October Effect Ltd Lowers Holdings in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

October Effect Ltd lowered its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 34.0% in the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 36,761 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 18,945 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up about 6.9% of October Effect Ltd’s portfolio, making the stock its 3rd largest position. October Effect Ltd’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $7,356,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of NVDA. Brighton Jones LLC raised its stake in NVIDIA by 12.4% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 324,901 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $43,631,000 after purchasing an additional 35,815 shares in the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% during the 4th quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,346,417 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $315,100,000 after purchasing an additional 22,929 shares in the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 6.7% during the 4th quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 58,396 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $7,842,000 after purchasing an additional 3,653 shares in the last quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 30.7% during the 4th quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC now owns 50,658 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $6,805,000 after purchasing an additional 11,900 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 15.7% during the first quarter. Wealth Group Ltd. now owns 6,598 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $715,000 after purchasing an additional 896 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

More NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s AI growth outlook remains exceptionally strong. CEO Jensen Huang said revenue could grow roughly 70% next year, while the company’s next-generation Rubin platform is already shipping. Recent quarterly revenue reached $96.2 billion, up about 106% year over year, exceeding estimates and reinforcing expectations for continued data-center demand. Nvidia Has $96 Billion in Quarterly Revenue
• Positive Sentiment: Microsoft reportedly plans to more than triple its data-center capacity, a potentially significant demand catalyst for NVIDIA’s GPUs, networking products and full-stack systems. Strong August revenue growth at manufacturing partner TSMC also signals that AI-chip orders remain robust. Microsoft Data Center Expansion
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA is expanding its ecosystem through a planned Australian AI-infrastructure buildout of up to 2 gigawatts by 2027, partnerships with Palantir for sovereign supply-chain AI, and adoption of its chip-linking technology by d-Matrix. These initiatives broaden demand beyond traditional hyperscalers. Australian AI Infrastructure Expansion
• Neutral Sentiment: Competition and valuation remain investor concerns. Positron AI raised $875 million to develop memory-based inference technology that could challenge NVIDIA’s software and hardware advantage, while AMD and Broadcom are being promoted as alternative AI investments. High Treasury yields also make NVIDIA’s elevated valuation more difficult to justify.
• Negative Sentiment: The Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether NVIDIA’s licensing arrangement with AI-chip startup Groq was structured to avoid antitrust scrutiny. Any regulatory action could limit strategic flexibility or increase legal uncertainty. DOJ Groq Licensing Investigation
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling is weighing on sentiment: director Mark Stevens reportedly sold hundreds of thousands of shares, and broader recent filings show substantial insider sales with no reported purchases. The transactions do not prove weakening fundamentals, but they can encourage profit-taking after the stock’s strong rally.
• Negative Sentiment: Higher oil prices, rising bond yields and a hotter inflation reading have pressured technology stocks broadly. These macro forces, combined with concerns about AI-capital-spending sustainability and fresh regulatory scrutiny, help explain why NVIDIA has decreased despite strong company-specific news.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

NVDA has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Itau BBA Securities dropped their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research report on Wednesday, June 24th. Mizuho set a $315.00 price target on NVIDIA and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. China Renaissance raised their price objective on NVIDIA from $319.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, August 31st. Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price objective on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, New Street Research cut their target price on NVIDIA from $343.00 to $340.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-one have given a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, NVIDIA has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $324.34.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 885,000 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated 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 transaction, the director owned 5,207,271 shares in the company, valued at $1,094,412,146.07. The trade was a 14.53% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction 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 dated 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 transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $585,587,360.80. The trade was a 1.10% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold a total of 2,585,740 shares of company stock valued at $571,015,527 in the last three months. 3.94% of the stock is owned by insiders.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

NASDAQ NVDA opened at $218.36 on Friday. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $212.82 and its 200 day simple moving average is $203.23. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.26 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.61, a P/E/G ratio of 1.75 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1 year low of $164.27 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. 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 period in the previous year, the business earned $1.05 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.1 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 12.64%.

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

NVIDIA Company Profile

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.