NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Bought by Capital Impact Advisors LLC

Capital Impact Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 80.9% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 262,442 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 117,401 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises approximately 11.0% of Capital Impact Advisors LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its largest position. Capital Impact Advisors LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $48,966,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Center for Financial Planning Inc. raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 4.6% during the second quarter. Center for Financial Planning Inc. now owns 8,429 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,332,000 after acquiring an additional 367 shares during the last quarter. Atria Investments Inc boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 3.2% in the second quarter. Atria Investments Inc now owns 942,208 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $148,859,000 after acquiring an additional 29,479 shares during the last quarter. Svenska Handelsbanken AB publ bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the third quarter valued at approximately $37,316,000. Oak Ridge Investments LLC increased its position in NVIDIA by 2.2% during the 3rd quarter. Oak Ridge Investments LLC now owns 970,860 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $181,143,000 after purchasing an additional 20,559 shares during the period. Finally, Whalen Wealth Management Inc. increased its position in NVIDIA by 20.3% during the 3rd quarter. Whalen Wealth Management Inc. now owns 36,490 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $6,808,000 after purchasing an additional 6,162 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on NVDA shares. Arete Research boosted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $244.00 to $261.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 25th. Truist Financial increased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $275.00 to $283.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. UBS Group set a $400.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, February 23rd. Royal Bank Of Canada boosted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $240.00 to $250.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised shares of NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, February 28th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have given a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $274.21.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA struck a high‑profile strategic deal, committing $2 billion to Nebius to scale hyperscale AI cloud capacity — a move that secures future demand for NVIDIA GPUs and signals long‑term revenue/market share benefits. NVIDIA Bets $2 Billion on Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 (an advanced open AI model) and continues to push agentic‑AI positioning — extending software/IP monetization beyond chips and supporting higher attach rates for its data‑center stack. NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3
• Positive Sentiment: Reports show ByteDance is assembling AI capacity using NVIDIA’s top chips outside China, which reinforces global enterprise demand for NVIDIA hardware. ByteDance Access to Nvidia AI Chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are focused on next week’s GTC where NVIDIA is expected to emphasize new CPU and system announcements (the company says CPUs are becoming a bottleneck for agentic AI) — the event can swing sentiment either way depending on product details and guidance. Nvidia’s GTC will mark an AI chip pivot
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro and geopolitical risks (oil price moves, regional conflicts) are elevating market volatility and capping near‑term upside for high‑beta AI names like NVDA. Dow Jones Futures Fall; Crude Oil Prices Top $90
• Neutral Sentiment: Competing chip/cloud moves — e.g., Cerebras partnering with Amazon to offer alternative AI accelerators — underline growing competition in AI compute, a factor to monitor for margin/market‑share dynamics. Cerebras and Amazon deal
• Negative Sentiment: A sizable insider sale (EVP Ajay Puri sold 300,000 shares) has been flagged by the market and can feed short‑term profit‑taking narratives. Ajay K. Puri insider sale filing
• Negative Sentiment: U.S. policymakers are considering tighter export/permit controls on advanced AI chips — any formal restriction would directly affect NVIDIA’s addressable market and create regulatory uncertainty. US mulling export permits for Nvidia chips

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.6%

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $180.25 on Monday. The company has a quick ratio of 3.24, a current ratio of 3.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. The firm has a market cap of $4.38 trillion, a PE ratio of 36.79, a P/E/G ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $185.35 and its 200 day simple moving average is $184.10. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $86.62 and a 12-month high of $212.19.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share 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 firm had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $65.56 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.89 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be given a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 0.82%.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total value of $40,087,825.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,373,157,187.01. This trade represents a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 300,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $182.52, for a total value of $54,756,000.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 3,318,547 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $605,701,198.44. This represents a 8.29% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold 1,017,780 shares of company stock valued at $185,596,715 in the last three months. Corporate insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

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.