Insider Selling: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Director Sells $144,122,997.18 in Stock

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Director Mark Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 2,336,531 shares in the company, valued at approximately $541,187,310.22. This represents a 21.03% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NVIDIA stock traded down $4.63 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $225.73. 122,493,579 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 158,690,531. The stock has a market cap of $5.44 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.54, a PEG ratio of 1.81 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 4.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.27 and a 52 week high of $236.54. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $211.32 and its 200-day moving average is $202.51.

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

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

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

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization allows the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company’s board believes its stock is undervalued.

Key NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang said NVIDIA’s older H100 chips remain “highly rentable” and revenue-generating assets, with rental prices reportedly increasing. The comments support the durability and resale economics of NVIDIA’s installed hardware base. Jensen Huang Calls Nvidia Chips a Revenue-Generating Asset
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to highlight strong data-center demand, Blackwell and Vera Rubin product ramps, broadening customers, and management’s roughly 70% fiscal 2028 revenue-growth outlook. These factors reinforce expectations for sustained earnings momentum. Nvidia: Unusual Visibility, Unusual Value
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s planned approximately $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face is being viewed by some analysts as a way to strengthen its software, open-source model, and developer ecosystem, potentially expanding the company beyond chips. NVIDIA’s Hugging Face Buyout

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Retirement Wealth Solutions LLC increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.2% during the second quarter. Retirement Wealth Solutions LLC now owns 4,121 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $825,000 after buying an additional 47 shares during the period. LightSquare Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 0.3% in the second quarter. LightSquare Wealth Management LLC now owns 18,695 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,741,000 after acquiring an additional 49 shares during the period. Defender Capital LLC. lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 0.7% in the second quarter. Defender Capital LLC. now owns 7,534 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,507,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares during the period. Kooman & Associates boosted its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.6% in the second quarter. Kooman & Associates now owns 8,464 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,694,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC increased its position in NVIDIA by 0.3% during the 2nd quarter. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC now owns 18,827 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $3,767,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms recently commented on NVDA. BNP Paribas Exane increased their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Evercore set a $465.00 price objective on NVIDIA and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $350.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, August 24th. Rosenblatt Securities reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $390.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Friday. Finally, Tigress Financial restated a “strong-buy” rating and set a $425.00 target price (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, May 27th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $324.83.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processors and related software. Its products are used for artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing, computer graphics, data-center applications and other workloads that benefit from parallel processing.

The company’s offerings include GeForce graphics processing units (GPUs) and software for gaming and personal computers; data-center GPUs, systems and networking products; and professional visualization solutions for design, engineering, media and scientific applications.