Jacobson & Schmitt Advisors LLC Boosts Stake in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Jacobson & Schmitt Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 32.6% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 63,345 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 15,590 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA comprises 2.1% of Jacobson & Schmitt Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 18th largest position. Jacobson & Schmitt Advisors LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $12,675,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter valued at about $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. bought a new position in NVIDIA during the first quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC raised its stake in shares of 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 in the last quarter. Phillip James Consulting Co. bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the 1st quarter worth approximately $40,000. Finally, Inspire Investing LLC bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter valued at $44,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Record results exceeded expectations: Fiscal Q2 revenue reached $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, while Data Center revenue rose 117% to $89.0 billion. Non-GAAP EPS was $2.22 versus the $2.09 consensus, and gross margin remained 75%. NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2027
• Positive Sentiment: Guidance reinforced the AI growth story: NVIDIA forecast approximately $108 billion in fiscal Q3 revenue and indicated that fiscal 2028 revenue could grow about 70%, well above prior Wall Street expectations. Management said demand is exceeding available supply across memory, packaging, power and computing capacity. Nvidia rises after signaling longer AI spending runway
• Positive Sentiment: Customer commitments and product expansion support visibility: AWS plans to add two million NVIDIA GPUs, while the Vera Rubin platform is entering full production. The company also announced financing partnerships intended to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. NVIDIA quarterly results
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised their targets: JPMorgan lifted its target to $320, RBC to $330, and other firms set targets as high as $345-$352, citing NVIDIA’s growth, margins and CUDA ecosystem. What Wall Street is saying about NVIDIA
• Neutral Sentiment: NVIDIA is reportedly pursuing a roughly $12.9 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which could broaden its software ecosystem but remains unconfirmed and may carry integration and valuation risks. Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face, report says
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring profitability and execution risks: Fiscal Q3 gross-margin guidance of 74% is below the latest quarter, reflecting higher memory and infrastructure costs. NVIDIA also excludes China Data Center compute revenue from its outlook. NVIDIA earnings call puts supply limits at center of outlook
• Negative Sentiment: The company paused some revenue-sharing and financing arrangements with AI cloud firms, raising questions about customer funding, circular financing concerns and the sustainability of AI returns. Nvidia pauses revenue-sharing deals

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Wolfe Research reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $275.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Barclays reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, August 18th. New Street Research reduced their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $343.00 to $340.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Daiwa Securities Group lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $215.00 to $255.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have given a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $322.61.

NVIDIA Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $227.98 on Friday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $207.95 and a 200-day moving average price of $200.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 3.44 and a quick ratio of 2.85. The company has a market capitalization of $5.52 trillion, a PE ratio of 28.82, a PEG ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 2.23. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1-year low of $164.07 and a 1-year high of $236.54.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The company had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 107.00%. NVIDIA’s revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.05 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.8 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The firm 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 $0.25 dividend. 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 (DPR) is presently 15.31%.

NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that authorizes the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total transaction of $3,343,815.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This represents a 11.77% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $210.17, for a total transaction of $186,000,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. This represents a 14.53% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 1,900,500 shares of company stock worth $410,449,265. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

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.