For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – November 10, 2009 – Zacks Equity Research highlights NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) as the Bull of the Day and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Tesoro Corporation (TSO), Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) and Sunoco Inc. (SUN).

Full analysis of all these stocks is available at http://at.zacks.com/?id=5506

Here is a synopsis of all five stocks:

Bull of the Day:

NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) posted revenue and earnings well above expectations. NVIDIA is poised for growth through improved cost management, rising demand for GPU and graphics chips, increased orders mainly from China and product launches.

The company is introducing new products at regular intervals and getting good feedback. We believe NVIDIA is well positioned in the longer term given its leadership in the Tegra line-up, the ramp-up

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Moody’s senior analyst Ken Chan put Chartered Semiconductor’s (CHRT) speculative-grade Ba2 rating under review for a possible downgrade after Abu Dhabi’s nationalized investment firm, ATIC, proposed to buy the Singapore-based company for $1.8 billion.

The acquisition would transfer the majority holding from Singapore investment agency, Temasek (Moody’s rating Aaa) to ATIC (Abu Dhabi’s sovereign rating Aa2).

Analysts differed on how the acquisition would affect Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which had earlier united with ATIC to form Globalfoundries. Although Chartered and Globalfoundries will continue to operate as separate entities, increased scale of operations could result in cost synergies. Since AMD includes Globalfoundries in its consolidated results, the deal could shorten its road to profitability.

The deal would also open up Globalfoundries to several big customers, such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL) and Texas Instruments (TXN). Its end market

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Highlights include Intel Corp. (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Motorola, Inc. (MOT), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), Sun Microsystems, Inc. (JAVA), NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) and Broadcom Corp. (BRCM).Looking at Intel and AMD by Industry PositionIntel Corp. (INTC) is by far the largest supplier of microprocessors, motherboards and chipsets in the world. The company benefited from its initial capture of market share, and built on this position through constant innovation and versatility. The market research group iSupply Corporation provides the following market share data.The company's dominant position in microprocessors comes from its leadership in the PC market. The first company that seriously challenged its position in this space was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), with its more competitively priced offerings in the desktop and server areas....

NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) shares fell approximately 2% today on abnormally low volume of 11.4 million, versus the daily average of 20 million.

The estimate for the current year stands at a loss of 38 cents per share, compared with last month's loss estimate of 42 cents, as 7 out of 17 covering brokerage analysts revised upward.

For 2010, the consensus is pegged at a profit of 11 cents.

NVIDIA is a Zacks #2 Rank ("Buy") company.

"NVDA" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?Zacks Investment Research

NVIDIA Corporation, a multinational corporation engaged in visual computing technologies, offers programmable graphics processor technologies worldwide. The company’s products generate realistic, interactive graphics on consumer and professional computing devices. NVIDIA designs various graphic processing unit product families that support PCs, personal digital assistants, cellular phones, video game consoles and other digital consumer electronics devices.

The company operates in four segments: Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), Media and Communications Processor (MCP), Professional Solutions Business (PSB), and Consumer Products Business (CPB). The GPU product group includes products that support desktop and notebook personal computers. The MCP segment comprises NVIDIA nForce products that operate as a single-chip or chipset that provide system functions, such as high speed storage and network communications.

The PSB segment of NVIDIA’s business offers professional workstation products and other professional graphics products, including high-performance computing products. The CPB segment provides mobile brands and products that support handheld personal media players,

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So the current leader of the financial bloggers stock picking contest is Smarty with 100% allocation to Nvidia Corp. (NVDA). In the first two (2) day of this competition, the stock was up more than 9% from the close of April 2008. With that kind of action, I decided to write a financial analysis review of the company.

To start the first post, I would like to provide an overview to NVDA using some of the tools I have shared in my posts:

Company Overview, taken from latest 10-k filings:
NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the graphic processing unit, or the GPU. Our products are designed to generate realistic, interactive graphics on consumer and professional computing devices. We serve the entertainment and consumer market with our GeForce products, the professional design and visualization market with our Quadro products, and the high-performance computing …