Ballentine Partners LLC Grows Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Ballentine Partners LLC lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 474,391 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 7,068 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 1.2% of Ballentine Partners LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 14th biggest holding. Ballentine Partners LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $88,512,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Rockline Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 0.6% in the 3rd quarter. Rockline Wealth Management LLC now owns 416,274 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $77,668,000 after buying an additional 2,591 shares in the last quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 2.8% during the third quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. now owns 7,726,433 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,441,598,000 after purchasing an additional 207,344 shares in the last quarter. Tobias Financial Advisors Inc. raised its stake in NVIDIA by 11.6% in the 3rd quarter. Tobias Financial Advisors Inc. now owns 17,323 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $3,232,000 after purchasing an additional 1,794 shares during the last quarter. Capital Wealth Alliance LLC raised its stake in NVIDIA by 129.5% in the 3rd quarter. Capital Wealth Alliance LLC now owns 3,229 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $602,000 after purchasing an additional 1,822 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Valeo Financial Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.3% in the 3rd quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC now owns 605,124 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $112,904,000 after purchasing an additional 1,624 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $180.17, for a total transaction of $40,087,825.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 7,621,453 shares in the company, valued at $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 Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 200,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $180.04, for a total transaction of $36,008,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 3,618,547 shares in the company, valued at approximately $651,483,201.88. This represents a 5.24% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 1,611,474 shares of company stock valued at $291,731,692 over the last 90 days. Company insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Trading Down 0.0%

NVDA opened at $187.90 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.57 trillion, a PE ratio of 46.63, a P/E/G ratio of 0.57 and a beta of 2.31. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $86.62 and a one year high of $212.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a current ratio of 4.47. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $184.90 and its 200 day moving average price is $183.52.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November 19th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.23 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $57.01 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $54.66 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 99.24% and a net margin of 53.01%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 62.5% on a year-over-year basis. 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 2.77 EPS for the current year.

Trending Headlines about NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Expanded, multiyear deal with Meta commits Meta to millions of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs plus future Vera CPUs and networking — a multi‑year revenue stream and stronger full‑stack moat for NVDA. NVIDIA and Meta Deepen Their AI Alliance—and the Spending Numbers Are Enormous
• Positive Sentiment: India’s Yotta will build a $2B AI hub using NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips — another sizeable, practical deployment that supports sustained data‑center GPU demand outside the U.S./China hyperscalers. India’s Yotta to build $2 billion AI hub with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips
• Positive Sentiment: NVDA’s Q4 13F shows strategic portfolio moves (large stakes in Intel & Synopsys, exits of smaller positions) signaling a deliberate alignment across the CPU/EDA stack — suggests management is positioning the company for broader full‑stack influence. NVIDIA’s 13F Bombshell: A New AI Power Trio Emerges
• Neutral Sentiment: FT/Reuters report says NVIDIA is close to finalizing a ~$30B investment into an OpenAI funding round — could lock up demand but also concentrates capital exposure; market reaction will depend on deal terms and accounting. Nvidia close to finalizing $30 billion investment in OpenAI funding round, FT reports
• Neutral Sentiment: Options markets show investors are pricing in a near‑perfect earnings print, implying elevated implied volatility around the Feb. 25 report — good for directional swings but raises risk of sharp post‑earnings moves. Nvidia options are priced for a perfect earnings outlook
• Negative Sentiment: New funding for chip startup Taalas ($169M) targets faster/cheaper AI chips — an early sign of intensifying ASIC competition that could, over time, pressure pricing or market share in niche workloads. Chip startup Taalas raises $169 million to help build AI chips to take on Nvidia
• Negative Sentiment: Ongoing investor rotations and high expectations: some funds trimmed NVDA exposure (and analysts warn a record beat could still disappoint if guidance/slash‑forward assumptions disappoint), magnifying downside risk if the print misses consensus. Nvidia Q4: Why Even A Record ‘Beat’ Could Sink The Stock

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on NVDA shares. CICC Research upped their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $200.00 to $228.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 21st. Citigroup restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Wolfe Research increased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, January 30th. Royal Bank Of Canada restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday. Finally, Loop Capital upped their price target on NVIDIA from $250.00 to $350.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, November 3rd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have assigned a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $264.20.

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.