NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Stock Position Cut by Blueprint Investment Partners LLC

Key Points

• Blueprint Investment Partners LLC reduced its NVIDIA holdings by 18.9%, owning 169,293 shares after selling 39,385 shares in the 1st quarter.
• Multiple institutional investors, including Goldman Sachs and GAMMA Investing LLC, significantly increased their stakes in NVIDIA during the same quarter.
• NVIDIA reported better-than-expected earnings with EPS of $1.05, beating analyst estimates, and raised its Q3 2026 guidance while also announcing a quarterly dividend of $0.01.

Blueprint Investment Partners LLC cut its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 18.9% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 169,293 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after selling 39,385 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA makes up approximately 3.4% of Blueprint Investment Partners LLC's holdings, making the stock its 6th largest holding. Blueprint Investment Partners LLC's holdings in NVIDIA were worth $18,348,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of NVDA. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 123.5% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 187,995,213 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $20,374,921,000 after purchasing an additional 103,889,872 shares during the last quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 12,173.2% during the 1st quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 48,837,781 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $5,293,039,000 after purchasing an additional 48,439,859 shares during the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 15.8% during the 4th quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 266,454,194 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $35,782,134,000 after purchasing an additional 36,266,817 shares during the last quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 204.6% during the 1st quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 35,652,571 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $3,864,026,000 after purchasing an additional 23,948,733 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Universal Beteiligungs und Servicegesellschaft mbH purchased a new stake in NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $2,987,733,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on NVDA. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their price target on NVIDIA from $202.00 to $212.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Monday, August 25th. Rosenblatt Securities boosted their price target on NVIDIA from $200.00 to $215.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, August 28th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a $200.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, August 28th. Bank of America boosted their price target on NVIDIA from $220.00 to $235.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, August 28th. Finally, Raymond James Financial boosted their price target on NVIDIA from $150.00 to $165.00 and gave the company a "strong-buy" rating in a report on Thursday, May 29th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-three have given a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $207.42.

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other news, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 75,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Monday, September 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $169.71, for a total value of $12,728,250.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 72,398,366 shares in the company, valued at $12,286,726,693.86. This represents a 0.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, Director Dawn E. Hudson sold 18,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, September 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $172.00, for a total value of $3,096,000.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 368,887 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $63,448,564. This represents a 4.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 3,832,755 shares of company stock valued at $619,935,680. Insiders own 4.17% of the company's stock.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NVDA opened at $168.31 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a current ratio of 4.21 and a quick ratio of 3.60. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $184.48. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $172.94 and a 200 day moving average price of $140.44. The company has a market cap of $4.09 trillion, a P/E ratio of 47.95, a PEG ratio of 1.21 and a beta of 2.10.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 27th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.01 by $0.04. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 101.74% and a net margin of 52.41%.The company had revenue of $46.74 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $45.65 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.68 EPS. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 55.6% on a year-over-year basis. NVIDIA has set its Q3 2026 guidance at EPS. On average, research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 2nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 11th will be issued a $0.01 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 11th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio is 1.14%.

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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