Crystal Rock Capital Management Makes New Investment in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Crystal Rock Capital Management bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund bought 4,300 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $802,000.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. increased its stake in NVIDIA by 13.8% in the 3rd quarter. Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. now owns 1,000,841 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $186,737,000 after buying an additional 120,985 shares during the period. Francis Financial Inc. increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 4.7% during the third quarter. Francis Financial Inc. now owns 30,309 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $5,655,000 after acquiring an additional 1,373 shares during the period. Waterfront Wealth Inc. raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 4.5% during the third quarter. Waterfront Wealth Inc. now owns 11,793 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $2,116,000 after acquiring an additional 506 shares in the last quarter. Two West Capital Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 2.0% during the third quarter. Two West Capital Advisors LLC now owns 2,862 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $533,000 after acquiring an additional 56 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sunesis Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the third quarter valued at approximately $2,583,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Large inference demand validated — Akamai announced deployments of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to power distributed AI inference, signaling durable enterprise demand for NVIDIA’s inference stack. Akamai to Deploy Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
• Positive Sentiment: Inference shift highlighted by ecosystem deals — Partners and cloud specialists (e.g., CoreWeave/Perplexity) are closing large inference-focused contracts, which increases recurring, high‑utilization GPU demand that benefits NVIDIA’s hardware and software ecosystem. CoreWeave Deal Signals Inference Market
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street backing and higher price targets — Several broker notes and upgrades (including a notable Wedbush hike) have pushed bullish analyst sentiment and bigger multi‑quarter price targets, supporting upside expectations. Wedbush Raises NVDA Price Target to $300
• Neutral Sentiment: CEO signals end to large private stakes in OpenAI/Anthropic — Jensen Huang said the recent ~$30B OpenAI investment “might be the last” and that a $100B stake is unlikely as OpenAI prepares to IPO; that changes the path to future strategic ownership but reduces ambiguity around large private commitments. Reuters: Nvidia will not be able to invest $100 billion in OpenAI
• Negative Sentiment: Market remains wary despite blowout quarter — NVDA reported blockbuster results in late February, but the stock has struggled to clear near‑term resistance and some traders view the post‑earnings pullback and rotation into specialized inference clouds as signs of profit‑taking and higher short‑term volatility. 247WallSt: Blowout earnings weren’t enough to fuel an NVIDIA breakout

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the company’s 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 transaction, the director owned 7,621,453 shares in the company, valued at $1,373,157,187.01. This represents a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Ajay K. Puri sold 200,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 21st. The shares were 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 directly owned 3,618,547 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $651,483,201.88. The trade was a 5.24% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 1,598,120 shares of company stock valued at $289,278,314. 4.17% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

NVIDIA Trading Up 1.7%

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $183.04 on Thursday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $86.62 and a 52 week high of $212.19. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $186.12 and a 200 day moving average price of $183.87. 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 $4.45 trillion, a PE ratio of 37.36, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. The business had revenue of $68.13 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 73.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.89 earnings per share. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm 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 dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is currently 0.82%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have weighed in on NVDA. BNP Paribas Exane lifted their target price on NVIDIA from $260.00 to $270.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and issued a $240.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Fundamental Research set a $218.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. DZ Bank reissued a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Finally, UBS Group set a $400.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, February 23rd. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have given a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $273.41.

NVIDIA 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.