5 Best Performing Semiconductor Stocks of 2021

1. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 83   

Year-To-Date Gain: 152%  

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) operates as a visual computing firm. The company recently smashed market expectations on earnings per share and revenue for the third quarter by $0.09 and $290 million respectively. 

Raymond James analyst Chris Caso recently raised the price target on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock to $365 from $225 and kept a Strong Buy rating on the shares, underlining that the data center demand for chips made by NVIDIA was accelerating. 

At the end of the third quarter of 2021, 83 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $10 billion in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), down from 86 the preceding quarter worth $9 billion.

In its Q1 2021 investor letter, Vulcan Value Partners, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“NVIDIA Corp. is the dominant supplier of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) worldwide. NVIDIA’s GPUs are at the intersection of a number of important computing trends including the movement to the Cloud, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, edge computing, gaming, and more. We previously owned NVIDIA and sold it in the third quarter of 2020 as the price to value gap closed and our margin of safety was reduced. As with all our MVP companies, we continued to follow NVIDIA closely. Since that time, NVIDIA reported excellent results and its value has compounded rapidly. The technology selloff at the beginning of the year negatively affected the stock price while our estimate of NVIDIA’s value per share increased. This happy combination of events created a margin of safety and an opportunity to once again add NVIDIA to the portfolio.”

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