Jefferies Remains Bullish on NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the best stocks to buy in 2026 for beginners. On January 16, Jefferies lifted the price target on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) to $275 from $250 and reiterated a Buy rating, telling investors that the stock “remains pretty cheap”, trading at mid-teens multiple to its bottom-up implied calendar year 2027 estimate.

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Separately, J.P. Morgan reiterated a Buy rating on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) without assigning a price target on January 13. The firm highlighted the $1 billion co-innovation partnership with Eli Lilly, along with the broader shift in pharma towards AI “factories”, stating that they support the view that NVIDIA Corporation’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) GPU infrastructure is becoming pivotal to modern drug discovery and is supporting durable demand, which is a notable factor supporting a positive long-term outlook on the stock.

The firm also cited the company’s expanding strategic role in life sciences and healthcare, and highlighted its full-stack approach as a significant operating leverage driver. This spans AI “factories”, chips, software frameworks, and domain-specific models, primarily because the same core platforms are reusable across several verticals and applications.

J.P. Morgan further stated that NVIDIA Corporation’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) robotics, integrated simulation, and edge-compute stack is allowing the automation of laboratories in healthcare, potentially slashing costs by orders of magnitude and boosting throughput. The same day, Wells Fargo also reiterated a Buy rating on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and set a $265 price target.

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) designs and manufactures computer graphics processors, chipsets, and other multimedia software. It operates in the Compute & Networking and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) segments.

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