NVIDIA (NVDA) – Research Analysts’ Recent Ratings Updates

A number of research firms have changed their ratings and price targets for NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA):

• 2/28/2025 – NVIDIA was upgraded by analysts at DZ Bank AG from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating.
• 2/27/2025 – NVIDIA had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald. They now have a $200.00 price target on the stock.
• 2/27/2025 – NVIDIA had its “neutral” rating reaffirmed by analysts at DA Davidson. They now have a $135.00 price target on the stock.
• 2/27/2025 – NVIDIA was downgraded by analysts at Summit Insights from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating.
• 2/27/2025 – NVIDIA had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Benchmark Co.. They now have a $190.00 price target on the stock.
• 2/27/2025 – NVIDIA had its price target raised by analysts at Truist Financial Co. from $204.00 to $205.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 2/27/2025 – NVIDIA had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Needham & Company LLC. They now have a $160.00 price target on the stock.
• 2/27/2025 – NVIDIA had its price target raised by analysts at Bank of America Co. from $190.00 to $200.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 2/26/2025 – NVIDIA had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Morgan Stanley. They now have a $162.00 price target on the stock, up previously from $152.00.
• 2/26/2025 – NVIDIA had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Tigress Financial.
• 2/24/2025 – NVIDIA had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Rosenblatt Securities. They now have a $220.00 price target on the stock.
• 2/20/2025 – NVIDIA had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Wedbush. They now have a $175.00 price target on the stock.
• 1/28/2025 – NVIDIA was upgraded by analysts at Tigress Financial from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating. They now have a $220.00 price target on the stock, up previously from $170.00.
• 1/28/2025 – NVIDIA had its price target lowered by analysts at Morgan Stanley from $166.00 to $152.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 1/27/2025 – NVIDIA had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald. They now have a $200.00 price target on the stock.
• 1/17/2025 – NVIDIA had its price target raised by analysts at Barclays PLC from $160.00 to $175.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 1/13/2025 – NVIDIA had its price target lowered by analysts at HSBC Holdings plc from $195.00 to $185.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 1/8/2025 – NVIDIA had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Rosenblatt Securities. They now have a $220.00 price target on the stock.
• 1/7/2025 – NVIDIA had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Benchmark Co.. They now have a $190.00 price target on the stock.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $115.99 on Wednesday. The company has a quick ratio of 3.64, a current ratio of 4.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. NVIDIA Co. has a twelve month low of $75.61 and a twelve month high of $153.13. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $133.19 and a 200 day moving average price of $132.00. The firm has a market cap of $2.83 trillion, a PE ratio of 45.65, a P/E/G ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.62.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.89 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.84 by $0.05. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 114.83% and a net margin of 55.69%. The firm had revenue of $39.33 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $38.16 billion. Sell-side analysts predict that NVIDIA Co. will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 2nd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 12th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.03%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 1.36%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, insider Donald F. Robertson, Jr. sold 4,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $135.28, for a total transaction of $608,760.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 480,899 shares in the company, valued at approximately $65,056,016.72. The trade was a 0.93 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Tench Coxe sold 1,000,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $131.26, for a total value of $131,260,000.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 28,671,360 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,763,402,713.60. This trade represents a 3.37 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 1,107,632 shares of company stock worth $146,405,286. Corporate insiders own 4.23% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. FMR LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 0.7% during the 4th quarter. FMR LLC now owns 1,004,376,608 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $134,877,735,000 after purchasing an additional 6,665,252 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.7% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 555,548,278 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $74,439,273,000 after purchasing an additional 9,468,786 shares during the last quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 0.9% during the 4th quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 411,328,951 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $55,237,367,000 after purchasing an additional 3,721,331 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $43,515,504,000. Finally, Northern Trust Corp boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 15.8% during the 4th quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 266,454,194 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $35,782,134,000 after purchasing an additional 36,266,817 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications.