NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Stock Position Trimmed by Webster Bank N. A.

Webster Bank N. A. trimmed its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 3.3% in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 206,799 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 7,004 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for 3.6% of Webster Bank N. A.’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 6th largest holding. Webster Bank N. A.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $41,378,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Defender Capital LLC. grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.7% during the 2nd quarter. Defender Capital LLC. now owns 7,534 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,507,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 3.8% in the first quarter. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC now owns 1,395 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $243,000 after buying an additional 51 shares in the last quarter. PFS Partners LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% in the second quarter. PFS Partners LLC now owns 4,375 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $875,000 after buying an additional 51 shares during the period. Vision Financial Markets LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% in the third quarter. Vision Financial Markets LLC now owns 4,640 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $866,000 after buying an additional 53 shares during the period. Finally, LMG Wealth Partners LLC grew its position in NVIDIA by 0.7% during the fourth quarter. LMG Wealth Partners LLC now owns 7,649 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,427,000 after buying an additional 53 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $230.36 on Tuesday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $211.32 and its 200-day moving average is $202.51. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $164.07 and a 1-year high of $236.54. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The stock has a market cap of $5.55 trillion, a P/E ratio of 29.12, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.81 and a beta of 2.22.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.05 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has initiated a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization permits the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 12.64%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, EVP Timothy Teter sold 30,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $217.88, for a total value of $6,536,400.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $585,587,360.80. The trade was a 1.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 1,563,501 shares of company stock worth $335,380,530. 3.94% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s planned $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face could expand its full-stack AI strategy by combining its chips and CUDA software with Hugging Face’s open-model library and developer community. Analysts view the deal as potentially strengthening NVIDIA’s competitive moat. NVIDIA’s Hugging Face Buyout article
• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang said OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Grace Blackwell systems, with another 400,000 GPUs coming online. The announcement reinforces NVIDIA’s role in the largest AI model deployments and highlights potential demand for future systems. Jensen Huang and OpenAI Astra article
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s $20 billion Groq investment is moving toward commercialization, with Groq 3 LPX racks expected to deploy alongside Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs at Nebius later this year. This supports the company’s effort to broaden beyond standalone GPUs into complete AI infrastructure. NVIDIA Groq rack article
• Neutral Sentiment: Broadcom raised its expected fiscal 2027 AI-chip revenue to about $115 billion, signaling continued hyperscaler spending but also showing that customers increasingly want custom accelerators in addition to NVIDIA GPUs. Broadcom AI forecast article
• Negative Sentiment: Investors face growing risks from custom chips, AMD and older GPUs being redeployed for longer periods, potentially slowing replacement demand. Opposition to energy-intensive data centers could also delay the infrastructure buildout that supports NVIDIA’s sales. NVIDIA competition article
• Negative Sentiment: Despite exceptional growth, valuation expectations are demanding, while higher memory costs, rising receivables and weaker sequential free cash flow could pressure margins and investor confidence.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities analysts have commented on NVDA shares. Tigress Financial restated a “strong-buy” rating and set a $425.00 price objective (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, May 27th. BMO Capital Markets set a $340.00 target price on NVIDIA and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 20th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $315.00 price target on NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Itau BBA Securities dropped their price target on NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research note on Wednesday, June 24th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $350.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, August 24th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $324.83.

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a global technology company that designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies. Co-founded by Jensen Huang, who serves as president and chief executive officer, along with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA has grown from a graphics-focused chipmaker into a broad provider of accelerated computing hardware and software for multiple industries.

The company’s product portfolio spans discrete GPUs for gaming and professional visualization (marketed under the GeForce and NVIDIA RTX lines), high-performance data center accelerators used for AI training and inference (including widely adopted platforms such as the A100 and H100 series), and Tegra SoCs for automotive and edge applications.