NVIDIA
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NVIDIA - A stock for the future

Nvidia remains strong despite facing a 2% decrease in its shares on Wednesday. Driven by its dominance in AI chips, Nvidia's shares have risen by a huge 214% year to date. The firm has surpassed Wall Street's expectations by projecting a Q2 revenue of $11 billion, demonstrating robust growth and resilience in the market.

The surge in the use of artificial intelligence technologies across various industries, including autonomous vehicles and smart home systems, is playing a significant role in Nvidia's growth. However, meeting the overwhelming demand is proving to be a challenge. The tech giant has been struggling to keep up with the demand for its hardware, notably from Tesla, the electric vehicle and clean energy company.

Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, revealed that the company's move to build its own supercomputer, named Dojo, using custom silicon, may have been prompted by Nvidia's inability to supply enough GPUs. Other major companies such as Meta Platforms have also heavily invested in Nvidia GPUs for their AI ambitions, but supply shortages could be a significant headwind.

Despite the hurdles, Nvidia's potential for growth remains high. The high-performance computing (HPC) market, including supercomputers, is predicted to generate almost $97 billion in annual revenue by 2028. As Nvidia reportedly commands 95% of the machine learning GPU market, this opens up a fantastic long-term growth opportunity for the firm.

Analysts remain optimistic about Nvidia's future performance. The current consensus is a "Strong Buy", with an average price target of $491.67 per share, indicating a potential upside of 6.87%. Barclays analyst, Blayne Curtis, increased his price target on Nvidia from $500 to $600, reflecting an optimistic outlook. He attributes this to anticipated robust AI spending from major cloud service providers, which could further strengthen the AI trend.

Nevertheless, Nvidia faces potential challenges. Notably, the recently formed Ultra Ethernet Consortium, composed of nine tech companies including Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, Intel, and Microsoft, is backing a new computer networking standard for internet data centers. This could pose a significant challenge to Nvidia's current dominance in the InfiniBand technology market.

Overall, despite some obstacles and the stock trading at a high 55 times forward earnings, Nvidia's potential for growth and its dominance in the AI chip market make it a stock to watch.
This is a "Buy The Dip" type stock for me, and one that I'd be happy to DCA into if we see a significant pullback. I'd like to see another 10% drop before looking to get in here around the $377 - $408 range.
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