William John Sempolinski Makes New Investment in NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA

William John Sempolinski acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) in the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 251,777 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $50,378,000. NVIDIA makes up 20.3% of William John Sempolinski’s investment portfolio, making the stock its biggest holding.

Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of NVDA. Retirement Wealth Solutions LLC boosted its stake in NVIDIA by 1.2% during the 2nd quarter. Retirement Wealth Solutions LLC now owns 4,121 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $825,000 after purchasing an additional 47 shares during the last quarter. LightSquare Wealth Management LLC increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% in the 2nd quarter. LightSquare Wealth Management LLC now owns 18,695 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,741,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares in the last quarter. Defender Capital LLC. raised its stake in shares of 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 purchasing an additional 50 shares during the last quarter. Kooman & Associates raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.6% in the second quarter. Kooman & Associates now owns 8,464 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,694,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% in the second quarter. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC now owns 18,827 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $3,767,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

NVIDIA Stock Down 0.3%

Shares of NVDA stock opened at $216.47 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a current ratio of 4.59 and a quick ratio of 3.85. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.27 and a one year high of $243.37. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $223.17 and its 200-day moving average price is $212.01. The company has a market capitalization of $5.22 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.37, a PEG ratio of 1.67 and a beta of 2.22.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The firm had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 96.04% and a net margin of 63.66%. The firm’s revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.05 earnings per share. Sell-side analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.30 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

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

NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase plan on Monday, September 28th that authorizes the company to buy back $150.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to reacquire up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Share buyback plans are usually a sign that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

NVDA has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Weiss Ratings raised NVIDIA from a “buy (b)” rating to a “buy (b+)” rating in a research report on Friday. Itau BBA Securities lowered their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research note on Wednesday, June 24th. Truist Financial raised their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $307.00 to $346.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, August 27th. HSBC lifted their price target on shares of NVIDIA from $360.00 to $365.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reissued a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Monday, September 21st. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and one has given a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $321.47.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Reportedly, ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have placed more than $35 billion in NVIDIA chip orders. The agreement could reopen a significant Chinese market, although the arrangement reportedly includes the U.S. government receiving 15% of Chinese sales. NVIDIA China chip orders
• Positive Sentiment: OpenAI is reportedly raising approximately $30 billion, while NVIDIA has agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion of obligations tied to an Ohio data-center campus OpenAI will lease. The deal could support substantial future demand for NVIDIA systems, but also increases NVIDIA’s exposure to customer financing. OpenAI fundraising and NVIDIA
• Positive Sentiment: Anthropic is reportedly discussing an expansion that could take its Nscale commitment to roughly $90 billion, potentially benefiting NVIDIA as a leading supplier of AI infrastructure. Anthropic Nscale expansion
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA announced German partnerships, investments in AI startups and a broader European AI initiative approaching $10 billion, strengthening its position in sovereign and industrial AI. NVIDIA German AI investments
• Positive Sentiment: A record 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum simulation on Europe’s JUPITER supercomputer demonstrated NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q, cuQuantum and accelerated-computing capabilities, expanding its longer-term technology opportunity beyond AI. NVIDIA quantum simulation
• Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is reportedly receiving billions of dollars of NVIDIA GB300 systems, but some racks are being stored because data centers lack sufficient power. This confirms demand while highlighting deployment bottlenecks. Amazon NVIDIA GPU systems
• Negative Sentiment: Google’s open-source TorchTPU and Amazon’s TorchNeuron initiatives are designed to make competing AI chips easier to use, threatening NVIDIA’s CUDA software moat and long-term pricing power. Google and Amazon challenge NVIDIA CUDA
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that heavily indebted neocloud customers, including CoreWeave, may struggle with higher borrowing costs. NVIDIA’s guarantees and investment relationships increase fears that AI infrastructure spending could involve circular or financially fragile demand. Why NVIDIA needs CoreWeave
• Negative Sentiment: Broad semiconductor selling, fading momentum in the AI trade and hedge-fund technology reductions are weighing on NVDA’s near-term performance despite continued strong chip demand. Chip stocks decline

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 765,103 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $167,595,812.15. This trade represents a 4.36% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Timothy Teter sold 30,460 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $222.80, for a total transaction of $6,786,488.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 2,687,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $598,810,648. This represents a 1.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold 1,766,118 shares of company stock valued at $399,450,353 over the last three months. 3.94% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs), accelerated computing platforms, networking products and related software. Its technologies support artificial intelligence, machine learning, scientific computing, data analytics, professional visualization and computer graphics.

The company’s products include GeForce GPUs for gaming and personal computing, data center GPUs and systems for AI and high-performance computing, and networking solutions used to connect and manage large-scale computing infrastructure.