PFG Advisors lowered its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 2.3% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 173,052 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 4,011 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises about 1.7% of PFG Advisors’ portfolio, making the stock its 10th largest holding. PFG Advisors’ holdings in NVIDIA were worth $34,626,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter valued at about $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the first quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC boosted its position in NVIDIA by 47.9% during the second quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $33,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares during the last quarter. Phillip James Consulting Co. bought a new position in NVIDIA in the first quarter valued at approximately $40,000. Finally, Inspire Investing LLC acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $44,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on NVDA. Melius Research set a $420.00 price objective on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday. Craig Hallum boosted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Itau BBA Securities dropped their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research report on Wednesday, June 24th. Zacks Research cut NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, August 21st. Finally, BNP Paribas Exane raised their price target on NVIDIA from $270.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Two investment 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 company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $324.23.
Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA
Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:
- Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek and expanded their partnership across data-center, edge-computing and automotive AI. MediaTek will adopt NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion technology to develop custom chips that can connect to NVIDIA-based AI systems, potentially broadening NVIDIA’s platform and ecosystem reach. NVIDIA MediaTek partnership
- Positive Sentiment: Anthropic reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud agreement backed by NVIDIA, reinforcing demand for NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure and supporting the broader investment case for continued hyperscaler and AI-cloud spending. Anthropic cloud deal
- Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised price targets while retaining Buy ratings, including China Renaissance at $330 and Phillip Securities at $300. Recent commentary highlights NVIDIA’s strong cash generation, integrated AI platform and management’s expectation for roughly 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028. China Renaissance price target
- Positive Sentiment: ARK Invest, led by Cathie Wood, purchased approximately $53 million of NVIDIA stock following the earnings-related selloff, providing a notable vote of confidence from a prominent growth investor. ARK Invest NVIDIA purchase
- Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA’s exceptional demand is exposing supply-chain bottlenecks in memory, networking, optical components, power and copper. Higher input costs and supply commitments could pressure gross margins even as they signal that customer demand remains ahead of available capacity.
- Neutral Sentiment: Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation validated NVIDIA’s Nemotron models for private-cloud deployment, supporting enterprise adoption and data-sovereignty use cases, though the announcement provided no specific customer or revenue figures. AI models validated on VMware Cloud Foundation
- Negative Sentiment: A reported NVIDIA program designed to participate in cloud profits from chips it had already sold was paused after internal concerns about potential antitrust exposure, highlighting regulatory risk around NVIDIA’s growing influence over AI infrastructure. NVIDIA cloud revenue program
- Negative Sentiment: Investors also face risks from a possible September market pullback, elevated valuation expectations, insider selling and emerging competition from custom AI chips, including reports of an OpenAI-designed processor.
Insider Activity at NVIDIA
In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly 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 position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the sale, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. The trade was a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 1,400,500 shares of company stock valued at $299,259,265. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
NVIDIA Price Performance
NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $220.60 on Tuesday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.07 and a 52 week high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 4.59. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $208.33 and its 200 day simple moving average is $201.08. The firm has a market cap of $5.32 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.89, a P/E/G ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.23.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last posted 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 firm had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.05 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 earnings per share for the current year.
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 given a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.5%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 12.64%.
NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.
About NVIDIA
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.
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