NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Trading Up 2% – Still a Buy?

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s stock price rose 2% during mid-day trading on Tuesday . The company traded as high as $208.65 and last traded at $207.29. 107,158,935 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 35% from the average session volume of 165,739,688 shares. The stock had previously closed at $203.28.

NVIDIA News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia’s disclosed 9.3% stake in Nebius is boosting sentiment, as investors see the move as a strategic AI-cloud investment that deepens Nvidia’s ties to a fast-growing infrastructure customer. Nebius stock surges as Nvidia discloses 9.3% stake in neocloud
• Positive Sentiment: Nvidia expanded its Omniverse libraries inside the Agent Toolkit, adding tools for simulation, physics, and asset validation that strengthen its push into physical AI and robotics workflows. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit Expands With New Omniverse Libraries, Putting AI Agents to Work Building Simulation-Ready Worlds
• Positive Sentiment: Several articles highlighted Nvidia as a key beneficiary of ongoing AI infrastructure spending, with bullish commentary pointing to continued demand for its GPUs, CPUs, and software stack. Why Nvidia Stock Can ‘Lead the Charge’ This Earnings Season
• Neutral Sentiment: Coverage also noted Nvidia’s new Vera CPU for AI, which could expand its addressable market and intensify competition with AMD and Intel, but the financial impact is still early and not yet proven. Nvidia details its next-generation Vera CPU for AI, setting up challenge to AMD and Intel
• Negative Sentiment: Some commentary warned that rivals such as AMD and Amazon are pushing harder into AI chips and infrastructure, which keeps competitive pressure on Nvidia’s long-term dominance in the AI trade. The 3 Ways Amazon’s Trainium Chips Erode Nvidia’s Dominance Into Early 2027

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have weighed in on NVDA. Tigress Financial reiterated a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $425.00 price objective (up from $360.00) on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, May 27th. BTIG Research initiated coverage on NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, April 15th. They set a “buy” rating for the company. Raymond James Financial reaffirmed a “strong-buy” rating and issued a $330.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Wolfe Research reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $275.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, Itau BBA Securities reduced their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research report on Wednesday, June 24th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-eight have issued a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $304.26.

NVIDIA Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 3.44 and a quick ratio of 2.85. The company has a market capitalization of $5.02 trillion, a PE ratio of 31.74, a PEG ratio of 0.45 and a beta of 2.21. The company has a 50 day moving average of $209.31 and a two-hundred day moving average of $195.26.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping 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 company had revenue of $81.61 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $78.42 billion. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.81 EPS. NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue was up 85.2% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post 8.79 earnings per share for the current year.

NVIDIA Increases Dividend

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

NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Wednesday, May 20th that allows the company to buyback $80.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the computer hardware maker to buy up to 1.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually a sign that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.

Insider Transactions at NVIDIA

In other NVIDIA news, Director John Dabiri sold 625 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $214.00, for a total transaction of $133,750.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 14,163 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,030,882. The trade was a 4.23% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Stephen C. Neal sold 15,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $215.73, for a total value of $3,343,815.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 116,135 shares in the company, valued at $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. Insiders have sold a total of 1,901,125 shares of company stock valued at $410,583,015 in the last ninety days. 3.94% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On NVIDIA

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its position in NVIDIA by 12.4% during the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 324,901 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $43,631,000 after purchasing an additional 35,815 shares during the period. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG raised its stake in NVIDIA by 1.0% during the 4th quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,346,417 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $315,100,000 after buying an additional 22,929 shares during the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE raised its stake in NVIDIA by 6.7% during the 4th quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 58,396 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $7,842,000 after buying an additional 3,653 shares during the last quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC lifted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 30.7% during the 4th quarter. Hudson Value Partners LLC now owns 50,658 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $6,805,000 after buying an additional 11,900 shares during the period. Finally, Wealth Group Ltd. boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 15.7% in the 1st quarter. Wealth Group Ltd. now owns 6,598 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $715,000 after buying an additional 896 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.

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.