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Michael Decter
NVIDIA Corporation
NVDA-Q
BUY ON WEAKNESS
Feb 18, 2025
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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He'd still buy here. Always fireworks around quarterly earnings. It's run up, but fundamentals are outstanding. Clear technical superiority in AI chips. AI infrastructure buildout will keep order books full for a long time. Major beneficiary of AI capex.
No contest. This is the one to own.
They report later this week. In some ways, they will hit it out of the park, but how much sentiment is built into the stock already? NVDA has had a huge run, doubling since April. He suspects some people are over-invested and few who are under-invested. No, he won't buy it ahead of earnings, unless you're a daytrader looking at options.
Sure, there are concerns including their demand in China, and will the hyperscalers cut back on buying NVDA chips? You can't have gen-AI without NVDA chips. The new NVDA chips allow chatbots to reason--reasoning will be the holy grail of the AI generation. Selling ahead of this week's report is wrong.
She has taken profits many times. It reports earnings on Wednesday and she doesn't like to buy before earnings. Expectations are high and valuation is a sticking point. She sees an upside potential of 8% and analysts are changing to a hold. She still likes the AI theme. Be patient if buying.
The AI hype is way overextended, like the dotcom era. NVDA's market cap is bigger than all of France or the UK or Canada. Ridiculous. If you own it, trim and take profits. NVDA is only one component of AI with software being another. Why is NVDA soaring and the other components are lagging? Is a recipe for disaster.
It just reported a top and bottom line beat and reiterated its full-year forecast, but data centre sales came in a little light, so the stock got dinged after hours. Mostly, the stock was up 35% for the year going into the print and it was priced to be perfect. Overall, a good quarter, but didn't address the conundrum that megatech companies are getting the bang from their buck in buying NVDA stuff. China is another issue. Own this, don't trade it.
Premium contentNVIDIA currently has 1,828 open positions according to data from popular job boards. This figure has risen by 74% over the last few months, suggesting that the company is in a growth and expansion phase. Complementing this, 93% of NVIDIA employees have a positive business outlook, reinforcing the positive sentiment within the company. Social media mentions are up 73.2% in the past 24h.
The poster child. Gone up a lot, and its valuation is probably 40x forward PE. Quite expensive, unless you believe that it can maintain the treadmill of that kind of growth. He's not saying the growth is over, just that maybe the growth slows down from here. Perhaps the valuation has to stay here while earnings catch up, or it has to come down a little bit.
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Premium contentWe reiterate NVDA as a TOP PICK. One has to wrap their head around the valuation of 51x earnings and 42x book. However the 100% ROE along with growing cash reserves that are allowing aggressive share buyback and debt retirement attest to its dominate position in the global development of AI. If the US government allows sales to China, NVDA will be unstoppable. We recommend maintaining a tight-stop at $156, looking to achieve $214 -- upside potential of 26%. Yield 0%
(Analysts’ price target is $214.00)
A brilliant company, but the PE is very high. If it missed or gave soft guidance, it will be severely punished. Wait after earnings if it dips. Too pricey for him. It fluctuates a lot.