NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is Sapient Capital LLC’s 10th Largest Position

Sapient Capital LLC reduced its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 35.2% during the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 502,570 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 273,265 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises approximately 1.3% of Sapient Capital LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 10th largest position. Sapient Capital LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $87,654,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 3.8% in 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 buying an additional 51 shares during the period. LMG Wealth Partners LLC boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.7% during 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 acquiring an additional 53 shares during the period. Vision Financial Markets LLC grew its position in NVIDIA by 1.2% in the 3rd quarter. Vision Financial Markets LLC now owns 4,640 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $866,000 after acquiring an additional 53 shares in the last quarter. JGP Global Gestao de Recursos Ltda. grew its position in NVIDIA by 2.3% in the 4th quarter. JGP Global Gestao de Recursos Ltda. now owns 2,402 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $448,000 after acquiring an additional 55 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Penobscot Wealth Management increased its stake in NVIDIA by 0.7% during the first quarter. Penobscot Wealth Management now owns 7,930 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,383,000 after purchasing an additional 55 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research analysts have recently commented on NVDA shares. Argus raised their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $220.00 to $270.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. William Blair reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Tuesday, June 2nd. HSBC reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $325.00 price target (up from $295.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, May 19th. Cantor Fitzgerald restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $350.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Itau BBA Securities cut their price objective on NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research report on Wednesday, June 24th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $305.94.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were 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 in the company, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last quarter, insiders sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: $500 billion financing push reduces funding constraints: Bank of America said the initiative could ease financing risk by shifting much of the capital burden to Wall Street. The plan may make it easier for cloud providers and other customers to purchase NVIDIA hardware, networking products, and software, potentially extending the company’s revenue runway. BofA Says Nvidia’s $500 Billion Plan Eases Financing Risk
• Positive Sentiment: Continued demand for current and older GPUs: Susquehanna expects a continued GB300 ramp ahead of NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform release. Separately, CoreWeave’s CEO said the company is booking NVIDIA A100 systems through 2029 at full pricing, challenging concerns that older GPUs will rapidly lose value. Nvidia likely to see continued GB300 ramp ahead of Vera Rubin release
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts remain bullish: Recent coverage includes rating upgrades and price-target increases, with Wells Fargo maintaining an overweight rating and a $315 target. The positive views reflect expectations for sustained AI infrastructure spending and NVIDIA’s end-to-end hardware, networking, and software advantage. SA analyst upgrades and downgrades
• Positive Sentiment: Broader AI ecosystem momentum: IBM and Together AI agreed to a $240 million multiyear contract for an NVIDIA-powered inference cluster, while NVIDIA’s open-weight model efforts could strengthen its software ecosystem and CUDA platform. IBM and Together AI ink $240 million deal
• Negative Sentiment: Financing risks remain a key overhang: Critics question whether the arrangement amounts to circular financing because NVIDIA may provide residual-value support of up to 25% on some deals. Rapid GPU depreciation, potential oversupply, and lower-cost Chinese compute could weaken collateral values and expose NVIDIA to losses if customers struggle.
• Neutral Sentiment: Near-term test: Investors are likely to look to NVIDIA’s late-August earnings report for evidence that GB300 demand, expanding customer spending, and the financing strategy are translating into sustainable revenue and earnings growth.

NVIDIA Trading Up 3.0%

NVDA opened at $224.09 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a current ratio of 3.44. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.07 and a one year high of $236.54. The company has a market cap of $5.42 trillion, a P/E ratio of 34.32, a PEG ratio of 0.42 and a beta of 2.23. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $205.61 and its 200-day simple moving average is $198.06.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.The firm’s revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.81 earnings per share. As a group, equities research analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were given a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.4%. This is a boost from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 15.31%.

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

NVIDIA Company Profile

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.