PeakShares LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 29.9% during the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 11,438 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 2,630 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises approximately 1.8% of PeakShares LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 8th biggest position. PeakShares LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $1,995,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Prospect Financial Group LLC grew its position in NVIDIA by 0.9% in the first quarter. Prospect Financial Group LLC now owns 14,874 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,594,000 after acquiring an additional 127 shares in the last quarter. Gould Asset Management LLC CA increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 106.7% during the 1st quarter. Gould Asset Management LLC CA now owns 5,261 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $918,000 after purchasing an additional 2,716 shares during the last quarter. Main Street Group LTD raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 8.9% during the 1st quarter. Main Street Group LTD now owns 11,256 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,963,000 after purchasing an additional 924 shares in the last quarter. Barings LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 11.6% during the 1st quarter. Barings LLC now owns 34,314 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $5,984,000 after purchasing an additional 3,564 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Angeles Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 13.8% in the 1st quarter. Angeles Wealth Management LLC now owns 169,540 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $29,569,000 after purchasing an additional 20,611 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Argus upped their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $220.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. TD Cowen restated a “buy” rating and set a $275.00 target price (up from $235.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Friday, May 15th. William Blair reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, June 2nd. CICC Research upped their price target on NVIDIA from $240.60 to $268.30 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, May 22nd. Finally, BNP Paribas Exane increased their price objective on NVIDIA from $270.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have given a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $304.26.
Insider Activity at NVIDIA
In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred 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 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 filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total value of $133,750.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 14,163 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,030,882. This trade represents a 4.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015 in the last 90 days. 3.94% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA
Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:
- Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang is emphasizing robotics and “physical AI” as the next major growth market, spanning autonomous machines, vehicles, factories and data centers. The company’s expanded Agent Toolkit, PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries are also being adopted by Cadence, Siemens, Synopsys, Samsung and Silvaco, supporting a broader software-and-platform ecosystem beyond GPU sales. NVIDIA robotics growth article
- Positive Sentiment: New strategic relationships with Safe Superintelligence, OpenAI, NAVER and other infrastructure partners could increase demand for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin and Blackwell systems. Analysts remain broadly bullish, with reported price targets well above current trading levels. NVIDIA Safe Superintelligence investment article
- Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly discussing a potential backstop of up to $250 billion for OpenAI’s Ohio data-center project, alongside a much larger overall infrastructure plan. The arrangement could lock in substantial future chip demand, but it would also expand NVIDIA’s role from supplier to financier and expose it to OpenAI’s creditworthiness and project-execution risks. NVIDIA OpenAI financing article
- Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that vendor-backed AI infrastructure spending represents circular financing rather than organic customer demand. Reports that NVIDIA could guarantee OpenAI-related obligations helped trigger a broad chip-stock selloff, while rising default-insurance costs have intensified balance-sheet concerns. NVIDIA default insurance costs article
- Negative Sentiment: Taiwanese authorities reportedly detained an NVIDIA employee in a probe involving alleged diversion of Super Micro AI servers to China. Although no wrongdoing by NVIDIA has been established, the investigation raises additional export-control, legal and reputational risks. Intensifying Chinese competition and weakness across Asian chip stocks are adding pressure to the sector. Taiwan NVIDIA employee investigation article
NVIDIA Stock Performance
Shares of NVDA opened at $197.01 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $4.77 trillion, a PE ratio of 30.17, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.38 and a beta of 2.21. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.07 and a one year high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 3.44 and a quick ratio of 2.85. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $206.86 and its 200 day moving average price is $195.98.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.81 EPS. The business’s revenue was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA Increases Dividend
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 4th were given a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.5%. This is a boost from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 15.31%.
NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to buyback $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically a sign that the company’s management believes its stock is undervalued.
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.
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