NVIDIA Corporation $NVDA Holdings Cut by First PREMIER Bank

First PREMIER Bank lowered its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 19.8% during the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 12,544 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 3,101 shares during the period. First PREMIER Bank’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $2,340,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

A number of other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the business. State Street Corp lifted its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.0% in the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 978,208,862 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $154,556,803,000 after acquiring an additional 9,554,857 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 579,213,497 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $91,150,170,000 after buying an additional 8,521,936 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of NVIDIA during the second quarter valued at approximately $51,386,863,000. Legal & General Group Plc increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 1.5% during the third quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 181,203,035 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $33,808,862,000 after acquiring an additional 2,609,560 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors increased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 16.1% in the third quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 165,377,852 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $30,855,564,000 after buying an additional 22,896,705 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have weighed in on NVDA. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $240.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, March 18th. Wolfe Research lifted their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $250.00 to $275.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, January 30th. Morgan Stanley set a $260.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Monday, March 2nd. BTIG Research began coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, April 15th. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $250.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. Four 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. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $275.25.

NVIDIA Stock Down 1.5%

NVDA stock opened at $213.42 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 3.91, a quick ratio of 3.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.05. NVIDIA Corporation has a 1 year low of $104.08 and a 1 year high of $216.82. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $186.09 and a 200 day simple moving average of $185.90. The firm has a market cap of $5.19 trillion, a PE ratio of 43.56, a PEG ratio of 0.71 and a beta of 2.34.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 25th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.54 by $0.08. NVIDIA had a net margin of 55.60% and a return on equity of 97.37%. The business had revenue of $68.13 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $65.56 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 EPS. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue was up 73.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 7.77 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NVIDIA Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 1st. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 11th were given a dividend of $0.01 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, March 11th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.0%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 0.82%.

Insider Activity

In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 221,682 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $173.68, for a total transaction of $38,501,729.76. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 7,399,771 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,285,192,227.28. The trade was a 2.91% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director John Dabiri sold 3,004 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $184.90, for a total transaction of $555,439.60. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 14,788 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,734,301.20. This represents a 16.88% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 953,976 shares of company stock worth $171,173,819. Insiders own 4.17% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting NVIDIA

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Product and ecosystem wins continue to support NVDA’s revenue durability — cloud provider Vultr said it will deploy NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Nano Omni for multimodal inference, extending adoption of NVIDIA models and serverless inference offerings. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Product platform strength: Analysts point to the Blackwell platform and Rubin chips as drivers of continued data‑center growth and margin expansion, supporting the long‑term revenue outlook. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Institutional/analyst support remains heavy — Bank of America and other firms keep bullish ratings and price targets, and a large institutional filing shows Alecta added shares, signaling continued institutional appetite. Read More. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Options and derivatives activity show traders are pricing a re‑test of recent highs — heavy call/put flows mean volatility is elevated and short‑term moves can be amplified. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro/structural view: several analysts argue AI demand is structural (not cyclical) though near‑term valuation and capex digestion remain concerns — this supports a buy‑and‑hold case but warns of short‑term swings. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: OpenAI stumble sparked the selloff — reports that OpenAI missed internal growth/revenue targets triggered a broad chip‑stock pullback today, directly pressuring NVDA as a top AI‑infrastructure supplier. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Competitive and capex risks: coverage highlights the rise of custom silicon (TPUs, in‑house chips) and the risk of capex digestion — these can blunt NVDA’s near‑term share gains if hyperscalers substitute GPUs. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Large insider and institutional sales have been reported in filings (some selling is planned/10b5‑1), which can add to headline noise and amplify pullbacks even if long‑term demand remains intact. Read More.

About NVIDIA

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.