Cantor Fitzgerald Comments on NVIDIA FY2025 Earnings

NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA) – Stock analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald issued their FY2025 earnings estimates for NVIDIA in a note issued to investors on Tuesday, January 21st. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst C. Muse expects that the computer hardware maker will post earnings of $2.77 per share for the year. Cantor Fitzgerald has a “Overweight” rating and a $175.00 price objective on the stock. The consensus estimate for NVIDIA’s current full-year earnings is $2.78 per share.

Several other analysts have also issued reports on NVDA. Wedbush boosted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $160.00 to $175.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. Wells Fargo & Company boosted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $165.00 to $185.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, November 21st. Benchmark reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $190.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Tuesday, January 7th. TD Cowen lifted their price target on NVIDIA from $165.00 to $175.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus increased their price objective on NVIDIA from $165.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 19th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-nine have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $164.63.

NVIDIA Trading Down 3.1 %

Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $142.62 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a quick ratio of 3.64 and a current ratio of 4.10. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.49 trillion, a P/E ratio of 56.13, a P/E/G ratio of 2.65 and a beta of 1.64. NVIDIA has a 52-week low of $60.57 and a 52-week high of $153.13. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $138.72 and its 200 day simple moving average is $129.57.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.12. The firm had revenue of $35.08 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $33.15 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 114.83% and a net margin of 55.69%. The business’s revenue was up 93.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.38 earnings per share.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Christopher J. Hasenberg Inc purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $27,000. Quest Partners LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at approximately $27,000. University of Texas Texas AM Investment Management Co. purchased a new stake in NVIDIA in the second quarter worth $31,000. Legend Financial Advisors Inc. bought a new position in NVIDIA in the fourth quarter worth $34,000. Finally, West Financial Advisors LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the third quarter valued at $36,000. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other news, Director John Dabiri sold 716 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $142.00, for a total transaction of $101,672.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 19,942 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,831,764. This represents a 3.47 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 66,670 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $135.40, for a total transaction of $9,027,118.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 3,351,572 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $453,802,848.80. This represents a 1.95 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 1,108,348 shares of company stock worth $146,506,958 in the last ninety days. 4.23% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 27th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 5th were paid a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 5th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 1.57%.

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.