J. M. Brown & Associates Inc. Makes New Investment in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

J. M. Brown & Associates Inc. bought a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund bought 22,757 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock, valued at approximately $4,554,000. NVIDIA accounts for 2.6% of J. M. Brown & Associates Inc.'s investment portfolio, making the stock its 13th biggest position.

Several other large investors have also modified their holdings of NVDA. J. Stern & Co. LLP increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 13,709.1% during the 4th quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $23,454,297,000 after purchasing an additional 124,849,603 shares during the last quarter. PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab acquired a new position in NVIDIA in the fourth quarter valued at about $2,635,969,000. Amundi lifted its position in NVIDIA by 10.4% in the first quarter. Amundi now owns 133,768,018 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $23,329,141,000 after buying an additional 12,575,177 shares during the last quarter. SEB Asset Management AB purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the first quarter worth about $1,692,807,000. Finally, Employees Provident Fund Board purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the fourth quarter worth about $1,243,336,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company's stock.

NVIDIA Trading Down 3.4%

NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $210.96 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $5.08 trillion, a PE ratio of 26.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.22. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $213.60 and a 200 day moving average price of $203.54. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $164.27 and a 12-month high of $236.54. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.04% and a net margin of 63.66%.The firm had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $92.27 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.05 EPS. NVIDIA's revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.12 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share. 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 currently 12.64%.

NVIDIA announced that its board has initiated a stock buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization permits the computer hardware maker to repurchase up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang publicly rejected the idea of an AI slowdown and told President Donald Trump that NVIDIA would not allow one to happen. Trump also criticized opposition to new data centers, signaling continued political support for AI infrastructure investment. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump about AI slowdown
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s underlying demand story remains strong: recent earnings showed revenue growth of more than 100%, while management has indicated that supply—not customer demand—is limiting expansion. Analysts continue to view NVIDIA favorably relative to other AI infrastructure companies because of its faster growth, strong margins and lower leverage. NVIDIA versus Marvell AI infrastructure comparison
• Positive Sentiment: The company expanded its open-source CUDA-Q platform with CUDA-Q Logical, which connects GPUs with quantum processors and could generate longer-term demand for NVIDIA accelerated-computing and networking systems. Fermilab reportedly reduced a fault-tolerant design cycle from five months to three weeks using the platform. NVIDIA expands CUDA-Q for quantum computing
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly considering a large investment in Anthropic and continues to pursue strategic investments across AI infrastructure. Such moves could strengthen ecosystem demand, but the Anthropic investment has not been presented as a finalized transaction. NVIDIA investment discussions involving Anthropic
• Negative Sentiment: Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI executives have called for a more measured pace of frontier-model development. Investors interpreted those comments as a potential threat to hyperscaler capital spending, GPU demand and the pace of data-center expansion, pressuring NVDA and peer chip stocks. NVIDIA stock and AI slowdown concerns
• Negative Sentiment: Management expects higher memory costs to weigh on gross margins, while NVIDIA’s reliance on a relatively small number of major customers creates concentration risk. These concerns make the stock vulnerable to profit-taking when AI spending expectations soften.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research firms have recently issued reports on NVDA. Oppenheimer set a $315.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Citigroup reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a $315.00 price objective (up from $300.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an "overweight" rating and issued a $350.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, August 24th. Rothschild & Co Redburn boosted their target price on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $325.00 in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Bank of America restated a "buy" rating and set a $350.00 price target (up from $320.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Three 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. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $324.34.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In related news, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $217.88, for a total value of $6,536,400.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares in the company, valued at $585,587,360.80. The trade was a 1.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, 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 885,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction 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 position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 2,585,740 shares of company stock valued at $571,015,527. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company's stock.

NVIDIA 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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