NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA is New York State Teachers Retirement System’s Largest Position

New York State Teachers Retirement System decreased its position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 1.6% during the third quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 20,412,043 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 334,917 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA makes up 7.4% of New York State Teachers Retirement System’s investment portfolio, making the stock its largest position. New York State Teachers Retirement System owned 0.08% of NVIDIA worth $3,808,479,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Harbor Asset Planning Inc. bought a new position in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Winnow Wealth LLC bought a new stake in NVIDIA in the second quarter valued at $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC increased its position in NVIDIA by 47.9% during the 2nd 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 during the period. Spurstone Advisory Services LLC bought a new position in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter worth $40,000. Finally, EDENTREE ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd bought a new position in NVIDIA in the 2nd quarter worth $54,000. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Harvey C. Jones sold 250,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $177.33, for a total value 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 represents a 3.48% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 30,500 shares of the 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 sale, the chief financial officer owned 1,286,826 shares in the company, valued at approximately $229,196,578.86. The trade was a 2.32% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last three months, insiders sold 1,611,474 shares of company stock valued at $293,285,232. 4.17% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

More NVIDIA News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia agreed to a $2 billion strategic investment in CoreWeave to accelerate a multi?GW AI data?center build?out — a direct vote of confidence in demand for Nvidia GPUs and software, and a move that helps secure deployment capacity for future GPU sales. Nvidia invests $2 billion in CoreWeave
• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia released open?source AI weather models — boosts its software/ecosystem positioning, increases GPU utilization cases, and reinforces the company’s role beyond hardware into model and platform leadership. Nvidia unveils AI models for weather forecasts
• Positive Sentiment: Industry and analyst commentary remain supportive (including views that Nvidia is becoming TSMC’s largest customer), reinforcing the growth narrative tied to AI training demand and helping underpin multiples. Nvidia set to supplant Apple as TSMC’s top customer
• Neutral Sentiment: Microsoft’s Maia 200 launch (a cost?efficient inference accelerator) could reduce some hyperscaler spend on third?party inference hardware over time, but it mainly targets inference while Nvidia remains dominant for training — competitive dynamics are evolving but not yet decisive. Microsoft’s Maia 200: The Profit Engine AI Needs
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader tech earnings and macro events (Magnificent 7 reports, Fed meeting) are creating short?term volatility that could swing NVDA intraday; these are market?level catalysts rather than company?specific. Magnificent 7 earnings season kicks off
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling: an NVDA executive recently sold roughly $36M of stock, which can be read as a near?term negative signal for sentiment even if not unusual among executives. Insider selling: NVIDIA EVP sells stock
• Negative Sentiment: Competitive pressure is increasing as hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, AWS) push their own silicon and software stacks — this is a medium?term risk to Nvidia’s premium pricing on certain inference workloads. Microsoft rolls out next generation of its AI chips

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on NVDA. KeyCorp lifted their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. Oppenheimer reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $265.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. S&P Equity Research reiterated a “positive” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, October 22nd. DZ Bank reissued a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. Finally, Zacks Research lowered NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, January 12th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $263.41.

NVIDIA Stock Up 1.1%

NVDA stock opened at $188.52 on Wednesday. The business has a 50 day moving average of $183.52 and a 200 day moving average of $182.14. The firm has a market cap of $4.58 trillion, a PE ratio of 46.78, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.91 and a beta of 2.31. NVIDIA Corporation has a twelve month low of $86.62 and a twelve month high of $212.19. The company has a quick ratio of 3.71, a current ratio of 4.47 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, November 19th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.23 by $0.07. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 99.24% and a net margin of 53.01%.The business had revenue of $57.01 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $54.66 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.81 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 62.5% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 2.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 4th were paid a dividend of $0.01 per share. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.0%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 4th. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 0.99%.

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.