NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Purchased by Hoertkorn Richard Charles

Hoertkorn Richard Charles raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 48.3% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 11,056 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after acquiring an additional 3,600 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up 1.5% of Hoertkorn Richard Charles' investment portfolio, making the stock its 21st biggest holding. Hoertkorn Richard Charles' holdings in NVIDIA were worth $2,212,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Other hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. J. Stern & Co. LLP grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 13,709.1% in the 4th quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $23,454,297,000 after purchasing an additional 124,849,603 shares during the last quarter. PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the fourth quarter worth approximately $2,635,969,000. Amundi raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 10.4% during the first quarter. Amundi now owns 133,768,018 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $23,329,141,000 after purchasing an additional 12,575,177 shares during the last quarter. SEB Asset Management AB acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the first quarter worth $1,692,807,000. Finally, Employees Provident Fund Board acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the fourth quarter worth $1,243,336,000. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NVDA opened at $210.96 on Tuesday. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $213.60 and a 200-day simple moving average of $203.54. The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 4.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The company has a market capitalization of $5.08 trillion, a PE ratio of 26.67, a P/E/G ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.22. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $164.27 and a 52-week high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The firm had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.05 earnings per share. The firm's revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.12 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

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

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to buyback $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Key NVIDIA News

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.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

NVDA has been the topic of several recent research reports. Rothschild & Co Redburn boosted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $300.00 to $325.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Barclays restated an "overweight" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of NVIDIA from a "buy" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a research note on Saturday, August 29th. Bank of America reissued a "buy" rating and set a $350.00 price target (up from $320.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, CICC Research raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $240.60 to $268.30 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA currently has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of $324.34.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In related news, EVP Timothy 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 value of $6,536,400.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 2,687,660 shares in the company, valued at $585,587,360.80. The trade was a 1.10% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 5,207,271 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 2,585,740 shares of company stock valued at $571,015,527 in the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company's stock.

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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