Siren L.L.C. boosted its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 137.7% during the first quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 89,085 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 51,600 shares during the period. Siren L.L.C.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $15,536,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. State Street Corp raised its position in NVIDIA by 1.2% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 991,480,489 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $184,911,111,000 after purchasing an additional 11,451,386 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 0.6% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 588,803,093 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $109,446,217,000 after purchasing an additional 3,383,441 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA in the 4th quarter valued at $62,244,133,000. Bank of America Corp DE raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 187,181,484 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $34,909,347,000 after buying an additional 2,849,678 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Legal & General Group Plc lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 181,203,035 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,808,862,000 after buying an additional 2,609,560 shares during the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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.
Insider Transactions at NVIDIA
NVIDIA Trading Up 2.6%
NVDA opened at $211.94 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 3.44 and a quick ratio of 2.85. NVIDIA Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $164.07 and a fifty-two week high of $236.54. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $205.18 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $196.55. The firm has a market capitalization 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 – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.11. NVIDIA had a net margin of 62.97% and a return on equity of 96.94%. The firm had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $78.42 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.81 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 85.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company’s management believes its stock is undervalued.
NVIDIA Increases Dividend
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 4th were paid a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 4th. This is a positive change from NVIDIA’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.5%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 15.31%.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of research firms have issued reports on NVDA. Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $300.00 target price (up from $275.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $285.00 price target (up from $250.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, May 20th. Barclays reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. BNP Paribas Exane increased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $270.00 to $285.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Argus raised their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $220.00 to $270.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $304.26.
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NVIDIA Company 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.
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