Quantum Financial Partners LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) during the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor bought 15,883 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $3,178,000. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 1.6% of Quantum Financial Partners LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 17th largest holding.
Several other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of NVDA. Defender Capital LLC. grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.7% during the 2nd quarter. Defender Capital LLC. now owns 7,534 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,507,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares during the period. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 3.8% during the 1st quarter. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC now owns 1,395 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $243,000 after acquiring an additional 51 shares during the last quarter. PFS Partners LLC lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% in the 2nd quarter. PFS Partners LLC now owns 4,375 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $875,000 after purchasing an additional 51 shares during the period. LMG Wealth Partners LLC lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.7% in the 4th quarter. LMG Wealth Partners LLC now owns 7,649 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,427,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the period. Finally, Vision Financial Markets LLC boosted its position 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 worth $866,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
NVDA has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Wells Fargo & Company reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $315.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Tuesday, August 11th. Wedbush boosted their target price on NVIDIA from $330.00 to $345.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Craig Hallum upped their price target on NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Oppenheimer set a $315.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Friday, September 4th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $324.83.
More NVIDIA News
Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:
- Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA continues to benefit from exceptional AI infrastructure demand. Recent analysis highlighted $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, 106% year-over-year growth, strong data-center momentum and management’s expectation for approximately 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028. Blackwell, networking and the upcoming Vera Rubin platform provide additional product catalysts. Nvidia’s Earnings Staircase Keeps The Momentum Rolling
- Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang reinforced the investment case by describing NVIDIA’s computing hardware as durable, rentable and capable of generating revenue for customers even as chips age. Continued rental demand for older H100 systems supports the resale and utilization value of NVIDIA’s installed base. Jensen Huang Calls Nvidia Chips a Revenue-Generating Asset
- Positive Sentiment: Customer and ecosystem news remains supportive: NVIDIA-backed Firmus signed a multiyear computing-capacity agreement with OpenAI, while Quantum Cyber announced an eight-GPU NVIDIA A100 cluster for autonomous defense and drone applications. These announcements indicate expanding use of NVIDIA hardware beyond traditional hyperscale deployments. Nvidia-backed Firmus Signs Deal With OpenAI
- Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA’s approximately $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face is viewed as a way to deepen its software and developer ecosystem, but investors are watching whether the open-source community embraces the platform under NVIDIA ownership and whether the deal produces adequate returns.
- Neutral Sentiment: Supplier activity points to sustained demand but also rising execution and financing requirements. Wistron announced a $1.5 billion share sale to fund materials and capacity, illustrating the capital intensity of the AI-server buildout without directly changing NVIDIA’s earnings outlook.
- Negative Sentiment: Director Mark Stevens sold 1,022,239 NVIDIA shares for approximately $235.6 million across September 3–4, reducing his direct ownership by roughly one-third across the reported transactions. Although insider sales do not necessarily signal deteriorating fundamentals, the size of the sales can weigh on sentiment.
- Negative Sentiment: The stock’s pullback reflects profit-taking after three sessions of gains and weaker risk appetite linked to higher oil prices and renewed Middle East tensions. Investors also continue to debate competition from custom AI chips, data-center opposition, customer concentration and whether AI spending can justify NVIDIA’s multitrillion-dollar valuation.
Insider Buying and Selling
In other NVIDIA news, EVP Timothy Teter sold 30,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $217.88, for a total value of $6,536,400.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $585,587,360.80. The trade was a 1.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 2,585,740 shares of company stock worth $571,015,527. Insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.
NVIDIA Stock Down 2.0%
NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $225.73 on Wednesday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1 year low of $164.27 and a 1 year high of $236.54. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $211.83 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $202.77. The stock has a market cap of $5.44 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.54, a PEG ratio of 1.81 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.04% and a net margin of 63.66%.The company had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.05 earnings per share. NVIDIA’s revenue was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA Dividend Announcement
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.4%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 12.64%.
NVIDIA announced that its board has initiated 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 reacquire up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.
NVIDIA Profile
NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processors and related software. Its products are used for artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing, computer graphics, data-center applications and other workloads that benefit from parallel processing.
The company’s offerings include GeForce graphics processing units (GPUs) and software for gaming and personal computers; data-center GPUs, systems and networking products; and professional visualization solutions for design, engineering, media and scientific applications.
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