NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Position Lessened by Aristotle Atlantic Partners LLC

Key Points

• Aristotle Atlantic Partners trimmed its NVIDIA stake by 0.4% in Q3, selling 9,481 shares and leaving 2,230,573 shares (worth about $416.18 million), with NVDA still representing 12.1% of the fund’s portfolio as its largest holding.
• Insider sales accelerated recently — CFO Colette Kress sold 20,000 shares and EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares, with insiders disposing of a total 1,267,780 shares valued at about $229.9 million over the last quarter (insiders now own 4.17%).
• Large institutions continue to build positions (e.g., Norges Bank’s new stake ~ $51.4 billion, Capital Research now holds 165.4M shares) and NVIDIA’s momentum is underpinned by a Q4 beat (EPS $1.62 vs. $1.54; revenue $68.13B) plus strategic moves like a $2 billion investment in Nebius and the Nemotron 3 launch.

Aristotle Atlantic Partners LLC trimmed its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 2,230,573 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after selling 9,481 shares during the period. NVIDIA accounts for 12.1% of Aristotle Atlantic Partners LLC's portfolio, making the stock its largest position. Aristotle Atlantic Partners LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $416,180,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter worth $51,386,863,000. Capital Research Global Investors raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 16.1% during the third quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $30,855,564,000 after purchasing an additional 22,896,705 shares during the last quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 15,496.1% in the 2nd quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 21,865,525 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $3,454,534,000 after buying an additional 21,725,326 shares during the period. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its holdings in NVIDIA by 25.0% in the third quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 71,720,593 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $13,381,628,000 after acquiring an additional 14,358,048 shares during the period. Finally, State Street Corp lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% in the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 978,208,862 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $154,556,803,000 after purchasing an additional 9,554,857 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In related news, CFO Colette Kress sold 20,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $175.72, for a total value of $3,514,400.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 93,060 shares in the company, valued at $16,352,503.20. This trade represents a 17.69% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.52, for a total transaction of $54,756,000.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 3,318,547 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $605,701,198.44. The trade was a 8.29% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 1,267,780 shares of company stock valued at $229,929,215 over the last quarter. Company insiders own 4.17% of the company's stock.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA struck a high‑profile strategic deal, committing $2 billion to Nebius to scale hyperscale AI cloud capacity — a move that secures future demand for NVIDIA GPUs and signals long‑term revenue/market share benefits. NVIDIA Bets $2 Billion on Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 (an advanced open AI model) and continues to push agentic‑AI positioning — extending software/IP monetization beyond chips and supporting higher attach rates for its data‑center stack. NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3
• Positive Sentiment: Reports show ByteDance is assembling AI capacity using NVIDIA’s top chips outside China, which reinforces global enterprise demand for NVIDIA hardware. ByteDance Access to Nvidia AI Chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are focused on next week’s GTC where NVIDIA is expected to emphasize new CPU and system announcements (the company says CPUs are becoming a bottleneck for agentic AI) — the event can swing sentiment either way depending on product details and guidance. Nvidia's GTC will mark an AI chip pivot
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro and geopolitical risks (oil price moves, regional conflicts) are elevating market volatility and capping near‑term upside for high‑beta AI names like NVDA. Dow Jones Futures Fall; Crude Oil Prices Top $90
• Neutral Sentiment: Competing chip/cloud moves — e.g., Cerebras partnering with Amazon to offer alternative AI accelerators — underline growing competition in AI compute, a factor to monitor for margin/market‑share dynamics. Cerebras and Amazon deal
• Negative Sentiment: A sizable insider sale (EVP Ajay Puri sold 300,000 shares) has been flagged by the market and can feed short‑term profit‑taking narratives. Ajay K. Puri insider sale filing
• Negative Sentiment: U.S. policymakers are considering tighter export/permit controls on advanced AI chips — any formal restriction would directly affect NVIDIA’s addressable market and create regulatory uncertainty. US mulling export permits for Nvidia chips

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Morgan Stanley set a $260.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, March 2nd. Rosenblatt Securities raised their target price on NVIDIA from $245.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. KeyCorp reiterated an "overweight" rating and issued a $275.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, February 23rd. UBS Group set a $400.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, February 23rd. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $250.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, January 8th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $274.21.

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.6%

NVDA stock opened at $180.25 on Friday. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $212.19. The company's 50 day moving average price is $185.35 and its 200 day moving average price is $184.09. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.38 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.79, a PEG ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a current ratio of 3.91.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 97.37% and a net margin of 55.60%.The firm's revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 0.82%.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a global technology company that designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies. Co-founded by Jensen Huang, who serves as president and chief executive officer, along with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA has grown from a graphics-focused chipmaker into a broad provider of accelerated computing hardware and software for multiple industries.

The company's product portfolio spans discrete GPUs for gaming and professional visualization (marketed under the GeForce and NVIDIA RTX lines), high-performance data center accelerators used for AI training and inference (including widely adopted platforms such as the A100 and H100 series), and Tegra SoCs for automotive and edge applications.

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