Seaport Res Ptn Predicts NVIDIA’s Q4 Earnings (NASDAQ:NVDA)

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) – Investment analysts at Seaport Res Ptn upped their Q4 2026 earnings per share estimates for shares of NVIDIA in a report issued on Monday, November 17th. Seaport Res Ptn analyst J. Goldberg now forecasts that the computer hardware maker will post earnings per share of $1.30 for the quarter, up from their previous estimate of $1.17. The consensus estimate for NVIDIA’s current full-year earnings is $2.77 per share.

NVDA has been the subject of a number of other research reports. Craig Hallum lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $195.00 to $245.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 28th. BNP Paribas upgraded NVIDIA to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, August 1st. DA Davidson set a $250.00 price target on NVIDIA and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 29th. Wedbush reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $210.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, August 28th. Finally, Loop Capital lifted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $350.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, November 3rd. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-one have given a Buy rating, two have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $240.49.

NVIDIA Stock Down 2.8%

NVIDIA stock opened at $181.36 on Tuesday. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $186.18 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $167.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a quick ratio of 3.60 and a current ratio of 4.21. The company has a market cap of $4.41 trillion, a PE ratio of 51.67, a PEG ratio of 1.49 and a beta of 2.11. NVIDIA has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $212.19.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 27th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.05 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.01 by $0.04. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 101.74% and a net margin of 52.41%.The firm had revenue of $46.74 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $45.65 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.68 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 55.6% compared to the same quarter last year. NVIDIA has set its Q3 2026 guidance at EPS.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Harbor Asset Planning Inc. purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at about $28,000. Winnow Wealth LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter worth approximately $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 47.9% in the second quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $33,000 after acquiring an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the second quarter worth approximately $40,000. Finally, Sellwood Investment Partners LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the third quarter worth approximately $50,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In other news, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, November 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $208.33, for a total value of $5,758,241.20. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 2,828,122 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $589,182,656.26. This represents a 0.97% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, October 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $207.91, for a total value of $5,197,750.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 69,733,203 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $14,498,230,235.73. This represents a 0.04% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold 3,251,577 shares of company stock valued at $583,143,187 in the last three months. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 2nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 11th were given a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, September 11th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 1.14%.

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.