NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Acquired by Bollard Group LLC

Bollard Group LLC grew its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 3.7% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 158,928 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 5,726 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises 0.7% of Bollard Group LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 22nd biggest holding. Bollard Group LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $29,653,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 12.4% during the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 324,901 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $43,631,000 after purchasing an additional 35,815 shares in the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% in the fourth quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,346,417 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $315,100,000 after buying an additional 22,929 shares in the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 6.7% in the fourth quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 58,396 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $7,842,000 after buying an additional 3,653 shares in the last quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 30.7% in the 4th quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC now owns 50,658 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $6,805,000 after buying an additional 11,900 shares during the period. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 15.7% in the 1st quarter. Wealth Group Ltd. now owns 6,598 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $715,000 after buying an additional 896 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

More NVIDIA News

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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities analysts recently commented on the company. Benchmark restated a “buy” rating and set a $250.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, February 26th. CICC Research increased their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $228.00 to $240.60 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, February 27th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $250.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Bank of America lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $275.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Itau BBA Securities reaffirmed a “market perform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have given a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $274.21.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total value of $40,087,825.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,373,157,187.01. This represents a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $175.72, for a total value of $4,856,900.80. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 846,772 shares in the company, valued at approximately $148,794,775.84. This represents a 3.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 1,017,780 shares of company stock worth $185,596,715. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.6%

NVDA stock opened at $180.25 on Monday. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $185.35 and its 200 day moving average price is $184.10. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.38 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 36.79, a PEG ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $212.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a current ratio of 3.91.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.54 by $0.08. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The company had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $65.56 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.89 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 73.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. 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 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.