Faithward Advisors LLC Boosts Stake in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Faithward Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 5.4% during the first quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 74,104 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 3,817 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for 1.7% of Faithward Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 13th largest holding. Faithward Advisors LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $12,924,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of NVDA. Brighton Jones LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 12.4% in the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 324,901 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $43,631,000 after acquiring an additional 35,815 shares during the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG raised its position in NVIDIA by 1.0% during the fourth quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,346,417 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $315,100,000 after purchasing an additional 22,929 shares in the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 6.7% during the fourth quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 58,396 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $7,842,000 after purchasing an additional 3,653 shares during the last quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 30.7% during the fourth quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC now owns 50,658 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $6,805,000 after purchasing an additional 11,900 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 15.7% in the 1st quarter. Wealth Group Ltd. now owns 6,598 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $715,000 after purchasing an additional 896 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Palantir announced a new AI partnership with NVIDIA, reinforcing NVDA’s role as the core enabler of government and enterprise AI deployments. Palantir and Nvidia Bring Open AI Models Inside U.S. Government Systems
• Positive Sentiment: Australia’s Firmus Technologies struck an AI access deal with NVIDIA, another sign that smaller AI firms are leaning on NVDA’s ecosystem to secure compute capacity. Australia’s Firmus Technologies strikes AI access deal with Nvidia
• Positive Sentiment: Bernstein reaffirmed its buy rating on NVIDIA, while broader commentary noted that most analysts remain bullish on the stock despite recent cooling. NVIDIA had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by Sanford C. Bernstein.
• Neutral Sentiment: Articles highlighted NVIDIA’s expanding AI infrastructure push, including partnerships aimed at giving smaller companies more affordable access to Nvidia-powered computing. Nvidia’s AI Infrastructure Push Gets Bigger
• Neutral Sentiment: Some reports also warned of risks around chip export controls and AI sentiment, including a probe into alleged NVIDIA chip smuggling and broader talk of an AI valuation pullback, which may keep volatility elevated. Super Micro Plunges 8% as Taiwan Raids Its Offices in NVIDIA AI Chip Smuggling Probe

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,094,412,146.07. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred 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 transaction, the director directly owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

NVIDIA Price Performance

NVDA stock opened at $194.97 on Tuesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.72 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.86, a PEG ratio of 0.43 and a beta of 2.22. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $210.60 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $193.13. The company has a current ratio of 3.44, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $151.49 and a 12-month high of $236.54.

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 analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.76 by $0.11. The company had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. NVIDIA’s revenue for the quarter was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.81 earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.69 earnings per share for the current year.

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

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were issued a $0.25 dividend. This is an increase from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 15.31%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

NVDA has been the topic of several recent research reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price objective on NVIDIA from $265.00 to $280.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. TD Cowen restated a “buy” rating and issued a $275.00 target price (up from $235.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Friday, May 15th. DZ Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “hold” rating and set a $255.00 price target (up from $220.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $350.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $303.84.

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.