NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Receives $276.88 Consensus Target Price from Analysts

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) has been assigned a consensus rating of “Buy” from the fifty-four analysts that are presently covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, forty-eight have assigned a buy recommendation and four have assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $276.5565.

Several analysts have recently weighed in on NVDA shares. Fundamental Research set a $218.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Citigroup started coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, April 15th. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $265.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. UBS Group boosted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday. Finally, Tigress Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $360.00 price target (up from $350.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, March 5th.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, Director John Dabiri sold 3,004 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $184.90, for a total value of $555,439.60. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 14,788 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,734,301.20. The trade was a 16.88% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.25, for a total transaction of $54,675,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 3,018,547 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $550,130,190.75. This represents a 9.04% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 906,336 shares of company stock valued at $162,802,518 over the last three months. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. JAT Capital Mgmt LP bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the first quarter worth $9,418,000. Mittelman Wealth Management purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the first quarter valued at about $747,000. KCM Investment Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.4% in the first quarter. KCM Investment Advisors LLC now owns 370,072 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $64,540,000 after acquiring an additional 1,622 shares during the period. Infrastructure Capital Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 116.5% in the first quarter. Infrastructure Capital Advisors LLC now owns 14,999 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $2,587,000 after acquiring an additional 8,070 shares during the period. Finally, Maverick Capital Ltd. increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 6.3% in the first quarter. Maverick Capital Ltd. now owns 3,174,918 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $553,706,000 after acquiring an additional 188,563 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NVIDIA stock opened at $225.32 on Wednesday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $192.36 and its 200-day moving average price is $188.36. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a current ratio of 3.91. The stock has a market cap of $5.46 trillion, a P/E ratio of 45.98, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.70 and a beta of 2.25. NVIDIA has a fifty-two week low of $129.16 and a fifty-two week high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $68.13 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 73.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.89 EPS. On average, equities research analysts expect that NVIDIA will post 7.84 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th were paid a $0.01 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, March 11th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 0.82%.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Multiple reports said the U.S. has cleared Nvidia’s H200 AI chips for sale to about 10 Chinese companies, raising hopes for a meaningful rebound in China-related data center revenue. Reuters article
• Positive Sentiment: UBS and Cantor Fitzgerald both raised price targets on NVIDIA, reinforcing Wall Street’s view that AI demand and data center growth still have room to drive further upside. Proactive Investors article American Banking News article
• Positive Sentiment: Investors are increasingly betting that Nvidia will beat Q1 FY2027 expectations, with several previews citing strong hyperscaler spending, AI infrastructure demand, and a possible revenue surprise. Seeking Alpha article Investopedia article
• Neutral Sentiment: Coverage this morning emphasized that Nvidia’s stock has run hard into earnings, so some investors are locking in gains and watching whether the report can justify the valuation. CNBC article
• Negative Sentiment: The broader semiconductor complex sold off today, and some articles noted that Nvidia’s China opportunity is still not fully secured because approvals, deliveries, and Chinese domestic-chip competition remain uncertain. Benzinga article CNBC article

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.