Wedbush Brokers Increase Earnings Estimates for NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA)

NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA) – Investment analysts at Wedbush lifted their Q3 2025 earnings per share estimates for NVIDIA in a research note issued on Thursday, August 29th. Wedbush analyst M. Bryson now expects that the computer hardware maker will earn $0.69 per share for the quarter, up from their prior estimate of $0.68. Wedbush has a “Outperform” rating and a $138.00 price objective on the stock. The consensus estimate for NVIDIA’s current full-year earnings is $2.60 per share.

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

Several other research firms have also recently weighed in on NVDA. Robert W. Baird boosted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $120.00 to $150.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 29th. Mizuho increased their price target on NVIDIA from $132.00 to $140.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $115.00 to $155.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, August 29th. Argus increased their target price on NVIDIA from $110.00 to $150.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, June 11th. Finally, StockNews.com downgraded NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, June 18th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-seven have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $142.10.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $108.00 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 3.14 and a current ratio of 4.27. The firm has a market cap of $2.65 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 63.16, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.24 and a beta of 1.68. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $119.77 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $104.13. NVIDIA has a fifty-two week low of $39.23 and a fifty-two week high of $140.76.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On NVIDIA

A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Hamilton Wealth LLC increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% during the first quarter. Hamilton Wealth LLC now owns 3,142 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,839,000 after purchasing an additional 9 shares in the last quarter. Brooklyn FI LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 2.5% during the 1st quarter. Brooklyn FI LLC now owns 489 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $442,000 after buying an additional 12 shares in the last quarter. Curran Financial Partners LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.8% during the first quarter. Curran Financial Partners LLC now owns 691 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $625,000 after acquiring an additional 12 shares during the last quarter. Beacon Bridge Wealth Partners LLC lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 2.6% in the first quarter. Beacon Bridge Wealth Partners LLC now owns 473 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $428,000 after acquiring an additional 12 shares in the last quarter. Finally, M. Kraus & Co boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 2.0% in the first quarter. M. Kraus & Co now owns 657 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $594,000 after acquiring an additional 13 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In related news, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 120,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $104.83, for a total transaction of $12,579,600.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 76,614,995 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,031,549,925.85. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. In other NVIDIA news, Director Tench Coxe sold 100,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, June 7th. The shares were sold at an average price of $1,194.57, for a total transaction of $119,457,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 2,967,136 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,544,451,651.52. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 120,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $104.83, for a total transaction of $12,579,600.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 76,614,995 shares in the company, valued at $8,031,549,925.85. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 3,615,633 shares of company stock valued at $551,772,122 over the last 90 days. Insiders own 4.23% of the company’s stock.

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

NVIDIA Cuts Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 3rd. Investors of record on Thursday, September 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 12th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.04%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 2.34%.

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.