The Future of Artificial Intelligence: 5 Companies, 5 Predictions

In this article, we discuss the future of artificial intelligence, including 5 predictions about 5 companies. If you want to read about some more AI stocks, go directly to The Future of Artificial Intelligence: 10 Companies, 10 Predictions.

5. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 89     

Related Prediction: Improving Products Will Act as Flywheel Effect for Fast and Iterative AI Processes

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) provides graphics, computing and networking solutions. NVIDIA is taking the AI work to the factory floor with a new product, LandingEdge, which is in beta tests with several customers. It captures images from cameras, then runs inference on industrial PCs equipped with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier modules. Jason Chan, product manager for LandingEdge, says the firm aims to improve quality controls, creating a flywheel effect for fast and iterative AI processes through the product. 

On December 19, Needham analyst Rajvindra Gill maintained a Buy rating on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock and raised the price target to $230 from $200, highlighting that customers of the company are updating to the newest H100 architecture.

Among the hedge funds being tracked by Insider Monkey, Chicago-based investment firm Citadel Investment Group is a leading shareholder in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) with 19.2 million shares worth more than $2.3 billion.  

In its Q2 2022 investor letter, Baron Funds, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“At the company-specific level, there was a broad correction across the entire portfolio. While four of our holdings contributed to performance, the contribution to absolute returns was less than 100bps combined, as unfortunately none of them was large enough to move the needle. We had 16 investments detracting over 100bps each with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), our second largest detractor, costing the Fund 254bps.

NVIDIA’s stock was hit even harder, down 44.4%, impacted by concerns over consumer health, dramatic declines in crypto, and COVID-related lockdowns in China. Despite the sell-off and the increased near-term volatility in its gaming business, NVIDIA’s revenues grew 46% year-over-year with 48% operating margins, driven by continued strength in its data center business as companies across industries adopt AI and ML…(read more)