Chilton Investment Co. Inc. lifted its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 87.6% in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 36,734 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 17,155 shares during the quarter. Chilton Investment Co. Inc.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $6,854,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Chiron Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 77.5% during the third quarter. Chiron Capital Management LLC now owns 21,927 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $4,091,000 after buying an additional 9,572 shares in the last quarter. Brass Tax Wealth Management Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 7.6% in the third quarter. Brass Tax Wealth Management Inc. now owns 10,493 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,958,000 after buying an additional 739 shares during the period. Arkos Global Advisors increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 109.0% in the third quarter. Arkos Global Advisors now owns 12,122 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,262,000 after acquiring an additional 6,322 shares in the last quarter. 1858 Wealth Management LLC increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.6% in the third quarter. 1858 Wealth Management LLC now owns 39,245 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $7,322,000 after acquiring an additional 246 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Algert Global LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.4% during the third quarter. Algert Global LLC now owns 189,271 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $35,314,000 after acquiring an additional 2,630 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
NVDA has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Argus restated a “buy” rating and issued a $220.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $250.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. DA Davidson restated a “buy” rating and issued a $250.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, February 23rd. Seaport Research Partners raised their target price on NVIDIA from $100.00 to $140.00 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a research report on Monday, November 17th. Finally, Zacks Research upgraded NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $274.21.
Insider Activity
In other NVIDIA news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total transaction of $44,332,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 6,933,280 shares in the company, valued at $1,229,478,542.40. This represents a 3.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 27,640 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $175.72, for a total value of $4,856,900.80. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 846,772 shares in the company, valued at approximately $148,794,775.84. This represents a 3.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold 1,267,780 shares of company stock worth $229,929,215 in 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 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
NVIDIA Stock Down 1.6%
Shares of NVIDIA stock opened at $180.25 on Friday. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $86.62 and a 12-month 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. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $185.35 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $184.09. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.38 trillion, a P/E ratio of 36.79, a PEG ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.54 by $0.08. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The company had revenue of $68.13 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $65.56 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.89 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Equities analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA Announces Dividend
The company 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 11th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 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.
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