Woodmont Investment Counsel LLC grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 10.0% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 18,959 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after buying an additional 1,716 shares during the period. Woodmont Investment Counsel LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $2,055,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. GSB Wealth Management LLC raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 3.3% during the first quarter. GSB Wealth Management LLC now owns 32,611 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $3,534,000 after buying an additional 1,043 shares during the last quarter. Variant Private Wealth LLC boosted its stake in NVIDIA by 20.6% in the first quarter. Variant Private Wealth LLC now owns 18,800 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $2,038,000 after acquiring an additional 3,206 shares during the last quarter. Financial Perspectives Inc boosted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 2.8% during the first quarter. Financial Perspectives Inc now owns 45,958 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $4,981,000 after purchasing an additional 1,265 shares in the last quarter. Hickory Point Bank & Trust bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at $2,272,000. Finally, Pegasus Asset Management Inc. increased its stake in NVIDIA by 0.3% in the 1st quarter. Pegasus Asset Management Inc. now owns 76,750 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $8,318,000 after buying an additional 197 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company's stock.
Insider Activity at NVIDIA
In other news, Director Tench Coxe sold 1,000,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $142.80, for a total value of $142,800,000.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 26,671,360 shares of the company's stock, valued at $3,808,670,208. The trade was a 3.61% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 935,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $140.92, for a total transaction of $131,760,200.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 9,214,697 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,298,535,101.24. This trade represents a 9.21% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 4,296,844 shares of company stock valued at $624,019,677 in the last 90 days. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of research analysts recently commented on the stock. Wedbush reiterated an "outperform" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 29th. Arete Research upgraded shares of NVIDIA to a "strong-buy" rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 21st. Bank of America increased their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $150.00 to $160.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 14th. Raymond James Financial raised their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $150.00 to $165.00 and gave the company a "strong-buy" rating in a research report on Thursday, May 29th. Finally, Benchmark reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a $190.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 29th. One investment 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 MarketBeat, NVIDIA presently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $176.47.
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NVIDIA Trading Up 1.8%
Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $162.88 on Thursday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $86.62 and a 52-week high of $164.42. The company has a quick ratio of 2.96, a current ratio of 3.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10. The company's 50-day simple moving average is $139.47 and its 200-day simple moving average is $128.43. The firm has a market cap of $3.97 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 52.54, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 2.13.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 28th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.87 by ($0.06). NVIDIA had a net margin of 51.69% and a return on equity of 105.09%. The firm had revenue of $44.06 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $43.09 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.61 EPS. The business's quarterly revenue was up 69.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA Dividend Announcement
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, June 11th were issued a dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.02%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, June 11th. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio is currently 1.29%.
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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.
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