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Bank of America equity analyst Vivek Arya continues to hold a positive outlook on Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), even after the chipmaker's recent ascent, which has made it the world’s largest company, surpassing Microsoft Corp. (NYSE:MSFT).
In a note shared with clients on Thursday, Arya noted that while Nvidia’s sharp rise might prompt short-term profit-taking, he believes any resulting “volatility (is) likely to be short-lived,” thanks to the company’s robust fundamentals and attractive valuations.
This confidence is due to several factors:
Since the pivotal Q2 2024 earnings call in May 2023, quarterly earnings per share have increased almost six times, outstripping the stock’s 4.5-fold rise.
Arya highlighted a significant distinction between the dot-com rally and the current AI-driven surge.
According to the analyst, unlike the debt-fueled “dot-com boom,” the current “genAI deployment is a mission-critical race among some of the best-funded (cloud) customers.”
Bank of America maintained a Buy rating on Nvidia shares, projecting a 10.2% potential upside over the next year from Tuesday’s closing price.
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Earlier this month, Nvidia’s Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Computing, Dr. Ian Buck, delivered a keynote at Bank of America’s Global Tech conference. Buck highlighted Nvidia’s advantage in continuously optimizing and improving its silicon, systems, and software.
He noted that large language models (LLMs), the foundation of generative AI, are rapidly growing in size, currently at around 2 trillion parameters, and doubling every six months.
Nvidia plans to build its first 100,000 GPU cluster later this year, three times the size of the largest current cluster.
While Nvidia’s hardware capabilities are well-known, its ability to help customers rapidly scale and deploy revenue-generating services is often underappreciated.
“We believe recurring software services could open the next leg of growth, while strengthening its direct relationship over enterprise users,” Arya wrote
Nvidia’s Inference Microservices (NIMs) are optimized software containers that accelerate enterprise AI application deployment from weeks to minutes.
Deploying NIMs requires an NVIDIA AI Enterprise license, starting at $4,500 per GPU per year or $1 per GPU per hour in the cloud.
Some key NIM partners include:
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