Truist Financial Reaffirms Buy Rating for NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Truist Financial in a report issued on Monday,Benzinga reports. They presently have a $275.00 price objective on the computer hardware maker’s stock. Truist Financial’s target price points to a potential upside of 47.42% from the company’s previous close.

Several other research analysts have also recently weighed in on the stock. Rosenblatt Securities lifted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $240.00 to $245.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. DZ Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, November 20th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $240.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Tigress Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $350.00 price objective (up from $280.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, December 18th. Finally, Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, December 15th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have assigned a Buy rating, two have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $262.14.

NVIDIA Stock Down 2.1%

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $186.55 on Monday. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $186.12 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $177.01. The company has a current ratio of 4.47, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.53 trillion, a PE ratio of 46.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.93 and a beta of 2.29. NVIDIA has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19.

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

Insider Activity

In other NVIDIA news, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 80,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $184.65, for a total transaction of $14,772,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 1,574,443 shares in the company, valued at $290,720,899.95. This trade represents a 4.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total value of $44,332,500.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 6,933,280 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,229,478,542.40. This represents a 3.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 2,086,474 shares of company stock worth $382,482,492. 4.17% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC boosted its position 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 worth $64,976,521,000 after acquiring an additional 382,231,120 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the second quarter worth $51,386,863,000. Nuveen LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the first quarter worth about $15,089,414,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 123.5% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 187,995,213 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $20,374,921,000 after buying an additional 103,889,872 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors increased its stake in shares of 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 buying an additional 22,896,705 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Groq licensing deal strengthens NVDA’s inference roadmap and reduces a key competitive threat — market reaction sees this as confirmation NVDA will own more of the full AI stack, boosting long-term moat and revenue opportunities. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street remains bullish — multiple firms have reiterated Buy/Outperform ratings and raised targets, underpinning demand and supporting confidence in NVDA’s growth trajectory. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Macro/sector tailwinds: MarketBeat and others flag that Q4/Q1 earnings season and continued AI spending (GPUs, HBM memory, data-center capacity) should be bullish for NVDA’s revenue and margins going into 2026. Strong guidance expectations are a near-term upside catalyst. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Signs of China demand easing — reports that H200 shipments to China could resume and capacity expansion prospects buoy revenue visibility for a large end market. This can materially lift forward bookings if confirmed. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Internal moves: NVDA reorganized its cloud division — operational tweaks can be positive longer term but are unlikely to drive big near-term share moves on their own. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Completed $5B Intel private-placement stake — NVDA finished buying ~214.7M Intel shares at $23.28; markets penalized the stock (shares slipped after the filing) because the purchase uses cash and raises questions about capital allocation and strategic focus. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Heavy insider selling in 2025 — reports show insiders sold over $1B of NVDA stock during the year (Quiver/Finbold summaries highlight large CEO and executive sales). That volume is often read as profit-taking and can sap short-term sentiment. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Not all investors agree — high-profile short positions (e.g., Michael Burry) and critical press pieces underscore that some are betting against NVDA, adding volatility and downside pressure amid an expensive valuation. Read More.

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.