Souders Financial Advisors Buys 6,726 Shares of NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Key Points

• Souders Financial Advisors increased its NVIDIA stake by 13.4% in the second quarter, buying 6,726 shares to hold 56,763 shares valued at approximately $11.4 million. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of NVIDIA.
• Analysts remain broadly bullish, with a consensus “Buy” rating and an average price target of $324.14; several firms recently raised targets as high as $345.
• NVIDIA reported quarterly revenue of $96.22 billion, up 105.9% year over year, and exceeded EPS estimates. However, significant insider selling, higher Treasury yields and rising memory costs present valuation and margin risks.

Souders Financial Advisors increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 13.4% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 56,763 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after buying an additional 6,726 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises 1.1% of Souders Financial Advisors' portfolio, making the stock its 24th largest position. Souders Financial Advisors' holdings in NVIDIA were worth $11,358,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. LightSquare Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% during the second 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 period. Defender Capital LLC. boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.7% in the second quarter. Defender Capital LLC. now owns 7,534 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $1,507,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the period. Kooman & Associates boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.6% in the second quarter. Kooman & Associates now owns 8,464 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $1,694,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the period. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 0.3% during the 2nd 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 stake in NVIDIA by 3.5% during the 2nd 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. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Activity

In other news, EVP Timothy Teter sold 30,460 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $222.80, for a total transaction of $6,786,488.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 2,687,660 shares in the company, valued at approximately $598,810,648. This represents a 1.12% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. 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 on Friday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 2,336,531 shares in the company, valued at $541,187,310.22. This represents a 21.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 1,766,118 shares of company stock valued at $399,450,353. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts have recently weighed in on NVDA shares. China Renaissance raised their target price on NVIDIA from $319.00 to $330.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research note on Monday, August 31st. Oppenheimer set a $315.00 price target on NVIDIA and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Thursday, August 27th. DA Davidson restated a "buy" rating and set a $300.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Wedbush upped their target price on NVIDIA from $330.00 to $345.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada upped their target price on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of $324.14.

More NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: AI demand remains exceptionally strong. Commentary indicates NVIDIA’s management sees a path to roughly 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028, well above the approximately 45% previously modeled by analysts. This suggests hyperscaler spending and demand for NVIDIA’s accelerated-computing systems may remain robust for longer than expected. NVIDIA demand growth article
• Positive Sentiment: The Vera Rubin rollout is progressing, with Super Micro Computer reportedly shipping liquid-cooled NVL72 racks for customer deployments. Successful system integration supports NVIDIA’s next-generation sales cycle and reinforces demand for related data-center infrastructure. Vera Rubin shipment article
• Positive Sentiment: Sanford C. Bernstein reaffirmed its “Buy” rating, while other research coverage continues to favor NVIDIA over competing AI-chip stocks because of its faster growth, stronger margins and broader hardware, networking and software ecosystem. NVIDIA versus Marvell analysis
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA’s reported agreement to acquire Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion would expand its access to AI models, developers, datasets and distribution. The strategic benefits could be significant, but the deal’s high price relative to Hugging Face’s reported revenue creates execution and valuation risk. Hugging Face acquisition analysis
• Negative Sentiment: Higher Treasury yields are making expensive technology stocks less attractive and increasing the risk of valuation compression. This macro pressure was the clearest reason for weakness across NVIDIA and other semiconductor shares. Semiconductor stocks and Treasury yields
• Negative Sentiment: Management expects higher memory costs to pressure gross margins, indicating that pricing power is shifting toward memory and optical-networking suppliers. NVIDIA also faces scrutiny from large insider sales, including an approximately $6.8 million Rule 10b5-1 sale by EVP Timothy Teter, although the transaction was prearranged. NVIDIA insider sale

NVIDIA Stock Down 0.4%

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $224.58 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.41 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.39, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 2.22. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $164.27 and a 1-year high of $236.54. The company's fifty day moving average is $216.08 and its two-hundred day moving average is $205.72. 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 (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 net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.05 EPS. The company's quarterly revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

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

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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