Shah Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) during the second quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund acquired 99,777 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $19,964,000. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 4.6% of Shah Wealth Advisors LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 8th largest holding.
Several other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Boyd Wealth Management LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 273.4% in the 2nd quarter. Boyd Wealth Management LLC now owns 9,145 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,830,000 after buying an additional 6,696 shares during the last quarter. Ally Financial Inc. increased its stake in NVIDIA by 10.3% in the second quarter. Ally Financial Inc. now owns 172,000 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $34,415,000 after acquiring an additional 16,000 shares during the period. Altshuler Shaham Ltd increased its stake in NVIDIA by 6,451.9% in the first quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd now owns 637,236 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $111,134,000 after acquiring an additional 627,510 shares during the period. Baker Tilly Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 7.4% in the second quarter. Baker Tilly Wealth Management LLC now owns 71,898 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $14,386,000 after acquiring an additional 4,958 shares during the period. Finally, Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. raised its position in NVIDIA by 11.6% in the first quarter. Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. now owns 1,754,078 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $305,911,000 after purchasing an additional 182,345 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Insider Buying and Selling
In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 765,103 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. The trade was a 4.36% 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, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,460 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $222.80, for a total value of $6,786,488.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $598,810,648. The trade was a 1.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 1,766,118 shares of company stock valued at $399,450,353. 3.94% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
NVIDIA News Summary
- Positive Sentiment: Reportedly, ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have placed more than $35 billion in NVIDIA chip orders. The agreement could reopen a significant Chinese market, although the arrangement reportedly includes the U.S. government receiving 15% of Chinese sales. NVIDIA China chip orders
- Positive Sentiment: OpenAI is reportedly raising approximately $30 billion, while NVIDIA has agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion of obligations tied to an Ohio data-center campus OpenAI will lease. The deal could support substantial future demand for NVIDIA systems, but also increases NVIDIA’s exposure to customer financing. OpenAI fundraising and NVIDIA
- Positive Sentiment: Anthropic is reportedly discussing an expansion that could take its Nscale commitment to roughly $90 billion, potentially benefiting NVIDIA as a leading supplier of AI infrastructure. Anthropic Nscale expansion
- Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced German partnerships, investments in AI startups and a broader European AI initiative approaching $10 billion, strengthening its position in sovereign and industrial AI. NVIDIA German AI investments
- Positive Sentiment: A record 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum simulation on Europe’s JUPITER supercomputer demonstrated NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q, cuQuantum and accelerated-computing capabilities, expanding its longer-term technology opportunity beyond AI. NVIDIA quantum simulation
- Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is reportedly receiving billions of dollars of NVIDIA GB300 systems, but some racks are being stored because data centers lack sufficient power. This confirms demand while highlighting deployment bottlenecks. Amazon NVIDIA GPU systems
- Negative Sentiment: Google’s open-source TorchTPU and Amazon’s TorchNeuron initiatives are designed to make competing AI chips easier to use, threatening NVIDIA’s CUDA software moat and long-term pricing power. Google and Amazon challenge NVIDIA CUDA
- Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that heavily indebted neocloud customers, including CoreWeave, may struggle with higher borrowing costs. NVIDIA’s guarantees and investment relationships increase fears that AI infrastructure spending could involve circular or financially fragile demand. Why NVIDIA needs CoreWeave
- Negative Sentiment: Broad semiconductor selling, fading momentum in the AI trade and hedge-fund technology reductions are weighing on NVDA’s near-term performance despite continued strong chip demand. Chip stocks decline
NVIDIA Price Performance
NVDA opened at $216.47 on Wednesday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $223.17 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $212.01. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.22 trillion, a PE ratio of 27.37, a P/E/G ratio of 1.67 and a beta of 2.22. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.27 and a 52 week high of $243.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 4.59.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. The company had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.04% and a net margin of 63.66%. NVIDIA’s revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.05 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.30 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Monday, September 28th that allows the company to repurchase $150.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to repurchase up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.
NVIDIA Dividend Announcement
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 1st. Investors of record on Thursday, September 10th were given a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is currently 12.64%.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Weiss Ratings upgraded NVIDIA from a “buy (b)” rating to a “buy (b+)” rating in a research note on Friday. Melius Research set a $420.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Rosenblatt Securities reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $390.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, September 29th. Rothschild & Co Redburn upped their price target on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $325.00 in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, KGI Securities increased their price objective on NVIDIA from $335.00 to $345.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $321.47.
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About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs), accelerated computing platforms, networking products and related software. Its technologies support artificial intelligence, machine learning, scientific computing, data analytics, professional visualization and computer graphics.
The company’s products include GeForce GPUs for gaming and personal computing, data center GPUs and systems for AI and high-performance computing, and networking solutions used to connect and manage large-scale computing infrastructure.
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