Cinctive Capital Management LP Sells 33,202 Shares of NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Cinctive Capital Management LP lessened its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 29.7% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 78,473 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 33,202 shares during the quarter. Cinctive Capital Management LP’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $14,641,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Circle Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 16.1% in the third quarter. Circle Wealth Management LLC now owns 107,787 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $20,111,000 after buying an additional 14,936 shares during the period. Community Bank N.A. boosted its position in NVIDIA by 1.6% during the 3rd quarter. Community Bank N.A. now owns 47,570 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $8,876,000 after buying an additional 756 shares during the period. Clearline Capital LP bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the 3rd quarter worth $16,466,000. Azimuth Capital Investment Management LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.6% in the 3rd quarter. Azimuth Capital Investment Management LLC now owns 568,289 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $106,031,000 after acquiring an additional 3,323 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Bamco Inc. NY increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 3.3% in the third quarter. Bamco Inc. NY now owns 2,985,302 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $556,998,000 after acquiring an additional 96,020 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages have recently commented on NVDA. Citigroup upped their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, December 29th. HSBC set a $310.00 price target on NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, February 24th. Robert W. Baird increased their price objective on NVIDIA from $275.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Tigress Financial reiterated a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $360.00 price objective (up from $350.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have issued a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $274.21.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NVDA opened at $180.25 on Monday. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $185.35 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $184.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a current ratio of 3.91 and a quick ratio of 3.24. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.38 trillion, a PE ratio of 36.79, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $86.62 and a one year high of $212.19.

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

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be paid a $0.01 dividend. 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 presently 0.82%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $175.72, for a total value of $4,856,900.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 846,772 shares in the company, valued at approximately $148,794,775.84. This represents a 3.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on 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 sale, the director owned 7,621,453 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,373,157,187.01. This trade represents a 2.84% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,017,780 shares of company stock worth $185,596,715. 4.17% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA struck a high‑profile strategic deal, committing $2 billion to Nebius to scale hyperscale AI cloud capacity — a move that secures future demand for NVIDIA GPUs and signals long‑term revenue/market share benefits. NVIDIA Bets $2 Billion on Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 (an advanced open AI model) and continues to push agentic‑AI positioning — extending software/IP monetization beyond chips and supporting higher attach rates for its data‑center stack. NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3
• Positive Sentiment: Reports show ByteDance is assembling AI capacity using NVIDIA’s top chips outside China, which reinforces global enterprise demand for NVIDIA hardware. ByteDance Access to Nvidia AI Chips
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors are focused on next week’s GTC where NVIDIA is expected to emphasize new CPU and system announcements (the company says CPUs are becoming a bottleneck for agentic AI) — the event can swing sentiment either way depending on product details and guidance. Nvidia’s GTC will mark an AI chip pivot
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro and geopolitical risks (oil price moves, regional conflicts) are elevating market volatility and capping near‑term upside for high‑beta AI names like NVDA. Dow Jones Futures Fall; Crude Oil Prices Top $90
• Neutral Sentiment: Competing chip/cloud moves — e.g., Cerebras partnering with Amazon to offer alternative AI accelerators — underline growing competition in AI compute, a factor to monitor for margin/market‑share dynamics. Cerebras and Amazon deal
• Negative Sentiment: A sizable insider sale (EVP Ajay Puri sold 300,000 shares) has been flagged by the market and can feed short‑term profit‑taking narratives. Ajay K. Puri insider sale filing
• Negative Sentiment: U.S. policymakers are considering tighter export/permit controls on advanced AI chips — any formal restriction would directly affect NVIDIA’s addressable market and create regulatory uncertainty. US mulling export permits for Nvidia chips

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.