FY2027 EPS Estimates for NVIDIA Boosted by Erste Group Bank

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) – Stock analysts at Erste Group Bank increased their FY2027 earnings estimates for NVIDIA in a research note issued on Thursday, August 27th. Erste Group Bank analyst H. Engel now forecasts that the computer hardware maker will earn $9.00 per share for the year, up from their previous estimate of $8.97. The consensus estimate for NVIDIA’s current full-year earnings is $9.10 per share. Erste Group Bank also issued estimates for NVIDIA’s FY2028 earnings at $12.70 EPS.

Several other equities analysts have also recently weighed in on NVDA. Craig Hallum lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating and set a $335.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, August 27th. KGI Securities raised their price target on NVIDIA from $335.00 to $345.00 in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. BNP Paribas Exane boosted their price target on NVIDIA from $270.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $315.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, August 11th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $324.23.

NVIDIA Stock Up 1.4%

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $220.60 on Monday. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The company has a market cap of $5.32 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.89, a PEG ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.23. The company has a 50 day moving average of $208.33 and a 200-day moving average of $201.08. NVIDIA has a 1-year low of $164.07 and a 1-year high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.05 EPS. The business’s revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be given a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.5%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is 12.64%.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,094,412,146.07. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last three months, insiders sold 1,400,500 shares of company stock valued at $299,259,265. Insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Diversified Enterprises LLC grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 44.2% during the fourth quarter. Diversified Enterprises LLC now owns 127,604 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,798,000 after buying an additional 39,129 shares during the last quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 6,451.9% in the 1st quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd now owns 637,236 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $111,134,000 after acquiring an additional 627,510 shares during the last quarter. ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V. boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.8% during the 4th quarter. ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V. now owns 3,169,377 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $591,086,000 after acquiring an additional 54,877 shares during the period. Storen Legacy Partners LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA during the 4th quarter valued at about $1,350,000. Finally, Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership grew its position in NVIDIA by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership now owns 26,652,420 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $4,970,704,000 after acquiring an additional 936,506 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek and expanded their partnership across data-center, edge-computing and automotive AI. MediaTek will adopt NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion technology to develop custom chips that can connect to NVIDIA-based AI systems, potentially broadening NVIDIA’s platform and ecosystem reach. NVIDIA MediaTek partnership
• Positive Sentiment: Anthropic reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud agreement backed by NVIDIA, reinforcing demand for NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure and supporting the broader investment case for continued hyperscaler and AI-cloud spending. Anthropic cloud deal
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised price targets while retaining Buy ratings, including China Renaissance at $330 and Phillip Securities at $300. Recent commentary highlights NVIDIA’s strong cash generation, integrated AI platform and management’s expectation for roughly 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028. China Renaissance price target
• Positive Sentiment: ARK Invest, led by Cathie Wood, purchased approximately $53 million of NVIDIA stock following the earnings-related selloff, providing a notable vote of confidence from a prominent growth investor. ARK Invest NVIDIA purchase
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA’s exceptional demand is exposing supply-chain bottlenecks in memory, networking, optical components, power and copper. Higher input costs and supply commitments could pressure gross margins even as they signal that customer demand remains ahead of available capacity.
• Neutral Sentiment: Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation validated NVIDIA’s Nemotron models for private-cloud deployment, supporting enterprise adoption and data-sovereignty use cases, though the announcement provided no specific customer or revenue figures. AI models validated on VMware Cloud Foundation
• Negative Sentiment: A reported NVIDIA program designed to participate in cloud profits from chips it had already sold was paused after internal concerns about potential antitrust exposure, highlighting regulatory risk around NVIDIA’s growing influence over AI infrastructure. NVIDIA cloud revenue program
• Negative Sentiment: Investors also face risks from a possible September market pullback, elevated valuation expectations, insider selling and emerging competition from custom AI chips, including reports of an OpenAI-designed processor.

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.