Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the artificial intelligence (AI) stock to own since 2023. Its performance over this time frame has been incredible, and its latest results were no exception. However, Wall Street seems to be getting bored with the stock.
Similar to how a sports franchise may be loved at the start of a dynasty run, then hated by the end of it, Nvidia seems not to capture the attention of the market anymore. It reported fantastic fourth-quarter results for its fiscal 2025 year (ended Jan. 26), and yet the stock sold off.
So is this an excellent time to load up on the stock? I’ve got three reasons why investors should be bullish on Nvidia’s stock, not bearish.
Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) have powered the AI revolution because they can compete in parallel. This makes them perfectly suited to take on complex computing tasks like training AI models. Most of the AI training that we’ve seen to date has occurred on Nvidia’s Hopper architecture, but that’s being replaced by its latest design: Blackwell.
Blackwell GPUs provide significant performance boosts over the previous Hopper design, including four times faster AI training. Furthermore, AI inference (which is when an AI model is given an input and a user expects an output) is 20 times cheaper than the Hopper 100 (H100) GPU. Blackwell GPUs will unlock a new phase of AI innovation that we haven’t experienced yet, and this will continue to be a boost for Nvidia throughout the year.
Although Blackwell chips made up $11 billion of Nvidia’s $35.6 billion in data center revenue, they’re still ramping up production on this game-changing product. However, this ramp-up also caused the one negative thing Wall Street focused on during Q4: falling gross margins. Nvidia’s management was aware of this, as its gross margins fell from the mid-to high-70% range to 73% in Q4. This pattern should persist through Q1 but recover by the year’s end as they become more efficient in producing Blackwell GPUs.
The big item here is to know that these margins will recover, and Nvidia is putting the customer first by getting out as many of its innovative Blackwell chips as possible. This ramp-up will continue to cause Nvidia’s revenue to rise, and investors should be very bullish about that, even if its gross margins take a short-term dip.
There has never been a company of Nvidia’s size that has sustained growth rates as strong as it has during its recent run. In Q4, revenue was up 78% year over year and up 12% over Q3. For Q1, management expects $43 billion in revenue, indicating 65% year over year growth and 9% quarter over quarter growth. However, Nvidia’s management has a track record of under-guiding and overdelivering, so the real figures may be a few percentage points higher.
