OPTIMAS CAPITAL Ltd Cuts Position in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

OPTIMAS CAPITAL Ltd reduced its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 65.0% in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 37,700 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 69,900 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA accounts for about 4.4% of OPTIMAS CAPITAL Ltd’s holdings, making the stock its 9th biggest position. OPTIMAS CAPITAL Ltd’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $7,034,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. State Street Corp increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.0% during the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 978,208,862 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $154,556,803,000 after purchasing an additional 9,554,857 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 2nd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 579,213,497 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $91,150,170,000 after purchasing an additional 8,521,936 shares during the period. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the second quarter worth about $51,386,863,000. Legal & General Group Plc lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 1.5% in the 2nd quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 178,593,475 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $28,215,983,000 after purchasing an additional 2,623,678 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 2.8% in the second quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 155,668,775 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $24,594,110,000 after buying an additional 4,209,423 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Zacks Research raised shares of NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Sanford C. Bernstein boosted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $275.00 to $300.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Citic Securities increased their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $237.00 to $242.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, November 20th. Itau BBA Securities reissued a “market perform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, HSBC set a $310.00 price target on NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, February 24th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have issued a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $273.41.

NVIDIA Trading Up 1.7%

Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $183.04 on Thursday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $186.12 and its 200-day moving average price is $183.87. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $86.62 and a 52-week high of $212.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a current ratio of 3.91. The company has a market cap of $4.45 trillion, a PE ratio of 37.36, a P/E/G ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 2.33.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.54 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $65.56 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 73.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 EPS. On average, equities research analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th will be paid a $0.01 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 11th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 0.82%.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Large inference demand validated — Akamai announced deployments of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to power distributed AI inference, signaling durable enterprise demand for NVIDIA’s inference stack. Akamai to Deploy Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
• Positive Sentiment: Inference shift highlighted by ecosystem deals — Partners and cloud specialists (e.g., CoreWeave/Perplexity) are closing large inference-focused contracts, which increases recurring, high‑utilization GPU demand that benefits NVIDIA’s hardware and software ecosystem. CoreWeave Deal Signals Inference Market
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street backing and higher price targets — Several broker notes and upgrades (including a notable Wedbush hike) have pushed bullish analyst sentiment and bigger multi‑quarter price targets, supporting upside expectations. Wedbush Raises NVDA Price Target to $300
• Neutral Sentiment: CEO signals end to large private stakes in OpenAI/Anthropic — Jensen Huang said the recent ~$30B OpenAI investment “might be the last” and that a $100B stake is unlikely as OpenAI prepares to IPO; that changes the path to future strategic ownership but reduces ambiguity around large private commitments. Reuters: Nvidia will not be able to invest $100 billion in OpenAI
• Negative Sentiment: Market remains wary despite blowout quarter — NVDA reported blockbuster results in late February, but the stock has struggled to clear near‑term resistance and some traders view the post‑earnings pullback and rotation into specialized inference clouds as signs of profit‑taking and higher short‑term volatility. 247WallSt: Blowout earnings weren’t enough to fuel an NVIDIA breakout

Insider Activity

In other news, CFO Colette Kress sold 30,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $178.11, for a total transaction of $5,432,355.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 1,286,826 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $229,196,578.86. The trade was a 2.32% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total transaction of $44,332,500.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 6,933,280 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,229,478,542.40. This trade represents a 3.48% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,598,120 shares of company stock valued at $289,278,314. Corporate insiders own 4.17% 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.