{"id":183914,"date":"2025-12-14T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/183914\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:13:08","slug":"could-nvidia-be-the-most-undervalued-stock-in-ai-right-now-and-be-ready-to-soar-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/183914\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Nvidia Be the Most Undervalued Stock in AI Right Now and Be Ready to Soar in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why Nvidia may be one of the most undervalued artificial intelligence (AI) stocks.<\/p>\n<p>With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/m\/market-cap\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">market cap<\/a> of about $4.5 trillion, Nvidia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nasdaq\/nvda\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NVDA<\/a> 3.30%) is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/largest-companies-by-market-cap\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest company<\/a> on the planet. However, it might also just be the most undervalued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/information-technology\/ai-stocks\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> stock right now, too.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t a lot of pundits say Nvidia is overvalued? That&#8217;s true; however, most claims that Nvidia is overvalued stem from its trailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/p\/pe-ratio\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">price-to-earnings (P\/E)<\/a> of around 45.5 times, which on the surface is high. Yet, based on 2026 analyst estimates, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/f\/forward-pe\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forward P\/E<\/a> is below 25 times, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/p\/peg-ratio\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">price\/earnings-to-growth (PEG)<\/a> ratio is below 0.7 times (with below 1 times considered undervalued).<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all. The company also carries around $52 billion in net cash and securities on its balance sheet, and it&#8217;s on pace to generate around $85 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/f\/free-cash-flow\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free cash flow<\/a> this year. For a company growing as quickly as Nvidia, those valuation metrics are cheap.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Nvidia Stock Quote\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full flex-none object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765699987_140_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Change<\/p>\n<p>(-3.30%) $-5.97<\/p>\n<p>Current Price<\/p>\n<p>$174.96<\/p>\n<p>Key Data Points<\/p>\n<p>Market Cap<\/p>\n<p>$4.3T<\/p>\n<p>Day&#8217;s Range<\/p>\n<p>$174.62 &#8211; $182.81<\/p>\n<p>52wk Range<\/p>\n<p>$86.62 &#8211; $212.19<\/p>\n<p>Volume<\/p>\n<p>6.2M<\/p>\n<p>Avg Vol<\/p>\n<p>191M<\/p>\n<p>Gross Margin<\/p>\n<p>70.05%<\/p>\n<p>Dividend Yield<\/p>\n<p>0.02%<\/p>\n<p>The AI infrastructure leader<\/p>\n<p>Why Nvidia is perhaps the cheapest AI stock in the market is also directly intertwined with its growth. The company has been a growth machine. Last quarter, it grew its revenue by 62% year over year, and its revenue was up nearly tenfold from just two years ago. Its adjusted earnings per share, meanwhile, climbed 60% year over year. <\/p>\n<p>Nvidia also doesn&#8217;t see growth slowing down in the near term. For fiscal Q4, it forecast that its revenue would climb 65% year over year to $65 billion. Its outlook for 2026 also looks promising, as the three major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/c\/cloud-computing\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cloud computing<\/a> companies have all indicated that they will spend aggressively on data infrastructure next year, as have others, including Meta Platforms and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/stocks\/how-to-invest-in-openai-stock\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nvidia could see its sales get a further lift in 2026 after the U.S. agreed to let the company sell its H200 chips to approved commercial customers in China. The Trump administration earlier banned the export of Nvidia&#8217;s H20 chips to China, but in a turnaround, it will now allow the even more powerful H200 chips to be sold, in exchange for the U.S. government getting a 25% cut. <\/p>\n<p>Over the medium term, Nvidia has projected that data center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/c\/capital-expenditure\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">capital expenditure (capex)<\/a> could hit $4 trillion by the end of the decade. As the main provider of the chips that power AI workloads, it is in a prime position to capture more than its fair share of this spending, as a large percentage will go toward chips and networking components. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Artist rendering of AI chip.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765699988_389_\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image source: Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia&#8217;s edge comes from the ecosystem it has built around its chips, which are called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/g\/gpu\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">graphics processing units (GPUs<\/a>). The name stems from the chip&#8217;s original purpose, which was to speed up graphics rendering in video games. However, to expand the use cases for its chips, Nvidia developed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/c\/cuda-programming\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CUDA<\/a> software platform to let developers easily program its chips for other tasks.<\/p>\n<p>This was a smart move, but the even cleverer one was giving it away for free and seeding it into top universities and research labs that were doing very early work on AI. As a result, nearly all foundational AI code is written on CUDA and optimized for its GPUs. The company didn&#8217;t stop there, getting into networking and creating the proprietary NVLink interconnect systems that let its chips quickly share data and memory, essentially helping them act as one big unit.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Nvidia now holds over 90% market share in the data center GPU space, which is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets ever seen. While it is seeing some increased competition, its scale, ecosystem, and the flexibility of its chips are unmatched, positioning it to continue to lead the market higher in the decade to come. <\/p>\n<p>I could see Nvidia potentially earning around $20 per share in fiscal 2030 (ending January 2023) if revenue growth just continues to step down gradually.<\/p>\n<p>MetricFY2026EFY2027EFY2028EFY2029EFY2030ERevenue$213$320$463$649$876Gross profit$155$233$338$473$639Adjusted operating expense$21$27$35$46$61Operating Income$134$206$303$427$578Net income$114$175$258$363$491Adjusted EPS$4.70$7.21$10.61$14.95$20.22<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Data source: Author&#8217;s projections. Numbers are in billions.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s one of the cheapest AI names out there and has a lot of upsides ahead, including in 2026. As long as the AI infrastructure boom continues, it is a stock to own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why Nvidia may be one of the most undervalued artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. 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