Northstar Advisory Group LLC Reduces Stake in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Northstar Advisory Group LLC trimmed its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 15.2% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 84,395 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 15,162 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for 5.2% of Northstar Advisory Group LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 4th largest holding. Northstar Advisory Group LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $16,887,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Norges Bank acquired a new position in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $62,244,133,000. J. Stern & Co. LLP lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 13,709.1% during the fourth quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,454,297,000 after acquiring an additional 124,849,603 shares during the period. Cardano Risk Management B.V. raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 896.4% in the fourth quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. now owns 78,123,960 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $14,570,119,000 after acquiring an additional 70,283,539 shares during the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors boosted its stake in NVIDIA by 16.1% in the third quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $30,855,564,000 after purchasing an additional 22,896,705 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 15,496.1% during the second quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 21,865,525 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $3,454,534,000 after purchasing an additional 21,725,326 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Record results exceeded expectations: Fiscal Q2 revenue reached $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, while Data Center revenue rose 117% to $89.0 billion. Non-GAAP EPS was $2.22 versus the $2.09 consensus, and gross margin remained 75%. NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2027
• Positive Sentiment: Guidance reinforced the AI growth story: NVIDIA forecast approximately $108 billion in fiscal Q3 revenue and indicated that fiscal 2028 revenue could grow about 70%, well above prior Wall Street expectations. Management said demand is exceeding available supply across memory, packaging, power and computing capacity. Nvidia rises after signaling longer AI spending runway
• Positive Sentiment: Customer commitments and product expansion support visibility: AWS plans to add two million NVIDIA GPUs, while the Vera Rubin platform is entering full production. The company also announced financing partnerships intended to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. NVIDIA quarterly results
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised their targets: JPMorgan lifted its target to $320, RBC to $330, and other firms set targets as high as $345-$352, citing NVIDIA’s growth, margins and CUDA ecosystem. What Wall Street is saying about NVIDIA
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly pursuing a roughly $12.9 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which could broaden its software ecosystem but remains unconfirmed and may carry integration and valuation risks. Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face, report says
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring profitability and execution risks: Fiscal Q3 gross-margin guidance of 74% is below the latest quarter, reflecting higher memory and infrastructure costs. NVIDIA also excludes China Data Center compute revenue from its outlook. NVIDIA earnings call puts supply limits at center of outlook
• Negative Sentiment: The company paused some revenue-sharing and financing arrangements with AI cloud firms, raising questions about customer funding, circular financing concerns and the sustainability of AI returns. Nvidia pauses revenue-sharing deals

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 18th. The shares were 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 of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated 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 completion of the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $25,053,803.55. The trade was a 11.77% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 1,900,500 shares of company stock worth $410,449,265 in the last quarter. 3.94% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $227.98 on Friday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $164.07 and a 1-year high of $236.54. The company has a current ratio of 3.44, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. The firm has a market cap of $5.52 trillion, a P/E ratio of 28.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.23. The business’s 50 day moving average is $207.95 and its 200-day moving average is $200.66.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 107.00%. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.05 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.8 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Investors of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 15.31%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms have recently issued reports on NVDA. HSBC restated a “buy” rating and set a $325.00 target price (up from $295.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, May 19th. Citigroup reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $315.00 price objective (up from $300.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday. Morgan Stanley set a $300.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday. Needham & Company LLC raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday. Finally, Wedbush boosted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $330.00 to $345.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $322.61.

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.