Markowski Investments Buys New Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Key Points

• Markowski Investments purchased 52,829 NVIDIA shares worth approximately $10.6 million in the second quarter, making NVDA about 2.3% of its portfolio. Institutional investors collectively own 65.27% of the company.
• Analysts maintain a broadly positive outlook, with a consensus “Buy” rating and average price target of $321.47. NVIDIA also reported quarterly EPS and revenue above expectations, with revenue rising 105.9% year over year.
• Insiders sold substantial shares recently, including CFO Colette Kress and director Mark A. Stevens, while NVIDIA announced a $150 billion share-repurchase authorization and maintained its quarterly dividend.

Markowski Investments purchased a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) in the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 52,829 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock, valued at approximately $10,571,000. NVIDIA comprises about 2.3% of Markowski Investments' holdings, making the stock its 15th biggest holding.

Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of NVDA. Old Mission Investment Co LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the second quarter worth about $4,973,000. Montgomery Financial Services LLC bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter worth about $28,000. Highland Investment Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at about $583,000. Outlook Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at about $9,510,000. Finally, Turner Financial Group Inc. purchased a new stake in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at about $1,535,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have commented on NVDA. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, August 26th. Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an "overweight" rating and issued a $350.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, October 1st. Daiwa Securities Group reduced their target price on NVIDIA from $255.00 to $245.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a report on Thursday, September 17th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $315.00 price target on NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, TD Cowen reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Tuesday, August 18th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of $321.47.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the stock in a transaction on 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 transaction, the chief financial officer owned 765,103 shares in the company, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. This represents a 4.36% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed 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 the stock in a transaction on Friday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the transaction, the director owned 2,336,531 shares of the company's stock, valued at $541,187,310.22. The trade was a 21.03% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 1,766,118 shares of company stock worth $399,450,353 over the last ninety days. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

NVIDIA Stock Down 0.3%

NVDA opened at $216.47 on Wednesday. NVIDIA Corporation has a twelve month low of $164.27 and a twelve month high of $243.37. The company's 50-day moving average price is $223.17 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $212.01. The stock has a market cap of $5.22 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.37, a PEG ratio of 1.67 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 4.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The company 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 quarterly revenue was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.05 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.30 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th were given a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 12.64%.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Monday, September 28th that permits the company to buy back $150.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 2.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Reportedly, ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have placed more than $35 billion in NVIDIA chip orders. The agreement could reopen a significant Chinese market, although the arrangement reportedly includes the U.S. government receiving 15% of Chinese sales. NVIDIA China chip orders
• Positive Sentiment: OpenAI is reportedly raising approximately $30 billion, while NVIDIA has agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion of obligations tied to an Ohio data-center campus OpenAI will lease. The deal could support substantial future demand for NVIDIA systems, but also increases NVIDIA’s exposure to customer financing. OpenAI fundraising and NVIDIA
• Positive Sentiment: Anthropic is reportedly discussing an expansion that could take its Nscale commitment to roughly $90 billion, potentially benefiting NVIDIA as a leading supplier of AI infrastructure. Anthropic Nscale expansion
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced German partnerships, investments in AI startups and a broader European AI initiative approaching $10 billion, strengthening its position in sovereign and industrial AI. NVIDIA German AI investments
• Positive Sentiment: A record 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum simulation on Europe’s JUPITER supercomputer demonstrated NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q, cuQuantum and accelerated-computing capabilities, expanding its longer-term technology opportunity beyond AI. NVIDIA quantum simulation
• Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is reportedly receiving billions of dollars of NVIDIA GB300 systems, but some racks are being stored because data centers lack sufficient power. This confirms demand while highlighting deployment bottlenecks. Amazon NVIDIA GPU systems
• Negative Sentiment: Google’s open-source TorchTPU and Amazon’s TorchNeuron initiatives are designed to make competing AI chips easier to use, threatening NVIDIA’s CUDA software moat and long-term pricing power. Google and Amazon challenge NVIDIA CUDA
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that heavily indebted neocloud customers, including CoreWeave, may struggle with higher borrowing costs. NVIDIA’s guarantees and investment relationships increase fears that AI infrastructure spending could involve circular or financially fragile demand. Why NVIDIA needs CoreWeave
• Negative Sentiment: Broad semiconductor selling, fading momentum in the AI trade and hedge-fund technology reductions are weighing on NVDA’s near-term performance despite continued strong chip demand. Chip stocks decline

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation NASDAQ: NVDA is a technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs), accelerated computing platforms, networking products and related software. Its technologies support artificial intelligence, machine learning, scientific computing, data analytics, professional visualization and computer graphics.

The company's products include GeForce GPUs for gaming and personal computing, data center GPUs and systems for AI and high-performance computing, and networking solutions used to connect and manage large-scale computing infrastructure.

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