Fifth Third Wealth Advisors LLC Increases Stake in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Fifth Third Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 2.5% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 634,730 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 15,256 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises about 3.7% of Fifth Third Wealth Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 3rd largest position. Fifth Third Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $110,697,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in NVDA. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 12.4% in the 4th 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 increased its stake 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 worth $315,100,000 after acquiring an additional 22,929 shares during the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE increased 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 acquiring an additional 3,653 shares during the last quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC increased 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 acquiring an additional 11,900 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. raised its position in NVIDIA by 15.7% during the first quarter. Wealth Group Ltd. now owns 6,598 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $715,000 after purchasing an additional 896 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This trade represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total transaction of $133,750.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 14,163 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,030,882. This trade represents a 4.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015 in the last 90 days. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NVDA stock opened at $194.97 on Tuesday. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $210.60 and a 200 day moving average price of $193.13. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $151.49 and a 52-week high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a current ratio of 3.44. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.72 trillion, a P/E ratio of 29.86, a P/E/G ratio of 0.43 and a beta of 2.22.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.94% and a net margin of 62.97%.The company had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $78.42 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.81 EPS. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.69 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to buyback $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization permits the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

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

NVIDIA News Roundup

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on NVDA shares. Seaport Research Partners raised their price objective on NVIDIA from $140.00 to $180.00 and gave the company a “sell” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Wall Street Zen raised NVIDIA from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, May 23rd. Stifel Nicolaus set a $282.00 price target on NVIDIA and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Zacks Research downgraded NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Citigroup began coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, April 15th. They set a “buy” rating for the company. 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 company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target 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.