By Manali Pradhan, CFA
Publication Date: 2025-12-17 04:45:00
Companies with impressive demand visibility, rapid innovation cycles, and robust supply chains can pleasantly surprise investors.
Nvidia’s (NVDA +0.99%) stellar third-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings (ended Oct. 26, 2025) prompted a wave of analyst upgrades. The consensus target price of $256.95 is more than 45% above the company’s closing share price on Dec. 16.
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Even then, I contend that analysts may still be underestimating the company’s long-term growth potential. Here’s why.
Record order visibility
Nvidia reports exceptionally high order visibility of $500 billion for Blackwell and Rubin systems from the start of 2025 through the end of calendar year 2026. Of this, about $150 billion has already been shipped.
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$4.3T
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$174.91 – $178.19
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192M
Gross Margin
70.05%
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0.02%
Nvidia has also entered into a few deals, which can expand its demand visibility beyond $500 billion. These include an expanded partnership with the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s AI company, HUMAIN, to deploy 400,000 to 600,000 GPUs over the next three years. Nvidia has also collaborated with Anthropic to provide underlying GPU infrastructure for training its next-generation frontier models, with up to one gigawatt of compute capacity.
Bank of America analysts have now claimed that Nvidia has demand and supply visibility into at least $500 billion of…
