NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is PFG Investments LLC's 3rd Largest Position

PFG Investments LLC increased its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 11.7% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 469,347 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after buying an additional 49,264 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises 3.6% of PFG Investments LLC's portfolio, making the stock its 3rd largest holding. PFG Investments LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $93,912,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new position in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the first quarter worth $27,000. Phillip James Consulting Co. acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the first quarter worth $40,000. Syntax Research Inc. grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 62.5% in the fourth quarter. Syntax Research Inc. now owns 260 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $49,000 after purchasing an additional 100 shares during the period. Finally, Frankly Finances LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the second quarter valued at $60,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company's stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms recently weighed in on NVDA. DZ Bank reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, August 26th. KGI Securities lifted their price target on NVIDIA from $335.00 to $345.00 in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a "buy (b)" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, July 8th. China Renaissance increased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $319.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Monday, August 31st. Finally, President Capital raised their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $295.00 to $330.00 in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of $324.34.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $210.96 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $5.08 trillion, a P/E ratio of 26.67, a PEG ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 4.59. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.27 and a one year high of $236.54. The business's 50-day simple moving average is $213.60 and its 200 day simple moving average is $203.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.05 earnings per share. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.12 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 12.64%.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Insider Activity

In related news, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $217.88, for a total transaction of $6,536,400.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares of the company's stock, valued at $585,587,360.80. This represents a 1.10% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible 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 company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 2,336,531 shares of the company's stock, valued at $541,187,310.22. This trade represents a 21.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 2,585,740 shares of company stock valued at $571,015,527 in the last three months. Insiders own 3.94% of the company's stock.

Trending Headlines about 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.

About NVIDIA

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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