St. Louis Financial Planners Asset Management LLC Acquires New Stake in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

St. Louis Financial Planners Asset Management LLC acquired a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 16,341 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $3,184,000. NVIDIA comprises approximately 1.6% of St. Louis Financial Planners Asset Management LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 28th biggest position.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the business. Diversified Enterprises LLC raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 44.2% in the 4th quarter. Diversified Enterprises LLC now owns 127,604 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,798,000 after purchasing an additional 39,129 shares during the last quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd grew its position in NVIDIA by 6,451.9% during the 1st quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd now owns 637,236 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $111,134,000 after purchasing an additional 627,510 shares during the last quarter. ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V. increased its stake in NVIDIA by 1.8% during the 4th quarter. ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V. now owns 3,169,377 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $591,086,000 after purchasing an additional 54,877 shares in the last quarter. Storen Legacy Partners LLC purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter worth $1,350,000. Finally, Weaver Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 5.5% during the fourth quarter. Weaver Capital Management LLC now owns 85,216 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $15,893,000 after buying an additional 4,439 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total transaction of $133,750.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,030,882. This represents a 4.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015 in the last three months. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research firms recently issued reports on NVDA. Wolfe Research reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $275.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Rosenblatt Securities reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $325.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Wells Fargo & Company reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $315.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, August 11th. Zacks Research raised NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, June 29th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $305.94.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NVDA stock opened at $225.16 on Monday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $164.07 and a 52-week high of $236.54. 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 stock has a market cap of $5.45 trillion, a PE ratio of 34.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.44 and a beta of 2.23. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $206.14 and a 200-day simple moving average of $198.60.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its 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. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.81 earnings per share. NVIDIA’s revenue for the quarter was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

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 issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. This is a positive change from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 15.31%.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UBS expects another major earnings beat. The firm reiterated a Buy rating and $280 price target, forecasting that NVIDIA could exceed its fiscal second-quarter revenue outlook of $91 billion by several billion dollars as GB300 demand ramps ahead of the Vera Rubin platform. UBS earnings outlook
• Positive Sentiment: A proposed $500 billion financing initiative could expand customers’ purchasing capacity. Apollo, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and other financial firms are discussing capital pools and securitized loans for AI data centers. The structure could support continued GPU deployments and create a secondary market for older NVIDIA systems. NVIDIA GPU financing deal
• Positive Sentiment: Demand catalysts continue to broaden. NVIDIA is promoting open-source AI tools, expanding into robotics and physical AI, partnering with former rival Groq, and deepening its networking and infrastructure business. A $2 billion investment in Marvell also highlights efforts to strengthen the broader AI supply chain. NVIDIA open-source AI strategy
• Neutral Sentiment: Market volatility appears driven more by liquidity than fundamentals. Asian market circuit breakers and currency-related selling pressured semiconductor shares, but the underlying hyperscaler data-center buildout and long-term AI infrastructure commitments remain intact. Asian market volatility and AI demand
• Negative Sentiment: Expectations and valuation leave little room for disappointment. Analysts note that NVIDIA’s strong pre-earnings performance has set a high bar, while critics—including Michael Burry—warn that AI financing may become circular if customers rely heavily on borrowed capital. Concerns also include power, labor and chip-supply bottlenecks, as well as the risk that Chinese developers optimize models for Huawei hardware instead of U.S. GPUs. AI infrastructure bottlenecks

About NVIDIA

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.