Opinions
Paul Harris, CFA
NVIDIA Corporation
NVDA-Q
TOP PICK
Apr 22, 2025
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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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 solid hold. Demand for their chips is not going anywhere, peers can't catch up and their technology remains advanced. Earnings are following the stock price. Accumulate this carefully on pullbacks, like now. The PE is not low, can be volatile, so don't buy a full position just yet.
Chip business is cyclical. The downslide can be precipitated by overstocking due to high demand, and that inventory has to be worked through. China has now decided it doesn't need the H20 chip, so all that inventory is now in the supply channel.
When you're paying a high price for these companies, your expectations are for sunny days. But you have to plan for the rainy ones.
Took a write down on chips, stock fell. Trading at ~21x PE. Really has a monopoly; AVGO may be getting close, AMD not close at all. New products coming out with Blackwell. Companies will continue to spend, if not as much. Earnings growing rapidly, great balance sheet, no debt. A chance to get a leader at a very good multiple.
(Analysts’ price target is $165.08)If it gets into the $90s, in a couple of years you won't regret buying. Growth will come from big tech players in US and Europe, not China so much. Yield is 0.04%.