NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Bought by Empowered Funds LLC

Empowered Funds LLC grew its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 47.5% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 2,702,964 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 870,355 shares during the period. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 3.0% of Empowered Funds LLC’s holdings, making the stock its largest position. Empowered Funds LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $471,397,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of NVDA. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 3.8% during the first quarter. Spectrum Financial Alliance Ltd LLC now owns 1,395 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $243,000 after buying an additional 51 shares during the last quarter. LMG Wealth Partners LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 0.7% in the fourth 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 last quarter. Vision Financial Markets LLC grew 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 valued at $866,000 after acquiring an additional 53 shares during the period. JGP Global Gestao de Recursos Ltda. grew its position in shares of 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 during the period. Finally, Penobscot Wealth Management increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.7% during the 1st 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 last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several analysts have issued reports on NVDA shares. Benchmark restated a “buy” rating and issued a $335.00 price objective (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Melius Research set a $400.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “hold” rating and set a $255.00 price target (up from $220.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Seaport Research Partners boosted their price objective on NVIDIA from $140.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $305.94.

NVIDIA Stock Down 0.1%

NVDA stock opened at $225.16 on Friday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.07 and a 52 week high of $236.54. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $206.14 and a 200 day simple moving average of $198.51. The company has a quick ratio of 2.85, a current ratio of 3.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. The company has a market cap of $5.45 trillion, a PE ratio of 34.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.44 and a beta of 2.23.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.81 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

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

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

Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the company’s 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 completion of the sale, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This represents a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015 over the last three months. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UBS expects another major earnings beat. The firm reiterated a Buy rating and $280 price target, forecasting that NVIDIA could exceed its fiscal second-quarter revenue outlook of $91 billion by several billion dollars as GB300 demand ramps ahead of the Vera Rubin platform. UBS earnings outlook
• Positive Sentiment: A proposed $500 billion financing initiative could expand customers’ purchasing capacity. Apollo, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and other financial firms are discussing capital pools and securitized loans for AI data centers. The structure could support continued GPU deployments and create a secondary market for older NVIDIA systems. NVIDIA GPU financing deal
• Positive Sentiment: Demand catalysts continue to broaden. NVIDIA is promoting open-source AI tools, expanding into robotics and physical AI, partnering with former rival Groq, and deepening its networking and infrastructure business. A $2 billion investment in Marvell also highlights efforts to strengthen the broader AI supply chain. NVIDIA open-source AI strategy
• Neutral Sentiment: Market volatility appears driven more by liquidity than fundamentals. Asian market circuit breakers and currency-related selling pressured semiconductor shares, but the underlying hyperscaler data-center buildout and long-term AI infrastructure commitments remain intact. Asian market volatility and AI demand
• Negative Sentiment: Expectations and valuation leave little room for disappointment. Analysts note that NVIDIA’s strong pre-earnings performance has set a high bar, while critics—including Michael Burry—warn that AI financing may become circular if customers rely heavily on borrowed capital. Concerns also include power, labor and chip-supply bottlenecks, as well as the risk that Chinese developers optimize models for Huawei hardware instead of U.S. GPUs. AI infrastructure bottlenecks

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.