By Adam Clark
Another semiconductor rally, another ho-hum day for Nvidia. The leading chip maker is still suffering from the fear that it won't be one of the main beneficiaries of artificial-intelligence spending in future but analysts at Goldman Sachs preach patience.
Nvidia shares were up 0.2% in premarket trading. However, that was lagging behind the wider chip sector with the iShares Semiconductor ETF rising 2.7%.
The company's major issue continues to be that major customers like Alphabet and Amazon are offering their own custom AI chips to third parties, even as they buy up Nvidia's processors. Meanwhile, more spending is going on central processing units from the likes of Advanced Micro Devices and Intel to run AI workloads.
Nvidia shareholders have to wait to see whether next-generation Vera Rubin hardware — set for mass shipments in the second half of the year-- establishes such a performance gap that the company becomes the clear winner in AI hardware again.
However, there is some comfort in how cheap Nvidia now appears. Goldman Sachs analyst James Schneider notes that Nvidia trades at a price-to-earnings multiple of less than 14 times his forecast for its earnings in 2027.
"Going into next year, even assuming that ASICs [custom AI chips] take a good amount of market share and other competitors and the CPU companies gain a little bit of ground ... we have them doing $635 billion in revenue or 55% growth," said Schneider in a podcast.
Schneider has a Buy rating and $285 target price on the stock.
Nvidia was named a Barron's stock pick on May 13, when shares were trading at $226.
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