Azimuth Capital Investment Management LLC Increases Stock Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Azimuth Capital Investment Management LLC increased its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 0.6% in the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 568,289 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 3,323 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up 3.8% of Azimuth Capital Investment Management LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 2nd largest holding. Azimuth Capital Investment Management LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $106,031,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in NVDA. Bamco Inc. NY increased its stake in NVIDIA by 3.3% during the 3rd quarter. Bamco Inc. NY now owns 2,985,302 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $556,998,000 after acquiring an additional 96,020 shares during the period. Bridgefront Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 3rd quarter valued at $1,114,000. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.6% during the 3rd quarter. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. now owns 3,273,384 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $610,348,000 after purchasing an additional 51,591 shares in the last quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 2.1% during the 3rd quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System now owns 66,062,378 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $12,325,918,000 after purchasing an additional 1,333,522 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Chilton Investment Co. Inc. increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 87.6% in the third quarter. Chilton Investment Co. Inc. now owns 36,734 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $6,854,000 after purchasing an additional 17,155 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

More NVIDIA News

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

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 222,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The stock was 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 of the company’s stock, valued at $1,373,157,187.01. This trade represents a 2.84% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of the business’s 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 sale, the chief financial officer owned 846,772 shares in the company, valued at $148,794,775.84. This represents a 3.16% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 1,267,780 shares of company stock valued at $229,929,215 over the last three months. 4.17% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts recently commented on the company. Wells Fargo & Company reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Zacks Research raised shares of NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Melius Research boosted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $300.00 to $320.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Citigroup upped their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $250.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $274.21.

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.6%

NVDA stock opened at $180.25 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $185.35 and a 200-day moving average price of $184.09. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $86.62 and a 12 month high of $212.19. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.38 trillion, a P/E ratio of 36.79, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33.

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

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

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

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.