NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Trading 3.7% Higher – Here’s What Happened

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s stock price traded up 3.7% during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as high as $205.16 and last traded at $204.12. Approximately 145,981,826 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 14% from the average session volume of 168,842,922 shares. The stock had previously closed at $196.93.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Bank of America reiterated a bullish view on NVIDIA, saying the company remains a top AI stock and could keep a dominant share of AI infrastructure spending; other commentary also said current valuation looks more attractive after the recent pullback. Bank of America backs NVIDIA as AI leadership supports growth
• Positive Sentiment: Reuters reported China may allow a limited number of top AI firms to buy NVIDIA H200 chips, which would support demand even if supply is tightly capped. China plans limited Nvidia H200 chip access
• Positive Sentiment: Perplexity confirmed it plans to use NVIDIA’s new CPUs, and other articles highlighted additional partnerships and product adoption, reinforcing that NVIDIA is expanding beyond GPUs into broader AI infrastructure. Perplexity plans to use Nvidia’s new CPU
• Neutral Sentiment: Several pieces argued NVIDIA now screens as a “value” name after its valuation fell to multi-year lows relative to revenue growth, suggesting investors may be reassessing downside risk versus long-term AI upside.
• Neutral Sentiment: Market-wide semiconductor weakness, liquidity-driven selling, and a U.S.-Iran geopolitical flare-up weighed on chip stocks overall, which has been a drag on NVIDIA even though the core AI demand story has not changed.
• Negative Sentiment: Reports that DeepSeek and other AI customers are developing in-house chips renewed concerns that large buyers could reduce dependence on NVIDIA over time. NVIDIA stock faces pressure from DeepSeek chip concerns
• Negative Sentiment: There are also fresh bearish takes about competition, valuation, and a possible delay to NVIDIA’s next-gen Kyber AI system, all of which could limit upside if investors decide the AI buildout is maturing faster than expected.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

NVDA has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $265.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Melius Research set a $400.00 price target on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Seaport Research Partners lifted their price target on NVIDIA from $140.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $350.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $300.00 price objective (up from $275.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $303.84.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $209.91 and a 200-day simple moving average of $193.94. The company has a quick ratio of 2.85, a current ratio of 3.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. The company has a market cap of $4.94 trillion, a PE ratio of 31.26, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.43 and a beta of 2.21.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. The company had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.The firm’s revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.81 earnings per share. On average, research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.69 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were paid a $0.25 dividend. This is a boost from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 15.31%.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. The trade was a 11.77% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015 over the last 90 days. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of NVIDIA

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA by 3.8% during the first quarter. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC now owns 1,395 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $243,000 after buying an additional 51 shares during the period. Presidio Capital Management LLC increased its position in NVIDIA by 0.4% during the fourth quarter. Presidio Capital Management LLC now owns 15,137 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,823,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. LMG Wealth Partners LLC raised its stake in NVIDIA by 0.7% during the fourth quarter. LMG Wealth Partners LLC now owns 7,649 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,427,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the period. Vision Financial Markets LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% in the 3rd quarter. Vision Financial Markets LLC now owns 4,640 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $866,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Great Oak Capital Partners LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 3.8% in the 4th quarter. Great Oak Capital Partners LLC now owns 1,508 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $285,000 after purchasing an additional 55 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

NVIDIA Company 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.