2 AI Stocks That Wall Street Likes Better Than Nvidia

NVIDIA may be trendy but Shopify has more upside according to Wall Street.

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NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is easily the trendiest stock of 2024. Up 89% for the year, it has outperformed even its fellow AI stocks, which are performing well as a group. NVIDIA’s main claim to fame is being the primary semiconductor (“chip”) vendor to the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. It has a de-facto monopoly on AI accelerator chips – chips used in AI servers to handle tasks that the central processing unit (CPU) can’t handle. Other companies are building AI chips, but they can’t handle the same workloads that NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) can. For this reason, NVIDIA is either a monopoly or very close to it. At the same time, the U.S. government is heavily prioritizing computer chips, wanting to gain an edge over China. So, NVIDIA does not face the usual antitrust scrutiny that monopolies do – it’s just too important to its home country geopolitically.

NVIDIA is certainly impressive, but nothing deserves an infinite price. At this point, NVIDIA’s market capitalization (value of all shares combined) is 40% higher than that of Alphabet despite it having 60% less profit. It’s possible that NVIDIA is overvalued. Wall Street does not seem to think so: its price target is above the current price. However that target ($975) is only 6.6% higher than the price which prevailed at the time of this writing. With that in mind, here are two Canadian AI stocks that Wall Street likes better than NVIDIA.

Kinaxis

Kinaxis Inc (TSX:KXS) is a Canadian tech company that develops supply chain management software. It traded for $153.80 at the time of this writing, while having a $199 price target from Wall Street. Thus, it has 29.3% expected upside compared to NVIDIA’s 6.6%. If Wall Street is right, then you will make more money by buying KXS than by buying NVDA.

Why is KXS so popular on Wall Street? Like many tech companies, it is getting a lot of attention because of its investments in generative AI. KXS builds software that helps people track key supply chain components like inventory, raw inputs and customer buying patterns. Kinaxis has always had solutions that lets users track such things (e.g., RapidResponse), but now with AI, collecting supply chain insights is a faster process than before. For example, in just seconds, a user can predict how much inventory he/she will need to fulfill customer demand on a given day.

Shopify

Shopify Inc (TSX:SHOP) is a Canadian e-commerce platform company. It develops a website builder and payment platform that help businesses run their own online stores. The company is one of Canada’s hottest growth stocks. It has risen 2,895% since its IPO in 2015. In that time, it has grown to become one of the world’s biggest e-commerce players. Shopify stock currently trades for US$79 on the NYSE and has a US$111 price target from Wall Street analysts. The US$111 price target translates to $147. Shopify is $107.68 on the TSX at the time of this writing. So, Wall Street thinks that SHOP has 37.4% upside – which is better than NVIDIA’s estimated 6.6%.

This article represents the opinion of the writer, who may disagree with the “official” recommendation position of a Motley Fool premium service or advisor. We’re Motley! Questioning an investing thesis — even one of our own — helps us all think critically about investing and make decisions that help us become smarter, happier, and richer, so we sometimes publish articles that may not be in line with recommendations, rankings or other content.

Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool’s board of directors. Fool contributor Andrew Button has positions in Alphabet. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Shopify. The Motley Fool recommends Alphabet, Kinaxis, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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