NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Stock Holdings Increased by Royal London Asset Management Ltd.

Royal London Asset Management Ltd. lifted its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 0.3% during the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 17,986,795 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 51,814 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA makes up 6.6% of Royal London Asset Management Ltd.’s holdings, making the stock its largest holding. Royal London Asset Management Ltd.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $3,598,978,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at about $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in NVIDIA during the first quarter worth about $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 47.9% during the second quarter. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC now owns 207 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,000 after acquiring an additional 67 shares during the period. Langley Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at approximately $34,000. Finally, Phillip James Consulting Co. purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the first quarter valued at approximately $40,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 5,207,271 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $217.88, for a total value of $6,536,400.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $585,587,360.80. The trade was a 1.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,563,501 shares of company stock worth $335,380,530. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have commented on NVDA shares. Stifel Nicolaus set a $315.00 price objective on NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Sanford C. Bernstein reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $400.00 target price (up from $315.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Tigress Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating and set a $425.00 price target (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, May 27th. Argus increased their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $220.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Zacks Research cut shares of NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, August 21st. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $324.23.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $224.41 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 4.59. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.41 trillion, a PE ratio of 28.37, a P/E/G ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 2.22. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $164.07 and a fifty-two week high of $236.54. The company has a fifty day moving average of $209.20 and a two-hundred day moving average of $201.53.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.05 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is presently 12.64%.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Strong server demand supported by Dell: Dell Technologies’ stronger-than-expected results and raised guidance reinforced NVIDIA’s view that enterprise and hyperscaler spending on AI servers remains strong. NVIDIA’s stock is climbing as investors get more confidence in an expanding base of AI customers
• Positive Sentiment: Potential Hugging Face acquisition: Reports that NVIDIA is in advanced discussions to acquire AI platform Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion to $14 billion lifted expectations that the company could strengthen CUDA adoption, developer retention and recurring software revenue. The deal remains unconfirmed and could face integration and neutrality concerns. Why Nvidia’s $14 Billion Hugging Face Deal Would Make Total Sense
• Positive Sentiment: Expansion beyond GPUs: NVIDIA’s investments and partnerships with MediaTek, Equinix and optical-networking startup iPronics could extend its reach into custom AI chips, inference, automotive computing and data-center connectivity. An reported $35 billion Anthropic cloud commitment also highlighted continued demand for NVIDIA-powered compute. NVIDIA’s MediaTek Bet Shows How It Plans to Defend Its AI Moat
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst confidence remains high: J.P. Morgan reaffirmed a Buy rating and a $320 price target, citing strong AI-driven growth and expected demand for NVIDIA’s next-generation platforms. NVIDIA Buy Rating Reaffirmed

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.