Wedbush Issues Positive Outlook for NVIDIA Earnings

NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA) – Investment analysts at Wedbush increased their Q3 2025 EPS estimates for NVIDIA in a research note issued to investors on Thursday, November 14th. Wedbush analyst M. Bryson now expects that the computer hardware maker will post earnings per share of $0.73 for the quarter, up from their previous estimate of $0.69. Wedbush currently has a “Outperform” rating and a $160.00 target price on the stock. The consensus estimate for NVIDIA’s current full-year earnings is $2.67 per share. Wedbush also issued estimates for NVIDIA’s Q2 2026 earnings at $1.03 EPS and Q3 2026 earnings at $1.10 EPS.

Several other brokerages have also recently issued reports on NVDA. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $115.00 to $155.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, August 29th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $155.00 to $165.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 29th. Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $170.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, August 29th. Rosenblatt Securities reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $200.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday. Finally, Citigroup lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $150.00 to $170.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 13th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-eight have issued a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $152.40.

NVIDIA Price Performance

NVDA opened at $140.15 on Monday. NVIDIA has a 1 year low of $45.01 and a 1 year high of $149.77. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $131.64 and a 200-day moving average price of $120.96. The firm has a market cap of $3.44 trillion, a PE ratio of 65.74, a P/E/G ratio of 1.49 and a beta of 1.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a current ratio of 4.27 and a quick ratio of 3.79.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 28th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.68 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.64 by $0.04. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 113.50% and a net margin of 55.04%. The business had revenue of $30.04 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $28.74 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.25 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 122.4% compared to the same quarter last year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Wednesday, August 28th that authorizes the company to repurchase $50.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company’s management believes its stock is undervalued.

NVIDIA Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 3rd. Investors of record on Thursday, September 12th were given a dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.03%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, September 12th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is currently 1.88%.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 120,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $119.03, for a total value of $14,283,600.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 76,494,995 shares in the company, valued at $9,105,199,254.85. The trade was a 0.16 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Tench Coxe sold 1,000,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $119.27, for a total transaction of $119,270,000.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 5,852,480 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $698,025,289.60. This trade represents a 14.59 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 2,156,270 shares of company stock valued at $254,784,327. 4.23% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Rehmann Capital Advisory Group grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 4.9% in the third quarter. Rehmann Capital Advisory Group now owns 119,564 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $14,537,000 after purchasing an additional 5,568 shares in the last quarter. Main Line Retirement Advisors LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA by 17.9% during the third quarter. Main Line Retirement Advisors LLC now owns 5,341 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $649,000 after purchasing an additional 810 shares during the last quarter. Hobbs Group Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 8.9% in the 3rd quarter. Hobbs Group Advisors LLC now owns 11,034 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,340,000 after buying an additional 902 shares in the last quarter. Fortem Financial Group LLC increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 3.6% in the 3rd quarter. Fortem Financial Group LLC now owns 80,974 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $9,833,000 after buying an additional 2,799 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Arete Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 3rd quarter valued at about $23,514,000. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

About NVIDIA

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.