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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Nvidia AI Summit Japan in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 13, 2024
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It’s been a record-breaking year for artificial intelligence darling Nvidia’s stock, as demand for its AI chips pushed sales to fresh highs.
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Most analysts expect more gains ahead, with demand for Nvidia’s latest chips continuing to outpace supply.
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Citi analysts suggested the stock’s next big boost could come next month, with CEO Jensen Huang set to deliver a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
It’s been a record-breaking year for artificial intelligence (AI) darling Nvidia’s (NVDA) stock, and its momentum could be far from over.
Despite recent declines that brought the shares into correction territory, analysts remain overwhelmingly bullish on the chipmaker’s stock, expecting still more gains as demand for the company’s AI chips continues to outpace supply.
“The age of AI is upon us, and it’s large and diverse,” CEO Jensen Huang told investors last month, with Nvidia set to benefit as computing scale grows “exponentially.”
Analysts are overwhelmingly bullish on Nvidia’s upward potential. All but one of the 21 analysts covering the stock tracked by Visible Alpha hold a “buy” or equivalent rating, with the average price target of about $177 implying more than 31% upside from Friday’s closing price of $134.70.
Booming demand for AI sent sales of Nvidia’s chips to support developments in AI, as well as the company’s stock price, to record highs this year, with shares more than doubling in value in 2024. That has pulled the value of the company into rich territory, with Nvidia one of only three companies currently sporting market capitalizations in excess of $3 trillion.
Last month, the company reported quarterly revenue reached an all-time high of $35.1 billion in the fiscal third quarter, as data-center revenue more than doubled year-over-year to a record $30.8 billion.
In the company’s earnings call, executives said they’ve seen “staggering” demand for the company’s next-generation Blackwell AI system, which CEO Jensen Huang has called “a complete game changer for the industry.”
In a mid-December note to clients, Morgan Stanley analysts called Nvidia a “top pick,” writing that they expect chipmaker to maintain its AI leadership in the near term, citing its research and development budget and strong relationships with major cloud providers.
Citi told clients the next big event to boost the stock could come next month, with CEO Jensen Huang set to deliver a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Jan. 6.
