Is Nvidia a Buy?
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The AI chip juggernaut is about a month away from its next earnings report.
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July 28, 2025
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Nvidia (NVDA -0. 12%) is the quintessential stock in artificial intelligence (AI)
Currently, the AI opportunity primarily revolves around data centers, where Nvidia has dominated with its combination of high-end GPU-based chip hardware and its prietary CUDA software platform, which enables those chips to work efficiently for AI workloads (which is quite significant)
What the data shows is stock, as well as the company, has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years (which is quite significant)
Now, the pressure is on Nvidia to not only sustain that success, but to expand and grow
Spective investors want to know whether Nvidia can keep this up
Is the stock a buy (quite telling)
However, Additionally, Image source: Getty Images
Why Nvidia's stranglehold on AI data center will be difficult to break Some estimates have Nvidia's market of data center chips for artificial intelligence at a staggering 92%
Such an amazingly high figure for arguably the world's hottest growth trend helps explain why Nvidia's revenue has multiplied since early 2023
Perhaps due to a mix of luck and foresight, Nvidia's GPU chips were already designed for computing-intensive applications, high-end gaming and cryptocurrency mining, in light of current trends
Furthermore, Even CUDA was initially released back in 2007 (this bears monitoring)
However, The key point is that competitors will ly struggle to break Nvidia's market dominance, in the near term, at least
Moreover, Nvidia is the standard
Not only does its nolgoy work, but everyone knows it works, and Nvidia now has a large and expensive hardware and software foot with all these companies building AI data centers, in today's financial world
Furthermore, the rapid pace at which AI has grown works to Nvidia's advantage (quite telling)
Moreover, The reason is simple, given the current landscape
Companies building AI data centers, such as Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta Platforms, are all racing to expand their capacity, acquire customers to monetize their enormous AI investments, and develop the most advanced AI models (remarkable data)
Even if another company offers a cheaper AI chip, these companies are unly to want to take the risk of venturing into the unknown, as there is far more downside if using something else causes setbacks
However, Meanwhile, For instance, a recent report indicated that OpenAI had tested some of Alphabet's AI accelerator chips but ultimately declined to utilize them at scale
In other words, it seems the value in the speed and certainty Nvidia offers trumps everything else
Meanwhile, McKinsey & Company estimates that global AI data center spending will top $5 trillion over the next five years
Nvidia will ly maintain a firm grip on the AI chip market and see much of that growth until companies that are buying up all these chips change their priorities
Nevertheless, Nvidia could begin selling to China again The tensions between China and the United States impacted Nvidia earlier this year when the Trump administration barred Nvidia from selling H20 GPU chips to companies in China, despite the chip originally being designed to comply with existing export controls
However, Nevertheless, The ban resulted in a $4
In contrast, 5 billion inventory write-off in May, and Nvidia reported that it cost the company apximately $2. 5 billion in lost sales this past quarter, which April 27, in today's market environment
It appears that those restrictions are easing
In contrast, Nvidia issued a statement July 14 that CEO Jensen Huang had met with both the United States and Chinese governments, and that the company had filed applications to resume selling its H20 GPU chip to China
Nvidia went so far as to say that the U
Government had assured it that the application would be apved, and that deries would resume shortly (remarkable data)
Resuming H20 chip sales should bring back billions of dollars in sales to Nvidia's coffers (something worth watching), in today's financial world
Nevertheless, Investors should get more color on what's going on when Nvidia reports quarterly results on Aug
Is the stock a buy (something worth watching)
It's hard to envision a stock that has appreciated by over 800% in three years as cheap, but the numbers are the numbers
Moreover, Meanwhile, Nvidia trades at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 54
In contrast, That's a steep price for most stocks, but analysts anticipate Nvidia growing its earnings by an average of 29% annually over the long term
However, However, At a PEG ratio of apximately 1
However, 9, Nvidia's valuation is quite reasonable relative to its expected growth
Moreover, The risk is that Nvidia fails to meet these admittedly ambitious growth estimates, in today's financial world
Conversely, However, the circumstantial evidence, primarily the potential resumption of H20 sales along with continued aggressive data center investments, suggests that Nvidia has the tailwinds it needs to meet these growth targets
At the same time, That makes the stock a buy now (quite telling) (an important development).
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