NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Shares Sold by Hilltop Holdings Inc.

Hilltop Holdings Inc. decreased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 51.6% in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 100,665 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 107,341 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises about 1.6% of Hilltop Holdings Inc.’s holdings, making the stock its 6th largest holding. Hilltop Holdings Inc.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $17,556,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A number of other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NVDA. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the 4th quarter valued at $26,000. Longview Financial Advisors Inc. bought a new position in NVIDIA in the first quarter valued at about $27,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC boosted 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 valued at $33,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. Phillip James Consulting Co. acquired a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the first quarter valued at about $40,000. Finally, Spurstone Advisory Services LLC bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter worth about $40,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total value of $133,750.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at $3,030,882. The trade was a 4.23% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on 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 completion of the sale, the director directly owned 116,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $25,053,803.55. This trade represents a 11.77% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 1,901,125 shares of company stock worth $410,583,015. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Elon Musk said SpaceX will build “exclusively” on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform, providing a potentially significant high-profile customer commitment and strengthening confidence in demand for NVIDIA’s next-generation systems. Musk Praises Vera Rubin Platform on SpaceX Earnings Call, Nvidia Stock Climbs
• Positive Sentiment: Corvex secured a multi-year agreement for Blackwell GPU infrastructure, including liquid-cooled clusters, Quantum-2 InfiniBand and high-speed storage. The deployment adds another large-scale Blackwell installation without issuing new shares. Nvidia Stock Surges as Corvex Secures Multi-Year Blackwell GPU Deal
• Positive Sentiment: Anthropic reportedly signed a six-year, $10 billion computing agreement with NVIDIA-backed Volta Infra. The arrangement could support demand for Vera Rubin systems and validates the growth of AI cloud infrastructure. Anthropic Inks $10B Computing Deal With Nvidia-Backed Volta Infra
• Positive Sentiment: Reports describing a roughly 12-to-1 demand-to-supply imbalance, scarce chips and strong chip resale values reinforced the view that NVIDIA retains pricing power amid the AI buildout. NVIDIA Facing 12-to-1 Demand to Supply
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance has expanded to more than 120 companies and is developing shared security standards, potentially broadening NVIDIA’s influence across the AI software ecosystem. Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance Shows Progress
• Neutral Sentiment: Export controls are creating a gray market in Southeast Asia, where buyers use proxy cloud access to obtain NVIDIA-based compute. This signals inelastic demand but also highlights continuing regulatory and geopolitical risks. The AI Chip Blockade Is Creating a Shadow Market
• Negative Sentiment: Investor Michael Burry reportedly increased put-option exposure to NVIDIA, Micron and semiconductor ETFs, renewing concerns that AI spending expectations and valuations may be vulnerable to a correction. Michael Burry’s Latest Bet Puts Nvidia’s AI Boom on Trial
• Negative Sentiment: Analysts continue to warn that custom chips, AI inference workloads and software capable of rewriting code could gradually weaken NVIDIA’s CUDA advantage and pressure future margins.

NVIDIA Stock Up 2.6%

NVIDIA stock opened at $211.94 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.85 and a current ratio of 3.44. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52-week low of $164.07 and a 52-week high of $236.54. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $205.18 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $196.55. The firm has a market cap of $5.13 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.46, a PEG ratio of 0.40 and a beta of 2.23.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The company had revenue of $81.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.81 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 EPS for the current year.

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase program on Wednesday, May 20th that permits the company to repurchase $80.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were given a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.5%. This is an increase from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 15.31%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

NVDA has been the subject of several recent research reports. Craig Hallum upped their price objective on NVIDIA from $245.00 to $275.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Rosenblatt Securities reissued a “buy” rating and set a $325.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Zacks Research upgraded shares of NVIDIA from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Monday, July 20th. Bank of America reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $350.00 price target (up from $320.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $335.00 price objective (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $304.26.

NVIDIA Profile

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.