NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Stock Price Expected to Rise, Wedbush Analyst Says

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) had its target price hoisted by stock analysts at Wedbush from $230.00 to $300.00 in a report issued on Tuesday, Marketbeat.com reports. The firm currently has an “outperform” rating on the computer hardware maker’s stock. Wedbush’s target price points to a potential upside of 63.90% from the stock’s previous close.

Several other research firms have also commented on NVDA. Raymond James Financial reaffirmed a “strong-buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Tuesday, January 6th. Mizuho set a $275.00 price objective on NVIDIA and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, January 9th. Loop Capital boosted their target price on NVIDIA from $250.00 to $350.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, November 3rd. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft increased their target price on NVIDIA from $180.00 to $215.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. Finally, TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating and set a $235.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $273.41.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $183.04 on Tuesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.45 trillion, a P/E ratio of 37.36, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $186.12 and its 200 day simple moving average is $183.87. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. NVIDIA has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 97.37% and a net margin of 55.60%.The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.89 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that NVIDIA will post 2.77 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 15th. The stock was 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 owned 6,933,280 shares in the company, valued at $1,229,478,542.40. The trade was a 3.48% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 80,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, December 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $178.90, for a total transaction of $14,312,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 1,494,443 shares in the company, valued at $267,355,852.70. This represents a 5.08% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,598,120 shares of company stock worth $289,278,314. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Compass Financial Group Inc. Ohio acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter valued at about $250,000. AG Campbell Advisory LLC purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth about $991,000. Pure Financial Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 8.7% during the 4th quarter. Pure Financial Advisors LLC now owns 183,423 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $34,208,000 after buying an additional 14,712 shares during the last quarter. SHP Wealth Management purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth about $18,354,000. Finally, Keenan LLC purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at $861,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

More NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Large inference demand validated — Akamai announced deployments of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to power distributed AI inference, signaling durable enterprise demand for NVIDIA’s inference stack. Akamai to Deploy Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
• Positive Sentiment: Inference shift highlighted by ecosystem deals — Partners and cloud specialists (e.g., CoreWeave/Perplexity) are closing large inference-focused contracts, which increases recurring, high‑utilization GPU demand that benefits NVIDIA’s hardware and software ecosystem. CoreWeave Deal Signals Inference Market
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street backing and higher price targets — Several broker notes and upgrades (including a notable Wedbush hike) have pushed bullish analyst sentiment and bigger multi‑quarter price targets, supporting upside expectations. Wedbush Raises NVDA Price Target to $300
• Neutral Sentiment: CEO signals end to large private stakes in OpenAI/Anthropic — Jensen Huang said the recent ~$30B OpenAI investment “might be the last” and that a $100B stake is unlikely as OpenAI prepares to IPO; that changes the path to future strategic ownership but reduces ambiguity around large private commitments. Reuters: Nvidia will not be able to invest $100 billion in OpenAI
• Negative Sentiment: Market remains wary despite blowout quarter — NVDA reported blockbuster results in late February, but the stock has struggled to clear near‑term resistance and some traders view the post‑earnings pullback and rotation into specialized inference clouds as signs of profit‑taking and higher short‑term volatility. 247WallSt: Blowout earnings weren’t enough to fuel an NVIDIA breakout

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.