Kranot Hishtalmut Le Morim Ve Gananot Havera Menahelet LTD Cuts Stock Holdings in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Key Points

• Kranot Hishtalmut Le Morim Ve Gananot Havera Menahelet LTD cut its NVIDIA stake by 19.7% in the second quarter, selling 47,975 shares and retaining 195,532 shares valued at $39.1 million.
• Other institutional investors generally increased their NVIDIA holdings, with institutional and hedge-fund ownership reaching 65.27% of the company’s stock.
• NVIDIA exceeded quarterly earnings and revenue expectations, while analysts maintained a bullish outlook with a consensus “Buy” rating and an average price target of $324.34; however, company insiders sold roughly $399.5 million of stock over the prior 90 days.

Kranot Hishtalmut Le Morim Ve Gananot Havera Menahelet LTD lessened its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 19.7% during the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 195,532 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after selling 47,975 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for about 1.6% of Kranot Hishtalmut Le Morim Ve Gananot Havera Menahelet LTD's holdings, making the stock its 18th biggest position. Kranot Hishtalmut Le Morim Ve Gananot Havera Menahelet LTD's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $39,124,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Amitell Capital Pte Ltd increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1,078.9% in the second quarter. Amitell Capital Pte Ltd now owns 33,727 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $6,748,000 after buying an additional 30,866 shares in the last quarter. 111 Capital grew its stake in NVIDIA by 2.6% in the 2nd quarter. 111 Capital now owns 134,888 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $26,990,000 after acquiring an additional 3,396 shares during the last quarter. Rollins Financial Advisors LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 3.5% during the 2nd quarter. Rollins Financial Advisors LLC now owns 43,670 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $8,738,000 after acquiring an additional 1,497 shares in the last quarter. Axon Capital LP raised its position in NVIDIA by 19.9% during the second quarter. Axon Capital LP now owns 42,200 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $8,444,000 after acquiring an additional 7,000 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Golden Reserve Retirement LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 77.5% in the second quarter. Golden Reserve Retirement LLC now owns 39,665 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $7,936,000 after purchasing an additional 17,320 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company's stock.

NVIDIA Trading Down 1.5%

Shares of NVDA stock opened at $225.51 on Thursday. The firm's 50-day simple moving average is $215.73 and its 200-day simple moving average is $205.39. 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 Corporation has a 1-year low of $164.27 and a 1-year high of $236.54. The firm has a market cap of $5.43 trillion, a P/E ratio of 28.51, a PEG ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 2.22.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly 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. The firm had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. NVIDIA's revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.05 earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 EPS for the current 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 paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA's payout ratio is currently 12.64%.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total transaction of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 2,336,531 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $541,187,310.22. The trade was a 21.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 765,103 shares of the company's stock, valued at $167,595,812.15. This represents a 4.36% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 1,766,118 shares of company stock worth $399,450,353 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 3.94% of the company's stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

NVDA has been the subject of several research reports. Oppenheimer set a $315.00 price objective on NVIDIA and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. The Goldman Sachs Group reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, September 10th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $315.00 price target on NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, August 27th. BMO Capital Markets set a $340.00 price objective on NVIDIA and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 20th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price objective on NVIDIA from $280.00 to $320.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, NVIDIA has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $324.34.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Demand for NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure remains strong. Management’s outlook implies roughly 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028, while analysts and commentary continue to highlight the Vera Rubin product ramp, expanding data-center investment and potential supply constraints as catalysts. NVIDIA demand growth article
• Positive Sentiment: Super Micro Computer began shipping NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 liquid-cooled server racks, providing evidence that NVIDIA’s latest systems are moving into customer deployments and supporting continued hyperscaler capital spending. Super Micro Vera Rubin shipment article
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA received a Zacks upgrade to Strong Buy. Other bullish analyses point to its broad AI hardware, networking and software portfolio, while IonQ’s planned quantum-computing deployment at an NVIDIA research center expands the company’s longer-term technology ecosystem. Zacks NVIDIA analysis
• Neutral Sentiment: Potential progress in Trump-Xi discussions could improve NVIDIA’s access to China, where the company’s latest revenue forecast assumes no data-center compute sales. However, export controls and the November tariff-truce deadline leave the opportunity highly uncertain. NVIDIA China sales outlook
• Negative Sentiment: Higher Treasury yields and renewed expectations for a possible October rate increase pressured high-growth technology stocks, making NVIDIA’s elevated valuation more vulnerable to multiple compression.
• Negative Sentiment: Insider-selling reports added to investor caution. EVP Timothy Teter sold approximately $6.8 million of shares under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, while separate coverage described a much larger sale by a senior director without a disclosed prearranged plan. The sales do not establish a fundamental problem but can weigh on sentiment. NVIDIA insider transaction
• Negative Sentiment: Management expects higher memory costs to pressure gross margins, highlighting a shift in AI bottleneck power toward memory and optical-networking suppliers. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang also said AI companies should not receive antitrust or liability exemptions, a stance that may increase compliance burdens across the industry. Reuters AI regulation article

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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