Watershed Private Wealth LLC Purchases 7,803 Shares of NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Watershed Private Wealth LLC boosted its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 8.3% in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 101,671 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 7,803 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for about 5.7% of Watershed Private Wealth LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 3rd largest position. Watershed Private Wealth LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $20,343,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter worth approximately $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the first quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC lifted its position 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 buying an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC purchased a new position in NVIDIA during the second quarter worth approximately $40,000. Finally, Phillip James Consulting Co. acquired a new position in NVIDIA during the first quarter worth $40,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have commented on NVDA. Stifel Nicolaus set a $315.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Raymond James Financial set a $515.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Citic Securities upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $242.00 to $315.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 22nd. Rothschild & Co Redburn raised their target price on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $325.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised NVIDIA from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, August 29th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $324.83.

Insider Activity at NVIDIA

In other news, Director Mark Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total value of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,094,412,146.07. This represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, EVP Timothy Teter sold 30,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $217.88, for a total transaction of $6,536,400.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 2,687,660 shares in the company, valued at $585,587,360.80. This trade represents 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. Insiders sold 1,563,501 shares of company stock worth $335,380,530 over the last quarter. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

NVIDIA News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Hugging Face expands NVIDIA’s AI ecosystem: The acquisition gives NVIDIA access to Hugging Face’s open-source platform, which hosts millions of models, applications and datasets used by more than 18 million developers. Investors view the deal as a way to deepen CUDA adoption, strengthen NVIDIA’s software moat and position the company as an AI platform provider rather than solely a chip supplier. Management says Hugging Face will remain open to the broader AI ecosystem. Why NVIDIA’s defensive move to acquire Hugging Face is about much more than chips
• Positive Sentiment: New consumer AI revenue channel: Lenovo and Acer are expected to launch Windows PCs powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip in October. Local AI processing could expand NVIDIA’s addressable market while reducing reliance on cloud data centers. HP also announced new OmniBook PCs using RTX Spark technology. NVIDIA sets October launch for RTX Spark AI PCs
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst support and demand remain strong: Needham and Rosenblatt reaffirmed Buy ratings with price targets of $300 and $390, respectively. Recent earnings showed revenue growth above 100%, a 63.7% net margin and results ahead of consensus, while management’s long-term outlook continues to imply robust AI infrastructure spending. NVIDIA’s equity investments in companies such as OpenAI, CoreWeave and Nebius have also grown substantially, reinforcing its influence across the AI supply chain. NVIDIA has built a $99 billion equity portfolio
• Neutral Sentiment: Competitive and valuation considerations: NVIDIA remains dominant, but AMD, Broadcom and Intel are pursuing AI and server opportunities. Rising memory and optical-networking costs could pressure gross margins even if they confirm that demand exceeds supply.
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling adds a cautionary signal: Director Mark Stevens sold roughly 648,500 shares in two transactions, while EVP Timothy Teter sold 30,000 shares. The sales were disclosed under planned transactions and represent small portions of their remaining holdings, limiting their significance but potentially weighing on sentiment.

NVIDIA Price Performance

NVDA opened at $230.36 on Friday. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $210.61 and its 200 day moving average price is $202.05. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $164.07 and a 12-month high of $236.54. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The firm has a market cap of $5.55 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.12, a PEG ratio of 1.79 and a beta of 2.22.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 the consensus estimate of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.05 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

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

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

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.