HCR Wealth Advisors Buys 21,779 Shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)

HCR Wealth Advisors grew its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 8.1% during the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 290,676 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after purchasing an additional 21,779 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up 4.1% of HCR Wealth Advisors' holdings, making the stock its 5th largest position. HCR Wealth Advisors' holdings in NVIDIA were worth $31,504,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Norges Bank purchased a new position in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at $43,515,504,000. GAMMA Investing LLC grew its position in NVIDIA by 12,173.2% in the 1st quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 48,837,781 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $5,293,039,000 after acquiring an additional 48,439,859 shares in the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 15.8% in the 4th quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 266,454,194 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $35,782,134,000 after buying an additional 36,266,817 shares during the period. Proficio Capital Partners LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 14,641.2% in the 4th quarter. Proficio Capital Partners LLC now owns 34,676,316 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $4,656,682,000 after buying an additional 34,441,082 shares during the period. Finally, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 204.6% during the first quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 35,652,571 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $3,864,026,000 after purchasing an additional 23,948,733 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company's stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director A Brooke Seawell sold 49,131 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Thursday, July 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $162.83, for a total transaction of $8,000,000.73. Following the sale, the director owned 1,826,382 shares of the company's stock, valued at $297,389,781.06. The trade was a 2.62% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 75,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $163.11, for a total value of $12,233,250.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 74,873,225 shares in the company, valued at approximately $12,212,571,729.75. This trade represents a 0.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 4,520,246 shares of company stock worth $660,253,045 in the last ninety days. 4.17% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. KeyCorp set a $190.00 target price on NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, March 19th. HSBC downgraded NVIDIA from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and set a $120.00 price objective on the stock. in a research report on Thursday, April 3rd. Mizuho upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $170.00 to $185.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, July 3rd. Stifel Nicolaus set a $180.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, March 19th. Finally, DA Davidson upped their price target on NVIDIA from $120.00 to $135.00 and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a research note on Thursday, May 29th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating, thirty-four have assigned a buy rating and three have given a strong buy rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $177.03.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA traded up $1.22 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $164.10. The company had a trading volume of 167,093,998 shares, compared to its average volume of 266,706,770. The stock has a market cap of $4.00 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 52.94, a PEG ratio of 1.44 and a beta of 2.13. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $164.50. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10, a current ratio of 3.39 and a quick ratio of 2.96. The firm's 50 day simple moving average is $140.52 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $128.60.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May 28th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.87 by ($0.06). The business had revenue of $44.06 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $43.09 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 51.69% and a return on equity of 105.09%. The firm's revenue was up 69.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.61 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, June 11th were paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.02%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, June 11th. NVIDIA's payout ratio is currently 1.29%.

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications.