NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Sold by UP Strategic Wealth Investment Advisors LLC

Key Points

• UP Strategic Wealth Investment Advisors reduced its NVIDIA stake by 15.3% in the second quarter, selling 6,462 shares and retaining 35,735 shares valued at approximately $7.8 million. Institutional investors and hedge funds collectively own 65.27% of NVIDIA.
• Wall Street remains bullish, with 54 analysts rating NVIDIA Buy or Strong Buy and a consensus price target of $324.14. The company also exceeded quarterly expectations, reporting $2.22 in EPS and $96.22 billion in revenue, up 105.9% year over year.
• NVIDIA announced a $150 billion share-repurchase authorization and a $0.25 quarterly dividend, while insiders—including the CFO and a director—recently sold shares under disclosed transactions.

UP Strategic Wealth Investment Advisors LLC reduced its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 15.3% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 35,735 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after selling 6,462 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises approximately 4.7% of UP Strategic Wealth Investment Advisors LLC's portfolio, making the stock its 5th largest holding. UP Strategic Wealth Investment Advisors LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $7,834,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. LightSquare Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% in the 2nd quarter. LightSquare Wealth Management LLC now owns 18,695 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $3,741,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares during the last quarter. Defender Capital LLC. grew its stake in NVIDIA by 0.7% during the 2nd quarter. Defender Capital LLC. now owns 7,534 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $1,507,000 after buying an additional 50 shares during the last quarter. Kooman & Associates grew its stake in NVIDIA by 0.6% during the 2nd quarter. Kooman & Associates now owns 8,464 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $1,694,000 after buying an additional 50 shares during the last quarter. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC increased its position in NVIDIA by 0.3% during the second quarter. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC now owns 18,827 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $3,767,000 after buying an additional 50 shares during the period. Finally, Persium Advisors LLC increased its position in NVIDIA by 3.5% during the second quarter. Persium Advisors LLC now owns 1,466 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $293,000 after buying an additional 50 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company's stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. DZ Bank reissued a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, August 26th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a "buy (b)" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, July 8th. Mizuho set a $315.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, August 31st. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, September 10th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and one has given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of $324.14.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $227.21 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.48 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.72, a PEG ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 2.22. The business's 50 day moving average is $217.43 and its two-hundred day moving average is $206.62. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $164.27 and a 12-month high of $236.54. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.04% and a net margin of 63.66%.The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $92.27 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.05 EPS. The company's quarterly revenue was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be issued a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 12.64%.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Monday, September 28th that permits the company to buyback $150.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization permits the computer hardware maker to buy up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s decision to authorize an additional $150 billion in share repurchases, bringing total remaining authorization to approximately $235 billion through fiscal 2028, signals management’s confidence in future cash flow and could support earnings per share through a lower share count. Nvidia adds $150 billion to existing share repurchase plan
• Positive Sentiment: The company launched its Open Agent Safety Platform, including tools to control, monitor and isolate AI agents. Investors may see the initiative as a new software and inference-infrastructure opportunity rather than a constraint on AI spending. NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform
• Positive Sentiment: Demand indicators remain strong. SpaceX is reportedly purchasing more NVIDIA GPUs, Uniserve signed a five-year agreement involving NVIDIA B300 servers, and potential Chinese purchases of RTX PRO 5500 processors could expand the company’s addressable market if approved. SpaceX orders more Nvidia chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst optimism persists, including Rosenblatt’s reiterated Buy rating and $390 price target. Commentary also highlights accelerating TSMC 2-nanometer capacity and continued hyperscaler capital spending as longer-term support for NVIDIA’s growth. TSMC prices out the competition
• Negative Sentiment: Near-term trading was pressured by rising bond yields and macroeconomic uncertainty, while NVIDIA’s shares consolidated below their recent high after Monday’s buyback-driven advance.
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring higher memory costs and supply-chain bottlenecks that could compress gross margins even as AI revenue grows. A Netlist complaint seeking to restrict imports of Micron memory used in NVIDIA-related AI systems adds a further legal and supply risk. Netlist seeks U.S. import ban on Micron chips
• Negative Sentiment: NVIDIA is also exploring insurance structures for chip-backed loans to smaller “neocloud” customers. The effort could broaden demand, but it highlights concerns about financing risk and the ability of emerging customers to support massive AI infrastructure investments. Nvidia turns to insurers to spread risk of AI build-out

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In other news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total transaction of $7,648,787.90. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 765,103 shares of the company's stock, valued at $167,595,812.15. This represents a 4.36% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total transaction of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 2,336,531 shares of the company's stock, valued at $541,187,310.22. This represents a 21.03% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 1,766,118 shares of company stock valued at $399,450,353 in the last ninety days. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

NVIDIA Company Profile

NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), networking products and related software. Its technologies are used in artificial intelligence, data centers, scientific and technical computing, gaming, professional visualization, automotive systems and robotics.

The company's products include GeForce GPUs and gaming software, data center computing platforms, networking solutions, and enterprise software for AI development and deployment.

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