Why I Can’t Stop Buying Nvidia Stock

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  • Nvidia (NVDA) remains compelling with accelerating growth; current price $198.87 shows strength.

  • Structural lock-in deepens as Data Center Networking grew 263% YoY, extending competitive advantage.

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Why I Can’t Stop Buying Nvidia Stock

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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) continues to be a compelling case study in accelerating growth at scale. Every time analysts suggest the story is priced in, the company prints another quarter that makes the previous one look modest. Here are three reasons I can’t stop buying the stock.

Reason 1: The Growth Trajectory Keeps Accelerating, Not Decelerating

Most businesses slow down at scale. NVIDIA is doing the opposite. Revenue grew 55.6% year-over-year in Q2 FY2026, then 62.49% in Q3, and then 73.21% in Q4, reaching $68.12 billion in that final quarter. Full-year FY2026 revenue landed at $215.93 billion, up 65.47% year-over-year.

Net income for the full year hit $120.06 billion, up 64.75%. Q4 net income alone grew 94.47% year-over-year to $42.96 billion. The forward guidance reinforces this: Q1 FY2027 revenue is guided at approximately $78.0 billion, implying substantial year-over-year growth against Q1 FY2026’s base, and explicitly excludes China Data Center compute revenue due to export restrictions. The growth engine is firing even with one cylinder removed.

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Reason 2: The Moat Is Deepening With Every Architecture Cycle

What stands out is the structural lock-in NVIDIA is building. Data Center revenue represented 91.5% of Q4 revenue at $62.31 billion, up 75% year-over-year. Within that, Data Center Networking grew 263% year-over-year to $10.98 billion in Q4 alone, driven by NVLink fabric embedding itself deeper into hyperscaler buildouts.

CEO Jensen Huang noted that AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) Azure, and Oracle (NYSE:ORCL | ORCL Price Prediction) are all deploying Blackwell today and are already among the first to deploy Vera Rubin-based instances. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META | META Price Prediction) committed to a multiyear partnership spanning millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. CoreWeave is collaborating to accelerate 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030.

The Vera Rubin platform promises up to 10x reduction in inference token cost versus Blackwell. Each architecture cycle extends the lead rather than giving competitors a chance to close the gap.

Reason 3: The Valuation Is More Reasonable Than It Looks

The actual multiples tell a different story. NVIDIA trades at a forward P/E of 23x on a business generating $96.57 billion in free cash flow for FY2026, up 58.7% year-over-year. Q4 free cash flow alone reached $34.90 billion, up 124.42% year-over-year.

The PEG ratio sits at 0.769, which signals the growth rate more than justifies the earnings multiple. The company returned $41.1 billion to shareholders in FY2026 and still carries $58.5 billion in remaining share repurchase authorization.

The stock has gained 77.29% over the past year and 1,152.9% over five years. At the current price of $198.87, the stock still sits 26% below its 52-week high of $212.17, and 95% of analysts rate it bullish with a consensus target of $268.22.

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The Risk Worth Watching, and Why It Has Not Changed the Thesis

China export restrictions are real: NVIDIA absorbed a $4.5 billion H20 charge in Q1 FY2026 and its Q1 FY2027 guidance already assumes zero China Data Center compute revenue. But the company is guiding to $78 billion in Q1 FY2027 revenue anyway, which tells analysts demand outside China is filling the gap.

The Vera Rubin platform has not yet entered its revenue ramp, agentic AI adoption is still in its early innings, and Huang’s own words describe an “agentic AI inflection point” that has only just arrived.

The companies building on NVIDIA’s stack are locked into the architecture mid-buildout. Every quarter of sold-out GPU capacity and every new partnership announcement makes the moat wider.

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Vandita Jadeja is a financial copywriter who loves to read and write about stocks. She believes in buying and holding for long term gains. Her knowledge of words and numbers helps her write clear stock analysis. She has contributed to several publications, including the Joy Wallet, Benzinga, The Motley Fool and InvestorPlace.

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