Yeomans Consulting Group Inc. trimmed its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Free Report) by 23.9% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 6,056 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock after selling 1,903 shares during the period. Yeomans Consulting Group Inc.'s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $656,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter valued at about $43,515,504,000. GAMMA Investing LLC raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 12,173.2% during the first quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 48,837,781 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $5,293,039,000 after acquiring an additional 48,439,859 shares in the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp increased its position in NVIDIA by 15.8% during the fourth quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 266,454,194 shares of the computer hardware maker's stock worth $35,782,134,000 after buying an additional 36,266,817 shares during the last quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. increased its position in NVIDIA by 204.6% during the first 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 buying an additional 23,948,733 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Universal Beteiligungs und Servicegesellschaft mbH acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the fourth quarter worth approximately $2,987,733,000. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
NVDA has been the topic of several research reports. Loop Capital upped their target price on NVIDIA from $175.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 25th. Wedbush reissued an "outperform" rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 29th. Citigroup upped their target price on NVIDIA from $180.00 to $190.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Monday, July 7th. The Goldman Sachs Group assumed coverage on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, July 10th. They issued a "buy" rating and a $185.00 price target for the company. Finally, Morgan Stanley increased their price target on NVIDIA from $170.00 to $200.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 30th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating, thirty-two have given a buy rating and four have issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA currently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $186.33.
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NVIDIA Price Performance
Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $182.02 on Friday. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $184.48. The firm's 50-day simple moving average is $163.18 and its 200 day simple moving average is $135.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.10, a quick ratio of 2.96 and a current ratio of 3.39. The stock has a market cap of $4.44 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.72, a PEG ratio of 1.60 and a beta of 2.14.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May 28th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.87 by ($0.06). NVIDIA had a return on equity of 105.09% and a net margin of 51.69%. The business had revenue of $44.06 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $43.09 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.61 EPS. NVIDIA's quarterly revenue was up 69.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
NVIDIA Dividend Announcement
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, July 3rd. Investors of record on Wednesday, June 11th were issued a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, June 11th. NVIDIA's payout ratio is 1.29%.
Insider Buying and Selling
In related news, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $178.06, for a total value of $4,921,578.40. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 2,956,876 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $526,501,340.56. The trade was a 0.93% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Jen Hsun Huang sold 75,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $181.38, for a total transaction of $13,603,500.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 72,998,225 shares in the company, valued at $13,240,418,050.50. The trade was a 0.10% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 5,837,440 shares of company stock worth $889,404,782 in the last ninety days. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
NVIDIA Company Profile
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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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