NVIDIA

While investors focus on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Samsung, and HTC for trends and directions on the mobile market, they often overlook the semiconductor companies which enable the functioning of mobile devices. The semiconductor company that got most of the...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is blaming it on a shortage of hard disk drives. But is that an accurate assessment? While Intel has had a decent (but fluctuating) year, other corporations within the semiconductor industry – including Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) – have...

The following dividend-paying companies offer attractive returns on equity and are expected to have strong earnings per share growth over the next five years. Their stocks are also trading in the ballpark of their 52-week highs. Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL): The New York-based cosmetics company...

Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the schedule to report earnings this holiday-shortened week. Analysts on average expect the semiconductor maker to post earnings that are a nickel per share lower than a year ago. But earnings of the...

Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the schedule to report earnings this holiday-shortened week. Analysts on average expect the semiconductor maker to post earnings that are a nickel per share lower than a year ago. But earnings of the...

The focus this week, at least initially, will no doubt be on the effect of the downgrade of U.S. debt. But there will be plenty more earnings as well, including reports from Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Aol (NYSE: AOL). The parade of retail...

Now we know why Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is so eager to release another iPad. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), the current leader in e-readers and online merchandise, is building an army of tablets for 2011 – four million, to be exact. The news comes from DigiTimes (via Business Insider), which claims that the...

Evercore Partners has initiated NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) at Underweight with a $12 price target.

Auriga has upgraded NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) from Hold to Buy and has raised the price target from $19 to $24.

If 3D televisions, game consoles and handhelds aren't enough to satisfy your three-dimensional needs, YouTube has something for you: more 3D content. The Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) video enterprise has teamed with Mozilla Firefox and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) to bring HTML5-based stereoscopic 3D video to...

Bank of America reduced its price target on NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) from $30 to $26. This reduction was not enough to persuade Bank of America to reduce its rating from Buy, however. In a research report published today, Bank of America states, "Q1 sales/EPS were $14mn/$0.03 ahead on richer desktop...

According to Auriga, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) Hold rating is maintained. Auriga said that there is no change to the Hold rating and $19 price target on Nvidia (NVDA) ahead of its F1Q12 (April) earnings call today after the close. “Tegra for tablets/smartphones is an impressive product and has...

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter 2012 results after the market closes on Thursday, May 12. Analysts expect the semiconductor maker to announce that earnings came to $0.19 per share. While that is the same as the consensus estimate 90 days ago, it is also down from...

Goldman Sachs is out with its report today on Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), maintaining Neutral after NVDA acquired Icera. In a note to clients, Goldman Sachs writes, "If successful, we believe the Icera acquisition represents a key step in Nvidia's strategy of expanding its presence in mobile devices....

Effective immediately, Morgan Stanley is discontinuing coverage of ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM), and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC). ON Semiconductor closed...