Associated Banc Corp Lowers Stock Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Associated Banc Corp decreased its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 0.8% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 978,486 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 8,149 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up 4.8% of Associated Banc Corp’s portfolio, making the stock its 2nd biggest position. Associated Banc Corp’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $182,566,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Harbor Asset Planning Inc. bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $28,000. Winnow Wealth LLC bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the second quarter valued at $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC raised its stake in NVIDIA by 47.9% during the second quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,000 after acquiring an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at $40,000. Finally, EDENTREE ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at $54,000. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on NVDA. Arete Research increased their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $244.00 to $261.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 25th. New Street Research reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $307.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, October 30th. KeyCorp lifted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, Melius Research lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $320.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have given a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $263.41.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other news, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 69,840 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $177.85, for a total transaction of $12,421,044.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 1,424,603 shares in the company, valued at $253,365,643.55. The trade was a 4.67% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total value of $44,332,500.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 6,933,280 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,229,478,542.40. This represents a 3.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 1,611,474 shares of company stock valued at $293,285,232 over the last 90 days. Insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia agreed to a $2 billion strategic investment in CoreWeave to accelerate a multi‑GW AI data‑center build‑out — a direct vote of confidence in demand for Nvidia GPUs and software, and a move that helps secure deployment capacity for future GPU sales. Nvidia invests $2 billion in CoreWeave
• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia released open‑source AI weather models — boosts its software/ecosystem positioning, increases GPU utilization cases, and reinforces the company’s role beyond hardware into model and platform leadership. Nvidia unveils AI models for weather forecasts
• Positive Sentiment: Industry and analyst commentary remain supportive (including views that Nvidia is becoming TSMC’s largest customer), reinforcing the growth narrative tied to AI training demand and helping underpin multiples. Nvidia set to supplant Apple as TSMC’s top customer
• Neutral Sentiment: Microsoft’s Maia 200 launch (a cost‑efficient inference accelerator) could reduce some hyperscaler spend on third‑party inference hardware over time, but it mainly targets inference while Nvidia remains dominant for training — competitive dynamics are evolving but not yet decisive. Microsoft’s Maia 200: The Profit Engine AI Needs
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader tech earnings and macro events (Magnificent 7 reports, Fed meeting) are creating short‑term volatility that could swing NVDA intraday; these are market‑level catalysts rather than company‑specific. Magnificent 7 earnings season kicks off
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling: an NVDA executive recently sold roughly $36M of stock, which can be read as a near‑term negative signal for sentiment even if not unusual among executives. Insider selling: NVIDIA EVP sells stock
• Negative Sentiment: Competitive pressure is increasing as hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, AWS) push their own silicon and software stacks — this is a medium‑term risk to Nvidia’s premium pricing on certain inference workloads. Microsoft rolls out next generation of its AI chips

NVIDIA Stock Up 1.1%

NVIDIA stock opened at $188.52 on Wednesday. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $86.62 and a fifty-two week high of $212.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 4.47 and a quick ratio of 3.71. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.58 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.78, a PEG ratio of 0.91 and a beta of 2.31. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $183.52 and its 200 day simple moving average is $182.14.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November 19th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.30 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.23 by $0.07. NVIDIA had a net margin of 53.01% and a return on equity of 99.24%. The company had revenue of $57.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $54.66 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.81 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 62.5% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 4th were issued a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 4th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is 0.99%.

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.