NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Earns “Overweight” Rating from Cantor Fitzgerald

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)‘s stock had its “overweight” rating restated by equities researchers at Cantor Fitzgerald in a research report issued on Thursday, Marketbeat Ratings reports. They presently have a $350.00 target price on the computer hardware maker’s stock. Cantor Fitzgerald’s price target would suggest a potential upside of 52.66% from the stock’s current price.

Several other equities research analysts have also commented on NVDA. Wedbush upped their price target on NVIDIA from $330.00 to $345.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, August 31st. DA Davidson restated a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, August 26th. Finally, Daiwa Securities Group dropped their price target on NVIDIA from $255.00 to $245.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, September 17th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $324.14.

NVIDIA Trading Up 0.4%

NASDAQ:NVDA traded up $0.90 on Thursday, hitting $229.28. 26,248,696 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 153,563,438. The stock has a market cap of $5.53 trillion, a PE ratio of 29.03, a PEG ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $217.76 and a 200-day moving average of $206.94. NVIDIA has a fifty-two week low of $164.27 and a fifty-two week high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The company had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.04% and a net margin of 63.66%.The firm’s revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.05 earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts expect that NVIDIA will post 9.25 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA announced that its board has initiated a share repurchase plan on Monday, September 28th that authorizes the company to repurchase $150.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to buy up to 2.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Activity

In related news, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,460 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $222.80, for a total value of $6,786,488.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $598,810,648. This represents a 1.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 765,103 shares in the company, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. This represents a 4.36% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 1,766,118 shares of company stock worth $399,450,353. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Montgomery Financial Services LLC bought a new position in NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $28,000. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. bought a new position in NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. bought a new position in NVIDIA during the 1st quarter worth approximately $27,000. Phillip James Consulting Co. bought a new position in NVIDIA during the 1st quarter worth approximately $40,000. Finally, Bard Associates Inc. lifted its holdings in NVIDIA by 8,866.7% during the 2nd quarter. Bard Associates Inc. now owns 269 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $54,000 after buying an additional 266 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s authorization of an additional $150 billion share repurchase, lifting its total buyback capacity to approximately $235 billion through 2028, signals management’s confidence in future cash generation and could support earnings per share. NVIDIA Authorizes $150 Billion Buyback
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst sentiment remains favorable: Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an overweight rating with a $350 price target, while Rosenblatt maintained its buy rating. These targets imply substantial upside from the reference price of $228.38. Rosenblatt Reaffirms Buy Rating
• Positive Sentiment: Underlying demand remains the main bullish driver. Coverage points to supply constraints through 2028, strong Vera Rubin demand and data-center revenue growth of 117% year over year in the latest reported quarter. Softer inflation data also improved the outlook for growth stocks by reducing near-term rate concerns. NVIDIA Demand Outlook Supports Bull Case
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s participation in GMI Cloud’s $668 million financing round and continued expansion into AI safety, digital twins and software broaden its ecosystem beyond GPUs and may reinforce long-term platform demand. GMI Cloud Raises Financing
• Neutral Sentiment: The reported acquisition of Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion would give NVIDIA access to a major open-source AI developer ecosystem, models and datasets. The strategic benefit could be significant, but the price, integration risks and timing of financial returns remain uncertain. NVIDIA’s Hugging Face Deal
• Negative Sentiment: Wall Street is questioning NVIDIA’s financing arrangements for AI customers, including guarantees that could create circular exposure. If highly leveraged customers cannot cover interest costs, losses could spread through the AI infrastructure and credit markets. NVIDIA Financing Plan Faces Reality Check
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that a slowdown in hyperscaler capital expenditure could hit NVIDIA before weaker AI demand appears in revenue. Rising memory and infrastructure costs may also pressure gross margins, while competition from Huawei and alternative AI-chip ecosystems represents a longer-term risk. AI Capital Expenditure Risk

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), networking products and related software. Its technologies are used in artificial intelligence, data centers, scientific and technical computing, gaming, professional visualization, automotive systems and robotics.

The company’s products include GeForce GPUs and gaming software, data center computing platforms, networking solutions, and enterprise software for AI development and deployment.