5 Stocks to Buy as the Senate Passes Inflation Reduction Act

1. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 102  

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) operates as a visual computing firm. Inflation has affected the margins for companies like NVIDIA, which recently slowed hiring and warned that slowing PC and gaming unit sales could weigh on the firm in the near term. The bill also includes provisions for $369 billion in energy security and climate change programs. NVIDIA, one of the leading chipmakers in the US, will benefit from this as the chips it makes are used in many of these climate change technologies. 

On August 8, Oppenheimer analyst Rick Schafer maintained an Outperform rating on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock and lowered the price target to $250 from $300, noting that there was a weakness in PC and gaming unit sales. 

At the end of the first quarter of 2022, 102 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $6.3 billion in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), compared to 110 the preceding quarter worth $10.4 billion. 

In its Q1 2022 investor letter, RiverPark Funds, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is the leading designer of graphics processing chips (commonly known as GPU’s- graphics processing units), required for powerful computer processing. Over the past 20 years, the company has evolved through innovation and adaptation from a predominantly gaming- focused chip vendor to one of the largest semiconductor/software vendors in the world, dominating the core secular growth markets of gaming, data centers and professional visualization. Over the past decade, the company has grown revenue at a compound annual rate of over 20% while expanding operating margins and, through its asset light business model, producing ever increasing amounts of free cash flow. For 2021 the company generated 61% revenue growth to $27 billion, expanded its EBITDA margins to over 44% and generated over $8 billion of free cash flow. Over the past five years, the company has generated a cumulative $23 billion of FCF after cumulative capital expenditures of less than $4 billion.

We expect future growth to remain robust as NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips and software are critical to many of the core technologies being adopted globally, including cloud computing, virtual reality and advanced artificial intelligence. As with NFLX, we took advantage of the over 40% recent drop in the company’s shares over the last several months to initiate a small position.”

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