NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is Marietta Investment Partners LLC's 3rd Largest Position

Marietta Investment Partners LLC increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 1.8% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 128,865 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after purchasing an additional 2,222 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up 3.4% of Marietta Investment Partners LLC's investment portfolio, making the stock its 3rd largest holding. Marietta Investment Partners LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $13,966,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Several other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. FMR LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 0.7% during the fourth quarter. FMR LLC now owns 1,004,376,608 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $134,877,735,000 after purchasing an additional 6,665,252 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.7% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 555,548,278 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $74,439,273,000 after buying an additional 9,468,786 shares during the last quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.9% during the fourth quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 411,328,951 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $55,237,367,000 after buying an additional 3,721,331 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in NVIDIA during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $43,515,504,000. Finally, Northern Trust Corp increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 15.8% during the fourth 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 last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $177.99 on Monday. 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 has a fifty day moving average price of $167.35 and a 200-day moving average price of $137.46. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1 year low of $86.62 and a 1 year high of $184.48. The stock has a market cap of $4.34 trillion, a PE ratio of 57.42, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 2.14.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 28th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.87 by ($0.06). NVIDIA had a return on equity of 105.09% and a net margin of 51.69%.The company had revenue of $44.06 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $43.09 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.61 EPS. NVIDIA's revenue was up 69.2% compared to the same quarter last year. NVIDIA has set its Q2 2026 guidance at EPS. Equities analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Investors of record on Wednesday, June 11th were given a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, June 11th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio is currently 1.29%.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In related news, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 75,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $152.54, for a total transaction of $11,440,500.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 75,548,225 shares in the company, valued at approximately $11,524,126,241.50. This represents a 0.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 935,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction 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 transaction, the director owned 9,214,697 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $1,298,535,101.24. This represents a 9.21% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 5,912,440 shares of company stock worth $902,886,782 in the last three months. Insiders own 4.17% of the company's stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have commented on NVDA. Wedbush upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $175.00 to $210.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Thursday. Raymond James Financial upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $150.00 to $165.00 and gave the company a "strong-buy" rating in a report on Thursday, May 29th. KeyCorp upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $190.00 to $215.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Wednesday, August 20th. Benchmark reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a $190.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 29th. Finally, Loop Capital upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $175.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday, June 25th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have assigned a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA presently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $192.44.

NVIDIA 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.

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