Blueprint Investment Partners LLC Raises Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Key Points

• Blueprint Investment Partners increased its NVIDIA position by 53.4% in the second quarter, holding 185,924 shares worth approximately $37.2 million. Institutional investors collectively own 65.27% of the stock.
• Wall Street remains broadly bullish, with an average “Buy” rating and a $324.34 price target. NVIDIA also exceeded quarterly earnings and revenue expectations, reporting $2.22 in EPS and $96.22 billion in revenue.
• Despite strong AI-driven growth, investors face risks from rising competition—particularly from AMD—valuation concerns and substantial insider selling, including a combined $392.7 million in insider sales over the past 90 days.

Blueprint Investment Partners LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 53.4% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 185,924 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after acquiring an additional 64,696 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 3.1% of Blueprint Investment Partners LLC's holdings, making the stock its 8th largest position. Blueprint Investment Partners LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $37,202,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in NVDA. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Phillip James Consulting Co. bought a new stake in NVIDIA during the 1st quarter valued at $40,000. Syntax Research Inc. raised its stake in NVIDIA by 62.5% during the 4th quarter. Syntax Research Inc. now owns 260 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $49,000 after acquiring an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Frankly Finances LLC acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth $60,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Royal Bank Of Canada increased their price target on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Zacks Research cut shares of NVIDIA from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Friday, August 21st. Truist Financial upped their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $307.00 to $346.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, August 27th. BMO Capital Markets set a $340.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 20th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group reissued a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, August 26th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, NVIDIA presently has an average rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $324.34.

NVIDIA Stock Up 0.7%

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $228.87 on Wednesday. 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 company has a market cap of $5.52 trillion, a PE ratio of 28.93, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 2.22. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.27 and a 52 week high of $236.54. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $215.47 and a 200 day simple moving average of $205.09.

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 for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $92.27 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.05 EPS. The company's quarterly revenue was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 12.64%.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against AI “doomsday” scenarios and argued that existing laws are sufficient, helping ease concerns that overly restrictive regulation could slow AI deployment. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang rejects AI doomsday fears
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts and financial commentators continue to highlight NVIDIA’s earnings momentum, broad AI hardware and networking portfolio, and projected long-term demand. Zacks restored the stock to a Rank #1 “Strong Buy,” while another report cited potential upside from positive earnings revisions. Bull of the Day: NVIDIA Corp.
• Positive Sentiment: Potentially improved access to China is a major catalyst. NVIDIA’s latest forecast reportedly assumes no data-center compute sales to China, leaving upside if the upcoming Trump-Xi discussions lead to licenses or expanded chip shipments. Nvidia’s forecast assumes no data center chip sales to China
• Positive Sentiment: New ecosystem initiatives reinforce NVIDIA’s expansion beyond GPUs. QAD | Redzone plans to integrate NVIDIA technology into manufacturing intelligence, while NVIDIA’s reported roughly $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition would add a major developer, model and dataset ecosystem. QAD Redzone Accelerates Manufacturing Intelligence with NVIDIA
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are increasingly focused on AI infrastructure bottlenecks such as high-bandwidth memory, optical networking, power and cooling. Rising component costs could pressure NVIDIA’s margins, but may also validate demand and strengthen the position of critical suppliers such as Micron, Coherent and Lumentum. NVIDIA just named AI’s next bottleneck
• Negative Sentiment: AMD’s rapid advance is intensifying competitive pressure. Large OpenAI and Oracle commitments, rising data-center revenue and potential pricing power suggest hyperscalers are diversifying away from a single accelerator supplier. AMD chips away at NVIDIA’s AI throne
• Negative Sentiment: Other reports warn that higher interest rates, concentrated AI revenue, expensive infrastructure financing and persistent bubble concerns could weigh on NVIDIA’s richly valued shares. NVIDIA also missed the strongest portion of a Meta-driven chip rally, underscoring lingering growth expectations.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total transaction of $7,648,787.90. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 765,103 shares in the company, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. This trade represents a 4.36% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 622,239 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 2,336,531 shares in the company, valued at approximately $541,187,310.22. This trade represents a 21.03% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 1,735,658 shares of company stock valued at $392,663,865. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company's stock.

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processors and related software. Its products are used for artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing, computer graphics, data-center applications and other workloads that benefit from parallel processing.

The company's offerings include GeForce graphics processing units (GPUs) and software for gaming and personal computers; data-center GPUs, systems and networking products; and professional visualization solutions for design, engineering, media and scientific applications.

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