insider data
• Negative Sentiment: Rising memory costs reported by some suppliers could push GPU prices higher and compress some end‑market demand or margins if costs are passed through. Memory price report
• Negative Sentiment: Some outlets noted the stock didn’t get an immediate pop from robotics product demos (Barron’s) — signaling investor focus remains on near‑term revenue catalysts and margins rather than long‑dated vision alone. Barron’s: stock slips on robotics

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.