NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Sold by Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI

Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI trimmed its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 9.9% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 67,102 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 7,394 shares during the period. Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $12,515,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the business. State Street Corp raised its stake in NVIDIA by 1.0% during the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 978,208,862 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $154,556,803,000 after acquiring an additional 9,554,857 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 579,213,497 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $91,150,170,000 after purchasing an additional 8,521,936 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $51,386,863,000. Legal & General Group Plc raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 181,203,035 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,808,862,000 after purchasing an additional 2,609,560 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 16.1% in the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $30,855,564,000 after purchasing an additional 22,896,705 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts recently commented on the company. Citigroup upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $270.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. William Blair set a $300.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. Piper Sandler restated an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Tigress Financial reaffirmed a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $360.00 price objective (up from $350.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, March 5th. Finally, Macquarie Infrastructure upgraded shares of NVIDIA to an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $275.95.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 221,682 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $173.68, for a total transaction of $38,501,729.76. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 7,399,771 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,285,192,227.28. This trade represents a 2.91% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director John Dabiri sold 3,004 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Friday, March 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $184.90, for a total value of $555,439.60. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 14,788 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,734,301.20. The trade was a 16.88% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 1,401,616 shares of company stock valued at $253,555,407. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.4%

NVIDIA stock opened at $165.17 on Tuesday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $86.62 and a 52 week high of $212.19. The stock has a market cap of $4.01 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.71, a PEG ratio of 0.56 and a beta of 2.33. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $182.99 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $184.30. 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 (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating 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 analysts’ expectations of $65.56 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.89 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 73.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be paid 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 is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 0.82%.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA is accelerating cloud demand via a $2 billion investment/partnership with Nebius to build a full‑stack, NVIDIA‑powered AI cloud and support multiple gigawatts of capacity through 2030 — a long‑dated demand outlet for GPUs and data‑center chips. AI Infrastructure Wars Are Officially Here — Nvidia’s $2B Nebius Push Just Turned Up the Heat
• Positive Sentiment: Large AI customers continue to back NVIDIA hardware: French startup Mistral raised debt to build an NVIDIA‑powered data center (plans to use tens of thousands of GPUs), signaling meaningful near‑term procurement for high‑end chips. That supports revenue visibility for NVDA’s data‑center segment. Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center
• Positive Sentiment: Enterprise adoption: Coupang announced an “AI factory” built with NVIDIA tech to automate logistics and delivery — another example of vertical integration that should sustain recurring GPU/cloud spend from large platform customers. Coupang (CPNG) and Nvidia Build AI Factory for Logistics Operations
• Positive Sentiment: Wall‑street/strategist support: Bank of America and other outlets keep NVIDIA among top AI/semiconductor picks, which could underpin buy‑side interest if near‑term earnings continue to beat. BofA Reveals Top AI Semiconductor Picks: NVIDIA (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), and AMD Lead
• Neutral Sentiment: Ecosystem recognition and partnerships (eg. IGEL partner awards, Dassault Systèmes integrations) highlight broad platform adoption but are incremental vs. large data‑center orders. IGEL Recognizes Nutanix, Omnissa, NVIDIA, HP and Imprivata as 2026 IGEL Ready Partners of the Year
• Neutral Sentiment: Smaller ecosystem news (startups naming NVIDIA as a customer, like Qodo) validate enterprise traction but are not material revenue drivers on their own. Qodo Raises $70M to Accelerate Fight Against Software Slop From OpenClaw and Claude Code
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation and sentiment drag: NVDA’s P/E has fallen to multi‑year lows amid geopolitical risk and market risk‑off, compressing multiples even as revenue growth stays strong — that increases downside if macro volatility persists. Nvidia’s PE sinks to seven-year low as war and AI angst weigh
• Negative Sentiment: Institutional repositioning: Reports say institutions cut >$70B of NVDA exposure in recent filings — large outflows or rebalancing can amplify volatility and pressure price in the near term. Institutions have dumped over $70 billion of Nvidia stock
• Negative Sentiment: Operational/supply risks: Reports flag potential production headwinds (eg. helium shortages for chip manufacturing) that could constrain supply or increase costs if they persist. Nvidia: Helium Shortage Problems

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.