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Baird Cuts Nvidia Target 60% as Export and Leadership Risks Cloud Outlook
Baird cut Nvidia to Neutral and its price target to $200 from $500. Its case combines slower forecast AI spending growth with China-linked inventory exposure and uncertainty over founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s tenure.
- Baird lowered Nvidia to Neutral from Outperform and cut its price target to $200 from $500.
- Its warnings cover slower forecast spending growth, possible order cuts and a potential $5 billion inventory write-down.
- Strong reported chip demand limits the slowdown argument; export access and leadership remain separate uncertainties.
Brokerage Baird downgraded Nvidia on Wednesday, November 11, citing risks to AI infrastructure spending, China-linked sales and the tenure of Jensen Huang, the chipmaker’s founder and chief executive. The 60% target cut combines a weaker growth forecast with uncertainty over which orders Nvidia can fulfill.
Nvidia supplies chips used to train and run AI models in data centres, making infrastructure spending and export restrictions material to its business. That role is described in an account of the leadership investigation. The downgrade concerns both customers’ willingness to spend and Nvidia’s ability to convert demand into revenue.
Baird cut its Nvidia price target from $500 to $200. These are analyst targets, not observed share prices. Source: Moneycontrol.
Slower growth is still growth
Baird analyst Tristan Gerra reversed his earlier Outperform recommendation, setting a Neutral rating and a $200 target, down from $500, according to the downgrade report. These are the brokerage’s investment judgments, rather than company guidance. The same report puts Nvidia shares 29% below their October 6 high; that market decline is a separate measure from the target reduction.
Gerra warned that supply constraints, softer demand and limited visibility could delay projected data-centre growth in 2027. Baird expects growth in AI spending by hyperscalers—large cloud infrastructure buyers—to slow to 40% or lower in 2027, and warned that 10–30% of channel orders could face pre-emptive cuts.
Neither figure establishes a decline in total spending or completed order cancellations. The account supplies no spending baseline or detailed method for estimating the share of orders at risk. Its description of strong demand for Nvidia’s H300 chips also limits a broad demand-collapse interpretation: appetite for a particular chip can remain strong while spending growth slows or supply delays deliveries.
