Romano Brothers AND Company Raises Stake in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

Romano Brothers AND Company boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 5.7% in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 57,586 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 3,098 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises approximately 1.2% of Romano Brothers AND Company’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 15th biggest holding. Romano Brothers AND Company’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $11,522,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Balance Wealth Partners LLC raised its position in NVIDIA by 32.9% in the second quarter. Balance Wealth Partners LLC now owns 8,903 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,781,000 after acquiring an additional 2,203 shares during the period. SBI Okasan Asset Management Co.Ltd. grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.1% during the 2nd quarter. SBI Okasan Asset Management Co.Ltd. now owns 89,168 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $17,385,000 after acquiring an additional 966 shares during the period. Liberty Atlantic Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 11.2% during the 2nd quarter. Liberty Atlantic Advisors LLC now owns 3,019 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $604,000 after acquiring an additional 304 shares during the period. Fearless Solutions LLC dba Best Invest increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 8.7% during the 2nd quarter. Fearless Solutions LLC dba Best Invest now owns 11,990 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,399,000 after purchasing an additional 963 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Aurora Private Wealth Inc. increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 5.2% during the 2nd quarter. Aurora Private Wealth Inc. now owns 19,830 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,968,000 after purchasing an additional 983 shares during the last quarter. 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: 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.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities analysts recently commented on the company. Mizuho set a $315.00 price objective on NVIDIA and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $315.00 target price on NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. William Blair restated an “outperform” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, June 2nd. New Street Research lowered their target price on NVIDIA from $343.00 to $340.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, CICC Research upped their price target on NVIDIA from $240.60 to $268.30 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 22nd. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-one have issued a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $324.34.

NVIDIA Price Performance

NVIDIA stock opened at $218.36 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.26 trillion, a P/E ratio of 27.61, a PEG ratio of 1.75 and a beta of 2.22. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.27 and a one year high of $236.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a current ratio of 4.59 and a quick ratio of 3.85. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $212.82 and a 200-day moving average price of $203.23.

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

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share. 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 is currently 12.64%.

NVIDIA declared that its board has approved a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization permits the computer hardware maker to repurchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In related news, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred 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 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 ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total transaction of $144,122,997.18. Following the sale, the director directly owned 2,336,531 shares in the company, valued at $541,187,310.22. This trade represents a 21.03% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last three months, insiders sold 2,585,740 shares of company stock worth $571,015,527. Insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

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.