Goldman Sachs analyst James Schneider maintained a buy rating on Nvidia and kept his $285 price target ahead of the company's second-quarter earnings release on Aug. 12. The analyst expects investor attention to center on details of Nvidia's recently announced $500 billion financing platform with partners, the pace of Rubin product ramp-up in the second half of the year, the direction of future gross margins, and whether agentic AI could create additional upside for CPUs.