Chesapeake Capital Corp IL Makes New Investment in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Chesapeake Capital Corp IL purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) during the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm purchased 6,156 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $1,149,000. NVIDIA accounts for about 1.0% of Chesapeake Capital Corp IL’s portfolio, making the stock its 18th biggest position.

Several other large investors have also made changes to their positions in the business. Capital Wealth Planning LLC lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 198.5% in the third quarter. Capital Wealth Planning LLC now owns 209,238 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $39,040,000 after buying an additional 139,139 shares in the last quarter. Columbus Hill Capital Management L.P. boosted its stake in NVIDIA by 59.6% during the third quarter. Columbus Hill Capital Management L.P. now owns 154,800 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $28,883,000 after buying an additional 57,800 shares during the last quarter. Compass Wealth Management LLC GA grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.5% during the 3rd quarter. Compass Wealth Management LLC GA now owns 51,676 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $9,643,000 after buying an additional 241 shares in the last quarter. Dodge & Cox bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $634,000. Finally, FreeGulliver LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 472.3% during the 3rd quarter. FreeGulliver LLC now owns 17,880 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,336,000 after acquiring an additional 14,756 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA struck a high‑profile strategic deal, committing $2 billion to Nebius to scale hyperscale AI cloud capacity — a move that secures future demand for NVIDIA GPUs and signals long‑term revenue/market share benefits. NVIDIA Bets $2 Billion on Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 (an advanced open AI model) and continues to push agentic‑AI positioning — extending software/IP monetization beyond chips and supporting higher attach rates for its data‑center stack. NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3
• Positive Sentiment: Reports show ByteDance is assembling AI capacity using NVIDIA’s top chips outside China, which reinforces global enterprise demand for NVIDIA hardware. ByteDance Access to Nvidia AI Chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are focused on next week’s GTC where NVIDIA is expected to emphasize new CPU and system announcements (the company says CPUs are becoming a bottleneck for agentic AI) — the event can swing sentiment either way depending on product details and guidance. Nvidia’s GTC will mark an AI chip pivot
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro and geopolitical risks (oil price moves, regional conflicts) are elevating market volatility and capping near‑term upside for high‑beta AI names like NVDA. Dow Jones Futures Fall; Crude Oil Prices Top $90
• Neutral Sentiment: Competing chip/cloud moves — e.g., Cerebras partnering with Amazon to offer alternative AI accelerators — underline growing competition in AI compute, a factor to monitor for margin/market‑share dynamics. Cerebras and Amazon deal
• Negative Sentiment: A sizable insider sale (EVP Ajay Puri sold 300,000 shares) has been flagged by the market and can feed short‑term profit‑taking narratives. Ajay K. Puri insider sale filing
• Negative Sentiment: U.S. policymakers are considering tighter export/permit controls on advanced AI chips — any formal restriction would directly affect NVIDIA’s addressable market and create regulatory uncertainty. US mulling export permits for Nvidia chips

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have recently commented on the company. William Blair set a $300.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday. Wedbush boosted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $230.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, March 3rd. Wolfe Research upped their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, January 30th. Citic Securities increased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $237.00 to $242.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Finally, Truist Financial boosted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $275.00 to $283.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have issued a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $274.21.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total value of $44,332,500.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 6,933,280 shares in the company, valued at $1,229,478,542.40. This represents a 3.48% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total transaction of $40,087,825.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 7,621,453 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,373,157,187.01. This trade represents a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last three months, insiders have sold 1,267,780 shares of company stock valued at $229,929,215. Company insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $180.25 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19. The company has a market capitalization of $4.38 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.79, a PEG ratio of 0.62 and a beta of 2.33. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $185.35 and its 200 day moving average is $184.07.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The business had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $65.56 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.89 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be issued a $0.01 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 11th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is presently 0.82%.

NVIDIA Profile

NVIDIA Corporation, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a global technology company that designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies. Co-founded by Jensen Huang, who serves as president and chief executive officer, along with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA has grown from a graphics-focused chipmaker into a broad provider of accelerated computing hardware and software for multiple industries.

The company’s product portfolio spans discrete GPUs for gaming and professional visualization (marketed under the GeForce and NVIDIA RTX lines), high-performance data center accelerators used for AI training and inference (including widely adopted platforms such as the A100 and H100 series), and Tegra SoCs for automotive and edge applications.