NVIDIA to Return $1 Billion to Shareholders in Current Fiscal Year

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I'd like to have a tinker with investing in one of these firms. Any advice on how to get started?

 

[andybird123]

Considering their profits and our interest in GFX cards, anyone else dabble in these shares? In the past I've made enough to pay for a decent graphics card upgrade. Consider them high risk though (as are most tech stocks) so only invest reasonably small amounts. THink the long term potential for Nvidia is pretty good.
Shares look low but I think fear of competition (on-chip gfx) and failing demand for PC's not helping, although of course they make more than just PC graphics cards.

Recently started paying a dividend too.

despite the article posted above, several other sources have nvidia on the recommended buy list, with targets of $16 for 2013 and $22 for 2014

despite losing the Nexus 7 contract, they do have several for Tegra 3 in to lower cost tablets coming online this year, and Tegra 4 in to products to be released in early 2014, which means shipments out of NV this year

at $2 a share, I'm also tempted to put some money in to AMD just on the basis that if you do lose, you lose a small amount, but if they manage over the next 2-3 years to get back to $6-8 then you win big too

mind you, I'm also watching how low the price of gold goes if Cyprus sell their reserves it could get very low and bounce back over the next 1-2 years like it did when it crashed and then the UK sold it's

 

[DarrenM343]

mind you, I'm also watching how low the price of gold goes if Cyprus sell their reserves it could get very low and bounce back over the next 1-2 years like it did when it crashed and then the UK sold it's

There's been a lot of interest in gold over recent years. How low do you think it will go? I personally would only consider gold cheap around the $700 level! Gold spends a lot of its time in the doldrums. The financial crisis gave it a good spurt upwards as investors sought alternative investents but we are now coming out of the crisis, slowly I know.
With gold in 1975 at around $150 and in 2002 (27 years later) it was at $350, at current levels (many multiples of its 2002 price) it still seems rather high. Gold also seems to peak then dive, then settle for a long period. Things could have course be different this time as it has already stayed high for quite a while,but that I thnk is because the financial crisis has been prolonged. In a year or so I really wouldn't be surprised to see gold settling around $700 or even lower. That would be a time to buy for keeps (long term until the next crisis!)

 

[andybird123]

it depends what happens in the next few months, I certainly can't see it dropping much if at all below $1000

I would be looking to buy low, wait for the bounce and then sell within 12 months, rather than looking at it as a long term investment, I've got property and shares to cover that aspect, gold, or shares in a tech company, would be my high risk fund that I don't mind losing or at least not making a big profit on