Wedbush Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation for NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Stock

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) had its price target raised by Wedbush from $160.00 to $175.00 in a report released on Thursday,Benzinga reports. The firm presently has an “outperform” rating on the computer hardware maker’s stock. Wedbush’s price target would suggest a potential upside of 23.28% from the company’s previous close. Wedbush also issued estimates for NVIDIA’s Q3 2025 earnings at $0.73 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $1.03 EPS and Q3 2026 earnings at $1.10 EPS.

NVDA has been the topic of several other reports. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $165.00 to $185.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday. Citigroup raised their target price on NVIDIA from $170.00 to $175.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday. UBS Group upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $150.00 to $185.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, November 11th. New Street Research raised shares of NVIDIA from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $120.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, August 6th. Finally, Evercore ISI boosted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $189.00 to $190.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-nine have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $164.15.

NVIDIA Stock Down 3.2 %

Shares of NVDA stock opened at $141.95 on Thursday. NVIDIA has a fifty-two week low of $45.01 and a fifty-two week high of $152.89. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.48 trillion, a PE ratio of 66.58, a P/E/G ratio of 1.54 and a beta of 1.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 3.79 and a current ratio of 4.27. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $134.01 and its 200-day simple moving average is $122.06.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.12. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.04% and a return on equity of 113.50%. The company had revenue of $35.08 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $33.15 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.38 EPS. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue was up 93.6% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts expect that NVIDIA will post 2.68 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase program on Wednesday, August 28th that allows the company to buyback $50.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally a sign that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 120,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $119.03, for a total value of $14,283,600.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 76,494,995 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $9,105,199,254.85. The trade was a 0.16 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, insider Donald F. Robertson, Jr. sold 4,500 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $116.51, for a total transaction of $524,295.00. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 492,409 shares in the company, valued at $57,370,572.59. This represents a 0.91 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 2,156,270 shares of company stock worth $254,784,327. Company insiders own 4.23% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. FPC Investment Advisory Inc. acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the 1st quarter valued at about $26,000. Koesten Hirschmann & Crabtree INC. acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 1st quarter worth approximately $27,000. TCTC Holdings LLC acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 1st quarter worth approximately $82,000. Delos Wealth Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 600.0% in the 1st quarter. Delos Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 112 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $101,000 after purchasing an additional 96 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Lowe Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth $25,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Company Profile

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.