9,232 Shares in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Purchased by Stableford Capital II LLC

Stableford Capital II LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) in the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 9,232 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock, valued at approximately $937,000.

Several other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of NVDA. DecisionPoint Financial LLC grew its stake in NVIDIA by 2.9% during the 4th quarter. DecisionPoint Financial LLC now owns 2,878 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $386,000 after acquiring an additional 80 shares in the last quarter. BCR Wealth Strategies LLC boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 3.1% during the 4th quarter. BCR Wealth Strategies LLC now owns 2,919 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock valued at $391,000 after buying an additional 89 shares during the period. Condor Capital Management raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 3.6% during the fourth quarter. Condor Capital Management now owns 2,559 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $344,000 after acquiring an additional 89 shares in the last quarter. Squire Investment Management Company LLC raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 4.0% during the 4th quarter. Squire Investment Management Company LLC now owns 2,360 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $317,000 after purchasing an additional 91 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Kelly Financial Services LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 2.0% in the first quarter. Kelly Financial Services LLC now owns 4,736 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $513,000 after buying an additional 94 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company's stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages recently weighed in on NVDA. Seaport Res Ptn raised NVIDIA to a "strong sell" rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 30th. KeyCorp set a $190.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, March 19th. Piper Sandler reiterated an "overweight" rating and issued a $180.00 target price (up from $150.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, May 28th. Summit Insights upgraded shares of NVIDIA from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, May 29th. Finally, Wedbush reaffirmed an "outperform" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 29th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating, thirty-four have issued a buy rating and three have assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus target price of $176.47.

NVIDIA Stock Up 1.8%

NVDA stock traded up $2.88 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $162.88. The company's stock had a trading volume of 182,635,717 shares, compared to its average volume of 267,107,945. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10, a current ratio of 3.39 and a quick ratio of 2.96. NVIDIA Corporation has a twelve month low of $86.62 and a twelve month high of $164.34. The company's fifty day moving average price is $138.39 and its 200 day moving average price is $128.20. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.97 trillion, a P/E ratio of 52.54, a PEG ratio of 1.40 and a beta of 2.13.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 28th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.87 by ($0.06). NVIDIA had a net margin of 51.69% and a return on equity of 105.09%. The business had revenue of $44.06 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $43.09 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.61 earnings per share. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 69.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, June 11th were paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, June 11th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.02%. NVIDIA's dividend payout ratio is presently 1.29%.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director Tench Coxe sold 1,000,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $142.80, for a total transaction of $142,800,000.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 26,671,360 shares in the company, valued at $3,808,670,208. The trade was a 3.61% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 168,195 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $152.64, for a total transaction of $25,673,284.80. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 4,018,547 shares in the company, valued at $613,391,014.08. This represents a 4.02% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 4,296,844 shares of company stock valued at $624,019,677 over the last quarter. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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.