NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is Linden Thomas Advisory Services LLC’s Largest Position

Linden Thomas Advisory Services LLC raised its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 3.1% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm owned 187,267 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 5,620 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up 3.5% of Linden Thomas Advisory Services LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its largest holding. Linden Thomas Advisory Services LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $34,940,000 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. Harbor Asset Planning Inc. purchased a new stake in NVIDIA during the second quarter worth $28,000. Winnow Wealth LLC acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 2nd quarter worth $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC boosted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 47.9% in the 2nd quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,000 after buying an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter valued at about $40,000. Finally, Sellwood Investment Partners LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the 3rd quarter valued at about $50,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have issued reports on the stock. Wall Street Zen raised shares of NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, February 28th. Arete Research lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $244.00 to $261.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 25th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $250.00 target price on NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, January 8th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $240.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Citic Securities upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $237.00 to $242.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $273.41.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 20,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $175.72, for a total value of $3,514,400.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 93,060 shares in the company, valued at $16,352,503.20. This trade represents a 17.69% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available 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 directly owned 7,621,453 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,373,157,187.01. This represents a 2.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 1,598,120 shares of company stock valued at $289,278,314 in the last ninety days. 4.17% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $183.04 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of $4.45 trillion, a P/E ratio of 37.36, a P/E/G ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $186.12 and a 200-day simple moving average of $183.87. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $86.62 and a 52 week high of $212.19. The company has a quick ratio of 3.24, a current ratio of 3.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05.

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

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be issued a $0.01 dividend. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 0.82%.

More NVIDIA News

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

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.