HBW Advisory Services LLC Boosts Stock Holdings in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Key Points

• HBW Advisory Services increased its NVIDIA stake by 7.3% in the second quarter, acquiring 3,865 additional shares for a total of 56,976 shares worth approximately $11.4 million. Institutional investors and hedge funds collectively own 65.27% of NVIDIA.
• NVIDIA exceeded quarterly expectations with $2.22 in earnings per share and $96.22 billion in revenue, representing 105.9% year-over-year growth. Analysts maintain a “Moderate Buy” consensus, with an average price target of $324.23 versus the reported share price of $220.60.
• Despite strong AI demand and an $80 billion share-repurchase authorization, investors face risks from insider selling, supply-chain constraints, elevated valuation, regulatory scrutiny and competition from custom AI chips.

HBW Advisory Services LLC grew its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 7.3% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 56,976 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after acquiring an additional 3,865 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises 1.0% of HBW Advisory Services LLC's holdings, making the stock its 22nd largest position. HBW Advisory Services LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $11,400,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. 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 worth about $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC grew its stake in NVIDIA by 47.9% during the 2nd quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $33,000 after acquiring an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Phillip James Consulting Co. acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the 1st quarter valued at about $40,000. Finally, Spurstone Advisory Services LLC acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at about $40,000. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NVDA opened at $220.60 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $208.33 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $201.08. The stock has a market cap of $5.32 trillion, a PE ratio of 27.89, a P/E/G ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.23. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $164.07 and a 1-year high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a current ratio of 4.59 and a quick ratio of 3.85.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The firm had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.05 EPS. As a group, analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA announced that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA's payout ratio is presently 12.64%.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In related news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated 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 transaction, the director owned 5,207,271 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 1,400,500 shares of company stock worth $299,259,265 in the last quarter. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company's stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on NVDA shares. Cantor Fitzgerald restated an "overweight" rating and set a $350.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, August 24th. UBS Group set a $300.00 price objective on NVIDIA and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Thursday. President Capital boosted their price objective on NVIDIA from $295.00 to $330.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. HSBC upped their target price on NVIDIA from $360.00 to $365.00 in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Argus raised their target price on NVIDIA from $220.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $324.23.

Key NVIDIA News

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.

NVIDIA 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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