NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is Meitav Investment House Ltd.’s 9th Largest Position

Meitav Investment House Ltd. lifted its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 36.6% in the first quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 1,536,778 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 412,010 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises about 2.9% of Meitav Investment House Ltd.’s portfolio, making the stock its 9th largest position. Meitav Investment House Ltd.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $267,682,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the fourth quarter worth about $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC boosted its stake in 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 purchasing an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Inspire Investing LLC acquired a new stake in NVIDIA in the 4th quarter worth approximately $44,000. Finally, AlphaCentric Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $45,000. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $25,053,803.55. The trade was a 11.77% 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 company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total value of $133,750.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at $3,030,882. The trade was a 4.23% decrease in their position. 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. In the last three months, insiders have sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have issued reports on NVDA. BNP Paribas Exane upped their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Seaport Research Partners lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $140.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock a “sell” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. DA Davidson reissued a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, June 1st. Evercore reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $413.00 target price (up from $352.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Zacks Research lowered NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $304.26.

More NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA expanded its AI push in Japan, unveiling partnerships with major companies and institutions to build national AI infrastructure, robotics, and localized AI models. Japan Government, Industrial Leaders and NVIDIA Launch the World’s First National AI Infrastructure
• Positive Sentiment: Japan’s robotics and manufacturing leaders are adopting NVIDIA’s Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis, Jetson, and Nemotron platforms, reinforcing the company’s push beyond GPUs into physical AI and full-stack infrastructure. Japan’s Robotics and Manufacturing Leaders Build on NVIDIA Cosmos to Advance Physical AI Frontier
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts at KeyCorp reiterated an Overweight view and raised long-dated earnings estimates, suggesting Wall Street still sees substantial upside if NVIDIA’s AI buildout continues. MarketBeat NVIDIA analyst and earnings estimates

NVIDIA Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $207.40 on Friday. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $209.88 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $195.05. The stock has a market cap of $5.02 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.76, a PEG ratio of 0.47 and a beta of 2.21. The company has a current ratio of 3.44, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $164.07 and a 12 month high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.81 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.8 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company’s management believes its stock is undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were issued a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. This is a positive change from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is currently 15.31%.

NVIDIA Company 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.